A DECADE LATER...RIP JESUS (WRITERS LIVE ON FOREVER)

JESUS WOULD HAVE BEEN 54 TODAY

Over the years, we stayed in touch on land lines and by regular messages on Facebook, no secret DMs. I'll miss him on the day that I die.

JESUS F. GONZALEZ AT RIGHT-HANDED COMMENTS

I'll be doing another post in the next few days about Jesus and Cathy's daughter Hannah and the art she provided for CLICKERS FOREVER!

CLICKERS FOREVER: A TRIBUTE TO J. F. GONZALEZ

A massive book, published by Thunderstorm Books, and edited by Brian Keene. All the proceeds, including what the writers would have been paid, will be presented to Jesus's wido and his daughter. My essay "My Own Personal Jesus" is included and it might be one of the best things I've ever written. Jesus passed away two months after my dad in 2014, and I feel bad every day that 2014 was the one year we didn't spend time jawing on the phone once or twice a month.

THREE YEARS TODAY, SO IF YOU NEED ME I'LL BE OUT IN THE DESERT WITH JESUS

FEATURED READER AT GUMBO FICTION SALON: 10 AUG 17

Also featured: David Munger with unknown man behind him and Richard Chwedyk, leaping into space. I read from my essay "My Own Personal Jesus", which will appear in CLICKERS FOREVER, edited by Brian Keene. I miss Jesus Gonzalez every day of my life.

"MY OWN PERSONAL JESUS"

 If you're a writer, artist, editor, publisher, or agent who's said "I wish I'd gone to WHC back during its height", Wayne Allen Sallee's essay for CLICKERS FOREVER: A J.F. GONZALEZ TRIBUTE, is going to take you there. Funniest thing I've read in a long time. And straight from the heart with no bullshit.


So with all those bone splinters in my elbow (see previous blog entry), I was still able to finish a 7500 word piece for Brian Keene's anthology, Clickers Forever: A Tribute to J. F. Gonzalez. That's actually the longest piece I've written in about a decade.

Jesus Gonzalez was an incredible person. He edited Iniquities, one of the better magazines that came out of, well, North America, in the early 1990s. And he died of lymphoma in 2014 at the age of 50. All monies go directly to his widow, Cathy, and daughter, Hannah.

JESUS GONZALEZ HAS DIED

Times past. I wish I had followed Jesus's health situation over the past few months, but I was occupied with helping take care of my own father. I'm talking about Jesus F. Gonzalez, the photo below is via Google Images and shows Jesus talking to Briane Keene and David Schow. He and Buddy Martinez published INIQUITES, one of the finest magazines of the 1990s, I was in the third issue and the first issue had one of the earliest works I had seen by Alan M. Clark. He had been working on it when we hung out in Nashville with Jack Daves. Jesus knew of my CP and how typing causes me pain. And so he was one of the very few people who would call me on the phone, the last time was in early 2013, but he DID call, and we would sometimes talk for an hour or two at a time. Some people you miss more than others. Part of my insides are gone now.