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the author: Stephen Graham Jones is the acclaimed author of All the Beautiful Sinners, the Bird is Gone: a manifesto, and Fast Red Road, a plainsong. His upcoming collection of short stories, Bleed Into Me will be available June of 2005 from University of Nebraska Press. His next novel Demon Theory will be available Spring of 2006 from MacAdam/Cage.

Short Story Recommendations
1. Cops & Robbers
2. Hemingway Hills in the Afternoon
3. Episode 43: Incest
4. 10 Works
5. Exodus
6. BESTIARY

GET BLEED INTO ME: JUNE 2005!

Welcome to StephenGrahamJones.net

Please understand the site is not quite up, but it will be soon. Currently the only pages up are the book pages [and not even all of those], but each day another page or two or three or more is added as we learn what it's like to feel your brain peel.

For the past 2 years I've been on a personal crusade to spread the word about Stephen Graham Jones, and my crusade lead me to the Velvet where I met Nick and Dan who, after taking my advice, read SGJ, and agreed he was an author the world needed to be reading. With their help my dream has become a reality, the world is reading Stephen Graham Jones, and with Nick's dilgence the Blue Monkeys are about to breathe.

WHO IS SGJ?
If you are a writer, Stephen Graham Jones will send you scurrying off to hide, never to write again or he'll send you straight to your keyboard where you'll spend countless hours pounding the keys, with the hope of becoming as great a writer as him, and if not, then you'll die trying. If you are a reader, Stephen Graham Jones will be the only author you read for months, years even, because he's that good. Because each book calls for two, three reads maybe and each time you'll uncover something new, something you'd swear was not there before. He's that good. SGJ writes like every sentence will be his last, he writes to scare others away from writing. Never wasting a word, not even one. And the prose with its deep psychic cadence will send you back to page one, time and time again.

With that we bring you Blue MonkeyLand. We bring you Stephen Graham Jones.
~ Drew.

Thanks to the kindness of Will Christopher Baer, SGJ was allowed the oppurtunity to guest blog. To read his "I forgot to lie" story BESTIARY head over to Will Christopher Baer's site. ~nick.