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I'm in Best Gay Stories 2010

Hey there folks-The new Best Gay Stories 2010 from Lethe Press inclues my story , "It's Not You."I'm really excited to have this story published in 2010. It first appeared in my collection Love Hard: Stories 1989-2009 from Rebel Satori Press. But I wrote the first versions of it looooong ago when I lived in Chicago. It's about my first (and last) straight boyfriend, and tries to capture that

Story in Windy City Queer

(Me with friends at Club Lower Links, Chicago, 1991 or 1992, probably.)Just signed contracts to publish a story -- well, a novel excerpt really -- in the anthology Windy City Queer: GLBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast, edited by Kathie Bergquist and to be published by University of Wisconsin Press. The collection looks to be pretty awesome.My piece is "New. Great. Revolutionary." It's an

First morning frost! Cool living somewhere with distict s...

First morning frost! Cool living somewhere with distict seasons for the first time in years.

Just voted in first S Carolina election!

Just voted in first S Carolina election!

Reading Fri. Oct. 29 with Jennifer Fink!

Hey, come join me in celebrating the release of the new novel by Jennifer Natalya Fink, in a joint reading and signing event! Friday Oct. 296:30 pmHub City Writers Project Bookshop186 W. Main St.Spartanburg, SC864-577-9349Published by Rebel Satori Press, Fink's The Mikvah Queen is a coming-of-age story with many disco twists. In the anti-everything hippie culture of early '80s Ithaca, New York,

Signed 3-pack 1st Editions at WeHo Book Fair

If you're in the LA area Sunday Sept. 26th, be sure to stop by the Homocentric booth at the West Hollywood Book Fair. Hank Henderson runs this great local reading series and will have authors and their books there all day. I can't make it, but there will be an autographed 3-pack of first editions of my 3 books of fiction for sale.

3D 1893: Columbian Expo Stereoscopes

Just stumbled across the New York Public Library's Digital Archive and its amazing Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. It includes a bunch from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which I'm loving, as I'm in the middle of reading Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, a great account of the history of the Expo and how it was a hunting ground for America's first serial

Who don't love telegraphy?

Western Union may have stopped sending telegrams, but you can still bring the spirit of the Victorian Internet with this handy Morse Code Converter.<!--//Morse code converter- By Luke Watson (luke@lukewatson.f2s.com)//Script featured on JK (http://javascriptkit.com)//Visit http://javascriptkit.com for this script and morevar charCodes=new Array(36); charCodes["a":]=". _";charCodes["b":]="_ . . .";

From SC to SC

Figured I should put something official up here, since it's less fleeting a medium than Facebook: I've relocated to Greenville, SC and will begin teaching this fall as an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department of Clemson University.

California. Stop.

New video from my book of short stories....