VERY IMPORANT: Old account gone. New e-mail: kldonihe@yahoo.com

To read a NEW interview with Kevin conducted by John Lawson of The Dream People click here.

To read an older interview once featured on Behold click here.

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Or read the Bare Bone spotlight from The Swamp.

Kevin L. Donihe lives high up in the hills of East Tennessee.

He was born sometime between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the death of Elvis Presley.

He earned a dual bachelor's degree in English and History in three years.

Kevin spends his free-time doing things.

Further personal information cannot be disclosed prior to debriefing.

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NOVEL: SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN? ISBN: 0-9713572-5-0 244 page trade paperback from Eraserhead Press. ($14.95) ISBN: 1-55404-066-3 295 page e-book from Double Dragon Publishing ($4.99) (The free copy, sadly, is no longer available.) "If you want your notions of reality stretched almost to the breaking point, if you can really suspend your disbelief and if you aren't going to start a cult based on this book, then read it." --From Bryn Colvin of eBook Reviews Weekly. "I don't think I am giving away too much when I say that if you like circus midgets you will love this book!" -- From the reviewers at The Dream People. Have you ever felt dislocated within the world? Did you ever have "one of those days" when everything unravelling before you seems truly bizarre and you begin to question your own sanity? Meet Mark Anders, the #1 bestselling romance writer in America. He never imagined that his little novel, detailing the lives of circus midgets would ever be published, let alone top the charts of the romance bestsellers list! But that is consumerist America for you -- anything to fill a void -- it's all in the packaging. And then overnight everyone -- EVERYONE -- recognizes him! There is an international Mark Anders Appreciation Society. No one doesn't want to know Mark Anders, even the dark suited, gun-wielding agents of rival publishers, even those little people with the red foam noses and floppy shoes. And then things really get insane in Kevin Donihe's first full length novel. Beware the turn of the Karma Wheel, beware the dueling cults rising up to usurp the new/old gods, beware the stench of greasy donuts for one day you could wake up being Mark Anders. "It illuminates. It demonizes. It pulls the strings of the puppets controlling the strangest of passion plays within a corporate structure. Everyone, every thing is a target of Mr. Donihe’s wit and off-kilter worldview . . . There are shades of Philip K. Dick’s wonderfully inventive The Divine Invasion (minus the lurid pop singer), trading up Zen Buddhism for unconscious Gnosticism. Malachi manifests where Elijah would stand revealed; and the Roald Dahl-like midgets hold the pink laser beam shining into our hero’s mind. Religion is lambasted under the scrutiny of Corporate money-crunchers, and nothing is what it seems." -- From the introduction by Jeffrey A. Stadt.

Click here to read reviews of SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN?.

NOTE: Ocean of Lard -- a co-authored book with Carlton Mellick III -- and The Flappy Parts will be released shortly.

FICTION AND POETRY: Pushcart Prize nominated author with acceptances into over 140 magazines/anthologies small-press, semi-pro, pro, and otherwise in ten different countries. Venues -- both published in and accepted into -- include: The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers (Published in the U.K. by Constable & Robinson and in the US by Carroll & Graf), Chiaroscuro (ChiZine), Flesh and Blood, Dark Discoveries, Dreams and Nightmares, Red Scream, Asylum 3: The Quiet Ward (House of Dominion Books), Poe's Progeny (Grey Friar Press), Cemetery Sonata II (Chameleon Publishing), The Cafe Irreal, Book of Dark Wisdom, Enigmatic Tales, Sick: An Anthology of Illness, (Raw Dog Screaming Press), Roadworks, Cthulhu Sex, Nasty Piece of Work, Star*Line, Eldritch Tales, Darkness Rising (Prime Books), Not One of Us, Peep Show (SST Publications), Electric Velocipede, Tempting Disaster (Two Backed Books), Retort Magazine, Crossroads, Bathtub Gin, Frisson, The Horror Express, Fusing Horizons, Dark Animus, Thin Ice, The Dream Zone, Wicked Hollow, The Undead (Permuted Press), Rictus, Blood Rose, NFG Magazine, Penny Dreadful, Hadrosaur Tales, Post Mortem, The Corpse Magazine, Frightnet, Rumble, Scared Naked, Horrorfind, Psychopoetica, Freezer Burn Magazine, Sidereality, Vampire Dan's Story Emporium, Cabal Asylum, The Circle, Edgar: Digested Verse, Yellow Bat Review, The Dream People, Black Petals, Staplegun Press, Decompositions, Outer Darkness, Liquid Ohio, Via Galactica (Croatian language), Angel/Angle Poetry Anthology, Mouseion, Joey and the Black Boots, The Dramatourges of the Yann (Greek language), Muse Apprentice Guild, My Favorite Bullet, Lethologica, The Blue Lady, Horror Carousel, The Catbird Seat, Lunatic Chameleon, Zygote in my Coffee, Bloodcookies, Poe Little Thing, and many others.

