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Fallen Nation trailer contest

by jcurcio February 4, 2008 Fallen Nation

Want to share your psychosis & have thousands see your work? We are excited to announce that we just completed two audio trailers for the Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning project: one 30 second and one 60 second. Originally we intended to produce a video ourselves before running it all over the net, but we thought [...]

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Fallen Nation: Audiobook episode 6

by jcurcio January 31, 2008 audiobook

Jesus’ dreams from within the hospital. No longer right here, right now. Here operated under different rules. Here was a deserted asylum, being slowly eaten by the encroaching forest, vines replacing windows, morning glory augmenting the brick facades of what appeared to be a college campus. Here was timeless. Interrupting his musings, the aging Chevy [...]

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Fallen Nation: Audiobook episode 5

by jcurcio January 28, 2008 audiobook

Agent 139 has a chat with his doctor. (Music by Johan Ess.) Routine is essential to keep you sane in a place like this. Look, it’s really the truth – I can’t speak for the doctors or the orderlies, but for those of us on the inside, we play the game to keep sane. I [...]

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Fallen Nation: Audiobook episode 4

by jcurcio January 24, 2008 alternate reality games

Agent 506 sipped casually on a latte as he punched in some numbers on a payphone somewhere in King of Prussia. He was perpetually garbed in black fatigues and scratched aviator glasses, with posture like a broom stick. “Pennhurst State Hospital, how may I direct your call?” Order Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning through Amazon.com now. [...]

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Fallen Nation audiobook episode 3

by jcurcio January 19, 2008 audiobook

Stephanie put on her jacket, pushing her stringy blond hair from her face. Her hands looked gray, veiny. Fat. Her hands looked fat. She scrawled the final lines onto her daily report. Date: March 1st, 2002. Signature: Stephanie Anne Heickle. Today had been uneventful. No orderlies with oozing compound fractures. No flailing and howling. The [...]

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Fallen Nation: Audiobook Episode 2

by jcurcio January 16, 2008 audiobooks

Message from Agent 139, Pennhurst hospital, 2002. It’s “depressive ideation,” the doctors say, to think about the poisonous PCBs, polluting our bodies’ water by proxy. It is an “obsessive fixation” to mention the soil, leeched of its vital nutrients, leaving us all hollow as dried gourds. But this is just the reality of the 21st [...]

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Fallen Nation: Audiobook Episode 1

by jcurcio January 9, 2008 audiobooks

HOW ROCK AND ROLL SAVED THE WORLD. I first met the harbingers of the apocalypse at a rather plebeian location. They were refueling their behemoth of a tour bus at a gas station in the middle-of-fucking-nowhere, Texas. It was 2003, and America’s chest-beating had reached a nauseating crescendo. Order Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning.

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Fallen Nation: Audiobook Prologue

by jcurcio December 24, 2007 audiobooks

The story begins with a glimpse of the future, from the swamps of the deep south and a tide that never rolls out… Mary was still shaking. Moments before, she had been strapped to the top of a filthy trailer as Agatha was delightfully gang-banged by her inbred children. She would never call her “Mother,” [...]

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No Write Way #6

by jcurcio October 30, 2007 No Write Way

No Write Way 6 The Slow Start James Curcio Image by Jon Keegan. (No Write Way 1-6.) When you quietly complete your first edition, buy a handful of copies and get them off to people who’s opinion you trust. Ideally these will be fellow writers or editors, but barring that, well-read friends will do just [...]

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No Write Way 5

by jcurcio October 18, 2007 No Write Way

No Write Way 5 Some print-on-demand options James Curcio So, let’s suppose that you’ve written your novel. You’ve pulled your hair out on the editorial process (and probably received an inordinate amount of contradictory advice), and burned your eyes …

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No Write Way 4

by jcurcio August 12, 2007 No Write Way

No Write Way 4 Layout on the not-so-cheap Tovarich So you’ve sequestered yourself away for two years, altered your mental and physical chemistry through sleep deprivation and God knows what else, overcome the existential crises, and managed to produce and edit your manuscript. Congratulations, you’ve made it through the first 90% of the work. Now [...]

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No Write Way 3

by jcurcio July 15, 2007 No Write Way

No Write Way 3 Editorial: Reality Sets In. James Curcio No Write Way 1. No Write Way 2. So you’ve put easily a year or more of work into putting together a solid rough draft of your novel. Many people consider this to be the hard part, but really, it’s as good as it gets. [...]

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No Write Way 2

by jcurcio June 24, 2007 No Write Way

No Write Way 2 Self-Publishing Rules of Thumb: The Story. James Curcio (Part 1 here.) Once you’ve riffed for a while on your characters, it’s time to start thinking about the story. This still isn’t a plot, but you can begin to develop a theme. Why are you writing a story about these characters? What’s [...]

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