DREAM POP ORIGAMI combines lyric personal essays with autobiographical lists about growing up as a hapa teenager in small town America, falling in love in the big city, growing through the pain of cultural hyphenation, traveling to Japan for the first time as a Nisei, and teaching/serving abroad in Argentina and Burkina Faso. Dream Pop Origami is textual choreography between author and reader, an anti-memoir that resists narrative linearity at every turn, and also a series of intersecting … [Read more...] about Dream Pop Origami by Jackson Bliss
Amnesia of June Bugs by Jackson Bliss
AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS redefines what a novel can be. Hurricane Sandy has just smashed into the Eastern Seaboard, trapping four passengers on the C train: a Chinese American graffiti artist grieving his father’s death, a mixed-race graphic designer struggling to become a mom, a Moroccan French translator escaping his heartache in Paris, and an Indian American traveler leaving Chicago to regain control of her life. Amnesia of June Bugs is an ambitious, infatuated, and furious book about the time we … [Read more...] about Amnesia of June Bugs by Jackson Bliss
Interview with Author – Jackson Bliss
About Jackson Bliss: I'm the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose and the mixed-race/hapa author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and the speculative hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017). My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, ZYZZYVA, and the Columbia Journal, among others. I'm the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jackson Bliss
Janet Beal: Origins by Trenika Conley
The first novella in the series, "Origins" offers a look inside the life of assassin Janet Beal. Running from the life she was born into, Natalya escaped Moscow at an early age, taking on a new identity, Janet Beal. With a husband, two children and a great career, she still manages to fly under the radar as the deadliest assassin in the field. That is, until a buried past comes back to hunt her. The unexpected kidnapping of her children, coupled with the gruesome murder of her husband paints a … [Read more...] about Janet Beal: Origins by Trenika Conley
Interview with Author – Trenika Conley
About trenika conley: I'm 31 years old and the mother of two. Writing has been a passion I love since I was in third grade. From a small town in Mississippi, I know what hard work is. God is first and foremost in my life. I do not have a problem telling the world about a man named Jesus Christ and what he;s done for me. I try to live life to the fullest and while i'm doing so, contribute positively to society. I'm a true country girl at heart. What inspires you to write? Life itself is an … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Trenika Conley
