Who Killed Owen Wilson?

I've had this story sitting around for years now. It was cut down from a novella, and I've never known what to do with it. So, I've put it up as a Kindle single. Through Saturday it's free. After that, a measly .99.

CHECK IT OUT!

In other news, I have a new essay up at the Good Men Project. It's called "The Discomfort of the Mirror: Silver Linings Playbook, Bipolar, and Me." I won't lie, it was a hard one to write, but the response has been really wonderful and I appreciate everyone who has messaged and emailed me, or shared the link.

READ IT!

Tuesday Links

First point of order:

Since the story publications have been few and far between as of late, here's "Anne Frank" in the new issue of Sundog Lit! I am compelled to let you know that if you are easily offended you might want to skip this tiny story of mine. Luckily the issue is full of cool peeps, especially two of my favorite poets, Kat Dixon and Carrie Murphy. READ IT!

Secondly, in July I am going to release a "chapbook" in the form of an email newsletter. Just for kicks. There will be links within to a .pdf version, and even an audio version. The only way to get it will be to sign up before the day it goes out. So, GO HERE TO SIGN UP.


also:

ADP announced its contest winners!

and:

Pre-orders are live for Shya Scanlon's Border Run. And Shya is donating to a good cause for every sale through ADP's Site!

Let's Fail Again. Together.

Code for Failure is officially back! This new edition is badass. It features a foreword from the one and only Hosho McCreesh, a preface by yours truly, and a suggested playlist at the back. It's also newly revised with an additional chapter and about 1,300 extra words total. It is everything failure was ever meant to be. All my thanks to the awesome CCM peeps for making it happen.

Also, I realize a lot of you fine folks bought the original edition, and if you did and a crazy little part of you wants this new and improved version if you send me proof that you have both versions I will send you a thank you present.

So, here it is, the link to buy FAILURE!

Also,

I love Where the Wild Things Are. I prove it over at The Next Best Book Club (I even read the book to you)!


and:

I wrote about Moms and Sex Jokes at Julia Archer's blog. You know you want to read it.

More Return of Failure

Code for Failure returns next month from Civil Coping Mechanisms, and I'm super stoked. There's a lot to be excited about with this new edition, including an awesome foreword by the venerable Hosho McCreesh. Here's a snippet from it:

Now, it's easy to write a book filled with wanton booze and sex, easy to write something that – at first blush – would be shocking, and maybe even a little heroic in scope. It's much harder to write a book that is honest. And for all the brash bravado this no-non-sense protagonist tosses about, the fact that his own actions often surprise him betray this gruff, chauvinistic exterior – one likely invented to slough off the failures he's mired in – and instead paints a far more subtle, and complex portrait of a lost kid who keeps fucking up as he tries to find his way. There is shock, and pain in the novel – sure – as there are moments of genuine tenderness, a nihilistic sense of humor, and an evolving humanity underneath. That is great writing. That is what it feels like to be human, to struggle, and strive...that reminds us we're not alone.

Once more with feeling