Congratulations, pollsters: you did the right thing. I know I pushed for the Seann William Scott/Stifler story, but truth be told I voted for the ill-fated story about a tanning salon clerk. But that’s cool – apparently THREE OTHER PEOPLE think it’s a good idea, too (even my devoted bf suggested I nix it). What is it about preening, body-conscious dudes that turns me on so much? Sorry, world – you may never know (unless, of course, said world reads any of the dozens of other stories where I write about shaved, cologned assholes).

Anyway, the Stifler story is already a quarter of the way written, and I have a good feeling about it. It’s making me laugh, at least. These celebrity/slash fiction pieces are the most fun to write, mainly because I don’t have to come up with the characters. Hell, I can basically plagiarize Wikipedia:

Stifler is a popular, confident, oversexed jock. He can be a bully and a prankster, but is always good natured. He is known to have had many sexual partners, with 23 acts of sexual intercourse and at least one act of oral sex in his freshman year of college alone.

Done and DONE.

In related news, it seems our beloved SWS has gained some weight. It’s okay with me – I’m sure his ass is just that much more succulent.

Do the right thing: vote for Stifler.

This summer I started working on a series of nonfiction stories for a chapbook my friend is going to put out, tentatively titled Sex Makes Life.  Before that I was working on my college stories book, tentatively titled College Town U.S.A. But I put both of those projects aside recently to finish up a top-secret project I’m developing with some friends.  Now I’m feeling ambivalent about my unfinished books, or maybe just overwhelmed.

So:  a story poll (the idea being, as always, that I’ll take whatever is voted on and write a story around it).  This’ll be a short one (time-wise) cause I want something to work on asap: poll closes Friday (8/13/10) afternoon.  Please vote!

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Rebel Satori Press/Queer Mojo posted my bio information on their website. Exciting! I finally signed and sent off my contract for Backwoods this past week. Word on the street is that Michael will be finished with the illustrations by July. Whenever I stop to really consider that I managed to do this, I manage to blow my own mind.

I’ve got a new story up on Butt Magazine’s blog.

I used to write a lot more about my true-life escapades (back when I was a youngster and had a lot of true-life escapades) and I’d share that stuff now if it wasn’t so embarrassing to me (both for the dumb and dangerous things I did and for the fact that my writing was pretty weak). Maybe in ten years. Anyway, this was a story I had sitting around for whatever reason and yeah, it’s all true, except I’m pretty sure the whole “sniper” thing was more boast than fact.

Idea inspired by/stolen from Johnny Murdoc.  These are two pages from a story called “Dumpster Letter” which is tentatively part of the book I’m working on.

Can you even read this?  Rob Wolfsham says that Johnny writes like a serial killer.  I think I write like a teenage girl on Valium.

So I’ve been posting some updates over on my Kickstarter project that you might want to check out, mostly lots of gushing over my backers (credit and love also due to the folks who’ve donated money via my PayPal link). The other day the folks at The Kickstarter Blog decided to highlight one of my updates. Cool!

I’ve got a story in this month’s issue of Handjobs magazine: “The Doghouse.”

In a jealous fit, Mom tossed Dad out of the house and would have a fit if his son found out where he was. But son can’t stay away from Dad and finds him holed up in a motel room. Dad is thrilled to see his boy and as they chat, their conversation turns to women, being horny, and at one point Dad confesses with a smirk, “I’ve always been dying to know what it feels like, bein’ on the other end of things, so to speak.”

Repost, repost, repost!

Detail from the map that will go in the front of Backwoods. My artist friend graciously worked with me on this drawing so I'd have something to send out with the manuscript when submitting it.

It’s been awhile since I heard that Rebel Satori Press was going to work with me on publishing my book of erotica, Backwoods, so it’s time I gave an update on what’s going on.

My dream for the book has always been for it to be illustrated. A while back I contacted Michael Kirwan about working with me. I’m a huge fan of his drawings, and his style is perfectly suited to the style of the book and its rural fantasia, sorta-sexy sorta-realistic feel. Kirwan is more or less on board with the project but there’s been some back and forth over compensation. Unfortunately Rebel Satori passed on funding the illustrations (they’re a small press, really a one-man operation, so I wasn’t surprised), which leaves me in the position of having to come up with the money myself. (more…)

Friends in the Pittsburgh area:  I’m going to be reading at the one-year anniversary of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse project this Tuesday.  Incidentally that’s the night before I move to a new apartment.  So if I’m not stressed out enough, time to kick it up a notch by reading porn for an audience!

The Cyberpunk folks are some of my favorite people in Pittsburgh.  A year ago they bought a house in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville and turned it into a writer’s cooperative and event space.  They have a pretty sweet sci-fi lending library, and for most of this past winter held an erotica writing group which was fun and varied.  They have a visiting writer’s program where you can come live in Pittsburgh for free for a month.  They get national press out of, like, nowhere.  Mostly I just like that they are casual yet manage to get things done.  Dan, the guy who founded it, is a particularly potent writer and a friend of mine from a few years back when we took a autobiographical-writing class together, probably the best writing class I’ve ever had.  Everyone connected; I don’t know how it happened.

Anyway, come out if you can!