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Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.
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“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” BECAUSE I HAVE A FREE SCIENCE FICTION-HORROR E-BOOK!!!

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And you can too.  Dagda Publishing is giving away its dystopian shorty story collection, “All Hail The New Flesh,” to anyone who has a Kindle.  It’s part of the independent publisher’s first anniversary celebration, and its various fiction titles are all downloadable for free until Wednesday.  “All Hail The New Flesh” can be found right here:

For more information on all the other great free titles for Kindle, see Dagda’s website here:

http://dagdapublishing.co.uk/2014/06/02/happy-birthday-us-details-free-kindle-fiction-sale/

“All Hail The New Flesh” includes an entry of my own, entitled “At The End of The World, My Daughter Wept Metal.”  Here’s a synopsis: “An astonishing medical breakthrough spells the end of humanity.  And its first victim is the object of a father’s love.”

Yes, it’s another end-of-the-world tale — you know, the happy-ending bedtime stories that I’m known for. (Read it to your kids!!!) But  this time out, our plot-driving world-killer isn’t super-intelligent wolves or zombies, it’s … well … go read for yourself.  (Hey, it’s not like we’re charging you anything, are we?)

A friend and reader here in new York commented just this morning, “Man, E., it’s always the end of the world with you!  YOU’RE A POST-APOCALYPTIC MOTHERF****R.”

I … love that. I might just take those last two words and rename this website.

Have fun with the book — maybe if you can get sufficiently absorbed in it, you can succeed in getting that R.E.M. song out of your head.

“THAT’S GREAT — IT STARTS WITH EARTHQUAKES, BIRDS, SNAKES AND AEROPLANES!  LENNY BRUCE IS NOT AFRAID!”

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A song dedication to the Mary Washington College Class of 1994.

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It’s nearing the end of the 20 Year Reunion, and they are partying in Fredericksburg, Virginia, right now, without me!  The Great Nate Wade just posted that he is at Merriman’s!!  Not only am I getting old, I am failing to keep pace with my contemporaries.

This is the Stone Temple Pilots’ “Plush.”  It was extremely popular 20 years ago, when I was cool enough to keep up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I want to write a horror story about succubi …

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… because that word is just so damned fun to say.

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Happy Birthday, Dagda Publishing!

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Just a quick note to say “Happy Birthday” to a outstanding literary community across the pond — Dagda Publishing celebrates its first anniversary today.

Dagda is a terrific independent publisher in the United Kingdom, and it extends wonderful opportunities to new and emerging writers.  Its staff and editorial board are a pleasure to engage with, and it’s great fun being able to join the lively community of readers and writers connected with it.

Check out its website here:  www.dagdapublishing.co.uk

Thanks for all of the fun, inspiration and opportunities you’ve shared over the past year with so many people, Dagda!

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Reviews of “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More”

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Reviews of “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More”.

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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Eric Robert Nolan

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For more information about “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More,” which is free over the next several days for Kindle users, check out my January 14 interview with blogger Kelly Smith.

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Kindle users — get your FREE copy of “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More!”

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That’s right — for free.  Over the next several days, right here: http://www.amazon.com/Dogs-Dont-Bark-Brooklyn-More-ebook/dp/B00GR4FUU8

As part if its first birthday celebration, Dagda Publishing is offering its fiction titles for free for the next several days!  From Dagda Publishing:

“Happy birthday to us! We made ourselves a cake (disclaimer: the cake is a lie). As a little celebration, and giving something back to everyone that has supported us in our endeavours over the last year, we have decided to offer our fiction titles for free for the next few days on Kindle. So, follow the links below to pick up some fantastic new fiction for your virtual bookshelf. Have a glorious weekend, everyone!

http://www.amazon.com/Touch-The-Sun-Laura-Enright-ebook/dp/B00IMSSFDG

http://www.amazon.com/Dogs-Dont-Bark-Brooklyn-More-ebook/dp/B00GR4FUU8

http://www.amazon.com/All-Hail-Flesh-Various-Authors-ebook/dp/B00I12PZH2

www.amazon.com/Tuned-Dead-Channel-R-Davey-ebook/dp/B00FARIMP8

“And, if you have enjoyed our books, please leave a review on Amazon – it all helps future sales and getting these authors the recognition they deserve. Bye for now!  🙂 “

Here is Dagda’s summary for my novel:

“There was a time, Rebecca’s father had told her, when wolves could not speak. She wished for that time.”

