Emma Straub’s Other People We Married
Emma Straub is best known for her novels, but I came to her by way of this short story collection, as is my preference with new-to-me authors that I’ve discovered…
Steven King’s “Guns,” Jon Ronson’s “The Elephant in the Room,” and Amazon Prime Reading
Amazon is now offering Prime Reading to those of us who have capitulated to a Prime membership. It’s quite the collection of free reading material. This is a different beast…
Flooded Kickstarter Needs Your Support!
http://kck.st/2dGtO32 Q&A with Victoria Griffin, Creator of Flooded: A Creative Anthology of Brain Injuries The following is an interview with the woman behind this anthology project -I hope you…
Flooded Anthology Kickstarter
http://kck.st/2dGtO32 Flooded is an awesome anthology project that will feature fiction and creative nonfiction related to brain injuries, and it's currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. I don't promote these kind…
Mishka Shubaly’s “Beat the Devil” and Amazon Singles
Mishka Shubaly seems to do a bunch of diverse shit. I’d heard him on a podcast a few times before hearing about his whole relationship with Amazon.com as a popular…
bone -Yrsa Daley-Ward
My fiancee found this particular collection on Amazon, and recommended it highly. I’ve been reading a lot more contemporary poetry in the last few years, but it’s still very much…
Book Fight Blurb
I got blurbed by Book Fight! And it's a good one: (more info about Book Fight and their relationship with book blurbs here- https://bookfightpod.com/blurbs/) “Sean VanSickel is like Roadhouse meets Cormac…
NonBinary Review 8: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
All of the stories, poems and other literary works in Issue 8 of NonBinary Review are connected in some way to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. The first section…
NonBinary Review, publication, and a great deal on a lit mag
Issue 8 of NonBinary Review, which features my story "AlterMist" and draws its theme from Sun Tzu's The Art of War, just came out in Kindle Edition. If you are…
Beautiful Books: Section Stitching, Doing it Right and our Final Salvation from E-readers
Books are rarely made with great care. Quality isn’t nearly the main concern of modern publishing. Sure, plenty of publishing houses make nods to the kind of craft that used…