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Four years after Dark Passions: Hot Blood 13 hit the shelves as a trade paperback, the mass market paperback was released. This last weekend I joined editor Jeff Gelb, and writers Robert Lannes, Lisa Morton, and Cody Goodfellow at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank for an autographing session. The book sold out.
My story, A Building Desire, is the first story in the anthology. It's a graphic horror story told from the point of view of a hammer. The story first came to me when I was attending a seminar on writing the docudrama--you know, the kind of thing you might see on the History or Discovery Channel. The speaker was talking about how he did a documentary on the hammer, how he shot the hammer like he would a beautiful woman with a camera moving around it, a soft focus and a shapely woman with a sexy voice naming the different parts: the head, the claw, the eye, the neck, the shaft. I realized the man was creating tool porn.
At the break, there was a line for the women's restroom (isn't there always?). One woman in line was telling another how she found a hammer in the woods and took it home to use on a house she was building. All sorts of things started to go wrong so she threw the hammer back where she found it. My writer's senses were sparking all over the place.
At the same time, some of my Clarion West classmates and I wanted to do a themed reading of our original work at Wiscon. I mentioned my idea for writing the hammer story, and Toolpunk was born. Deb Taber, Vylar Kaftan, Charlie Allery and I all wrote and read our tool-themed, sexually oriented, tool stories. It was a big success. As a matter of fact, all four of us sold our Toolpunk stories to various anthologies and magazines.
I'm happy my hammer story has new life in the release of this mass market paperback. As with all the Hot Blood anthologies, none of the stories in Dark Passions: Hot Blood 13 are for the faint-of-heart. But if you like your horror graphic, pick up a copy. You won't be disappointed.
My story, A Building Desire, is the first story in the anthology. It's a graphic horror story told from the point of view of a hammer. The story first came to me when I was attending a seminar on writing the docudrama--you know, the kind of thing you might see on the History or Discovery Channel. The speaker was talking about how he did a documentary on the hammer, how he shot the hammer like he would a beautiful woman with a camera moving around it, a soft focus and a shapely woman with a sexy voice naming the different parts: the head, the claw, the eye, the neck, the shaft. I realized the man was creating tool porn.
At the break, there was a line for the women's restroom (isn't there always?). One woman in line was telling another how she found a hammer in the woods and took it home to use on a house she was building. All sorts of things started to go wrong so she threw the hammer back where she found it. My writer's senses were sparking all over the place.
At the same time, some of my Clarion West classmates and I wanted to do a themed reading of our original work at Wiscon. I mentioned my idea for writing the hammer story, and Toolpunk was born. Deb Taber, Vylar Kaftan, Charlie Allery and I all wrote and read our tool-themed, sexually oriented, tool stories. It was a big success. As a matter of fact, all four of us sold our Toolpunk stories to various anthologies and magazines.
I'm happy my hammer story has new life in the release of this mass market paperback. As with all the Hot Blood anthologies, none of the stories in Dark Passions: Hot Blood 13 are for the faint-of-heart. But if you like your horror graphic, pick up a copy. You won't be disappointed.