“My closeted insecure teenage self would have been completely gobsmacked to learn he’d someday be flying to NYC to promote a queer teen thriller.”… read more

“Now, I wish I could write a Real Queer America 2 about this magical book tour—and then do a book tour for that sequel while writing Real Queer America 3, repeating the process ad infinitum. That’s how much I love being with my LGBT red-state friends.”… read more

“[…] my books are going to be for sale for the first time, so I’m excited. Is that why the skin on my arms and chest has broken out into something positively biblical?”… read more

“I am sitting in a pile of old notebooks and dog hair, feeling guilty about not writing.”… read more

“I don’t have a conventional, full-time job. In NYC, that’s like saying to a landlord: ‘I light fires in buildings.’ Makes them just a lil nervous.”… read more

“I have been thinking a lot about suspense lately, and monsters. It is the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but mostly it is that we live in an age of monstrosity…”… read more

“[…] I’m currently in the process of writing a new book, so where am I going to get the inspiration if I don’t throw myself into absurd, ridiculous, and borderline dangerous circumstances?”… read more

“Everyone tells me I need to write personal essays to sell my book, but I just spent 15 years working really hard to say everything I had to say in disguise.”… read more

“[…] I consider my dog to be my current life partner, after years of traveling together and accepting that another human is not necessarily suitable for this road situation.”… read more

“A year ago I came out, and today I’m wearing my identity across my chest.”… read more