Shitty Vampire

I came across this the other day. My poem Shitty Vampire in Trunk Books Vol II: Blood. This is a cool little book, full of great art and text. The beautiful image next to my poem is by senVoodoo. The launch was awesome. Very shmancy, the shmanciest I’ve been to. But strange, too. A huge…

Where Writers Write, TNBBB

Thanks to Lori Hettler of The Next Best Book Blog for including me in this. The room doesn’t have any windows unless you count the old kitchen window that once probably overlooked a vegetable garden and which now looks into a bathroom the slumlord added on later. We nailed this bulletin board over the window…

Taking off

Have you seen this Milos Formon Movie, Taking off? This is a clip from it. I’m taking off too. For my first AWP, the launch of my first book, my first reading. See you there. And watch the whole movie. I worked for a while as a blurb writer for a cable station. I had…

Stories at Stories

So here’s a link to the event at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park. Here’s the blurb, put together by the host, Ben Loory It’s a reading! People will read. The following people: Ben Loory Jim Ruland Zoë Ruiz Cecil Castellucci John Skipp JS Breukelaar It will be good! JS Breukelaar will be here all the…

American Monster

Gone to print! I’ll be reading from American Monster at Stories Books in Echo Park on Feb 24, with a dauntin line-up that includes Ben Loory and John Skip. And then, as part of AWP, at Left Bank Books on March 1. Details and links to follow. As far as reality goes, the Novella is…