book news

So you remember my collection of stories, The Book of Broken Hymns? I thought you might.

I have some NEWS about it.

As you may recall, the print version of the book was available as a limited edition, most of which have now sold out. However, because there are still people who want a copy, I am introducing the eBook version this month.

At this moment, you can buy The Book of Broken Hymns from the iBookstore for your Apple Product. It should be available at Lulu.com as an eBook also, and is pending at the Nook store and on Google eBooks (which excites me, because once they’ve processed it, my collection will be available as an eBook from your favorite independent bookstores – I will provide links when they become available).

I hope you’ll go get it – it’s a nice little collection, and I think you might enjoy it.

Thank you for your support, you people.

December? Seriously?

How did it get to be the end of term already? I have finished one final project (a ridiculous story SORTOF in the vein of Salman Rushdie, but mostly in the vein of too much caffeine and desperation) and am now supposed to be working on the other (a volume of my poems, original AND revised versions, from this semester). And what a semester it’s been! Although I have accomplished almost zero on things I was “supposed to” be doing (e.g. Tammer), I wrote several very good poems, a bunch of very interesting story fragments, and a nice little essay about a rat.

One of these days I will post more of those things here – for now, I just want to take a moment to breathe, and to thank those of who you have read through my variety of sloggings, offered your comments and ideas, and been generally extremely helpful.

Now back to the poems, and then the weirdly difficult task of figuring out what the hell I’m going to read tomorrow night at the MFA open mic. Usually this would be easier – I would only have one thing short enough – but this year I have all these poems, and all these pieces of other stuff…. It’s a little weird and a lot overwhelming. Wish me luck!

Why TWO Blogs, Boy Wonder?

Hello Peeples.

Still working on the wrong computer, but at least I got my plug-ins.

Yesterday I got to wondering why I have two separate blogs. As if I think I need to keep my angry trans self and my nice cheerful trans self separate. For whom am I doing this? And why?

I am pondering this pretty hard today. Maybe I will integrate the blogs together. My main issue, I guess, is that I don’t want to dilute the purpose of the other blog, which is to address trans issues and why I get mad about them. I don’t think I am trying to keep the trans stuff out of here, or trying to shield any of you from my explorations of what’s wrong with the world.

However, I have been spending a lot of time on other blogs, and they seem better integrated. Like Sam’s blog, in which he talks about a lot of things, but mostly in a trans kind of way… I think I need to do a better job of that here, and not just be about poetry and butterflies. Although I like poetry and butterflies VERY much.

So. Going forward, I am hopeful that Faunboy will be a more thorough extension and expression of where I am and what I’m doing, while Fire Cat Club will remain very issue-focused.

First thing I am going to do here, although I am still pondering all of this, is put up my poem that I said I would put up. Hang tight, peeples, and I will put it in the very next post (minutes from now!!) in a space of its own.

Thanks for listening.

Pax.