Sunday, January 28, 2007

Storytellers Unplugged


There is a link to Storytellers Unplugged, after the name Mark Rainey, and this will connect you on a daily basis to a different writer posting a thought, story, essay, what have you, and it might be a cool link for the newer writings who catch my blog to check out. My first entry was today, as I stepped in when Chet Williamson bowed out, and all my entries will appear on the 28th of each month. Rainey, who edited DEATHREALM magazine and published both my earliest works (after GRUE) as well as my article and correspondence with John Wayne Gacy, which detailed the days up to the killer's execution, was the first one to tell me about this blog. Speaking of which, after the BTK Strangler was finally caught in Wichita (having hid out in the open as long as the Unabomber), Mark sent me the author photo in the center which bore an uncanny yet not-unexpected similarity to the killer. The photo of the guy on the right, I got no idea. David Niall Wilson nudged me further into joining the group and Joe Nassie finalized the deal. I'd be pleased to hear feedback on this rambling piece, as its probably the "blog entry" that will have the biggest audience, as the link is somehow connected, in ways that confound me, to LiveJournal. I'd look at the days of the month to read past articles by writers like Elizabeth Massie, Brian Hodge, and others. Take care, Wayne

8 comments:

kuroshii said...

as the link is somehow connected, in ways that confound me, to LiveJournal.

only sorta-maybe-kinda, and only one way: there's a "feed" on LiveJournal for Storytellers Unplugged that a user can subscribe to. kindof like getting all the TT stuff in one daily digest email instead of going to groups.yahoo.com to read them, only without the "reply" feature those digest emails allow.

so i'll read Storytellers Unplugged the first time right on my "friends page," and then click through to the real site to read the comments and maybe post a comment myself.

thanks for joining the SU folks. i love reading your stuff, and i'm very glad to "have" even more of it. :)

kuroshii said...

oh yeah, i forgot to add: for those LJ readers who don't already know, the Storytellers Unplugged feed is called:

storytellunplug

:)

SaM-GiRL said...

I also enjoy reading it, I love having a huge group of blogs that vary from topics! Not all the same. Like yours.

Charles Gramlich said...

Great piece on Storytellers, Wayne. I also enjoyed your piece in the HWA book, which I just bought. That tied into recent blogging on writing the realistic versus the myth.

SQT said...

I've haven't had a chance to go to the storytellers link, yet but I will. It sounds fascinating. And you interviewed Gacy-- wow! I do find that morbid kind of stuff interesting.

Wayne Allen Sallee said...

thanks, darci and sam and charles, who live in chicago, johannesburg, and a suburb of new orleans, respectively. so you can know each other better.

Wayne Allen Sallee said...

thanks, darci and sam and charles, who live in chicago, johannesburg, and a suburb of new orleans, respectively. so you can know each other better.

Sidney said...

Very nice. I'm just getting to read it this evening. I like the points about the joy of the printed word.