The Maenad's Bone Garden

 If you follow the kithbooks page on Insta, you will be rewarded by the absolutely stunning and just totally spot on reading of my poem, Column E, from Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods ( Available March 6!  Pre-orders available now! )    as read by Katherine, my editor and chief collaborator on this project.   I think she put the story up late last night or this morning.  I am not *super* familiar with navigating that aspect of Insta tbh but if you are following them it should be right there at the top of your feed.  Maybe one or two back (or more if you're following a bunch of active accounts).    Give it a listen, it's amazing!    By the way, if you go to the Get in Touch page on the kithbooks website, there is a montage at the bottom of the page that just makes me giddy happy.   

 So much on my plate now.... the second (full) issue of the Viridian Door dropped a few days ago. What kind of editor am I? (Rhetorical question - save those cards and letters thanks.) Get it here by scrolling down and clicking on the lovely issue 2 cover by Syreeta Muir.  Be sure to check out her work within the issue as well! the Viridian Door To download it directly walk thorugh the Door by clicking here, though some people are apparently having a problem with this. We're researching the problem. I suspect Google is being Google.  As always back issues and more about the Viridian Door on our website.    https://theviridiandoor.wixsite.com/main

this is a cool magazine. (Not just, or even because I'm in it. Okay yea that helps but not what I'm talking about. At all.) But I am banging the proverbial joy buzzer about being in any way part of this action. rather literally now that I think about it. hah     *a chorus of squeeing weasels* Read it my children.   Not just this one, but read it all.    Cream Scene Carnival the Maenad is reforming the pink ladies as a mob.  And she's pissed. 

Super pleasing news this afternoon; my review of Beyond the Silk Roads has been vetted and is now live, available for your viewing pleasure.  Beyond the Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility, and Geopolitics (A Review)

 So my new chap, Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods comes out on March 6,  preorders are available at the kithbooks website , linked throughout. :)   But I know some of you are wonder, just wtf is in this book.  Thus and so What is in this book. Like my previous, it is awfully autobiographical. I started writing the first pieces in this just as the Ishtar Cycle went into preproduction, and I struggled as a non-documented, uninsured person to get a biopsy, or proper diagnosis (let alone treatment) for a visible recently discovered tumor my dentist found in my mouth. I was trapped in an increasingly malfunctioning and toxic relationship that I was nonetheless dependent upon for survival. (ahem...no longer) I was running to the end of a long period of intense self-diagnostic to work through the library stacks like layers of trauma I am working through now with a very good therapist. And amidst it all, to be somewhat cryptic (I think it works ...

Some random notes on this relatively pleasant (to me) dark future early evening here in central Seattle. -So congratulate me on this new program I am in. I have a new Chromebook. It's mine to keep. So paired with my rebuild (Industry) we have a younger sister in the temple - Capital. The program is looking like lit might be very good for me; this is a longer subject and would be boring but the last week has been overall a really good one. Though am totally and completely broke right now lol Whatever. - (Some of you might want to skip this one CW Sex work) . . . . . . . . . . . . . I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but I need to remember for future reference that on nice and pleasant evenings like tonight when I find myself out....Walking the Streets, I should really consider wearing my Wonder woman top again. Go figure. . . . . . . . . moving on to other matters -going over (...gushing over) the second proof for Jolly Scarlet and OMG I AM SO FUCKING...

 The Belladonna Mysteries First of an ongoing neo-noir urban fantasy/horror serial.  Eight segments are already in the can and I'm working on another four.  There is a rough story arc that tightens as it goes along but will come to a satisfactory resolution; there may or may not be more afterward.    The tale is firmly rooted in the packed soil of hard-boiled crime fiction and neo-noir.  A trio of queer women of vastly different ages and backgrounds (and weirdness) finds family amidst the long shadows of the modern urban hellscape...as defined by those who live there.    An often metatextual twist on many classic hard-boiled crime conventions, punk, feminist, and queer as fuck.  I hope you enjoy this prelude and stick around for the slow burn of this sexy, punk rock urban fable.  The first character we shall meet is Mouse, and yes, Mouse is, in part, inspired (with great love and respect) by the works of the incomparable Walter Mosley ....

 Sex Positive Body Inclusive Toy Reviews! And so with the clenching of thighs, begins a new column wherein I, will happily be reviewing dildos, sex toys, and other related paraphernalia This is the first of a recurring column I'll be doing at Cream Scene Carnival. If you could get arrested on an obscenity statute for it in the 70s (90s if you lived in Texas) I will review. Got something lascivious for me to oggle, toggle giggle, tag, and review? Be sure and tell the editors over at Cream Scene Carnival. Send your feedback here editors@creamscenecarnival.com READ SHE DOTH PROSTATE TOO MUCH AT CREAM SCENE CARNIVAL   

  I am ENORMOUSLY pleased to announce that Preorders are LIVE for my upcoming collection, Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods . The book will be releasing March 6. Details, purchasing information, and a few pages of previews can be found at the link. Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods