Good news! I am quoted at length in this NBC article by Travel and Culture journalist Dan Allen: "Bayard Rustin’s connection to queer history may have started with his very name."It's on the subject of LGBT activist Bayard Rustin's namesake, travel writer Bayard Taylor - fellow Pennsylvanian and author of America's (possibly) first gay novel, ( Read more... )

On the eve of Fourth of July weekend and the release of Riot Son, I spoke with Robert Kesten, executive director and CEO of the Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Things are looking up ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Yesterday my MFA buddy Tyson Kadwell and I got the good news that one of our scripts (Breakneck, about North Carolina cold case detectives) is a quarterfinalist for the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch CompetitionUs and 660-ish others, the funniest part being that we wrote three scripts for another show (half brother paranormal detecting con-men), ( Read more... )

There is a new Leopold and Loeb website! I could have used this while writing Homo Superiors, but the next author of an L/L representation will have it all at their fingertips. I'm the most recent feature at the end of the fiction page . . . for now.


( Read more... )

A fellow Leopold and Loeb devotee/fan of my interpretation, Homo Superiors, has put together a playlist. From the title's song origin to the list content, I agree! Here are the fan-songs, plus a secret blog-bonus Easter egg below them (the songs I listened to while writing the book in the first place):

Such Strange Little Birds (title from "Even ( Read more... )

A new review of my short story collection Countrycide has gone live! My thoughts:

- You can shrug more than shoulders, you can shrug eyebrows, and hands, but I've taken enough creative writing classes to know that a lot people are insisting on grammar rules that don't need to be insisted upon, so c'est la vie.- The order of the stories has turned ( Read more... )