https://laconm.libcal.com/event/8105228

Mesa Public Library, from which I used to check out books when I was a kid, is hosting me to read from GenderQueer: A Story From a Different Closet, lecture for about 20 minutes, and then open it up for questions and discussion.

This will be the first event of its sort to be hosted in Los Alamos, the place ( Read more... )

#BleakMidwinter #PipersPiping #QuiltbagHistoricals

QUILTBAG Historicals, a Facebook group for LGBTQIA+ authors and the folks who read them, is in the midst of hosting a literature event based on the 12 Days of Christmas song --

Authors - you are invited to join in by posting on the Twelve Days of Christmas - 26th December to 6th January - snippets of ( Read more... )

I have had many nice reviews printed in college newspapers and I've been reviewed in the LGBTQIA press. And I've had notices and interviews in mainstream papers that speak to the existence of the book, but which weren't actually reviews of it. But until this week I did not have an actual review of GenderQueer printed in a mainstream municipal ( Read more... )

My book effectively starts with eighth grade, but I covered my earlier life in my initial autobiography, the tome from which my book was taken. I've done blog posts about earlier segments in my life -- third grade; sixth gradeI've been reminiscing about seventh grade lately. It was the year just before our family moved to Los Alamos NM. In an odd ( Read more... )

For the most part, I regard the manuscript of my book as "finished", with the only changes being outgrowths of suggestions or requests from my editor.

But last weekend at my high school reunion, a guy who had been in 8th grade with me approached and described this event: "I had a squirt gun and I came up to you in the cafeteria and squirted you ( Read more... )

Los Alamos NM is where the first third of my story takes place, covering the critical years of puberty and adolescence when questions of gender and sexual orientation emerge from a person's negotiations towards adult sexual expression ( Read more... )

The second and third major chunks of my book are set partially in Los Alamos and partially in Albuquerque. I wrote about Los Alamos in my July 2 blogentry, so I figured I'd describe Albuquerque a bit in this one ( Read more... )

My book, The Story of Q: A GenderQueer Tale, is scheduled to be published by NineStar Press on November 27 of this year. This year is, coincidentally, also 40 years since I graduated from high school, and therefore the 40th reunion is imminent, scheduled for September 23. I haven't been to a reunion since the 10th in 1987 but it's too ( Read more... )