fiction

19
Mar
2015

Derivative Hollywood

Author T. Ellery Hodges has written a great blog post about the difficulties facing cross-genre fiction in Hollywood. He’s active on kboards, a message board for readers and authors I frequent, and started a great conversation on the topic there – this blog post is the result. He mentions Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom in his list of examples towards the end – in the blog post, we came up with “Urban Science Fiction” and “Comedic Thriller” as descriptive genres for the book, genres that don’t actually exist as supported categories on Amazon or any other vendor site. That makes it a little more difficult for books like mine (or those of the other authors he mentions) to gain visibility. Anyway, he says it better than I can – take a look!

Why Is Hollywood So Derivative? What Can We Do About It?

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24
Oct
2014

Short story featured

My short story, This Is What He Should Have Said, is featured today at Short Story Symposium, a blog devoted to introducing readers to new short fiction. Check out the link for a brief excerpt from the story!

This Is What He Should Have Said

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24
May
2014

Join the Hat Party

I was interviewed by Raine O’Tierney at her “Hat Party” blog. She interviews writers. The questions are unusual and the writers wear funny hats. It was a lot of fun, and inspired a new photo of myself that I love (an extremely rare occurrence). Please click through and check it out – I’ve written a steamy new piece of flash fiction and detailed my harrowing escape from a horde of burning zombies, just for the party!

brianolseninahat

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07
May
2014

Alan Lennox on sale!

My first book, Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom, is on sale this week (through Sunday 5/11) for just 99 cents! You can also get it for the Kindle, the Nook, iBooks, or Kobo. Book two is already out, so if you like this one you don’t have to wait for the sequel!

Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead. The mysterious megacorporation Amalgamated Synergy has taken a deadly interest in Alan and his three roommates, and the hapless quartet are woefully unequipped to deal with the psychotic secretaries, murderous middle managers, and villainous vice-presidents hunting them down. 

Their investigation leads them deep into Amalgamated Synergy’s headquarters, but can Alan and his friends stay alive long enough to discover who – or what – waits for them on the top floor? 

Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom is the first book of The Future Next Door, a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series. 

Book One: Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom 
Book Two: Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell 
Book Three: Mark Park and the Flume of Destiny (coming 2014) 
Book Four: Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time (coming 2014)

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