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Catching Up with JT LeRoy
I was totally into it. I had the signed raccoon penis bone. I read the books. I was a big JT LeRoy fan. Still am. I wrote “him” emails. I even tried to call him once to clarify something for an interview I did for Rain Taxi. I remember having this funny feeling when someone…
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Free Cream! Free Bullets!
I’m trying to learn more about these (not so) newfangled eBook things. For my own benefit and for the benefit of the folks I publish on my press (Future Tense family!). Today and tomorrow I am doing a free eBook promo as part of an experiment. Please go here and snag this baby. It’s my…
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RIP Paul Ash, Writer, Publisher, and Visionary
A longtime friend and the man who designed the Future Tense Books website, Paul Ash, took his own life on February 7th in Portland, Oregon. I met Paul around 1999 and for a couple of years we often did readings together and talked about our various publishing projects. I was publishing little Xeroxed chapbooks by…
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Crotch Rocket
Hey friends–quick update: I’m finishing up edits on my novel this weekend as I battle a bad cold. I spoke to my editor yesterday and we’re both very excited to move this book closer to completion. Next up, we’ll be looking at possible cover ideas and getting blurbs. But the main reason I wanted to…
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The Samps Awards For Outstanding Literature
If you follow me on Goodreads or spy on me when I ride the Max to work, you know that I read a lot. Instead of doing an ordinary top ten kind of deal, I’ll pretend to give out some awards. Imagine it’s a foot tall, shiny gold, statue of me in a rocking chair…
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Moving Into The Tin House
After two years of hard work, dizzy confusion, doubt, sadness, and eventual triumph, I recently finished work on a novel titled This Is Between Us. That was the first (and hardest) part. The second part is selling the darn thing. And I’m happy to announce that it is now SOLD! At some point in late…
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Good Men VS Rape
Hi Friends, I had a new essay appear over the weekend at The Good Men Project website. It’s about the rape of a close friend. I sent it to the editor there on Friday and she responded with one of the nicest emails I’ve ever gotten from an editor. “Really powerful. I hope you don’t…
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Weekday! And Weekend!
Hi Friends! I have two little fictions in the new issue of WEEKDAY, the cool journal printed right in front of your eyes at the Publication Studios in Portland, Oregon. This issue (their third) even has a cool embossed border and title printed on it. Editor Patricia No told me they were going for something…
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