E. Christopher Clark - Author and All-Around Geek
Saturday, May 12, 2012
RIVER MUSE Book Release Event is June 8, 2012
River Muse: Tales of Lowell and the Merrimack Valley, a new anthology from Sons of Liberty Publishing, LLC featuring a new short story by me (“Hard to Find”) as well as previously unpublished work by Jack Kerouac (On the Road) and Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog), will be launched at a book release event at the UMass-Lowell Inn & Conference Center (50 Warren Street, Lowell, MA) on June 8, 2012 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Many of the authors being published in the anthology, including yours truly, will be there to sign copies of the book.
The event is free and open to the public, and I’d love to see you all there to celebrate this amazing milestone in my writing career. Profits from sales of the book will go to veterans charities including the Wounded Warriors Project.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Two Plays Being Performed at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth, NH This Summer
I’m proud to announce that two of my plays will be staged this summer at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth, New Hampshire as part of their late night summer series.
The first is Crossroads (or The Piano of Death), the play that Astolat Arts premiered this past February at the West End Studio Theater in Portsmouth and at the Democracy Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I’m very excited to be bring this one to life again. It’ll run on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. from June 22 through July 1.
The second is a short play, as yet untitled, that I am writing for An Evening of Grand Guignol, which runs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. from July 6 through July 15. The evening will also feature plays by John Herman and by Bryan White of Cinema Suicide. And if you don’t know what Grand Guignol is, you should. Check out the Wikipedia entry or GrandGuignol.com.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Site to Come
Over the past few months, I have been a man without a blog. And, for all intents and purposes, I have been a man without a Website. The front page of echristopherclark.com has been updated here and there with news on upcoming performances and publications, but those updates have been cold and half-hearted.
Part of the reason I closed Geek Force Five down and decided to go sans blog for the first time since 1999 was to explore the possibilities of what my online presence could be. If I wanted to become known as a writer of fiction and drama, rather than a pop culture blogger, what did that look like?
The truth is that there isn’t much out there in the way of a model. Many author Websites look just like echristopherclark.com looks like right now. They announce events, they link to places where you can buy the author’s work, and they might contain a representative story or two. But there is little life to them. They blind you with the gloss of traditional publishing’s marketing juggernauts or, if they happen to be author-run, they reek of the seeming disdain that legitimate, serious writers too often have for the big, bad Internet.
The question I’ve been asking myself is why a storyteller’s Website can’t be as exciting to visit as that of a musician, or a filmmaker. And the answer, I think, is that it can be.
That’s what I’m working on right now, an online presence that honors the type of creator that I think I am, but that keeps intact the fun of the sites that I’ve built before.
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
LOVE GONE BAD Returns to Studio 99 in Nashua
On Sunday, February 12, 2012, I will be co-hosting “Love Gone Bad,” a special edition of .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). the spoken word series I occasionally host at Studio 99 in Nashua, New Hampshire. It’s an open mic, so please feel free to bring your own tales, songs, poems, and essays of breakups and heartbreak.
Friday, January 13, 2012
APOCALYPSE ANONYMOUS — New Play to Be Performed as Part of An Evening of Apocalyptic Theater
Another new play of mine, Apocalypse Anonymous, has been selected to be performed as part of An Evening of Apocalyptic Theater at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth, New Hampshire this March. The show runs Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from March 9 through March 25. Apocalypse Anonymous will be directed by Jaqueline Martell. I’ll announce further details as they become available.
I should also note that I’ll be directing a play as part of that evening of theater. The play I’m in charge of is James Patrick Kelly’s “Bad Dogs.”