“This business is bananas no matter what rug you look under.”… read more

“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 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

“Poetry, I told my friends, is still where I feel happiest and freest […] For true creative freedom, I need forms that demand compression, restraint.”… read more

“[…] it takes hours of mental wrangling every morning to get over myself and produce, to convince myself that what I’m writing has potential and meaning and is not just the expression of a hot-headed delusion.”… read more

“I want to write queer books that reflect our queer lives, bodies, relationships, and the worlds we build for each other.”… read more

“I’m very good at being inconsistent, which sometimes leads to bad coffee. It also leads to good pancakes.”… read more