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“Care for an Appetizer?” in Zoetic Food Issue
My deeply weird science fiction story “Care for an Appetizer?” is out today in the Food Issue of Zoetic Press Nonbinary Review. It’s a story in which antipasta on a menu isn’t a typo. An excerpt: To call the Aaronson brothers writing partners would be to make a true statement on its surface, but one […]
Indiana State Museum highlights A Hot Mess
A Hot Mess, my latest book, has been featured in some cool places, and that now includes the Indiana State Museum, a museum I thoroughly enjoyed when I visited many years ago. It included the book on its reading list for its Inspired by the Dunes exhibit. Check it out.
Interview with Zoetic Press
My short story “Care for an Appetizer?” is coming out soon in the Food Issue of Zoetic Press Nonbinary Review. Ahead of publication, the magazine has a short interview with me about writing in general. An excerpt: What is the single best sentence you’ve ever read?That’s a really hard question, but I think it might […]
BIG NEWS: Three books coming in 2024
Now that these are official and I can talk publicly about them, I can talk about the three books I’m working on this year that will be published in 2024. A third edition of Votes of Confidence, updated for the 2024 election and featuring lots of updates since the 2020 version, will come out in […]
A few more midterm lists featuring Votes of Confidence
With a historic midterm election upon us — a rare one in which the president’s party is likely to gain at least one Senate seat and has a slim chance at holding the House — more places are adding the 2nd Edition of Votes of Confidence to seasonal reading lists. Here are two more recent […]
Library of Congress makes A Hot Mess available to the visually impaired
Not every book is translated into braille and audio formats for the visually impaired, so it’s great to see A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Our World among the new releases in that format available via the Library of Congress. The audio version is about seven hours long. Because there isn’t a […]
“Thinking About Dink” appears in Bookends Review
My short story, “Thinking About Dink” — which involves a musician doing exactly that, reflecting on the writer of “Dink’s Song” — is out today in The Bookends Review. An excerpt: Shane looked down at the familiar pattern of scratches on the floor, a lopsided snowflake etched by years of boot heels and chair legs. […]
