The Austin Chronicle

What a strange feeling to be on the cover of the Austin Chronicle. It's the Austin Bible. Holy cow.

Francois Pointeau wrote a very cool article on my work here.

If you're landing here because you read the Austin Chronicle article, welcome!

I'm having a release party for my novella, Bangface and the Gloryhole, at Radio Coffee and Beer on Sunday, April 24th at 7pm. We'll have a real live gloryhole replica set up and we'll check in on it every now and then to see what the hell is coming out of it throughout the event.

My good friend and weirdo-collaborator, Cheryl Couture, will be hosting the show and my other good friend and amazing musician, Luke Malone, will provide the tunes.

You can pick any of my books up at BookPeople or you can just sit on your hands and buy it directly from me at the event. You can also support mega-corporations (if you're into that kind of thing) and buy my books on Amazon.

My first chapbook of short stories, Toilet Stories From Outer Space, will be free on Amazon for five days starting on Friday. 

Holy cow.

I love Austin.

I know, I know, I know everyone from California moves here and builds condos and all that kind of stuff but I'm glad you overlooked my millions of dollars for development and bulldozing preschools and accepted me as an Austinite.

Devaki Knowles was the photographer and the photos came out great even though the whole time I was questioning every small aspect of my life and counting mosquito bites. It was fun.

Everything is great.

Come to the Bangface release party! It will be fun! It will be weird! We'll all have a grand time!

Best of Austin 2015

Holy cow.

I was the critic's pick for Best Author Reading for the Austin Chronicle's Annual Best of Austin awards. 

Francois Pointeau and Owen Egerton also won some literary awards and my former employer, BookPeople, continues their reign as best bookstore in Austin. We got to party for free, got a nice tshirt, drank a lot of Austin Beerworks and ate a lot of Via 313. Sometimes life's just damn good.

I've been in Texas since 2010, though.

The Weekly Weird Monthly Automatons at the Austin Chronicle Party 

Nina, me, Cheryl, and Chris

Austin is losing Francois Pointeau to the road soon. We sent him off at the Whip In at his book release party. It was wildly successful. I had the honor of hosting the whole thing and all I can say is that Austin got a whole lot less French. Get Francois's book by clicking here. 

Francois as a boxed wino. The If Onlys on stage.

Death Thing is continuing to generate positive interest and I'm starting to pursue next steps career-wise. It's overwhelming but it's also necessary to keep forward movement. I think Death Thing is perfect for the screen and I'm talking to a lot of folks on how to get that done. 

I'll be in Long Beach on Sunday, October 4th, at Gatsby Books for a Death Thing release party but I'm also releasing my new chapbook, Cat Food, there. You can get both books here. 

MCDONALDSINSPACE is the code to get 13% off any order of two or more products at the Weekly Weird Monthly store

I'm extremely grateful to the city of Austin and Texas in general. I don't know that I'd be writing as much as I am today if it wasn't for a rather sudden move to Texas. Texas revitalized me. It threw me around and sent me to some depths in the beginning, sure, but it was for the best.

I'll be updating this blog more. I'm terrible at internetting.