Lawrence C. Connolly

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  • Zombie Gumby Endorses Voices

    It’s true. And if you were at Horror Realm this weekend, you can vouch for me. But the real highlight for me was the chance to get together with people like Chris Rickert of Eljay’s Books (the best bookstore in Pittsburgh), Paul Anderson and Eric Beebe of Post Mortem Press, and writers like the Rhysling-Award…

  • Day of the Dancing Dead

    Crowne Plaza, Pittsburgh South:  164 Fort Couch Road Pittsburgh, PA  15241 412-833-5300 – $15 single day (Friday or Saturday). Includes admission to after hour events on the day of the ticket purchase. Excludes VIP event. – $35 weekend pass. Includes admission all three days of the convention and after hour events. Excludes VIP event. –…

  • Horror Songs @ Horror Realm

    I saw Lawrence Connolly do a one-man performance called “Songs of the Horror Writer” equipped with nothing but a guitar and a microphone. He sang songs about Lizzie    Borden and insects and crimes of passion…and everybody loved it. It was a hilarious subversion of the con’s filk programming. — Michael A. Arnzen Michael Arnzen made…

  • Your Favorite Genre Song?

    The forthcoming publication of Rock On: the Greatest Hits of Science Fiction and Fantasy has me contemplating some of the great rock ‘n roll genre songs. There certainly is a ton of them. Science fiction? How about David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” Genesis’s “The Return of the Giant Hogweed,” or Mastadon’s album-length epic Crack the Skye? (Great…

  • “Evocative” – Publishers Weekly

    In Lawrence C. Connolly’s evocative “Mercenary,” sniper and musician Lorcan uncovers a dangerous truth about the mysterious, charismatic singer Bobbie Quicksilver . . . .                                            – Publishers Weekly Needless to say, I’m really jazzed to be a part of this book. Fantasy and sf have always seemed to me to be a big part of…

  • The Virtual Real

    I am inspired by the curvature of space. Not necessarily by the vast, physical manner that Einstein postulated early in the last century, but in a more personal, immediately perceivable way. There is something in each of us that allows (and sometimes forces) us to bend the hard-edged realities that we move through and interact…