A Canticle for Leibowitz
This is a book I would have really loved in high school. That’s not a criticism per se, but, damn, I wish I’d read this when I was younger. A…
New Publication at BODY PARTS MAGAZINE: THE JOURNAL OF HORROR & EROTICA
Got another story published! Hop on over to the digital edition of Body Parts to read my story "Murder and Cruelty Free" and please don't assume anything negative about my…
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…
The Wisdom of Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton knows his way around the English language. He often makes it do silly things, purely for his own amusement. His Father Brown books, especially, have a sense of…
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…
Matthew Vollmer’s Gateway to Paradise
This is the third book of Vollmer’s I’ve read, the most recent, and the one I’d be least likely to recommend. I loved “Inscriptions for Headstones” -it was a fantastically…
Book Fight!
https://bookfightpod.com/ Book Fight is a easily my favorite literary podcast out of the half-dozen or so that I listen to. I’ve mentioned them here before, but they are in the…
An update to my experiences with Google voice typing on Docs:
A previous post chronicled my trials of Google’s voice typing program, and now that I’ve used it a bit more, I have some further thoughts. 1: It’s damn handy…
“Testing 1 2 3 I’m testing this voice to text…
The above is what happened when I started trying Google's new voice to text program. This program is available on Google Docs or Google Drive, and I'm using it right…
Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”
Bluets Maggie Nelson “Bluets” is an essay written in short bursts, meditations in miniature on the color blue and all its Western connotations, on depression, on sex, on tranquility and…