Why is it that I come up with my best and most creative solutions when I’m in a blind rage???

Today is pub day for THE MORGUE KEEPER by Ruyan Meng, 7.13 Books #35. Asian Review of Books calls it “devastating.” Karissa Chen, bestselling author of HOMESEEKING, calls it “chilling” and “Kafkaesque.” It’s a cautionary tale for authoritarian times bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Cover design for THE MORGUE KEEPER (7.13 Press, October 15, 2025). @lelandcheuk.bsky.social

Reviews are coming in for the re-release of SEVEN BLACKBIRDS (Four Elk Press, Oct 17, 2025)! booklife.com/booklife-rev...

So grateful “location services” didn’t exist when I was a teenager

Some folks have an extra glass of wine and respond to everyone’s IG’s stories. I write Walmart reviews.

A bunch of the books I designed are available at #AWP25! Check out YesYes (T374), University of Hell Press (Booth 805)…1/2

Cover design for the reissue of TRANSITORY by Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social (7.13 Press, December 2023) @lelandcheuk.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in Portland

Hope to see you at #awp25!

You know you want this soprano Enya ukulele!! It's safe for travel! I'll be playing it in the book fair - hope to see you there!! pssst... I only have 40 copies available of BITTER OVER SWEET (39 if you count the one I will keep for myself lolz) - so your chances are good! @sfwp.bsky.social #AWP25

Happy book birthday to SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME by Helen Winslow Black (Four Elk Press, March 11, 2025)

Join @electriclit.bsky.social and @debutiful.bsky.social at #AWP25 for an off-site reading on 3/28 at 7pm! We’re accepting donations to support the LA FOOD BANK, and @reedsy.bsky.social, who is sponsoring the event, will match up to $1,000 in donations! RSVP: debutiful.net/awp-la-2025-...

Cover design for PREPARE TO BE BOARDED by Linda Haley Prentice (December 3, 2024)

Cover design for IRON CITY CONSPIRACY by Stewart Lytle

ICEBERG SELLING by Karl Becker (Improving Sales Performance, November 23, 2023)

Waffled long enough and booked my reservations for #AWP25. I miss the fun and nonsense that used to happen at AWP on Tw****r. Maybe it can start again here?

THE LAST GRAND TOUR by Michael N. McGregor (Korza Books, January 28, 2025)

One thing I miss about the East Coast is people know how to navigate in a crowd. I never went to a Costco in NYC, but I bet the spacial awareness + aggression are a magnificent sight to behold.

Boob light removal day!

Cover design for Viral Literature: Alone Together in Georgia: Stories from 2020 Quarantine 😷 (SFK Press, November 2020)

Cover design for Gangsters and Cops: Prohibition, Corruption, and LAPD's Scandalous Coming of Age by James Bultema

Is This Piece of Clothing on the Drying Wrack Damp or Just Very Cold: A Winter Story

Who are these folks who walk around Costco without a shopping cart carrying like one thing?? This is a place you let your prepper instincts take over.

76ers and Pelicans have the best half time shows in the whole NBA. #sixersstixers

Going to start sharing my book designs here. First up, LEST SHE FORGET by Lisa Malice (December 12, 2023, CamCat Books)

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

🌝 Tonight in Mommy’s El Camino 🌝 buttondown.com/wendycortiz/...

🎶I read the news today Oh fuck🎶

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.

I was informed sharing a cat pic is required on this platform. This is Dwayne.

Why “You can vote in secret” didn’t work on conservative women.

This narrative that the Democrats ignored the working class is really aggravating. Be specific. You’re talking about the white working class because the Black working class understood the stakes of this election just fine.

Everybody has read seven Stephen King books but nobody has read the same seven Stephen King books. This is the magic of the man

Getting into art again

I’ve become someone who peruses the light bulb aisle.