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 …
With all the exciting things going on, I haven’t yet posted about next weekend’s Rainbow Book Fair here in NYC on Saturday March 24 ! it’s going to be a fantastic event filled with some fabulous leaders in LGBTQ publishing. I’m thrilled to be part of this years event and curating a very special reading …
Read more “‘Dangerous Stories’ @ the 4th annual Rainbow Book Fair”
I’ve been keeping a secret for the past couple of weeks, and folks who know me know that I’m not very good with secrets, but now it’s time to spill the beans (Jack’s magic beans of course) This afternoon I signed a contract with Ravenous Romance to edit a new anthology titled ‘Leather Ever …
I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am to be guest curating an evening of Queer Memoir, NYC’s only LGBTQ storytelling series and to have it be Leather adds a whole nother layer of excitement and importance for me on a deep personal level as well as an artist. On March 3rd …
On Monday I announced the autumn release of my novel ‘Roving Pack’ huge thanks to the tremendous supportive community response I’ve received!!!! Since then KD Diamond whose doing the cover art from the book has been showing me updated drafts of the art!!! I’m just in awe of the way she’s been able to capture …
For the last couple of years I have been writing a novel based (not so) loosely on my experience as a trans fag growing up in a queer youth center. Editing Kicked Out was one of the most incredible experience I ever had and it was also a very trying and difficult time for me …
Folks that know anything about me probably have some knowledge of how important picture books are to me. They are beautiful, tricky and dangerous works of art and storytelling that are far too often written off by people as meaningless, and simple. Picture books are how I have come to make sense of myself and …
Read more “‘you have to take the dive. And you do not know what the result will be…’”
Within a few minutes of meeting me it becomes pretty abundantly clear how obsessed i am with dogs. Dogs have been a really fundamental part of my life, conception of self, spiritual understanding and so much more. No doubt, I am the person I am today because of the dogs who have shared my life. …