How (and Where) to Buy My Book

Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

People keep asking me certain questions about where they can get the book online or locally, so I thought I’d summarize the relevant info here.

The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter and Other Stories is available online in two places:

  • Amazon.com – Buying it from Amazon is great if you want to combine it with other things you are buying to save on shipping, or if you happen to have a gift certificate. It would also be great if people would post reviews here. That really helps a lot. The book is also now available for Amazon Kindle.
  • Lulu.com – I make a little more money if you buy it from Lulu because Amazon takes a small cut if you buy it from them. But it’s really not a significant amount. If you prefer, you can also buy it from Lulu in e-book format. It’s cheaper that way, but obviously not as nice of a product as the paperback IMO.

I’m working on getting it in some local independent bookstores. So far, it’s in stock at local bookstores in three cities.

  • Birmingham, AL – At the Alabama Booksmith, where I worked when I was in college at UAB. Copies in the store are already signed.
  • Gainesville, FL – At both Goering’s and Books Inc, both fine stores where I shopped for books when I lived down there.
  • Brooklyn, NY – At Word bookstore in Greenpoint. This is the store that sponsors my basketball league. Copies in the store here are signed.
  • Manhattan, NY – At Left Bank Books in Greenwich Village. A very cool and tiny store on charming W 4th Street.

You can also go to ANY bookstore ANYWHERE and ask them to order a copy for you. It will help them if they have the ISBN number, which is 978-0-557-10294-5.

They will likely want to figure out if they can buy it at a discount, which will allow them to sell it to you at a profit. I do offer a discount to bookstores, but they have to contact me directly at david (dot) hornbuckle (at) gmail (dot) com. Feel free to pass that information on to your preferred local store.

Salvation Now Available on Amazon

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on November 3, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

For those of you who prefer to buy books from the largest coporation possible, you can do so here:  More importantly than BUYING it from Amazon, it would be great if all my friends and fans would post reviews there. But if you want to buy it from there, by all means, knock yourself out.

Just so you know though, I personally make about twice as much money if you buy it directly from Lulu.

New Work: Blind Date

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on November 1, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

I have a new short story up on barebackmag.com. Warning to the easily offended (and to Mom): this piece contains explicit sex scenes, some of which are between two men.

This story is actually an adapted excerpt from a new novel that I’m working on. It is the first piece of that novel to be published.

Salvation Now Available on Lulu.com

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on October 5, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter (and Other Stories) is now available for sale on Lulu.com. It will soon be available on Amazon.com and in select bookstores.

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Buy a copy now and have it in your hot little hands within days.

In addition to the title story, this collection also includes:

  • The Office Party
  • Funeral Music
  • Bertrand Russell Sees a Man
  • The Art of Invisibility
  • The Year of Myself
  • Backstroking
  • The Boy Who Cried Wolves
  • Pineapple Tie

Also, as mentioned in a previous post, this edition has a new ending and other awesome improvements over the old e-book version.

Salvation 2.0 Coming Soon

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on September 22, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

I don’t have an exact date yet, but sometime in October, the new edition of Salvation should be available to the public. Just what is new and improved about this new edition? Well, for starters:

  1. Duh, it’s in PAPERBACK. You can hold it, fold it, carry it around with you, write in the margins, use that bookmark that someone gave you as a stocking stuffer last year. It will be a real book that you can put on a shelf next to your other books.
  2. There is a NEW ENDING. Even if you read the e-book version, you can read it again and still be surprised. If you didn’t read it, just trust me. This ending is better. In addition, there are other various little rewrites throughout the book, that I’m sure you’ll notice (note, I don’t actually expect you to notice them. That would be weird).
  3. There are ADDITIONAL STORIES, including the award-winning “Funeral Music” and the ever popular “Bertrand Russell Sees a Man” and several other stories that you may or may not have read when they were individually published in various literary magazines and websites around the world.
  4. There are QUOTATION MARKS. This is a big deal. I finally realized that my aesthetic choice to use em-dashes instead of quotes is likely the only reason that I am not rich and famous already, so consider this me selling out. Now you will no longer be confused about who is speaking when, especially with the addition of little “he said” and “she said” tags sprinkled throughout the text.