Rebecca O’Conner is the daughter of a hero, a veteran soldier of The Wolf War. Now, she herself is a Captain in the Special Animal Warfare Service (SAWS), fighting,as her father did against the armies of super-intelligent wolves that have taken over most of the continental United States.

The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More spans two periods of Rebecca’s life: the tumultuous Brooklyn childhood that shapes her future, preparing her for the soldier she must become, and her struggle to keep herself and her squad alive as she prepares to meet her destiny. Her empirical mind rebels against the chaotic dreams that haunt her, suggesting a greater path than she can yet comprehend as she seeks to find an end to the war.

The enemy is smart, strong and fearless; the odds are stacked against the human race. Is there hope for us in the war with the wolves? Will humanity prevail and reclaim its place as the dominant species on Earth? Or will the great demonic wolf that stalks Rebecca in her dreams close its jaws over the world and drive us to extinction?

Themes of loyalty and friendship run strongly throughout a compelling tale of hardship and struggle in a war unlike any other. However, even in a world where the enemy is of another species, The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More shows how resentment, distrust, and man’s inhumanity to man can persist at a time when putting our differences aside is crucial to the survival of mankind. Above all, the men and women of SAWS and the US Army strive to demonstrate the indomitable spirit of humanity, and re-establish our place at the top of the food chain.

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“It was the best of times, it was … the best of times.”

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In honor of the Mary Washington College Class of 1994 Reunion, which I am regrettably unable to attend, I am sharing this photo of a … slightly younger me.  As you can see (far left), I was sublimely well adjusted at the age of 20, despite the fact that apparently 40 percent of my body weight resulted from my ears and hair.

The happy gang pictured is actually The Tunnel Crowd — yes, they graduated before 94, but I currently don’t have any other MWC pics scanned in.  Pictured beside me, from left to right, are Chris Orange, Dave Whitaker, Steve Miller in his Lennontastic shades, Paul Dilick, and another affable young man whose name escapes me now.

And pictured here is actually a key educational moment, because this may have been the party where I was first really introduced to The Beatles’ “White Album.”

“You say you want a revolution?  Well, you know … we all want to change the world.”

Much love, guys.  Thanks for long ago friendships, and great memories that the decades have failed to fade.

 

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This is why I want to marry a writer.

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They eat the same breakfast as I do, and it is so damn easy to make.

Pictured below is the morning table of Wisconsin’s Jessi Schweiger, who I like to think of as Lady Hemingway.  She is the author of the truly terrific poem, “California Kingdom,” which we featured a while back on this blog.  (Check it out under the “Related” tab below this entry.)

A writer’s breakfast is as sublimely pragmatic as it is enjoyable — you’ve got each of the four food groups represented: caffeine, nicotine, donut and inspiration.

In addition to being a talented scribe, Jessi is the bartender at The Dawg House in Waubeka, WI, and she lives by a river where she raises chickens and ducks during the day.  I’m not sure one can get much cooler than that if one lives outside New York City.

Keep pennin’, Jess.

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“I’m the barbarian stalking the temples of Kyoto …”

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“I was  clinging to logic like a life buoy. Now,in the flick of an eye I’m trying to follow intuition.  I see a reflection of a samurai in the glass of a painting and I come to Japan  reason is discarded and I’m just going where the voices of the moment seem to send me. I’m the barbarian stalking the temples of Kyoto for long departed wisdom; I wallow in the aesthetics hooping that they will purify the beholder.”

— from “Sabine’s Notebooks,” by Nick Bantock

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