Back In Spandex, Back in the Fight
Back in Your Inbox, Back in the Fight
I missed you. A lot.
I stepped away from the Muscle & Spandex newsletter in 2025 because life came at me fast. I spent the year caring for a family member with cancer. In April, my father died. The same day he had the heart attack that killed him, I was laid off from my day job. All of this unfolded against the fascistic slide we’re living through. I’m in Chicago; when ICE swept our streets, kidnapping people and violating human rights, I did what I could to resist with my community.
It’s heavy stuff. But there’s also lots to be grateful for. 2024–2025 also brought real wins. I transitioned LED Queens from retail into services—branding and strategy for LGBTQ/BIPOC businesses—something I should’ve done sooner. I got my creative drive back and put in serious work on two books: Hall of Mirrors (out in 2026) and Our Lord of the Flowers. Art is life. I’m grateful to still be here making it.
And no, I didn’t forget my superhero and villain crew.
Coming 2026: How to Kill a Superhero, Second Edition
The How to Kill a Superhero tetralogy has been going strong since 2013. More than a decade later, I want to give it the polish it deserves. In early 2026, I’ll launch a fundraising/Kickstarter campaign to produce second editions of all four books with:
New cover art
New introductions in each volume
Cleaned-up interiors and typography
(Stretch goal) An omnibus paperback collecting all four books
If you want to support the second edition—or you have specific requests for this refresh—send me an email. Your notes will shape what gets made.
Our Lord of the Flowers Is Live
If HTKS gave you everything you wanted from superheroes, spandex, and BDSM, Our Lord of the Flowers (OLF)brings a new obsession: spandex, pantyhose, masks, and psychedelia—a standalone queer kink novel with a literary edge.
The book follows Sir Vitrum, a Chicago leatherman cleaning out his late father’s hoarded house while navigating gender, fetish, mysticism, and the leather family he’s built. If you loved the raw sexuality of HTKS, this will speak to you.
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I’m now fully independent as an author and entrepreneur. If you want to help OLF take off, please subscribe to the free newsletter, shop the store, or—best of all—tell your friends and lovers.