Keep checking back here for more updates as the publication date approaches!

Reading Smut this Thursday Night in Brooklyn

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on September 14, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

Also reading are several good friends of mine: Janice Erlbaum, Jennifer Demeritt, and Reverend Jen Miller. Also Ryan Britt, whom I don’t know personally, but I’m sure he’s great.

We’ll all be reading some sex-themed work, some of which has been published on nerve.com, a website that used to specialize in edgy, sex-themed writing. Recently, they changed their format to go more mainstream, which I personally find very disappointing.

I haven’t quite decided what to read, but I’m leaning toward something from my novel-in-progress.

Thursday, September 17th:
7:30 pm sharp!
“Oh, The NERVE!”
Belleville Lounge,
332 Fifth Street (corner Fifth Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn. (F/R to 4th Avenue / 9th Street)
Tix: $8
www.michelecarlo.com

Facebook event info here.

Introducing Tritone Media

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on September 7, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

Well, it isn’t exactly new. Since PopCanon’s first album in the mid-1990s, most of the CDs I’ve released have been on the Tritone Music label, which is the label Ned Davis and I founded for the distinct purpose of putting out our own music. And my chapbook Fuck Cheese was also nominally affiliated with Tritone, as are the T-shirts that Marie and I sell through Cafe Press.

Now I’m reviving it as a paperback literary press, and the first release will be The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter and Other Stories.  This will include a revised version of my e-book novella and several short stories that have all been previously published, including the award-winning story “Funeral Music” and the strangely popular “The Office Party.”

I’ve struggled with the idea of “self-publishing” for  a long time, and I’ve often equated it with giving up any hope of getting my books published in more traditional ways. BUT I’m thinking of this as a long-term business plan where I might end up publishing other people’s books if I like them enough (but please don’t send me any submissions just yet). Also, ALL of the work that will be in this book has been previously published by other people, either online or in print. Given these factors, and the fact that the traditional publishing industry dies a little more every single day, I find myself finally willing to take this leap.

I’m also considering putting out my unpublished novel Zen, Mississippi under this press in a few months, after I see how the experiment with the first book goes. Meanwhile, I’m still working diligently on two other books. I’ve sequestered myself in a bunker in an undisclosed location in Brooklyn to get them both finished as quickly as possible. So there may be even more books on Tritone’s roster soon. Though if some big evil corporate mainstream publisher decides they’d like to make me a deal, I’m still listening.

Billy Wayne Carter Discography

Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

1997 Little John Thomas & His Mango Patch – eponymous demo (o.o.p.)

1998 Bursting Forth from the Cow

2000 Rara Avis

2001 Not For Sale

2001 Little John Thomas Comes of Age

2002 Amadeus Ex Machina

2003 The Regular

2004 She Walks In Beauty

2006 Anonymous

2007 Elementarianism

2009 Antimatter

2010 Haunting Gilgamesh

2011 Acrostics

2011 Red Shift

2012 Physics

2015 River

My Publisher on Gawker Today

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

And I thought the pot-bellied pig attacking a woman at a restaurant would be the weirdest thing I read about today.

My publisher, Cantara Christopher, was written up on the media gossip site for allegedly picking a fight with her “beloved” Stephen Gyllenhaal, the poet, film director, and father of two uber-famous actors.

I can’t sum it up any better than Gawker can: Gawker link.

Cantara published a poetry book by Gyllenhaal a while back and has been linked with him romantically, by her own account. I don’t have any personal knowledge of their relationship beyond what I’ve read on the interwebs, so I don’t really have any insight into what’s going on.

I was also not on the receiving end of this email she sent out that supposedly reveals “Gyllenhaal family secrets,” but the sections quoted in this article are not that illuminating or even that interesting. Will this “controversy” move a few copies of the Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter? I doubt it, but I guess it might drive some traffic to the Cantarabooks website, and that can’t hurt.

Smell of Books

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on June 5, 2009 by mdavidhornbuckle

Now there’s one less excuse for you to not buy my e-book.

http://smellofbooks.com/