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Bradley Denton

   "I told you, Jimmy Joe Bob."   

 


                         

                                       LAUGHIN' BOY

                                Trade paperback edition now in print

                                        from Wheatland Press.

                                                        

                                                         "[Laughin' Boy] is one of the

                                      funniest novels of the past decade."

                                          - John Clute in SciFiWeekly

 

                                               Rick Klaw reviews this new edition for The San Antonio Current here.

                                                       Derek Johnson's review for Revolution SF is here.

                                                              Read an excerpt from the novel here

 

 


                                                      

    Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Campbell Award-Winning Novel

    Buddy Holly Is Alive

      and Well on Ganymede

 are now here, here, here, and here in (free) pdf format!

         

              "Years later, we would look back with longing

                    and say that the music had died."

 

                     "We should have known better."

 

                                               Are you ALIVE & WELL?

                            

 Parts 1 through 4 constitute the entire novel BUDDY HOLLY IS ALIVE AND WELL ON GANYMEDE (Copyright 1991) and are published here under a

                           Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License                          protagonist Oliver Vale aboard his 1957

                                                                                                            Ariel Cyclone motorcycle, "Peggy Sue."

                                                                                                                  Illustration by Kent Bash

 


                                      

                                                   

 

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    (plus links to three

    Blackburn stories)

 

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Bland Lemon Denton

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 Now In Print!

       A New Edition of

              Blackburn 

         a novel by Bradley Denton


    "An absolutely mesmerizing novel that will leave you stunned and conflicted. Blackburn is  an emotionally challenging read, so consider yourself warned. A masterpiece."

          --Augusten Burroughs, author of Running
      with Scissors and Possible Side Effects
 
    "Blackburn is the most compelling book I've read in a very long while. This is powerful, good stuff, not only in concept but in language." 
                        
              --Robert Crais, author of The Two Minute
       Rule and The Watchman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                     
   
     
 
 
     
 
 
      "Strong, compassionate, and subversive medicine for jaded readers and the blindly self-righteous."
                    
          --Michael Bishop, author of Brittle Innings
             and Brighten to Incandescence
 
     "Compelling, appalling, and deeply compassionate . . ."
                   
          --Steven Gouldauthor of Wildside and Jumper 

    "Blackburn is the best novel I've read in years.  It will do three things to you:  It will make you fall down laughing; it will scare the pee out of you; and it will break your heart."                       

          --Howard Waldropauthor of Howard Who?

    "By turns hilarious, heartrending, violent, and curiously tender, it is like no book you've read before."                        

          --James Sallis (author of Cripple Creek), in The               Washington Post Book World


Blackburn

A Novel by
Bradley Denton

From Picador
Published on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
304 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
$13.00 - Fiction (0-312-42695-X)
 
Order discounted copies from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

 




  To celebrate Picador USA's new trade-paperback edition of BLACKBURN, we're posting some stories from the so-called "Blackburn Apocrypha." 

  These are episodes from the life of Jimmy Blackburn that do not appear in BLACKBURN the novel:

 

Novelette:

"Blackburn's Lady"

(from the 2000 World Fantasy Convention Program Book, El Dia de los Muertos; and from the 2001 Subterranean Press chapbook Blackburn's Lady 

 

Novelette:

"Blackburn Bakes Cookies"

(from the 1998 St. Martin's Press story collection One Day Closer to Death)

 

Novella:  

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 1

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 2

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 3

(from the 2006 Subterranean Press anthology LORDS OF THE RAZOR )

 

 



 

Also:

   * The mp3 on the website this month is a demo of "Forgiveness" by  Bland Lemon Denton. (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license.)

   * Brad is a semi-weekly contributor (most Thursdays) to the blog at Eat Our Brains.

   * Signed Bradley Denton books are available at the barbdenton store at Half.com.

   * More stories, pictures, and music can be accessed through the column on the upper left side of this page.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                             Contact:  braddenton@aol.com

 

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