Martin De Leon

Sunday, June 12, 2005

a world within the word

I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.
- william gibson

(my follow-up story to "neuro" should be done, soon. see what happens.)

# posted by M Dilla @ 7:38 PM

About

Hello. I'm a fiction writer, editor and music journalist living in New York. I'm working on my first novel. I used to live in Austin, work for The World Almanac and wear more Geto Boys T-shirts. The drawing to the left was done by Matt Furie. Contact me via e-mail here.

Scribble, Scribble

"1986"
(Block Magazine)
Canadians Die, Too
(The New York Press)
Tomorrow Rap: Saul Williams, Rob Sonic and Busdriver
(Signal to Noise)

Freelance Hustle!

I do band bios, press releases, editing, Spanish translation, copywriting, music and film reviews. Business writing services are also available. Contact me for rates.

Works

I'm working on a novel. Houston, in the year 2024, is filled with rappers-as-sorcerers and a 33-year-old Mexican-American DJ named Juan Gomez who lives with his parents. What is more sci-fi than rich Mexicans? Living in River Oaks while a mysterious red Buick Regal roams the neighborhood and a pint-sized Rhodes Scholar rapper who is obsessed with Schopenhauer. A part-satire, part-thriller, part-naco science-fiction novel where David Foster Wallace meets UGK? Look for it on bookshelves in 2093.

Fantasma Press is an indie publishing house based in Brooklyn, NY. Genre stories, weird stories, avant-garde/experimental fiction, Spanish-language fiction and dope drawings and essays are forthcoming in the future. I also use it to publish tiny chapbooks of shit I know would never sell anywhere else. Give me your $$$.

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