The same publisher that will release his novel also printed Kevin's FROM THE BOWELS OF BIRCH STREET, a six-story chapbook of absurd tales. Another chapbook, VOLUPTUOUS SUNRISE, has been published in E-Book format by the Big Dead Animal Furnace and distributed on-line by bizarrEbooks.com. His poetry collection SPIN CYCLES (Life and Love in the Machine) was released in Fall 2000 by the California-based Budget Press, publisher of chapbooks and The Budget Press Review. Another poetry collection WHAT'S THIS ABOUT, THEN? was published in early 2001 by Kitty Litter Press of Colorado. (In 2002, Kitty Litter Press also published POEMS TO EVAPORATE BY for their Kat Box line. This is a five poem "brochure" published on a 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper, folded into thirds.) Sam's Dot Publishing released a lavishly illustrated poetrybook of Donihe's verse. OSTEOPOROSES features 13 poems and 10 illustrations. Kevin's most recent chap is TELEVISED CONFUSION from First Base Publishing. In early 1999, he penned the introduction to David C. Kopaska-Merkle's chapbook entitled Y2K SURVIVAL KIT. His artwork has appeared on-line at Bullseyeart.com and in The Dream People. In print, Kevin's art will appear in Lunatic Chameleon.

MATERIALS EDITED: BARE BONE Which BARE BONE #5 story are you? --(courtesy of RAW DOG SCREAMING PRESS) Issues #1-2: 30,000+ words, perfect-bound -- $5.25 Issue #3: 70,000+ words, perfect-bound -- $6.95 Issue #4: 70,000+ words, perfect-bound, color-cover -- $9.95 Issue #5: The first Raw Dog Screaming Press issue -- $9.95 Issue #6: 60,000+ words, perfect-bound from Raw Dog Screaming Press -- $9.95 Issue #7: 60,000+ words from Raw Dog Screaming Press -- $9.95 Behind the scenes, Kevin is Chief-Editor of this publication. Donald Burleson's story in the first issue was recently reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 13 edited by Stephen Jones. Derek M. Fox's story received an Honorable Mention from Ellen Datlow's THE YEARS' BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 15, as did a tale by Thomas Deja. Past contributors from the first five issues feature such writers as Donald Burleson, Yvonne Navarro, Steve Rasnic Tem, Bentley Little, Rhys Hughes, Jeffrey Thomas, Ardath Mayhar, Nick Mamatas, Don Webb, Trey Barker, Gerard Houarner, Michael Hemmingson, David Niall Wilson, Mark McLaughlin, Michael Arnzen, Harry Shannon, Wayne Edwards, James S. Dorr, Charlee Jacob, Denise Dumars, Tim Curran, Bruce Boston, Kurt Newton, Gene KoKayKo, Kendall Evans, Derek M. Fox, Steve Lockley, Jeff Somers, Marge B. Simon, Terry Campbell, David C. Kopaska-Merkle, Steven Lee Climer, Scott H. Urban, Ken Goldman, John B. Rosenman, Tim Emswiler, G.O. Clark, Gary Fry, Lorin Emery, K.S. Hardy, Mark Justice, Ann K. Schwader, Cathy Buburuz, D.F. Lewis, Thomas Deja, Michael McCarty, Corrine DeWinter, Jeffrey A. Stadt, C.C. Parker, Darrell Pitt, Karen Porter, J.F. Gonzalez, Amy Grech, Phil Locascio, David Duggins, Mollie Burleson, James Cain, John Sunseri, and many others. Click here to read a wonderful review from Paul Kane of Terror Tales On-Line. Also, The Fix -- from TTA Press -- recently gave BARE BONE #3 a positive review. E-mail for further details or check out SHOCKLINES.COM or CLARKESWORLD BOOKS or PROJECT PULP or AMAZON.COM, where copies can be ordered via credit card, check, or money order. Kevin has also typeset and printed a George Herbert anthology (16th century poet) by hand on a nearly two centuries old press. A total of 350 hand-numbered copies were produced.

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