Miscellany

Tidbits and more from my web surfing this week:

First up, new cover art for THE QUARRY, the new book forthcoming from Mark Allan Gunnells.  The artist is David Naughton-Shires and is based on photos Gunnells took of the actual location:

THE QUARRY will be Mark's first novel and comes out in February from Evil Jester Press; keep a watch out for it and of course, I'll be talking about it here on the blog!


And another friend has something coming out; Sergio Kardenas's new album THE TIME MACHINE is finally out!

 I've been a big fan of Sergio's forever; he truly is a renaissance man!  In 2007 to celebrate his 20th anniversary as a photographer, he put out his first collection of his photography, THE MAGAZINE OF SEX, designed to look like a vintage adult magazine from the 60s and 70s; in 2009 he followed this with the award winning film La Functionaria Asensia a.k.a. The Slayer Bureaucrat and now he's hitting us with the one, two punch of his long awaited 10 song CD and his new book PULP FANTASIES & FETISHES that I talked about here.  I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of the CD and will be talking about it here very soon!

And finally,the momentum that EMPIRE STATE by Adam Christopher has reached dizzying heights this week, what with the book finally been released (it seems like it's been forever!) and two big events accompanying it; 

The first event was the London launch of EMPIRE STATE at Forbidden Planet Megastore on January 5th; the second will be the January 10th reading and signing in New York at the Mid-Manhattan Library.  You can read about the Forbidden Planet event on Adam's blog, here and here.

                                                          Photos by Stephen J Sweeney 


And that's the round up for today!  Happy reading!
                                                                           

PULP FANTASIES & FETISHES by Sergio Karedenas (Rebel Without A Pause Productions)

Here is the first look at the new photo book by award winning photographer/artist/activist Sergio Kardenas, PULP FANTASIES & FETISHES.

Sergio is selling the book here and tells me it is a 72 page collection of both color and black and white photos,some never before published.  It's also a type of love letter to his fans, including shots depicting the fetishes that many of them enjoy; Suit & Tie, Science Fiction/Superhero, Cigar/Smoking, Beefcake and "The Real Deal" spread, which includes nudes.

If one of Sergio's fetishes appeals to you, or if you just love great photography,check out PULP FANTASIES & FETISHES!  And to learn more about the artist himself, check Sergio out on Facebook and as @sergiokardenas on Twitter.