Crad Kilodney (born 1948 in Jamaica, New York) is a Canadian writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Jamaica, now a neighborhood in Queens, New York City, was settled as a town by the English under Dutch rule in 1656 in New Netherland. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ...

Kilodney obtained a degree in astronomy, but instead of working in that field he took a job at Exposition Press, a vanity publishing company. Many of his experiences in that job, and with vanity publishing in general, shaped his outlook on fiction and provided him with material for many stories. The stories "Three Dead Men" and "A Moment of Silence for Man Ray" (both in Girl on the Subway) are examples of this. Radio telescopes are among many different tools used by astronomers Astronomy (Greek: αστρονομία = άστρον + νόμος, astronomia = astron + nomos, literally, law of the stars) is the science of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earths atmosphere, such as stars, planets, comets, auroras, galaxies, and the cosmic background radiation. ... This article or section should include material from vanity publisher A vanity press is a printer who acts like a publisher that charges writers a fee in return for publishing their books. ...

After moving to Canada, he worked at a number of other book publishers, mostly in their stockrooms, and while doing so decided that it might be best to reach people by publishing his books (under his own Charnel House imprint) and selling them face-to-face on the street. This he did from 1978 through 1995, and published over thirty books in this manner.

In 1991 Kilodney was arrested for selling commercial goods without a license, making him the only Canadian writer ever arrested for selling his own writing. At various times he kept a tape recorder with him and recorded quite a bit of bizarre byplay between himself and prospective customers; the tapes are extremely rare and are collector's items (much as original printings of his books are). Several of his stories (such as "Henry", featured in Girl on the Subway) are also inspired by these experiences. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Kilodney has mentioned that while most writers are inspired by conventionally great literature, he drew inspiration from the exact opposite: the slush pile, the crank letter, and of course the vanity press. He was, however, not interested in being seen as a crank or an eccentric, but simply wanted to find respectable, legitimate work as a writer and be taken seriously for doing so. In publishing, the slush pile is the pile of manuscripts sent in unsolicited by the publisher, or not sent through an agent known to the publisher. ...

In 1988, as a prank, Kilodney submitted a number of stories by famous writers to the CBC Radio literary competition, many under absurd names. All of the stories were screened out by the jury. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the countrys national radio and television broadcaster. ...

Kilodney has written for a variety of publications, Canadian and otherwise, such as Only Paper Today and Rustler (for which he wrote a monthly column at one point). According to information on his unofficial website, he also wrote the first unsolicited short story ever accepted by National Lampoon. National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ...

He retired from writing in 1995, and is now self-employed as a day trader. His website features occasional new material. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Day trading most commonly refers to the practice of buying and selling stocks (or other financial instruments) during the day such that at the end of the day there has been no net change in position: for every share of stock bought an equivalent share is sold. ...

Works

• Lightning Struck My Dick - 1980
• Human Secrets - 1981
• Pork College - 1984
• I Chewed Mrs. Ewing's Raw Guts - 1988
• Nice Stories for Canadians - 1988
• Excrement - 1988
• Blood Sucking Monkeys from North Tonawanda - 1989
• Junior Brain Tumours in Action - 1990
• Girl on the Subway - 1990
• Putrid Scum - 1991
• Suburban Chicken Strangling Stories - 1992

1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

External link

• Crad Kilodney