Cheers!

Friendly Fire turns 1 today! Grateful for every unexpected happening and all the book’s lovely readers.

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If you haven’t read the pieces in this issue, you’re seriously missing out. Also, selfishly, read my piece!!

Issue Fifty-Four is here! Explore new poetry, prose, and art at the link in our bio. 🌺

Hell of a way to close a paragraph!

Tuxedo jam

Teenage cringe and angst? Team Vampire VS. Team Werewolf? Tarot card readings and monumental blizzards? Slow dancing and guitar strumming? Both kissing and distinctly not-kissing? READ ME: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

In case you missed it, ya dingus!

NEW NEW nonfiction check it

"... for some reason I feel this grants me false permission to be ugly with her and my perceived ugliness adds its own barrier between Kate and I because I feel she is so beautiful and good ..." @paulwrites7.bsky.social in @adroitjournal.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

NEW NEW nonfiction check it

This is so good.

NEW CNF in the mighty @adroitjournal.bsky.social. This one means a whole lot. Hope you dig it! Massive thanks to the editors for including me. Super stoked to see “We Still Don’t Kiss” finding readers other than my cats. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Front page of the Adroit Journal rn!!

NEW CNF in the mighty @adroitjournal.bsky.social. This one means a whole lot. Hope you dig it! Massive thanks to the editors for including me. Super stoked to see “We Still Don’t Kiss” finding readers other than my cats. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

New creative nonfiction tomorrow in Adroit Journal issue 54. About the most awkward moment of my teens. Hope it finds some readers while I hide away in my basement with a lead blanket trying to ward off the fallout of cringe.

New creative nonfiction tomorrow in Adroit Journal issue 54. About the most awkward moment of my teens. Hope it finds some readers while I hide away in my basement with a lead blanket trying to ward off the fallout of cringe.

I still haven't gotten over the community + support + readership that writers lost when the billionaire destroyed Twitter.

Going to try to become best friends with the guy who is repairing my guitar today wish me luck

New 5-star review on GR with a lovely Michael Crouch mention, who absolutely crushed the audiobook performance of Friendly Fire!!

And the audio link if you read with your ears! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Reminder: I *devoured* Friendly Fire. For someone (me) who has had a family member with traumatic brain injury, it offered real insight and understanding into recovery. bookshop.org/p/books/frie...

New 5-star review on GR with a lovely Michael Crouch mention, who absolutely crushed the audiobook performance of Friendly Fire!!

Well. Later this month I’m going to be sharing a table of contents with Diane Seuss. I guess good things do still happen!

This book is unforgettable. Paul's prose is so good, so funny. Highly rec!

Did somebody say Friendship Day?

Wine-ing about books today

Wine-ing about books today

I cleaned my entire kitchen with vinegar and now everything I cook tastes like a fried pickle is this what they mean when they say life hack?

Resharing this short from monkeybicycle for Disability Pride Month — “Angel in the MediFold” monkeybicycle.net/angel-in-the...

Got this chalkboard to address the 4 most common questions/remarks I get at book fairs: 1. Did you write this? 2. Did this actually happen? 3. Is it too sad? 4. I don’t typically read nonfiction Will it work? Who knows!

A piece of mine is in the anthology of the summer, out today! IF I CAN BE HONEST from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. Incredible collection of writers and their work. My contributor copy is about to be put through the wringer.

The new Autofocus anthology, If I Can Be Honest, is out today! It commemorates the four years of the online journal that morphed into this press. Some of the best formally rich short personal prose you can find anywhere, if we may say so! autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...

A piece of mine is in the anthology of the summer, out today! IF I CAN BE HONEST from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. Incredible collection of writers and their work. My contributor copy is about to be put through the wringer.

You should be able to find MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS at your favorite bookstore. If they don’t have it, request that they order it! Link to purchase online here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735556...

Candy bowl is officially full

Packing accordingly!

Word on the street is some 7,000 people are showing out for this book fair tomorrow.

Tickets locked down!!!

I know I’m biased but friendly fire looks killer in a glorious, fat stack of great books

The organizer said this was the single best meeting they’ve had since the book club started over 2 years ago 🤠

So basically nothing can go wrong

Visiting a book club that read my memoir today, reminds me of the time after a big reading, this dude hovered around me, rapidly craning his neck as if there was a wall between us he was peeking around. I was like “hey man” nodding heavily. Then he said, “your head isn’t even that deformed!”

The Wigleaf Top 50 2025 will be up soon. This is the final one helmed by Shome Dasgupta, who has done so much for the series. Huge thanks @laughingyeti.bsky.social 🙏

Got a chance to see one of my all-time fav guitar players last night

All set for my grown ups book fair