Christopher Corey Smith

Hey! I know those guys!!

@cairoasmith @baltic_dan I love this logo so much!

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@cairoasmith @newritualpress You had me at Eve Harrington!

Dear friends and colleagues, Today, my friends at New Ritual Press announced A Cancellation, my second novel from them, out May 30th. I started trying to write this story in September of 2023, which is the month the novel concludes. For a long time it was called Amanda Here, the name of the subject’s vlogging channel. After a good amount of searching, though, I realized A Cancellation was what it had to be, in the tradition of A Teacher and A Separation. In this book a woman named Amanda is doing a bad job running her life. She has a successful business as an internet skit artist, but she started it fourteen years ago and it’s increasingly a relic in the new attention economy. She also has a lot of psychosexual and relational problems that only get get worse and worse. I don’t like to explicitly pathologize my characters, but you obviously can. Anyway, Amanda blows up her life and her channel and it just keeps going down, down, down to a bitter public end. There’s a potential stalker, an Eve Harrington of an assistant, a nest of YouTuber gossip vipers, and a lot of other fairly well-researched disasters. I lived a couple blocks from my strictly fictional character of Amanda Bannington, and even saw her house, although I never saw her. I hope you will find A Cancellation a bleakly entertaining and authentic look behind the curtain at second-string internet celebrities and the tangled web they weave. I’m grateful it has a home with the good people of New Ritual Press. You can pre-order a Kindle copy now. There is no pre-order for the paperback but it will be purchasable online when the book comes out on May 30th. If you are a writer yourself and you would like a free advance copy for the purposes of writing a review, please reach out to me or New Ritual for one. You could always run your review on your own blog, or submit it around to journals and magazines for publication. Either way we will try to get you some network-effect traffic. There is no official review embargo, but I recommend you time your review release around or after the May 30th novel release date. If you run text interviews or a podcast, I am also probably more than happy to appear or give an interview, and can do video. Just ask. All my best, Cairo

Yup, it’s true.

Awww you flatter me! 10 years?! Wow, how time flies.

I can’t wait!!

@Therewillbbooks @cairoasmith I second that!!

This was fun! Very refreshing to read. I'd like to buy @cairoasmith a totebag and recommend him in the New Yorker

@cairoasmith Many are saying. Many.

WHAT IS HAPPENING.

@cairoasmith I expect a Full Court (new ritual) Press

New rituals are proceeding.

“So that’s the power of the Spiral. Not bad. Not bad at all.” Hint - I’m his English dub voice.

@cairoasmith I love being one of many 😎

Many are saying this!!

Awwww, you flatter me, mortal. Well done 😈

@de3dsoul Wow! Dead Space! I voiced Commander Cadigan in that, like, a hundred years ago!

Man i love horror games

Join me and my dear friend @TaraSandsVO as we get our Pokemon on, live and in person on Saturday Feb 28 at Burbank Sports Cards!! Catch us while you can!

Amazing! I can almost hear Malak’s voice saying this!

@SerifSkeleton He is multi-talented 😎🫵

Holy shit didn’t know Reigans English VA drew stuff that’s awesome!

@AlexisTiptonVA @askforabigail Do you also work for The Crunchyrolls?

@askforabigail For years and years, back when Crunchyroll was still FUNimation….my parents kept telling people I worked for “Disney’s Funimations.” They dropped the Disney part after a few corrections but the “s” at the end of FUNimation stuck around for way too long 😂 killed me every time.

When your mom introduces you to people as a “famous voice actor” and tells you to “do the voice”

Bit of a bizarro moment. Back in the day (1940s) I guess goat used to mean someone who sucked at a sport, so in the movie The Natural the press is constantly trolling Robert Redford's character by calling him "the goat" to say he's washed at baseball.

@cairoasmith Congratulations, Son! I’m very proud of you 😊

Today, five years out of college, I have fully paid back my student loans. I chose a school I could afford. I ignored when the counselor said I would never get a job as a screenwriter. I never paused payments, even during COVID. I never weaseled my way out. I did it with honor.