I’ve been battling this really silly flu thing for a over a week, but I am doing my best to be well for tonight’s reading. It is a very important reading, because it is for Homo-Centric’s 5th Anniversary. I read with Ofelia del Corazón, Bonnie S. Kaplan, Steven Reigns, Sylvia S.A. Sukop and Victor Vazquez. Hank […]
I am happy to tell you that He Mele A Hilo is available from Amazon, and should be available through your local bookstore within a few days. While my book has technically been available through Topside, this is a major event. Publication is great, but it is distribution that makes books available. Amazon has its problems, but […]
I have just accepted a Keynote Speaker Invitation to the 30th Annual Asian Pacific American Awareness Conference at UC Irvine. I am very excited about this event! yay! I have performed and spoken at many queer events, but I am Asian American, as well. And I have many mixed thoughts on Asian Americans, families, communities. […]
I’m back in LA from Providence, where I gave the Keynote address to Brown University’s Trans Week. I deeply appreciated my time at Brown. Providence itself was beautiful. I caught the last of the fall colors! And goodness, those were some great fish n chips. In my address, I wanted to emphasize how stressful and […]
Okay! Now I am finally able to get this right! On September 23, 2014, I gave a keynote talk to the Southern California Writers Conference. Not only that, but I led a workshop on the proper use of dialect. I was thrilled to take part in this. Whether one is a literary writer or a […]
Hi! Ever have something that you really should do, but just can’t keep up with, even if you try real hard? I have a lot of problems with calendars, especially ones on line. Instead of neato calendars, I get empty grids that look like ghost towns… So instead, I suppose that the best thing to […]
I am honored to be giving the keynote address on November 10 for Brown University’s Trans Action week! I have not done too much traveling lately, but I am feeling much better, and there is so much to talk about, I do need to settle down and work on my speech. I’m also going to […]
I am posting this as a reminder that one can work and negotiate with publishers. I was asked to contribute a piece to a small-press anthology. I was swamped at the time, but I put my other work aside gladly because it seemed like a project I could explore, and because I have a deep […]
It has been something of a couple of weeks. I delivered a stack of novels to the Southern California Writers Conference today. On Sunday, I am conducting a workshop on effectively using dialect in stories, and then giving the closing keynote speech. I am so very grateful. I looked at that box of novels and […]
Serves: an extended family Ingredients 3/4 pounds elbow macaroni 2 russet potatoes, peeled 8 hard boiled eggs (fresh eggs are best, and try not to overboil) Best Foods Mayonnaise (the only acceptable brand) 1 cup frozen peas (you can add less peas, but I like peas.) 1 can bay shrimp. Instead of bay shrimp, you […]