Checking In
Trainspotting, publishing updates, and killer no filler.
Been a minute since I dropped a line here. Some quick updates:
I was recently on an episode of //MOVIES - A Podcast About the Act of Cinema chopping it up with my favorite film folks Jay and Hans bout all things Trainspotting, from the Irvine Welsh novel that most got yours truly to start writing books, to Porno (my personal favorite Welsh joint), to the Danny Boyle film and its sequel. Watch that here:
On the writing front, I’m waist deep in Texas Tea, my neo-western gangsta thriller, while steady chipping away at a YA cyberpunk adventure titled Screen Time and adding more and more to my biggest project ever, Heathenish Shaman. That one’ll take a couple more years to cook. The others you’ll see dropping next year and I’ll have more to say on the process of whipping them up soon.
As for my previously published work, it’s all out of print. Sold every last book in my personal inventory (and what was left in David Simmons’s garage—shouts out to the homie for pushing my shit at Voidcon this past month). Earlier this year, I pulled the whole catalogue off of Amazon ‘cause they stopped sending my royalties. I went into all that on an episode of Agitator but, long story short, I’m working on getting everything back in print in one way or another. Expect God Is Wearing Black to be re-issued real soon, then the rest to roll out remixed with updated covers and layouts over the next year. Mercy especially is one I have a lot of visual and tactile design ideas in mind for. One thing you should not be expecting is for that one to be very affordable when its second print drops, just to be real about it.
Til then, I still got some short stories out there in places like Apocalypse Confidential, Rare Candy, and in audio form on The Lurking Transmission.
Too, just in time for Halloween, the one book of mine that is still in print is Dead Boy, the monster dogfighting Juggalo tragicomedy I co-wrote with J David Osborne that recently had David Simmons asking “did y’all write this book purposely tryna make everyone hate y’all?”
The answer is nah, not really, but we were tryna make each other go “yo, what the fuck!” over the weekend we spent writing it. You can cop that joint here.
Some other projects I been a part of that are still available are the few dozen audiobooks I’ve narrated. Below are a few highlights.
Abnormal Statistics by Max Booth III
Voidheads by Chris Kelso
Black Gum by J David Osborne
God’s Leftovers by Grant Wamack
Marigold by Troy James Weaver
Donald Goines by Calvin Westra
Sing, Behemoth, Sing by KE Wolfe
On the latest Agitator:
Keeping film brain out of literature. Anti-adaptation. Not all content is art. How to stop the Joker. Oddity. Pulse. Books about cultivation and dragons. Update/teaser on publishing Adam Lehrer's next novel. What makes great art. Shop talk. Fences and parking lots. Who will save you from drowning?
Til next time, y’all be easy.
P.S. here is a great review of a terrible book (The Devil Takes You Home) which I got a kick out of.
That review was fucking **hilarious** thanks for including it.
Shiraishi is the director you were trying to think of on the podcast. Loving this episode. Pulse is one of my top 5 all time movies and absolutely prescient of the soulless era we find ourselves in.