HTMLGIANT Lynda Barry Neck Goozle Daddy's and Hunter.

Quite happy we are to see the Lindsay Hunter interviewed by Blake Butler at the HTMLGIANT. You?

BB: I find the voices that come out of you often really surprising, both as image and in the odd colloquial phrasings and manners of speaking. Is this entirely invention, or does it come out of a place you grew up or spent time, or a mash of both? Do you ever scare yourself?

LH: I think there is a more specific way to get at an image than to rely on something people are used to reading. Like “yellow sun.” Or “crowded teeth.” These phrases get the point across but they don’t tell you anything unique about the brainspace the character inhabits, and they aren’t accurate enough visually, they just aren’t. Like right now I am having a hard time not rewriting those phrases to something like “pee dribble in a sky wedge” or “gums like a collection of driftwood,” and even those phrases aren’t enough, aren’t it.

So I think the cadence in the language and the accent is maybe something that comes from a place I hold dear, but the phrasing is all invention, I feel confident in declaring that.

I’ve scared myself plenty, and I sometimes want to get up and walk it off, but if I stay and keep going, man that shit is good. That moment of surprise, if you can shock yourself like that, that’s all the reason in the world to keep going.

Metrics. Shout-outs. Mass love. Or if you prefer, a Fire Sale Week One Wrap-up. Well, that and the Rules of Fire Sale.

There has been one week of Fire Sale. We have changed lives and we have sold books, ten alone to the awesomely attractive crew at Dispatch Litareview. The video has been watched almost 300 times on YouTube, the Fire Sale post at Orange Alert has been visited almost 400 times and there have been endlessly heartwarming shout-outs from our newest and bestest friends at HTML Giant, Dogzplot, Hambone's Heartache, Modern Confessional, Moondoggy's Pad, No More Hot Lunches for Eddie Socko and ML Press. We are much appreciative for all of the support, but before we go we just want to be sure we are clear about the rules of Fire Sale. The first rule of Fire Sale is ,you do talk about Fire Sale. And the second rule of Fire Sale is, you DO talk about Fire Sale. Any questions? Cool. And as you were.

McClanahan madness.

There is much McClanahan happening out there right now and while we totally promise to read Stories II and report back soon, in the interim we thought we would offer you a review and stuff at HTML GIANT from the Sam Pink and an interview by Jen Michalski at the JMWW blog. We should add here, that we honestly believe that this ought to suffice for the moment, but if you in any way disagree you know you can always take this up with management. We're good like that.

Orange Alert and Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine get some love from the HTML Giant.

We are quite proud here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters to see the most excellent shout-out for Orange Alert and Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine from the quite cool HTML GIANT. Many thanks GIANT people, we are much geeked and most appreciative.