Kicked Out, Roving Pack, Leather Ever After & new workshops!

It’s been a nice quiet week for me filled with lots of trips to the park with my dogs – though perhaps quiet is more than a little relative. Early in the week I learned that Kicked Out will likely be sited in an upcoming report looking at the epidemic of LGBTQ youth homeless as …

reflections on Touched By An Angels’s street kids 15 years later and the power of seeing ourselves reflected

Touched By An Angel “Children of the Night” Ok, confession – I was remarkably uncool as a kid. I also as I’ve talked about before grew up in an incredibly controlling environment.  Pretty much everything I did, watched, and read was monitored. I remember sneaking a copy of “A Child Called It” probably my freshman …

proofs approved and Charles Rice-González blurbs Roving Pack!

Late last week I finished reading the print and bound copy of Roving Pack for the very first time. I am, without a doubt my own worst critic – I am far more demanding of myself than I would be of anyone else, and yet as I finished reading the final page and closed the book I …

NYC Release Event! October 12, 2012 – Bluestockings

OCTOBER 12, 2012 Bluestockings Bookstore – 172 Allen St. NYC 7pm Please join us at the official NYC release event for “Roving Pack” to celebrate the publication of this highly anticipated debut novel by Sassafras Lowrey (editor of Kicked Out) About Roving Pack: ‘Roving Pack’ the debute novel by award winning queer author Sassafras Lowrey …

more lessons from Roving Pack: trauma, disability, DIY but still, claiming Fiction

This week has pretty much been all about things becoming very very real for me.  On Monday morning the post office knocked on my door and delivered a box with the print proofs of Roving Pack.  I’ll never forget the first time I held Kicked Out, and receiving Roving Pack for the first time truly …

layout, proofs, pre-orders and ANNA JOY SPRINGER BLURBS ROVING PACK!

I feel like my recent blogs have really been about summarizing weeks – I hope to shift that and start writing more content, but this week has definitely been an exciting time. The layout for Roving Pack was finished and sent to the printer. Actually placing the order for my print proofs of the novel …

Pre-Order Roving Pack!

This weekend the layout for Roving Pack was completed and I was able to order print proofs of the novel! To say that I am excited would be an understatement. All weekend I’ve been busy making plans, playing with html code and am THRILLED to be able to announce the launch of the Roving Pack …

Wicked Queer Authors – July 10th NYC

QUEER TEXT @ The Dixon Place HOT! Festival July 10th @ 7:30PM$6 admission Get tickets at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9692831 Get intoxicated by queer poetry and fiction while sipping a cocktail or chugging a PBR in The Lounge. Sassafras Lowrey is an internationally award-winning storyteller, author, artist, and educator. Sassafras is the editor of the two-time American Library Association …

the packs we form

It’s been an exciting week with Roving Pack. I’ve had the chance every day to see the updated progress of the actual layout for the book. I’ve been involved in approving fonts and essentially have just had a really great experience working with my designer to turn my ideas and dreams into a well-laid out …