As an author who publishes pretty much exclusively on Amazon (and yeah, you can yell at me for supporting the Evil Empire if you want, but it was a financial decision), I use their Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) platform to advertise my books quite a bit. For some reason, I Read more…
A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups on my computer, and besides the OH MY GOD PLEASE Read more…
I’m so darn lazy that I’m pulling this out of an email I wrote rather than taking the time to write an original blog post. It’s about Orange is the New Black. The good news is that, hey, at least it’s short: I read the book a while back, and for the Read more…
Over the Christmas holidays, I traveled to my ancestral home of rural Missouri. And when I say rural, I mean really, really rural. I mean the roads are all still dirt, just like they have been for as long as anyone can remember, and I mean that your nearest neighbor Read more…
Hi guys. I got to reading some stuff on Facebook recently that got me to thinking about how much suffering there can be during the holidays, and how this suffering disproportionately affects LGBTQ people. We have lots of reasons for that, like dealing with the incessant undercurrents of homophobia, families who Read more…
Like her music or hate it, but give props to the Force of Nature that is — and has been for 35 years — Madonna. Few women have done more to redefine, and bring into the light of day, female sexual desire. Before Madonna, how common was it, how mainstream was Read more…