Microdosing April
A Writer's Newsletter
Good morning. Happy hump day, and more importantly, happy April. Look at all of us, still here and still making it.
I have some publishing news to pass on to you, and my first one comes with a “read at your own risk” warning.
Black Noise Magazine, the best indie/underground magazine for artists, is out today, and this month is their annual “kink edition,” and I am proud to have a column about polyamory, How To Be A Good Boyfriend To Your Buddy’s Wife, and an erotic short story titled Rope and Paddle Night, a story about a local dominant that is also an autoworker with carpal tunnel syndrome. Like I said, read at your own risk, but know that this month’s issue of the magazine is full of kink education, stories, columns, photos, interviews, artwork and more.
This month comes with a choice of two covers, each one featuring the two winners of this year’s “Kink Educator of the Year” contest.
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Also later this week, I will have two brand new poems up over on the venerated Rusty Truck. Editor and Poet, Scot Young, was one of the first friends I made online in the small press, and since then he has been every bit as much mentor as friend. The Rusty Truck has published a Hall of Fame list of indie/small press writers over the last 25+ years, and I’m always excited to have some new work there. Keep an eye out for my poems, Before the Line Even Starts and A Graveyard for Sunflowers.
Roadside Press, publisher of my last novel and my next one that releases in November of this year, has a brand new anthology out, Roadside Assistance. It features 48 writers, from multiple countries, that have been published by the press. I have a few pages from my novel The Dead and the Desperate, in it, and the book, already receiving the highest of reviews, is available for pre-order now. You can order your copy here.
Look at that beautiful cover! Look at all of those Authors!
Later this month, Pure Sleeze Press will drop its Spring chapbooks, and I’m proud that my chap, Fuel for the Resistance, will be amongst them. I believe that art can inspire and heal, and that it can encourage resistance and revolution, and although I know that poetry can not save the world, it can occasionally save one life, and much of my writing has been geared in that direction this year. So, I’ve been anxiously anticipating this little book of poems getting out into some troublemaking hands. If you support the “No Kings” protests, then this book is for you.
Life is difficult and hard right now. My salvation still comes from burying myself and getting lost in the process of writing and creating. This work is my safe space, and because of that, I can not thank all of you enough for continuing to read this blog, buying my books, chipping in on a “coffee” donation, and for sharing my work with others. Your support literally means the world to me.
Please be good to yourself for me today.
Love,
Dan