New JPL Short Story Hits the Web

My short story, "170 Degrees", was recently posted on the fine literary Website, Bewildering Stories. Thanks to Don Webb & Bill Bowler for this honor. Please check it out: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue379/170_degrees1.html

REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE: New Poetry Chapbook Available Now!

*REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE is a new poetry chapbook by Jack Phillips Lowe (author of So Much for Paradise, Long Form & Pariah Tales).

*REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE is NOT available at the web shopping site named after a South American river.

*REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE is NOT downloadable on any electronic reading device.

*REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE CAN'T be e-mailed to your cell phone. However. . .

if you want to find out about Icarus' daughter, cobalt calmness, the geology of genealogy and the guy who kicked off a revolt simply by turning pages, you CAN do that. If. . .

you have a mailbox, three bucks, a comfy chair and a good reading lamp. Yeah, that's it---no fancy equipment required!

*REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE (22 pages, paperback) is available NOW for $3.00 per copy (postpaid) from:

J.P. Lowe

P.O. Box 39

Addison, IL 60101 USA

(checks/money orders payable to J.P. Lowe)

*Want to piss off your tech-head friends? Order REVOLT AT THE INTERNET CAFE today!

PARIAH TALES at the Lost Bookshelf

For all you Web shoppers out there: copies of Pariah Tales are now available for purchase at the online bookseller The Lost Bookshelf: www.thelostbookshelf.com. Please check it out!

63 Channels, Big Hammer & ESC! Magazine

Here, after a long vacation, is the latest in writing from yours truly.

A long narrative poem of mine appears in the Spring/Summer 2009 print issue of 63 Channels, where I'm honored to be in the company of many fine writers & poets, courtesy of the equally fine editor, Glen Feulner. Check it out:

http://stores.lulu.com/63channelspress


Outlaw poet/editor extraordinaire Dave Roskos also saw fit to honor me by printing a poem of mine in his terrific Big Hammer #13, alongside the work of numerous underground press notables, including Gerald Locklin, Janice Blue, Douglas Blazek & A.D. Winans. The link:

http://outlawpoetry.com/2009/06/07/iniquity-press-big-hammer-no-13/


Meanwhile, my short story, "Radcliffe Peade is a Prick", is featured in issue #27 of ESC! Magazine, also in the company of too many gifted artistes to list here. Thanks to editor Michael Potter for this privilege. Check out ESC! (available as either download or print copy) here:

http://www.escwebs.com


I'm finishing up work on a new chapbook of poems and hope (KNOCK WOOD) to have it available by autumn, 2009. Watch this space for details!

In the interim, enjoy the summer and thank you for your interest in my work.

New Novelette Hits the Web

Parts 1-3 of my new novelette, We Are You, are online in the latest issue of Bewildering Stories:

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue315/we_are_you1.html

If you liked Pariah Tales, you'll love We Are You. Please check it out!

Special Thanks to Don & Bill at Bewildering Stories.

'Pariah Tales' Story on Bewildering Stories

A story from Pariah Tales was picked by the editors of Bewildering Stories as a First Quarterly Review 2008 Editors' Choice selection. Click on the link below to access the story:

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue281/endless_horizons1.html

Thanks to Don Webb and the entire staff at Bewildering Stories.

Excerpt from Iconoclast Review

". . .Mr. Lowe deftly, with an understated humor, shows the human condition in all of its foibles and pettiness. . ." (70)


Phil Wagner, The Iconoclast #97