AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Look what came in the mail along with treats & sharpies! #NewBookSmell #QueerBooks#LostBoi #AuthorsLife #ComingApril w/ @ArsenalPulp & @clsbooks Edited to add: Lost Boi made the 49th Shelf list of the most anticipated fiction books for 2015!
It’s hard to believe that this year is nearly over. It’s been an incredibly busy 12 months filled with lots of adventure, fun, and growth. I’ve done a lot of writing, met a lot of incredible people, had a whole lot of fun along the way with my queer family I’ve been blessed to have …
It’s been a whirlwind of a week and a roller coaster of emotions. On Monday I learned that the great Transgender warrior Leslie Feinberg had passed away. Hir passing hit me, and the rest of the community very hard. I had the honor of writing a remembrance for Leslie for Lambda Literary: “Losing our Hero, …
Read more “remembering Leslie Feinberg and LGBTQ youth homelessness on NPR”
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I updated my blog and that it’s already autumn! The summer was really fun, also ridiculously busy! I’m not even sure how to sum up how incredible the queer book diorama show ended up being, and it seems a little unreal that this project that I spent …
Isn’t that just the hottest cover you’ve ever seen??? The amazing folks at Arsenal Pulp Press have really outdone themselves with this art and really captured the queer twist I’ve put on this classic story! I can’t imagine being happier about my cover art, and am thrilled that I can stop keeping it a secret …
The Opening Reception for the Queer Book Diorama show was INCREDIBLE!!!! 120 folk from the community joined us at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library to celebrate the power of queer literature and libraries (17 people got NYPL library cards! ) !!! It was an incredibly fun event – and how rad …
I’m working on a blog post that has more updates about books, projects and all the other exciting things happening right now, but first wanted to post a reminder about the Queer Book Diorama Show! I’ve been organizing this for the past six months or so with the fab Hugh Ryan and tomorrow is the …
More info to come in the next weeks and months, but I’m so excited to announce that my next novel Lost Boi which is a queer and leather retelling of Peter Pan will be released from the amazing Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015!!! I couldn’t imagine a better home for this book, and can’t wait for it …
Queer Memoir is a storytelling series that’s been running here in NYC for the last several years. It’ holds a special place in my heart and I’ve been lucky enough to get to guest curate at it a few times over the years on themes from pets to leather. In 2012 Kelli and I collaborated …
For the past few months I’ve been working on a secret project with with Jama Shelton, formerly homeless queer youth and the Project Director at Forty To None and I have been working on a new project. Since the release of Kicked Out, one of the things that has been the most powerful, and intense …
Read more “What if formerly homeless LGBTQ youth were leading the movement? WE ARE!”