Bizzong! The Weird and Wacky Fiction Podcast

Every great story has a great villain. This week, Bizzong gets its great villain, Kevin Strange. That's right, the evil Bizarre and Cult fiction writer returns to Bizzong! to talk about his new book I DIED IN A BED OF ROSES. Mr. Frank also has some candid discussion about his break with the Bizarro scene and his search for new readership.

You can hit play. The choice is yours. I assure you, its probably not as bad as you think. Of course, it could be much worse. Only one way to find out Zongers!

The guy so nice, we had to have him on twice: author Russell Holbrook joins Bizzong! for his second appearance this week. Russell is back with his second book, The Water Babies, a twisted tale born of a local legend.

Mr. Frank talks about the new book with Russell and also his continued support and promotion of all things Bizarro. We also dig into Russell's marketing tactics and how he is unwittingly tapping into the local reader market.

So please hit play and have a #ZongerDay!

Zongers, I hope you haven't neglected your balls because this week, Reverend Lance Carbuncle joins the podcast to talk about his new book, The Unmentionables. Mr. Frank also talks with Lance Carbuncle about his writing style, being out of the limelight for long periods of time and of course, Lance's woeful neglect of his own balls.

Turn up that weird dial to 11 because Lance Carbuncle is here and you can't possibly be prepared for the kook that awaits you all. White trash transgression abounds!

Hit play because its #ZongerDay

Spring has sprung on Bizzong! The flowers are blooming, the weather is mild and Mr. Frank is hitting the road trying to convince unsuspecting readers to take a stab at one of his books. This week on Bizzong, host Mr. Frank talks about the #BeersNFears New Jersey Brewery Tour he is a part of. Fresh off the tour's first stop at Demented Brewing, he recounts the evening and the elements that make having this type of signing/selling event a unique way to get your books out to the public you may not necessarily reach otherwise.

There are still three more days left on the tour. If you listen in time and can come out and have a beer with Mr. Frank and company, please do!

Thursday, April 20th at Belford Brewing in Belford NJ

Friday April 21st at Spellbound Brewing in Mount Holly, NJ

Saturday April 22nd at Angry Erick in Lafayette, NJ (With special guest Dan Padavona)

Hope to see some Zongers out there!

The great MP Johnson has returned to Bizzong! MP has a new tale of drag queens and dinosaurs to talk about. But MP Johnson is also a wonderful source of knowledge about the convention circuits. Mr. Frank, having just finished his first convention weekend had lots to pick MP's brains about. A wonderful learning experience for the veteran and rookie convention book peddlers is talked about. We also give some heartfelt discussion on MP Johnson's future work as well.

It's another must-listen-to episode of Bizzong! So get yourself some astronaut underpants and strap in for the jumbo sized episode with MP Johnson. Give us the gong!

Drag Queen Dino Fighters releases on May 1st.

Hey, howdy, hi Zongers! Time for another big BIZZONG show! This week we feature author of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing's latest offering Invasion of the Nerd Weirdos, Andrew Hilbert. Mr. Hilbert had not been on Mr. Frank's bizarro radar so he was thrilled to sit down and talk to Andrew about his latest work, working with PMMP, why he doesn't know who the heck he is and why he should.

Listen along as we all discover just who this mysterious new Bizarro author who has been around forever is. Let's face facts, Mr. Frank has probably been hiding under a rock and every Zonger out there is well versed in Hilbert's world and I'm the one who's been out in the cold for this long. Let me in Zongers, I'm cold.

-Mr. Frank

Hey Zongers! Hop on board, we've got a long way to travel to talk to this week's guest, ST Cartledge in Australia! Unless you happen to live in Australia then you can relax for a bit and wait for the rest of us to get there. Shane Cartledge is the author of The Orphanarium, the latest release from Eraserhead Press. Bizzong! chit chats with Shane about the book, the writing process and the book market in Perth, Australia.

It's another fun bizarre romp in the world of the weird. So hit play because today is #ZongerDay! Give us the gong!

Get those beer goggles on Zonger because this week we're going on a Bahr Crawl! A Laura Lee Bahr Crawl! That's right this week's guest on Bizzong! is none other than the author of Haunt, the Wonderland Book of the Year Award winner, Laura Lee Bahr! She's written several other award worthy books as well as some feature length movies as well. Strap in and grab a cup of coffee because this interview goes a bit longer than most. But I promise, it's so engaging you won't even notice and will be begging for more by the end.

Caffinate Zongers and hit play, because it's #ZongerDay!

Bizzong! is getting THICK and VEINY this week! That's right, Bizzong invites the head curator of Thicke & Vaney Publishing, Bix Skahill, onto the show to talk about publishing poems about mini vans and his own work. Mr. Frank had a ton of fun joking around with Bix and I hope all the Zongers find Bix as endearing as I did.

So keep your ears pricked to this weeks show. Hit play because its #ZongerDay with Bix Skahill!

Zongers! We've got an American classic this week for you. Arthur Graham is one half of the founding duo of the Rooster Republic Press. His tenacity and eye for quality Bizarro fiction helped shape an influential Bizarro press and shape the landscape of what Bizarro can be beyond the scope of Eraserhead Press.

But beyond that, Arthur Graham is also a wonderful creator of Bizarro fiction himself. He writes weird poetry, crazy short fiction and balls-to-the-wall fun long form fiction. He is an unsung hero of the Bizarro genre and I hope spotlighting him on Bizzong this week will help inform everyone of the great work he's done and continues to do with the bizarre and weird fiction realms.

So hit play because it's #ZongerDay with the one and only Arthur Graham!