I can’t believe it’s October. Oh. My. God!!!!! This of course makes me feel like I’ve become one of those old people that I never understood as a kid who would walk around saying how is it October? How is that possible? It seems like just yesterday I was dying easter eggs!!! Oh wait, grownups …
Roving Pack’s second review went up this weekend! Not only does it think the novel is good, but it engages with it really really intelligently, especially around issues of leather/kink community. The Leather content was something I knew I couldn’t cut from Roving Pack and have it be the kind of book it needed to …
This has been a pretty exciting week for Roving Pack. On Monday I got the very last of the initial pre-orders sent out! I’ve been getting lots of questions about how folks can get the book now, The short answer is that very soon it will be up on all the big box online places …
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Click the image to check out what the lovely folks at Velvetpark think about Roving Pack! “A whole population of kids will now be able to see themselves reflected, at last, in the pages of a book. I’m sure there are other novels about homeless queer youth out there, although I’m equally sure the numbers …
This weekend I got the very last of the pre-ordered copies packaged up! I took a batch to the post office on Saturday but ran out of packing tape and couldn’t get to the store before the post office closed so the last of the pre-ordered copies will be going out in today’s mail! Roving …
A month from today I’ll be standing in Bluestockings, my home bookstore for the NYC release of Roving Pack! I’ve talked a lot over the years in my blog about my commitment to independent bookstores – I very much am where I am today as a writer because of the support they’ve given me over …
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HUGE thanks to each and every one of you, who pre-ordered a copy of Roving Pack, and/or who shared info about the pre-ordering. I’m completely blown away by all the generous support from my community buying copies and getting the word out about the book. I actually sold more copies in the pre-order than I …
Folks have been asking about the one-inch button set that you will get when you pre-order your copies Roving Pack so I wanted to be sure to get them up here on the website so that everyone could see. They are made by hand, by me with my button making machine left over from …
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In the past few months I’ve been doing a lot of introspective work, thinking about the novel, my writing career (a phrase I still am shocked applies to me), the amazing experiences I’ve been blessed to have and trying to envision what the future holds as I realize just how soon Roving Pack will be …
A couple of years ago, early in the process of having realized that these funny little embellished/altered/shifted memory based stories I’d been playing with for a months was going to be a book I got some of the best advice I’ve ever received as a writer. I was meeting with Toni Amato my writing editor …