Bizzong! The Bizarre And Weird Fiction Podcast

Welcome Zongers to another fine edition of Bizzong! This week, Mr. Frank invites George Billions on to Bizzong! to discuss his book, BUYING ILLEGAL BUGS WITH BITCOIN. A book Mr. Frank gave his first 5 star rating to in 2018. In addition to the crime-noir-weird-horror-thriller that is Buying Bugs we discuss how George came to write and be exposed to the Bizarro community. We talk about ghost writing and smut writing as well.  It's all bugs, boobs and boos Zongers so don some protection and get ready for this week's episode of Bizzong!  #GiveUsTheGong

This week, surrealist (and bizarro) author David Atkinson joins Mr. Frank on Bizzong! to talk about the art of flash fiction and what it means to be bizarro and when to respectfully claim you aren't bizarro even when everyone else says it's okay. Also, Mr. Frank reveals whats going down for Bizzong! Live at Scares That Care this August in Williamsburg, Virginia. Are you ready?! Then #GiveUsTheGong Zongers!

  This week on Bizzong! Podcast, Mr. Frank has a little pow-wow with the author of The Drip Drop Prophet and Other Stories, Mr. Austin James (Hatch). We discuss how he came to work with one of the up and coming presses in bizarro fiction as well as what it's like to interact with the two madmen that are the engine of Nihilism Revised. He ain't Bob Marley but he might as well be. So get ready for the Bizzong! interview of Austin James (Hatch). #GiveUsTheGong

  Welcome back to another big Bizzong! show. This week Mr. Frank brings you another New Bizarro Author Series writer. The author of WINNIE, Katy Michelle Quinn. Katy has been around the bizarro community for quite some time and she has now offered up her own brand of bizarro fiction. She self describes her work as "soft bizarro" thus making it a great gateway into the genre for those who are curious and want to experience the weird without going over the top. So polish up you guns and get ready for the Bizzong! interview of Katy Michelle Quinn. #GiveUsTheGong

  This week on Bizzong! New Bizarro Author Series participant, Caleb Wilson joins the show to discuss his NBAS 2018 book, Polymer. Caleb talks about the experience, the process and The Purple One. In addition, we also discuss Caleb's other side project, writing text based computer games. Yes, they still exist and Caleb is help keeping their spirit alive. So let's get our Zork on Zongers! It's time to hit play and listen in on this week's episode of Bizzong!  

  This week, Bizzong! finally puts its interviewing hat back on and talks to the head editor at Eraserhead Press, Rose O'Keefe. We discuss Eraserhead's current open submission call, book marketing, living life as a weirdo and the awesome new concept of Carlton Mellick III's upcoming new release. Of course, there are many other things we talk about but if I listed them all right here it would ruin the surprise. The moral of the story is that you have to hit play and find out what its all about this week on Bizzong! Don't forget to share this week's show on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #BIZZONG to get entered to win a limited edition Bizzong Pin!

  Welcome back to the weirdest show on the webternets, Bizzong! This week, host Mr. Frank dishes more weird news. Also Mr. Frank is currently on tour with the Beers N' Fears Brewery Tour. Listen in to find out if Mr. Frank is coming to a brewery near you.  

This week on Bizzong! Mr. Frank finds just enough of his voice to get through an episode of the finest podcast about the Bizarre and Weird. Mr. Frank kicks off with another round of weird news from around the world. Then, inspired by a Twitter exchange with a children's television show from the 80's, Mr. Frank talks about weirdness from our childhood and how those children's shows we watched may have influenced our weirdness as adults. Remember Zongers, No Gnews is Good Gnews on Bizzong!'s Weird Gnews Show! Hit play and listen to all the Gnews that matters.

This week on Bizzong! Host, Mr. Frank, brings you up-to-the-minute news coverage. Mr. Frank digs deep into the news wires to cull the best of all the weird news in the world.  This episode is like the Weekly World News, only better and with at least 100% less bat boy stories. Grab your copy of the Bizzong Tabloid and hit play Zongers, its #ZongerDay!

Nihilism ain't just a river in Egypt Zongers (or is that the Nile or maybe denile? This joke is getting confusing.) This week on Bizzong! author and publisher S.C. Burke joins the show to discuss what the publisher, Nihilism Revised is all about. We even manage to discuss S.C. Burke's own transgressive fiction as well as the merits if art in literature, especially his own. Nihilism Revised has been making waves recently and it's time to hear S.C. Burke peel the onion of this great experimental press. Press play to listen and learn Zongers!

