I scheduled this to post yesterday, but instead the interent ate it! Ack! My apologies for the unexpected delay but I’m thrilled to be a stop on the blog tour for Katherine Scott Nelson’s novella “Have You Seen Me” which is a Lambda Literary Award finalist this year. I was thrilled to crack open the …
This weekend I was lucky enough to have the chance to head out of town with Kestryl for an artist retreat! We brought the dogs and a whole bunch of outlines and plans for the work we each individually wanted to focus on and headed upstate. We spent the long weekend in an adorable cabin …
I’ve learned over the years that next to the feedback of readers who have been impacted by your work, there are few things more powerful than having authors who you really respect tell you they read your book, and were hailed by it. There’s something about having someone whose books you’ve looked up to and …
This morning I’m struggling with the news that Maurice Sendak has just died. There is an obituary in The New York Times and I’m sitting here crying and thinking about the impact his words and pictures and the impact they have had on my work, the way I approach writing and the stories that I need …
When DL King asked me to be a stop on the blog tour for her new anthology ‘The Harder She Comes’ I was delighted to help. With that in mind I bring you today’s guest blog! The Harder She Comes blog tour presents: A Guest Post from Valerie Alexander, author of “A Date with Sharon …
It’s interesting for me to think about the different lessons projects unexpectedly teach us about ourselves. I didn’t go into working on Roving Pack thinking that I would walk away with a novel, nor did I certainly think that I would end up learning so much about myself – not only where I come from, …
Read more “lessons from Roving Pack: poly, leather, boundaries and whale legs”
Last night I was one of four featured readers at Queer Apple: LGBTQ Life in Poetry & Prose. Seldom do I feel the need to respond to an event publically, but I am so deeply troubled and offended by what took place last night that as an activist writer I believe I would be remiss …
Read more “thoughts on booing another writer from the stage….”
This week I’m deep in the midst of finishing the last line-edits on Roving Pack. These are the latest and last major edits from Toni Amato of Write Here Write Now, who is not only beloved family with me but also my writing advisor who has worked with me on this book every step of …
A lot of times I have a WTF please pinch me, this is too good to be true feeling about my family and the work that I get to do in the world. This has certainly not lessened while working on the final edits for Roving Pack and simultaneously signing the contract to edit Leather …
I know it looks like I’ve given up on blogging. It would be a fair assumption, something about the months since my website has had anything more than press-release kinds of sound bites and announcements about readings or publications ; ) ! It’s not that I’ve gotten bored with blogging or forgotten about it, …