I’ve solved a murder this morning.

GREAT collections: COYOTE GIRL, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, ALL DAUGHTERS ARE AWESOME EVERYWHERE, @demisty.bsky.social, @univnebpress.bsky.social , MAGDALENA IS BRIGHTER THAN YOU THINK, Grace Spulak, @autumnhouse.org, BODOCK, Robert Busby, @hubcitypress.bsky.social

We open tonight at midnight, world!

@sabrinahicks.bsky.social! This is awesome!😍📚🎉

My review of @suzyeynon.bsky.social’s wonderful novella TERRESTRIAL from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, is up now at Elegant Variation from @stanchion.bsky.social I hope you’ll check it and Suzy‘s book out today!

COYOTE GIRL is a recommended book on the Kirkus Reviews site, but I also learned it will be featured in their June 2026 print publication! www.kirkusreviews.com/discover-boo...

Ok it's publication day for TERRESTRIAL! Grateful to Alan @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and to anyone who's read or reviewed or posted about or looked at my book. Asterism has copies: asterismbooks.com/product/terr...

I'm glad booing is having a moment but I would also like audiences to bring back hissing

Stop what you are doing and spend 2 minutes reading this breathless piece.

“–yips that hint at laughter, high-tinged howls that sound just like a woman screaming. each time, i rush to the window, squint my eyes into the blue-black, listen hard from throat edges, try to discern tragedy from jubilation.” Beautiful piece by @jillkitchen.bsky.social

Thank you to anyone who reviewed my book, Coyote Girl! I know y’all are busy. Some of these on Goodreads just made my day! (Though maybe I shouldn’t be looking, I can’t help it.) Trying to catch up on my reading and reviewing others in the next few weeks. 💛🌵

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“…and I wonder if that’s what my mother and I wait for, these little fires, trying to outrun the flames of men and boys and little desert towns, toward a small patch of something green.” Mocha & I are reading @sabrinahicks.bsky.social’s COYOTE GIRL, and wow. What a stunning story collection.📚🩶🐶

There are way too many people I know (non-reading family/friends) who bought my book that had no business reading it. Then you field questions like, “Where are the happy stories?” And I have to restrain myself from saying “They ain’t coming, Polly. I like stories that destroy you.”

Beautiful evening sky tonight.

Scrap: Salvaging a Family is a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards! Yay! #memoir #flashnonfiction #flashmemoir #hyridmemoir

If your relationship with your mom is unhealed, and you're looking for a summer read, consider my novel, which explores unresolved trauma repeating itself through mother-daughter relationships. If you're local to AZ, the book is available at the Mesa Bookman's. bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

We're shouting out a book interview on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🤩 Contributor @sabrinahicks.bsky.social was interviewed by @ivygrimes.bsky.social about her new book COYOTE GIRL 🎉 Catch the convo now: buff.ly/fVNlZp3

Cactus flowers

In case y'all missed it earlier this week, CJ is honored to release a new novel from the dearly departed Sheldon Lee Compton Tuesday, May 12th. THE OLD INVISIBLE is one to read: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-old-invi...

I’m so thrilled to share the news that my new novel PENITENT will be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, with Thomas Gebremedhin editing! Thanks as always to my agent Kirby Kim for his wise advice and for finding my book its best possible home. Coming Spring 2028! I can't wait.

Can’t stop returning to this lone saguaro I took a pic of a few days ago. It was shrouded in a rainbow that I couldn’t quite capture with a photo. Only faintly.

Sheldon lee Compton's new novel, THE OLD INVISIBLE, comes out a week from today. It's been with a heavy heart that this one goes to the final stages, but it is our honor to publish it in his memory.

Still gobsmacked about this!

Reviews like this are a gift! Thank you @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social and to everyone who has read and reviewed Coyote Girl!

"Finally, with the fish securely Ziplocked, and me adequately amused, I am but steps from the front door, when the knob turns, clicks." Big love for this extraordinary story (that last paragraph!) by @ericscottryon.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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The Kirkus Star is awarded to about 3% of indie press books reviewed. Didn't stop @sabrinahicks.bsky.social from snagging one for COYOTE GIRL. Well earned & much deserved. They're not lying. "A stunning collection of short fiction." -Kirkus Reviews www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....

Just got a starred review from Kirkus for COYOTE GIRL! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

What a line up! @barbarabyar.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social @russellthayer10.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Before poetry month ends, the people by Charles Bukowski gets me every time.

Cover reveal for my upcoming flash collection! Gratitude to the brilliant Brett J Barr for his stunning cover art/design and to my badass publisher, Adam Van Winkle. Watch for “Spinning: Love, Family, and Other Strange Entanglements” coming in fall 2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!

Today marks one year since the release of THE LOWEST BASIN! Thank you @vanwinkle.bsky.social and @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social and @mathitak.bsky.social at Southwest Books of the Year and TFoB and Northern AZ Book Fest and everyone who got a copy for changing my life.

Maybe you know an autistic writer, artist, or student who would welcome a sense of the possible. Maybe you are a teacher looking for inspiration in the work of uplifting people. Or there is someone in your life contending with difficulty and trying, too, to look forward. You’re invited in.

I'm reading @sabrinahicks.bsky.social "Coyote Girl"

“Telling my story without rules, exactly the way I “heard” it, and without overthinking, gave me a sense of emotional release that I hadn’t experienced writing the essay.” Great tips and advice by @kelliborges2.bsky.social!

Highly recommend listening to @lumchanmfa.bsky.social read her piece in @adroitjournal.bsky.social!

"...I have a cousin named Jeff and an uncle named Jeff too, and you know, there’s a lot of Jeffs in my life, because my dad is named Jeff and so is my mom and so is the mailman and all the guys who empty the recycling bins on my street..." www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff

The recently departed Sheldon Lee Compton would have been 50 today. No better way to honor that than to read his work. The work that gets to the heart of who Shel was the most is his Breece Pancake memoir. Dig this excerpt & consider getting yours: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/orchard-exce...

“I like taking an ordinary moment and putting it under a lens.” Check out @ivygrimes.bsky.social’s wonderful interview with the excellent @sabrinahicks.bsky.social!📚💙

Snake season.

ICYMI, I spoke with @ivygrimes.bsky.social about my book and writing.

A double win to start the week! 🙌 @toddedillard.bsky.social and @sabrinahicks.bsky.social were published in Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine! buff.ly/rpoHEev

This Saturday, I’m teaching my “Write Your Arizona Story!” generative workshop for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU. I hope you’ll consider attending or at least spread the word! All genres welcome! Register here: piper.asu.edu/classes

"I think writing is a form of howling. It can feel like a scream into the void. It’s always a thrill when someone hears it, echoes and returns the howl, and says a piece resonated with them." I love this interview with @sabrinahicks.bsky.social by @ivygrimes.bsky.social so much! 💙💙💙

Thank you to @ivygrimes.bsky.social for the interview following my debut collection Coyote Girl! 🙏🌵💛