Backwoods has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award! This means I get to attend the awards ceremony in June in New York City and prepare my Oscar speech. It also means that I will henceforth be referred to as “Lambda Award finalist Natty Soltesz.” Do take note.
But seriously, it’s great to get recognition and I couldn’t be more excited. Wish me luck!
Hey NYC people! Come visit me at the Rainbow Book Fair this Saturday, March 24th, from 11am to 5:30pm at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street. I’ll be selling signed copies of ‘Backwoods’ along with zines and original collages.
This month Handjobs Magazine is running an excerpt from Backwoods and as a result I’m getting a lot of fresh hits to this website. Welcome, fellow pervs!
One thing I like to do on here from time to time is run a poll to decide what I should write next. I’ve done four of them in the past. This time, I’m taking the first runner up from each of those polls (mostly, I made one adjustment to keep the choices varied) and giving them a second chance.
So vote!
Choose my next story:
Total Voters: 88
Loading ...Two interviews that I did with local media were added to the web today:
1) A Q&A with my old friend Laurie for her blog Yinz R Readin.
2) A similar type interview that I did with my good buddy (and acclaimed author) Mack Friedman for Pittsburgh’s Out Newspaper (it’s toward the end of the issue).
Here’s some things that have happened since I last posted:
1) Backwoods was submitted to the Lambda Literary Awards in the ‘gay erotica’ category, which doesn’t really mean anything as there’s a bunch of books submitted. They’ll announce five or so finalists eventually, so we’ll see.
2) Dennis Cooper, one of my literary heroes, listed Backwoods as one of his favorite LGBTQ books of 2011.
3) Backwoods got its first Amazon review.
4) I’m working on another book, slow and steady, but it’s coming. Not to say too much about (I don’t want to jinx it) but it’s a novel (a real novel, not a novel-in-stories like Backwoods), it’s erotic and it features characters I’ve written about before.
**One that I forgot to add: I did a short piece on Point horror books for my good friend Laurie’s blog, Yinzr Readin.
So you can now order Backwoods, the print version, on Amazon for $9.04. That’s only some cents over the price of the ebook version on Amazon. Why is it so cheap? I have no idea!
Furthermore, I have yet to see a copy of it. I can’t believe it. How is it that I could conceivably order a copy off of fucking Amazon and see it in two or three days, yet I haven’t seen it?
YES I’M FRUSTRATED.
Every day I come home and hope to see it on my doorstep, and every day I’m disappointed. It’s passed the point where I’m even going to be excited about it. I’m just going to be relieved and a little less annoyed.
ARRRGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH
Also, here is the Smashwords edition. Smashwords lets you download the book in a bunch of different formats, such as HTML or PDF, for people who don’t have a Kindle or an ebook reader.
Apparently Amazon gets the copies of Rebel Satori’s physical books before anywhere else gets them, so while I still haven’t seen the book yet, I’m thinking it’s gonna be any day now.
“It’s at the printer. Slight hang up with a formatting glitch but copies will start shipping in a few days.”
I’m glad to know, at least, what’s going on. Yesterday totally blew – my big “book release” day and I had no fucking clue where my book was.
