By some Christmas miracle, a box of books featuring my new cover arrived before I left for my 5 AM flight to Baltimore.

Happy publication day to @barbarabyar.bsky.social for her debut novel, IN THE DESERT. I had the chance to blurb this book and here’s what I said. I hope you’ll check it out!

Who else is on this 5 AM Phoenix to Baltimore flight tomorrow?

I have four readings lined up at #awp26 and reading with a bunch of very cool people in very cool venues. Come say hi!

Happy pub day! Looking forward to this one!

Today. Is. The. Day. IN THE DESERT by @barbarabyar.bsky.social has arrived from Cowboy Jamboree. Get yours 🔥🔥🔥: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/in-the-deser...

It's really a favor to yourself. Grab @stephanieaustin.bsky.social’s BURN from Cowboy Jamboree: a.co/d/02wT2wgI

❤️🌵

Me, sitting in the back of all your AWP readings this week (because I don’t know anybody)

A lit mag promoting a former contributor getting published in a different lit mag? How freaking cool is this?

So we maybe kinda sorta took in that stray cat that came into our house on Christmas. We feed her and she sleeps inside but otherwise shes comes and goes as she pleases. As a thank you, she killed a rabbit and left its dead carcass outside our bedroom door…

I won't be at AWP next weekend, but I will be reading at The Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Philly next Saturday at 2:00.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but they’ll also be available next week at AWP in Baltimore, right? At the book fair? Where you’ll be signing Thursday, March 5, from 3-4:30 p.m. at @mooncitypress.bsky.social’s Booth #775. Right?

Congrats!

Congrats!

@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair in Thursday, March 5, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!

I had the privilege of blurbing this book for fellow AZ writer @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, and I can’t emphasize enough how much I loved it. Here’s what I had to say. I sincerely hope you’ll check it out.

For Kindle readers, pre-order of Coyote Girl is available! 🤠 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPWF5WW...

I’ll be at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 15. I hope you’ll stop by and chat!

I dunno, I liked my MFA. The professors I took were great, my classmates were great. Even my PhD was great, except for one class, but after that I took independent studies and spent two years by myself reading AZ lit. Which was also pretty great!

Just spit out 1000 words of what (I think?) might be an 8000 word scholarly essay called “Why Arizona Literary Regionalism Matters.” The conclusion is going to be “because this is literally comes down to our existence.”

I’m wearing an Adam Jones Dback jersey

One week from today! Stop by to see an incredible lineup of writers and to find out if I own an Elvis Grbac Baltimore Ravens jersey

Why Arizona literary regionalism matters now more than ever.

Last minute, but, if you’re in San Diego and need something to do tonight, come to SDSU. Can’t vouch for “acclaimed” but honored to share some writing and stories at my alma mater. Blurb by the great @gabino.bsky.social

Not bad seats!

Surprised my eldest by taking him out of school early. These are the best days.

I wrote this thing while exclusively listening to Puscifer’s CONDITIONS OF MY PAROLE album on loop, and I’ve been rewriting it exclusively to their song “Grand Canyon” on loopy de loop de loop.

That Unreliable Narrator one…

The wonderful @keithlesmeister.bsky.social at Cutleaf and East Over Press (publisher of fellow PEN/Bingham longlister, WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE by Linda Michel-Cassidy, and the forthcoming GOLD IN THR FURNACE, by my former ASU colleague and Piper Center Fellow, Kathleen McNamara) to the rescue!

Burn is also available on Bookshop! bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

Unfortunately, my press doesn’t have a booth at AWP this year. Sooooo…anybody want to let me hang out at your booth and maybe sell and sign a few books? Anybody? …anybody? …any—

Come write your Arizona story with me on April 25th at the Piper Writers House on ASU’s Tempe campus! All genres welcome! Register here: piper.asu.edu/classes

Ancient civilizations. Cowboy myths. Desert chaos. Suburban sprawl. In this in-person workshop. Jonathan Danielson invites you to write the 48th State. All Arizonas welcome! April 25 | Piper Writers House|ASU Tempe All genres welcome. Learn more and register: piper.asu.edu/classes

These 1920s buildings, man

Looking forward to @barbarabyar.bsky.social’s debut novel, IN THE DESERT, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social I was fortunate to get the chance to blurb this book, and here’s what I had to say: Check it out, March 3rd!

"An all-encompassing read that will have readers staying up late into the night to get through one more chapter." In the Desert by @barbarabyar.bsky.social is available March 3rd from CJ y'all! Thanks to @melissacuisine.bsky.social & @rfpress.bsky.social for the review:

Obviously, most happy for Captain Scottsdale, Auston Matthews

Yay @stephanieaustin.bsky.social! Big congrats, my friend! So cool to see you all yesterday! 💙💙💙

Read the very first review of IN THE DESERT. So many thanks to @melissacuisine.bsky.social for this brilliant review and to @rfpress.bsky.social ! ❤️ www.roifaineantpress.com/post/byar-s-...

Just opened draft 189 of this long story/novelette/novella/(“thing?”) about dog fighting, and a mauled child, and two fathers going to war and killing each other (among other things!) in northern Arizona that I apparently started on September 18, 2020

🥲🥲🥲

I had the chance to blurb this, and no exaggeration, it’s so, so, so so so good

This launch party was fun, but I think we should already plan on doing it again. Say, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social (COYOTE GIRL, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social ) next? Then @sudhab.bsky.social (FAMILY MATTERS, @sfwp.bsky.social), after that? Hmmmmm?

Big congratulations to @stephanieaustin.bsky.social on her new book, Burn, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social ! 👏👏👏👏Great to see @danbillyc.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social @jonathanin2k.bsky.social , Emily Golden!

@stephanieaustin.bsky.social book release party for BURN (@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) at Monkey Pants in Tempe!