Please Stand By…
This site will be on hiatus for the next seven (or so) days. While the rest of my family and friends sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, I will be deep in the wilderness, sleeping in a tent and eating beans cooked over a campfire. I will be accompanied only by my faithful dog, my laptop, several notebooks and pens, a Taurus .357, a box of hollow points, and copious amounts of caffeine and alcohol.
You will not be able to reach me.
I’m behind on work and need to get caught up and this is the only way to do it. I leave tomorrow night, immediately after teaching my last class for the semester. I’m serious about the communication blackout. Quite literally, unless you’re a member of my immediate family (meaning you are my wife or one of my two sons) I won’t be returning your calls or emails. I’ll be so deep in the wilderness that the world could end and I wouldn’t know about it.
When I return, it will be with a completed novel, half of another new novel, a completed novella, the script for issue #2 of The Last Zombie, several new short stories, and an essay on Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior — unless I drown in the river, fall off a mountaintop, get mauled by bears, end up torn asunder by a pack of coyotes, am murdered by a passing serial killer, or become the plaything of an inbred backwoods mutant.
So there’s that. See you on the other side…
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Good for you BK. And Good Luck and God Speed as well.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Hopefully you find a good work atmoshphere there Brian. Have a safe trip and a happy thanksgiving.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Good luck, I admire your work ethic sir…
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Good luck, dude. See you when you get back!
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
“I’ll be so deep in the wilderness that the world could end and I wouldn’t know about it.”
Suddenly I think Mr. Keene knows something the rest of us don’t…
Good luck, keep busy, safe, dry and warm!
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Stay safe.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
be safe and lets hope a wild turkey comes to the tent
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Stay safe, dry, warm, alert and somewhat sober.
Later.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
don’t touch any white fuzz up in them thar hills…..
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Yeah, yeah, a guy alone in the woods for days on end … we all know how this story ends.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
that’s cool! I think that atmosphere will provide you with a good novel.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
So that’s how the pros knock it out. Be safe. Don’t get distracted. I would in the woods.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Good luck with the writing and surviving in the wilderness. You best bring some lime, I hear possessed coyotes are a big problem this time of year…
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Damn I wish I could do this. Really hope you have an enjoyable and productive week mate, and try not to shoot too many bears
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November 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
And on the 7th day…it is all very biblical.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Stay safe, Brian!
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Have a safe and productive trip!
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Well I hope none of those things happen to you Brian! (or if they do I hope you survive them and write a story about them!) Have a great holiday.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Hope you enjoy quiet time Brian.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Good Luck Brian!
November 24th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Cool man, I will give you a call Thursday.
Just Kidding
November 24th, 2009 at 6:14 am
That sounds like an insane amount of writing! I wish you the best of luck getting it all done. I assume you have a way of charging your laptop, though if it were me out there I’d be on my Smith Corona.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Brian!
You keep writin and we’ll keep on a readin.
Take care,
Troy
November 24th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Don’t forget to bring us back souvenirs!
November 24th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Good luck, man. Stay safe.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
November 29th, 2009. Sanford, Conn.
It took three days and over six hundred volunteers, but the last victims of Brian Keene, the so-called “Agonicity Addict”, were located buried in a hollow in a six mile stretch of pine. Keene, a horror author, issued a statement from the county jail today proclaiming that he regrets nothing, and required the agony of his eight victims to power his laptop, which he was using to write a funny book script for which he would be paid $200 and three tubs of KFC Original Style Chicken.
Have fun in all them darkest wooded thickets!
November 24th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
can i come?
oh please-oh please- oh please
i wont be a pest
November 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Damn! I see at least six or seven new book ideas in your future.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Good luck Man!
November 26th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Brian thats so hardcore…..just be safe man
Happy Thanksgiving Keene Fam.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Have a safe, fantastic time! Be on the look out for that crazed walmart raccoon. He’s looking to finish that fight!
November 28th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Good luck—I actually do this every night MENTALLY!
December 1st, 2009 at 9:08 am
Good luck, be safe and don’t touch anything white and “soft” out there!