The TothWorld Podcast

This week's guest reader is Vincent Louis Carrella, whose debut novel The Serpent Box is scheduled for release this summer by Harper-Collins/Perennial. His fiction and poetry have been published in Literal Latte, LinnaeanStreet.com, TalkingKitchen, Better Non-Sequitor, MicroFiction.net, and Boundoff.com. Also, enjoy the songs 60 Seconds and Six Hours and We Know How Big They Are.

Sylvia Petter's short stories have been published online at Eclectica, Gangway and others. Her webpublished stories are available in the blogbook Collected Web Stories. Another collection, Past Present, is also available. A story of hers was included in the anthology Valentine's Day: Stories of Revenge, which includes work by Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Weldon, Carol Shields, and Agatha Christie, among others

Sylvia's poems have appeared in print in Cadenza, Offshoots and Ex Tempore. She also writes erotica under the pen name, AstridL. Stories have been published online at Mind Caviar, Ophelia's Muse, Scarlet Letters and The Erotic Woman. Several anthologies are expected soon. Check for updates here.

Backburning is the title story of Sylvia's prizewinning collection of the same name, which will be published in Australia by Interactive Press in November 2007.  For more information about the book and prize, see this link, which includes an excerpt from the story.  

She is a final year PhD student in creative writing at the University of NSW in Sydney Australia and is now working on a novel.  See her blog and official site for more information about Sylvia Petter and her work.

This week's show also includes the songs Lights Out and Everybody is an Addict,  as well as my story Nice Kids Carry Guns from the anthology These Guns for Hire.

This week's guest is Gail Louise Siegel, whose work can be found in journals such as Post Road,  Pindeldyboz, Ink Pot, Zoetrope ASE, Brevity, Flashquake, Outsider Ink, The Salt River Review, Tattoo Highway, Night Train, FRiGG,  and anthologies like Consumed (So New Media) and Lost on Purpose (Seal Press.) Also featuring the songs The Man from T.O.T.H.W.O.R.L.D. and The Symbol Formally Known as a Representation, plus some media recommendations for surviving winter.

Photo: Gail and daughter.

Over an hour of entertainment, featuring D. Harlan Wilson, author of The Kafka Effekt, Stranger on the Loose, Pseudo-City, and an upcoming pulp science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia.  The novel will be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in March 2007 and debut at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs convention in Atlanta.  His stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies across the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People. See his website for more information.  Also featuring my online I-Ching reading and the songs The Starship Free Enterprise and Seizure.