I am the guest editor of the latest issue of Thug Lit, online now. I volunteered to take over while Todd got over his honeymoon/book tour. At the same time, E and I drove a moving truck across the country to our new home in West Hollywood. More updates after we settle.

I just got back from a short tour through New England with Big Daddy Thug, promoting Hardcore Hardboiled. I signed some books, did some readings and bought a tee shirt at Lizzie Borden's house. That followed a week-long trip to L.A. to get an apartment. Me and E are going to be living in West Hollywood down the street from the Formosa. Google it.

I picked up a copy of Hardcore Hardboiled today. You should do the same. Featuring my short story "Johnny Cash is Dead" and a lot of talented writers like Ken Bruen and Charlie Stella, it's the most hardcore thing you'll read this year. Big Daddy Thug Todd Robinson has worked like a dog for years to get this thing in your hot little hands. Buy it.

Big Daddy Thug Todd Robinson and I will be in the Boston area to promote Hardcore Hardboiled on 11-12 in June. I'll post more details as soon as they are confirmed.

I just finished a new draft of Like Riding a Moped, a screenplay based on my short story of the same name. I'm hoping to start work on an original screenplay soon, seeing as how E and I are moving to LA in a few months. I'm still working on the novel as well, and have a few short stories in the process of not being written.

 Also, I updated the links page, which still isn't nearly the List of Awesome that I want it to be. Stay tuned.

I'm going to be the guest-editor for the upcoming issue of Thug Lit. My goal: the most bloody-awesome issue of that two-fisted Internet rag ever read by human eyeballs. Stay tuned.

While I whip this blog into fighting shape, check out my latest story to go live, "I Wish They Never Named Him Mad Dog," in the new issue of Demolition. I have a longer version of the story which I may post here in the near future. In the tooting-my-horn department, check out the kind words author Dave Zeltserman lays on my story "Playing Dead," which appeared in Out of the Gutter #3:

This is as good a piece of dark urban pulp as I've across in years. The story involves a vicious Jamaican gang raiding a Brooklyn drug den intent on a massacre, and the lengths one guy is willing to go through to try to survive. The writing is pitch perfect, and the story so far takes the award for the most violent in the journal. Damn good stuff.