2017

All in all, a pretty good year.

I didn't publish QUITE as much as I did in 2016, but still made a decent splash regardless. Early in the year I released my debut poetry collection, I Wrote a Poem About You, as well as an anthology of my chapbooks from 2016, The Sugar House Papers. Later, I managed to place a poem in EZ.P.ZINE Vol. 1: Beast of Burden, from Pyre Publishing. I edited the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues of HST Quarterly, the poetry journal I founded last year, and I spent the greater part of the summer compiling seven years worth of material into Horror Sleaze Trash: Prose in Poor Taste, a fiction anthology from the same outfit. And, just for good measure, I capped off the year with my second collection of poetry, Piss On It: New And Selected Poems. Keeping busy!

I didn't attend any conventions this year, but I did appear on two podcasts (Losing the Plot and Bizzong!), and I had a chat with Lady Catfood over at Indie Revolution. In addition to this, I interviewed Leo X. Robertson, Vanessa de Largie, and the notorious TOP TROLL of Goodreads himself, Edward Drobinski.

As usual, I read a lot.

Just for shits, I decided to jump on the whole Patreon bandwagon, and I actually managed to snag some support for my very real writing/drinking habit! Feel free to chip in yourself, if you'd like.

I moved into a new apartment... Took a solo trip through Europe... Began writing for stand-up... Let's see, what else... Oh! There was this semi-scandalous photo of yours truly in the buff!

And finally, I was selected by the legendary Ben John Smith to replace him as sitting Editor in Chief of Horror Sleaze Trash, the underground art/lit zine. To call this a great honor would be an understatement, to say the least! Digests from November and December of this year should be enough to catch you up on my tenure thus far.

Anyway, as the year gallops rapidly to its close, so too does my patience with this blog post. I'll add more if anything stupendous happens to occur within the next few weeks, otherwise I'll just see y'all in 2018!

xoxoxox,

AG