Bibliographic Augmentation

My latest short story, The D. C. S. G. Meeting, is now live in the Fall Issue of Menacing Hedge! Besides basic electronic print, there is an audio reading of the story - just make sure no kiddies are around when you listen in: the story satirizes a particularly adult theme in today's culture, and is rated R. While you're there, also check out Scary Bush, where I and other writers share cringe-worthy early writings. http://www.menacinghedge.com/

Republished Ho!

After dusting off my Art Degree to design the cover, I have just published a collection of my previously published writings. "My Governor's House & other stories" collects six stories and an essay, several of which are out-of-print (or whatever the term is for a story that was published by an online e-zine that apparently doesn't exist anymore: out-of-net? detached-from-the-web?).

My vision for the book is guided by the evolutionary nature of ebooks (see the introduction to Mark Coker's book "The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success" for an excellent description of this potential) as new stories get published and rights revert back to me, I will add them to the book. I'm also considering a special edition later - but I'm not going to release any details about that yet.

As a thank you for visiting this blog, you can download it for free through the end of the year! Just enter WH87A at checkout for 100% off!

Sample and purchase it here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/147664

Publishing Addendum Volume 5

"Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities" is now available in ebook form on Amazon.com. Buy it here, and check out my Amazon author page here.

Publishing Addendum Volume 4

"Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities" is now available for your Kobo reader from the Kobo Bookstore here:

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Alexander-Murphys-Home-Wayward-Celebrities/book-WWrpSfbukUi_WA3G-Gzg0g/page1.html

Also, strangely, listed as a Fiction Anthology.

Publishing Addendum Volume 3

"Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities" is now available at the Reader Store for your Sony Reading Device or Reader App. for Android Tablet here:

http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/josh-karaczewski/alexander-murphy-s-home-for-wayward-celebrities/_/R-400000000000000501229

Can't tell you why it's listed under "Fiction Anthologies"...

Publishing Addendum Volume 2

Hail readers. My novel "Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities" is now available through the diesel e-book store.
Check it out here:
http://search.diesel-ebooks.com/author/Karaczewski,%20Josh/results/1.html

Publishing Addendum

"Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities" is now available for your Nook E-Reader at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/josh-karaczewski, and for your iPad through iTunes (just do a lil' searchy for josh karaczewski). Remember to write a review!

Published Ho!

Ahoy readers! I finally published my first novel, "Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities"! It is in port now as an e-book in a variety of e-reader formats at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/joshkaraczewski
and, tide willing, will be landing soon at many other fine e-book harbors.

To foster trade relations, you can enter the coupon code CQ98C through October 1st to get 50% off of the already reasonable price of $4.99.


If you enjoy the read, please help me hoist my pendant by purchasing copies for your friends and family, writing a review (on the Smashwords site for example), "liking" the book on your preferred social media outlet, or simply drop me a line letting me know that I'm not floating alone in the doldrums.


if you do not enjoy the read, please avoid firing off your broadsides. Send a dispatch on the next packet with constructive criticism.


Hark the Blue Peter, I must ship anchor and away!

Bibliographical Augmentation

Hail readers! My first foray into worlds nonfictional is available, namely my essay on the first line of Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are, published in the Fall 2007 issue of The First Line (www.thefirstline.com).

It concerns reading as formative experience, memory, and mischief, and is a particular favorite of mine.

Enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Bibliographical Augmentation

Harken readers! A new microfiction story of mine is available in the Birmingham Arts Journal.

Entitled Black Fang, the story concerns the dying art of youthful exploration and play outside.

For those who can't stand the wait for your print copy of the journal, you can also view the entire issue (as well as their back catalog) online, here (http://jimreedbooks.com/baj1.html).

Happy Reading!

Introductions and explanations

If you are meandering here because you have read and enjoyed my stories in print and wanted to learn a little more about me, then God bless you for reading independent literary journals and for finding this blog, because it seems you can only access it by search through Blogger.com (at least with my limited expertise).

About me then:

• I have been writing all my life, but seriously hunkered down with the intention of publication, fame and riches in early 2003.
• The bibliography so far: "Two Pink Lines" a microfiction story, in Illya's Honey, Fall 2004; "My Governors' House," in The First Line (http://www.thefirstline.com/), Summer 2005, Nominated for a Pushcart Prize; "Afternoon Cowboy," in Thema (http://members.cox.net/thema/) Fall 2005, whose publication was actually blown back to early 2006 by Hurricane Katrina paying an unwelcome visit to their offices; and "From Mamma to Mother and Back," also in The First Line, Spring 2006. Everybody be sure and do a little rain dance to sprout the two dozen other short stories I have tucked into the slush piles around the nation.
• My high score after putting approximately 4,897 quarters in Galaga is 168,540.
• This Spring I completed my first novel, "Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities," a literary novel of the pratfalls of celebrity in America, the challenge of defining yourself through popular culture, and the good ol' fashioned ache for companionship; for which I am seeking a midwife (agent) and doctor (publisher) to deliver it into your hands.
• I have read 442 books and seen 2923 movies (lists available upon request)
• I live in a satellite of the binary system of San Francisco and Oakland, with my lovely wife, a passionate high school History teacher, my high school and college sweetheart who I married immediately after, and look forward to dedicating the book to; a five-year old son and three-year old daughter who are the right kind of crazy; a porcine cat, and the odd couple of a gregarious red beta, and a hermitic plecostomus.
• My favorite Japanese filmmakers in no particular order are: Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Juzo Itami, Isao Takahata, Hirokazu Koreeda, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Takeshi Kitano.
• My greatest literary ambitions in life are to have a shelf's worth of novels with my name upon them in print, and to have read every book I own, provided I own or can borrow (though you should never lend me a book if you don't want it returned looking well loved) every book by Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Thornton Wilder, Michael Chabon, M. Allen Cunningham, Nick Hornby, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Annie Proulx, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Milan Kundera, Douglas Adams, Nicholson Baker, Don DeLillo, Charles Dickens, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishigoro, Vladimir Nabokov, Ethan Hawke, George Orwell, Ken Kesey, Evelyn Waugh, David Mitchell, John Steinbeck...
• And why Oral Randomly for my blog title? Well, a couple years back I got the idea into my head to publish my own zine, where all of the stories and poems would be released in audio form, to reemphasize the oral tradition of storytelling, hence Oral (I considered Aural, but it just sounded too pretentious); and I figured that instead of a set publication schedule I would just release the issues when I felt they were ready, hence Randomly. I still thought that title had a good flow to it, so I resurrected it here, as the nature of blogs is more conversational that writerly, more in the moment then on a schedule.

and above all you should know that Josh loves to receive mail, so please feel free to comment or converse with me on any of the topics I present in this blog, or upon my stories, or fraternal tales on the difficulties in getting your first story or novel published, or on writing or reading or film or art or music or anything.

Unless you want to brag about a better Galaga score, in which case you are dead to me.