While I was in Oregon having (arguably) the worst two weeks evah, St. Nacho’s was honored with the Joyfully Reviewed Recommended Read! Oooh shiny!

The reviewer, Sabella said some lovely things and you can read her review here.

St. Nacho’s is available from Loose Id in ebook format here.

And in Print from Amazon Here.

(And it goes without saying that you can always write down the ISBN number of a book from a Monolithic Internet Entity Bookstore and take it to your Friendly Local Independent Bookseller and ask them to special order it for you, thereby preserving All We Hold Dear.*)

*You know it’s late at night when I resort to Spurious Capitalization. If my daughter were awake I’d be covered in Red Pen.

Support Your Local Independent Booksellers!  

But before you do that, or after, get a load of this:

I now have four titles 

currently available for sale

HERE

(squee)

It’s official. If you aren’t sick of me yet it’s only a matter of time. 

Physical Therapy is scheduled for release by Loose Id on May 12, 2009

Notturno (NSFW Cover Art HERE) is scheduled for release by MLR Press in June 2009, exact date TBA.

ePistols at Dawn, (no cover art yet, but you’ll be the first to see it here) is scheduled for release from Samhain Publishing on July 7, 2009.

AND St. Nacho’s will available in print at fine booksellers everywhere:

Thanks to those of you who liked St. Nacho’s and were so kind about it Loose Id, my publisher, has decided to release the book in print. This is a tremendous thrill for me and I want to say thank you for your support.   

Soon it will be available from Internet booksellers, and of course you may also order it for purchase from your local independent bookseller, as it will be available to them through Ingrams or Baker & Taylor.  All you need is this:

Saint Nacho’s

Please support your LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOK SELLER!

I’m guest blogging at Untreed Reads, here. I’m not sure anything I say requires a great deal of attention, but it is very nice (indeed) to be asked.

~ZAM~

I know I sent a letter to my Yahoo Group, Zamaxfield’s Cyber Cafe about the Amazon practice of surreptitiously seeing to it that GLBT titles–not mine actually, but some very fine literary and scholarly titles–do not get on bestseller lists by removing their sales ranking.  I found this mildly disturbing seeing that they allow books like “The Anarchist’s Cookbook” to have a rank.  I would argue that the practice of manipulating data to maintain a bestseller list that is hand-picked to be free of any and all references to GLBT culture is more than insidious.  I would argue that if Bret Easton Ellis’s book American Psycho can be on the bestseller list, so can Nathaniel Frank’s Unfriendly Fire.  But I don’t have to. My homies at the L.A. Times have argued it for me. Here. 

You can make up your own minds, but as for me, I’d rather I choose the books I read than allow some droid at Amazon to do it. And until they resolve the Issue, Barnes and Noble is my bookstore. Amazon Prime be damned.

I got a very nice new review for Crossing Borders at LiveJournal.  Cboy Junkie very kindly said:

I know a story is really working for me when I start reading at say about 9:00 pm and wild horses couldn’t drag me from the book. Well it was about 1:00 am this morning when I finished Crossing Borders. What can I say, I devoured this read and absolutely loved it. 

You can read the rest of the review here! 

And this seems like a perfectly fine opportunity to show off the book trailer that my daughter made for me (once again):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqgiHRyoeaM[/youtube]

I’ve been trying to think of a tag line for my work that speaks to me, and I’ve finally got it. You can see it, right up at the top of this page, on the header underneath my name.  

Love is the perfect wave.  

This isn’t those little nekkid statues we used to give our moms on Mother’s Day with their their saying of “Love is…” everything from a big hug to a warm kitty to a man with the perfect vasectomy scar.  

Nope. Nah uh.   

This is LOVE baby, and it feels like… mmmnh.  

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Pw7vKtqpo[/youtube]

Meet Laird Hamilton.  

Passion is a paradox. Passion is a mystery. Passion is chaos. 

My passion? Is Love.