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Support a cool indie press and get free shipping this Spring! Pick up a copy of my debut collection Otherwise Wretched and join this conversation!

Hope you give a listen to my conversation with Chris at the wonderful @Books4Guys in which we talk about getting guys to read more lit fiction and the importance of lit journals nurturing writers (as they have done selflessly for me). youtube.com/watch?v=usEWNo…

What a ride! Thank you readers journals and editors who first ran with these stories such as @gonelawn @Grealakesrev @MISTERBULLBULL @TheoAirgonaut @LobotomyRob @ShelCompton and more. Thanks to Catamount Press and the International Book Awards and indie bookstores! Love ya all!

Welcome to Books, For Men™ mcsweeneys.net/articles/welco… The only exception to the specifications outlined is Otherwise Wretched: Stories (Catamount) which is in fact paperback and fiction. Otherwise a fine article.

Thank you so much @PenOfRyanDennis and @TheMilkHouse !

@TheoAirgonaut @Annalou8 Hey Shel just sharing that you gave my story “Their Wildness” a spot in the Sept 2019 issue of The Airgonaut (which doesn’t show up in the archive?) Anyway the story appears with credit in my debut collection Otherwise Wretched. Many thanks to you!

@WilliamBurtch2 Best wishes at the Grand Lake Literary Festival in March!

Seconding the yes!

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Paid full price and loved it!

Never a driving intention but it seems it’s guys that are most digging this collection. If it brings them back to fiction and into book stores I’m stoked.

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Final preparations for tomorrow’s Midwest studies Lost Region conference now underway

Super honored my debut collection Otherwise Wretched was selected for the 2026 Grand Lake Literature Festival in March 2026 in Celina, OH. Thank you Selection Committee!

Thank you GLALF Committee for selecting my debut collection for the 2026 Grand Lake Area Literature Festival! Honored!

New solo date added for 2026! An Evening with Bruce Hornsby in Lake Jackson, TX at The Clarion-Brazosport College on February 13. 🎹 braz-internet.choicecrm.net/#/event-detail…

Hey peeps. So much happening in @StanchionZine world from book launches to @OWTK amazing street cat release. Don’t sleep on the latest issue. $10 for an incredible mix of writing! stanchionzine.com/product-page/s…

Hey here’s a chance to save 20% the new collection OTHERWISE WRETCHED by buying direct from a great indie publisher using code HEMINGWAY. Many of these stories 1st appeared in favorites such as @gonelawn @MISTERBULLBULL @Greatlakesrev and more. Checkout it out on Sunbury Press online!

Craving some deeper fiction and essays beyond the urban plasticity and suffocating vacuity? May we suggest these works, both classic and recent? Reconnect with your planet, humanity, and your more visceral instincts this summer!

It’s a new week, but the world is still a dumpster fire. We hope you’re making art, or not (if you don’t feel like it). Just a reminder that both are okay. It’s okay to rest. 💜