I received from Sunstone Press the text of my manuscript, "formatted" and cleaned of violations of the Chicago Manual of Style and corrected for typos and whatnot, for a final author's opportunity to change anything before it moves forward to typesetting ( Read more... )

I'm happy to report that I have a contract with Sunstone Books for the publication of GENDERQUEER: A Story from a Different Closet. Sunstone is a Santa Fe NM based publisher, which I'm happy about since the action in the book takes place in New Mexico. I don't have a formal release date yet but I expect it to come out in the general vicinity of ( Read more... )

I wrote a book about being genderqueer and I'm trying to get it published ( Read more... )

I've been on a 3-month hiatus from sending out query letters. On the publishers' front, I had an unanswered query ticking away waiting for the "allow 3 months for us to reply" window to expire, because the next publisher I wanted to query asks for exclusivity. Just sent them a query this morning. And now the clock resets again ( Read more... )

Well, I managed to do it: I posted a weekly blog post without missing any weeks for the entirety of 2017. They didn't all get posted reliably on the same day of the week, but each week got its entry, and I wrote for a year on a weekly basis on the subject of being genderqueer, trying to get my book on the subject published, and gender politics ( Read more... )

It's been almost exactly a year since I made the announcement that Ellora's Cave would not be publishing my book after all due to the fact that they were going out of business and cancelling all contracts.

This time around, the situation is different, although the result is approximately the same. NineStar Press, the publisher I signed with in ( Read more... )

It's been almost exactly a year since I made that announcement the first time around after receiving a letter from Ellora's Cave informing me that they'd like to offer me a contract.

Ellora's Cave went out of business last fall , and I was back where I started from.

This time the offer letter comes from NineStar Press, a fairly new publisher ( Read more... )

I finally had an opportunity to present my talk to an LGBT organization on February 23 ( Read more... )

On October 18, Janet Rosen, assistant to Sheree Bykofsky, wrote back to me to say that she had completed her reading of my manuscript and that although it was not without merit, this was not a project that Sheree Bykofsky Associates could pursue ( Read more... )

...at least not by Ellora's Cave and hence probably NOT out sometime early in 2017 as previously claimed.

I am making this a friends-only post and I am not posting links to it all over Facebook as I usually do, at least not until I have cleared it with my publicist and the person who may or may not continue to be my literary agent. (More on that ( Read more... )