Book mail! Look how lovingly wrapped. To Love Love Like Venus by @theninagalaxy.bsky.social. Another beautiful book, Stephanie!

I’m currently working on the 2nd edition of The Business of Independent Comic Book Publishing. This sample introduces the idea of being a creator-owned publisher. www.gamalhennessy.com/blog/how-do-you-publish-creator-owned-comics

Gave me a chuckle to see To Love Like Venus as number 1 in IngramSpark sales rank for literary fiction. Hopefully author copies aren't counted, I prob can't see the real numbers yet. maybe we're a tight little crew in lit fiction. I'll smile. I'm glad to see direct preorders arriving to readers.

Guess what i got in the mail today? New from @theninagalaxy.bsky.social and Janus Point Press #booksky

Welcome, crowd of new followers. My prose and comics span literary novels, collections, zines, and artists’ books, always bending spacetime. I'm a Manhattanite of Nuyorico (diasporic Puerto Rican New York), with a heart that sails the Aegean sea. Here for the post Bad Bunny show? The tour:

If Bad Bunny's inspiring half-time show left you craving some great #SpeculativeFiction that's deeply rooted in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora, I have some recommendations for you!

Part of my collection

Just one shelf of many, but crank that neck to read just some of the books available about the Puerto Rican Pan Antillean American experience & authors writing from its identities. Not all our names reflect expectations, not all our experiences follow neat categories. Thanks for love, Bad Bunny.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

Kickstarter Backers of To Love Like Venus: Your books arrived! Will be sending you your rewards next week. The book looks gorgeous. Kuddos for ordering the book as early as you did.

it's not an "immigration crackdown" @startribune.com because they do not target people who have broken immigration laws. They target by race and the turmoil is about violent racism and broader intimidation. Please, update your style guide!

I just backed Hospice: Tunnel of Love - A Haunted Horror Comic on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

@joshshapiropa.bsky.social as a grandchild of four holocaust survivors and the son of a refugee born in a displaced person's camp in germany in 1946... SHUT THE FUCK UP, THEY'RE FUCKING NAZIS

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Evening House is my go to bookstore, expand your horizons a bit and check them out. You may discover your next hidden gem.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

“To the administration and the perpetrators responsible, you have awakened the most overworked, abused, under-appreciated, and organized workforce…” -San Diego vigil for Alex Pretti organized by VA nurses

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

Morning. Publishing for Minnesota supporters now raised $140K Auction ends tonight 11:45pm EST. Link to bid on Event Horizon (wonderful to see all those bids!): www.32auctions.com/organization... Link to general auction: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Great warmth in the Publishing For Minnesota auction, raising already over $40k. Lots of bids in for Event Horizon. Auction ends tomorrow, Friday 11:45pm EST. To bid on Event Horizon: www.32auctions.com/organization... General auction: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Auction opens midnight EST. Raise funds for the people of Minnesota. Solidarity, at a time where there is no turning back. Link to bid on Event Horizon: www.32auctions.com/organization... Link to general auction w/500 items: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Quick warning for Kickstarter users below. KS Trust and Safety will literally NEVER contact you via DMs. Report this message if you get it.

Politicians gotta start calling for Miller to go. Right now.

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

Some publishing folks are organizing a Publishing for Minnesota auction. It has over 500 items, including Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back, which I donated. Link to bid on discounted EH: www.32auctions.com/organization... Link to general auction: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

This has happened in Maine also. The Feds just leave cars on the side of the road or even in the road with nobody in them in the dead of winter.

Something to look forward to in Spring for me: I'll be tabling at twice-sold out BookCon 2026 at Javits NYC, Indie Alley. More to come! If you were lucky and snagged BookCon tickets, Indie Alley is a great place to discover and say hello to indie authors!

“Self-Publishing is Political in Nature Because Taking Control of the Means of Production is a Radical Act” A rather good 2022 Broken Frontier interview I did with the splendid Simon Moreton. www.brokenfrontier.com/simon-moreto...

Having fun with love... bookmarks. Wanted to source my To Love Like Venus bookmarks from local printer @radixcoop.bsky.social and being crafty at the same time... have these ready for special event giveaways. youtu.be/S7iLMFUQs50?...

These are the people in your neighborhood.

What inspires us to take action, and how do we take action and invite others to join in change? Highlighting The Ocean Cleanup and its efforts on plastics in our waters and its connection to human health. theoceancleanup.com/about/

New blurb! "A radical, sex-positive exploration of the necessity for love with sex. Even in the future, this is the ongoing, pivotal question... To Love Like Venus though, shows us that that question can also obfuscate all the ways we really love.” — Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of Love War Stories

This is what I heard checking in on friends yesterday. People are in hiding, or aren’t but are agonizing over whether they should be, or are trying to reassure terrified parents who want them to be The scale of this doesn’t seem to be known to even newshound NYC friends w/o Minneapolis connections

To Love Like Venus was kickstarted as a “Project We Love” designation by Kickstarter staff, and is listed on Kickstarter’s Bookshop page as a “brilliant book brought to life on Kickstarter”. We are happy to be in such curated company! bookshop.org/lists/brilli...

Fed Chairman Powell outright calls the threats of an indicment a political attack against him for refusing to set interest rates based on Trump’s desires.

What do we see when we gaze at a statue at the MET?

Trump is using ICE like a secret police force. They’ve used Gestapo-like tactics to terrorize communities for nearly a year, and now they’re literally killing people. This can’t be America. I was the first member of Congress to call for abolishing ICE. November’s elections can’t come soon enough.

‘Is the Met kouros indelibly – for all its composure – another Actaeon? Do we men and women not always look at his kind of manliness with an admiration subtended by pity and rage?’ T.J. Clark visits and revisits a male statue in the Met: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What I'm ruminating on in my literary life walking into 2026, the new and ongoing. Thank you to those who have been a part of my artistic life.