Mazel Tov Zongers! I hope you've all brought your Kosher salt because we are going to get cooking this week with Maxwell Bauman and his ANARCHIST KOSHER COOKBOOK from Clash Books. Listen as we learn all about the history of Jewish horror and how Maxwell has taken it and shaped it into something bizarre and unique to craft as his own brand. We also discuss Maxwell's history of publishing both as the writer and publisher of his zine, Door is a Jar. There is a great deal to learn about the new kid on the block. So settle in and relax and enjoy the latest interview on Bizzong!    #ZongerDay

What is a Satoshi you ask? Well if you don't know, check out the podcast Unreasonably Handsome, co-hosted with this week's guest, Michael Allen Rose. Michael is an artist, author and entertainer (and that's only scratching the surface). He returns to Bizzong to talk about his latest and upcoming books as well as the interesting things he's been doing with Patreon.  Also, we discuss Satoshis. Cha-Ching Zongers! Hit play because its #ZongerDay with Michael Allen Rose!

Welcome back to Bizzong! When we last left Jeff Burk, author and head editor of Deadite Press, he was on a pair of water skis while still sporting his trademark denim jacket. He was also about to hit a ski jump ramp that would send him sailing perilously over a tank filled with man eating sharks. And they're hungry! Will Jeff make the death defying jump or will he fall into the tank and get eaten alive, denim jacket and all? There is only one way to find out Zongers. Press play and find out if Jeff Jumps The Shark! (Next time we do this its gonna be with stage coaches and runaway horses!) (Is anyone getting these bad 80's two part sitcom references or is Mr. Frank just really friggin' old?)  

  Bizzong is doing something not done before in its history. We are launching a two part interview Zongers! And who else would be the cause of a two part interview, none other than Jeff Burk, author of Shatnerquake, head editor at Deadite Press and The Great Orator of the West. In part one Jeff tackles his new book, The Very Ineffective Haunted House, coming soon from Clash Books. We touch a bit on his light output in 2017 and how he is doubling down in all areas of publishing in 2018. And thats only the beginning. stay tuned for part 2 of the interview next week. But for now, hit play because we can't get to part 2 until we blast part 1 into our earholes Zongers!

  This week on Bizzong! author Nick Cato joins us once again to talk about his upcoming novella, DEATH WITCH from Dynatox Ministries. We also talk about Nick's work with Horror Fiction Review. HFR is a fantastic book review blog that gives great recommendations of the latest hot titles in horror fiction. Of course you can't talk to Nick Cato without some movie chatter so we go there too. So hit play Zongers and enjoy another great interview on Bizzong! Give us the GONG!

  Hey Zongers! Time for another trip around the Bizarro globe. This time we're headed back to the UK to talk to Zak A. Ferguson. Zak is the author of several transgressive books with the Bizarro flair as well as one half of the team that makes up the new press, Nihilism Revised (I bungle the name in the show, all apologies). Zak is doing wonderful things in the Bizarro realms and he is a fantastic new voice for a new generation of up and coming writers of weird, transgressive, absurdist and bizarre writers. Hit play and find out what Zak is all about today Zongers! #ZongerDay101

  This is the one hundredth episode of Bizzong! The Bizarre and Weird Fiction Podcast. It is presented for you, The Zongers by you, The Zongers.  Let's all celebrate what we love. Thanks Zongers for making this show possible. Let's take this moment to celebrate and then keep on going! See you at Episode 200 and every stop in between.  

The 99th Episode of Bizzong features the 2017 Recipient of the Wonderland Book of the Year Award, Danger Slater. Danger talks about his moment at BizarroCon when he won the award and how it affected him. More important, we talk about his newest book, which comes out February 14th, 2018. He Digs A Hole is chock full of symbolism and analogies. And just went you think you've got this clever little narrative all figure out, BOOM, in steps the world's most explosive writer to lay down some fourth wall breaking commentary that somehow manages to weave its way into the plotline as well. Get out your shovels Zongers because it's going to get DEEP on this, the 99th episode of Bizzong! See ya next week when we hit triple digits!

Class is in session Zongers! Please be seated and ready to learn! This week's lesson is on writer Gregor Xane. We're are going to learn all about Gregor Xane and his writing and influences and opinions. The best part? There will be NO quizs or tests after the lecture! So get your notebooks out and your batter old highlighted and annotated Bizzong! textbook because it's time to get learnt with Mr. Frank and Gregor Xane on Bizzong! The Bizarre and Weird Fiction Podcast.

This week on Bizzong! Podcast, our guest Lucan Mangum talks about what its like to live life like a jet setter in the Bizarro literary scene. He discusses Illuminati like gatherings of the world's most eminant figures in Bizarro. He discusses collaborations with the elite in horror fiction as if they are some clandestine, back door, top level government conspiracies. And he discusses he books, which also happen to be as awesome as his lifestyle. Sit back, relax and enjoy the tale of the playboy of Bizarro and Cult Horror, Lucan Mangum*   *Caution: All or none of these facts have been made up entirely by Bizzong! The Bizarre and Weird Fiction Podcast