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Links: Truths, Manifestos, & Blood
Steve Almond’s “Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto” is at The Rumpus. “25 Hard Truths About Writing and Publishing” from TerribleMinds. Do not read before consuming (possibly spiked) coffee. There’s a new...
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Links: Community, Advice, Stories
Former classmate and all-around superstar Greg Brown has a new story up at Narrative, “Intervals.” My amazing girlfriend Val Howlett writes about our reading, and community. The wonderful Thomas...
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Erotica Versus Sex Scenes
The recent publication of my story “Inventory” at Strange Horizons has led me to think, again, about sexually explicit fiction. “Inventory” is an SF/F story composed entirely of sex scenes–a list of...
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Links: Sickness, Sports, Oprah
A really good interview with the folks at Duotrope about their switch to a paid subscription model. Amy Butcher has a wonderful essay, “Sick,” at The Rumpus. Daniel Castro was the winner of the 2012...
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Links: Reading & Coming, Affording Clarion, Dearhearts Winning Things
I’m going to do this awesome project a favor and not mince words when describing it: Hysterical Literature shows women reading their favorite books out loud while coming. And it is hot and amazing and...
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“Real Women Have Bodies” and Other Stories
The first part of my story “Real Women Have Bodies” is up at Five Chapters. There will be a new section released every day this week until the story is completed on Friday. Enjoy! In microfiction news,...
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Help Raise Money for a Library (&“Real Women Have Bodies”)
My little brother Mario is a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, and he’s raising money for a Spanish-language library for his community. Can you help out? Here’s what he says about the project: “I am...
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Nebula Eligibility & Acceptances
Because I am so on top of my game, I am only realizing the day before nominations close that I am eligible for a Nebula. My short story “Difficult at Parties” came out in Unstuck at the very end of...
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Links: Is Writing Torture? / Girltown / Hear That Lonesome Gasket Blow
I really loved this old essay by Katie Roiphe about the white male writer and sex in literature. Elizabeth Gilbert and Philip Roth duke it out – is writing torture? Really gorgeous new story up at...
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The Next Big Thing & Other Updates
A few updates regarding my own work: My story “Real Women Have Bodies” completed at Five Chapters last week. Check it out! I also just found out that I’m in SF Signal’s new MIND MELD about the Next Big...
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“Vampires in the Lemon Grove” Review at LARB
My review of Karen Russell’s new book Vampires in the Lemon Grove, which also includes some thoughts about the NY Times claiming a renaissance in short story collections and Slate’s smart rebuttal of...
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Links: Sickness, Short Stories, Schwartz
The New York Times thinks that short story collections are experiencing a renaissance. Slate (rightly) calls bullshit on that idea. The essay as reality television. There’s a really great profile of...
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Five Stages of Grief
(Note: ALL links in this post are going to be NSFW. Some have only text, but links to Fleshbot often have explicit images. Click at your own risk.) (Mom, do not click on anything in this post. I’m...
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Heart of Glass, Press
Fleshbot Fiction founder Lux Alptraum spoke to Salon’s Tracy Clark-Flory about the imprint: “This Isn’t ‘Mommy Porn.’” A new “Heart of Glass” is up at Fleshbot. (Link NSFW, as always.)
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Links: Unbound, Pennsylvania, Graffiti
On the Olivia Glass news front: An excerpt from Five Stages of Grief was the featured Friday Erotica at Unbound. I especially love the graphic! Another microerotica from theFive Stages of Grief...
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“Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU”
I am excited to announce that my story “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU” is going to be published by The American Reader. The American Reader is an incredible new publication with...
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Links: Heart of Glass, Serious Erotica, Sex & The Literary Writer
A new Heart of Glass is up at Fleshbot. This week’s topic: opening up lines of communication about desire. Link NSFW, of course. Amanda Hess talks Fifty Shades of Grey, Fleshbot Fiction, and the future...
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David R. Collins Writers’ Conference
If you are in the midwest and are interested in taking a class with me, here’s your chance! I’m going to be teaching a three-day course–”Here Lies Magic: The Art of Writing Speculative Fiction”–at the...
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INCH & Wigleaf
I have three pieces of microfiction in two different publications this month: “Ys” and “Vacation” at Wigleaf (alongside a “postcard”) and “Dating Men with Biblical Names” in the most recent INCH. You...
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Links: New York, On Being Trapped, No Amusement
A new (again, NSFW) mini-fiction from the world of Five Stages of Grief is up at Fleshbot: “New York.” An old professor of mine has a beautiful essay up at The Millions about being a writer in the...
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