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A Pride Month shout-out for The Unwanted

PublicationsJune 11, 2024June 11, 2024

My friend and fellow author ’Nathan Burgoine has been offering up daily reading suggestions for Pride Month over on his blog, and he's listed some real bangers so far, including Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon (bisexual fake marriage for the sake of an inheritance) and Soul's Blood by Stephen Graham King (sci-fi found family). And this …

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Happy Ninth Birthday to The Unwanted

PublicationsMarch 19, 2023March 17, 2023

I was an awkward nine-year-old. This probably comes as no surprise, right? I was a nerdy kid with thick glasses and a bad haircut—and let’s face it, not much has changed in the 44 years since, except the glasses are contacts and the hair is gray. I’m still a big nerd, and most days my …

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Three Left Turns to Nowhere now available at boldstrokesbooks.com

PublicationsFebruary 1, 2022October 21, 2022

Happy February! At least, I sure hope it's happy. We could all use some happy. And speaking of happy (see what I did there), my latest book, Three Left Turns to Nowhere, is available NOW (like, right now) at the Bold Strokes Books webstore. Go there and you can get your hands on it (in …

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The Final Decree is on sale at Smashwords through July

PublicationsJuly 1, 2021June 28, 2021

If you haven’t downloaded The Final Decree yet, there’s a sale running at Smashwords for the entire month of July where it’s available for 50% off. Who doesn’t love a sale? I know I do. No need to do anything special to get the discount, just buy it at Smashwords before July’s over. And if …

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Listen to my story, “Shepherd,” at A Story Most Queer

PublicationsMarch 3, 2020March 2, 2020

Back in 2017, I had a story published in Foglifter Journal called "Shepherd." It is probably one of my most favorite things that I've written, because it has a dog in it and it's inspired by this painting by Edward Hopper: (Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art. I spent a lot of time …

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Pre-order ‘Nathan Burgoine’s “Faux Ho Ho”

PublicationsNovember 14, 2019

I can't wait for this one. My friend ’Nathan Burgoine's holiday themed novella, Faux Ho Ho, comes out on Dec. 10 but is available for pre-order now. So you should totally do that! What's is about, you ask? Read on: Silas Waite doesn’t want his big-C Conservative Alberta family to know he’s barely making rent. …

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Read “Sixty-Six” at CHEAP POP

PublicationsAugust 15, 2019October 2, 2019

This week, I have another flash fiction story published at CHEAP POP. It's called "Sixty-six" and it includes a few details from my early childhood in Yuma, Arizona, Star Wars cards, and petty theft. But it's fiction, so I take things to an unreal place. Every time he took some, Darryl headed straight down to …

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Read ‘The Monster Under My Bed’ at Pidgeonholes

PublicationsAugust 6, 2019October 2, 2019

I've been writing more flash fiction lately, like this piece, "The Monster Under My Bed," which has just been published at Pidgeonholes. Sometimes, these stories emerge all in one go, and the process still kind of mystifies me. Other times, they start as ponderous, bloaty things that I cut down and cut down until suddenly …

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Read an excerpt from ‘Harvest,’ my novel in progress

PublicationsApril 9, 2019October 2, 2020

I feel as if I've been talking about this novel for years. I started writing it before grad school, where I ended up finishing it as my thesis submission. Since I completed that draft, I've worked on at least three other novels with varying degrees of (un)success. Every time, I've come back to this one. …

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“Charlotte’s Mother,” A Story in the Saturday Evening Post

Publications, storiesJanuary 11, 2019

More years ago than I care to count, I dated a boy who lived in a small town south of St. Louis, in Iron County. He was sweet but ultimately we were too far apart, geographically and otherwise. Most of the time, we spent our dates in St. Louis, but one weekend, I drove down …

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