TammyJo Eckhart invited me to participate in Jason Rubis Next Big Thing promo,

1) What is the working title of your book?
The Pleasures of Hell, or The Obsidian Mirrror. It's a riff on William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell"

2)Where did the idea for the book come from?This is a bit convoluted. In 2005, I started work on a book on the history of ( Read more... )

Putting it all together for Kinda Gay femslash fanfiction contest.

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For a limited time, Smart Pop Books has posted my essay “Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse: 21st Century Neo-Gothic” from the essay collection Inside Joss’ Dollhouse as a free read. Get it while you can.

This is one of the first paid published pieces that emerged from my research, and I think it turned out pretty well. I am, according to one friend, “the ( Read more... )

I was interviewed by the Montreal by Words podcast for their first episode, about my Maria Monk "nun porn" article published in Maisonneuve magazine recently. It starts at about the 15 minute mark.

My article on the strange case of Maria Monk and her connections to anti-Catholic propaganda and the nun as a fetish archetype has been published in Maisonneuve magazine's 10th anniversary issue. (Print only, for the moment.)

This was my first article in a national, glossy magazine for a while, and I hope this carries with it some prestige. It took ( Read more... )

My article on the polygamy court decision's impact on polyamorist families is finally up on the Vancouver Courier.

I've already received an email arguing: "You know as well as I do that in the human experience of groups there is always an alpha male and alpha female; also, children are more apt to be abused by those adults in a group who are not ( Read more... )

It's up on the Tyee.

I've been a big fan of David Cronenberg for years, not only for his movies themselves, but for his ways of thinking about art and creation and censorship. He's a fascinating interview subject.

So, when I got the opportunity to write about him (or rather, get paid to write about him), I jumped at it, got every book about him I ( Read more... )

I'll be reading some of my work (probably my flash fiction) at The Writer's Studio reading series, along with several other local writers. Should be a good time. I'm scheduled to read just before the break.

Time: Friday, January 13th from 7 to 9 pm

Location: Take 5 Cafe, 429 Granville Street at Hastings, Vancouver, BC
Admission: free

My first post on Beauty in Darkness was back in July, 2005. That's six and a half years of blog posts on this topic, with no actual book.

It's been fun, certainly, but I've realized that I could keep doing this indefinitely, without ever actually writing my supposed book.
Blogging is certainly more fun than the grind of delayed gratification and ( Read more... )

It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons ( Read more... )