Enter Joe Goosey

"Hey Matt. Funks occur. Three hangovers in four days ain't bad. I had a massive one last week that set me back about a full business week. Katie had to come find me on the side of a main road eating an omelet with my hands."

Happy to announce Joseph Goosey is coming on as poetry editor for Thieves Jargon. I've been a big fan of his work for a while now (city-kid imagery mixed with self-awareness and longing), and I think he's only going to get better moving forward. If he can identify poetry that's somewhere in the same neighborhood of interesting as the poetry he writes, we should be in good shape.

Viva le Goose!

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Patterson Signs 17-Book Deal with Hachette
By Jim Milliot

While sales of titles by some brand name authors have slowed in recent years, that hasn’t been the case with James Patterson and the prolific author has just inked a new 17-book deal that will keep him with publisher Hachette through 2012. The deal includes 11 adult titles, to be published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company and in paperback by Grand Central Publishing, and six titles for young readers, to be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

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Wet and Dripping

"Wet and Dripping" is a chapbook by Joseph Goosey, who is a poet I like a lot. He's kind of all over the place, but he's weird and sad and romantic. I think he writes sex about better than anybody else.

"Forget your fingers.

They will be discovered
in the next county
and used by someone
who is in dire
need."

Here's a non-TJ poem for those crying out "Favoritism!"

And here's the link to Shadow Archer Press, which has the book. $7.

Oh yeah, the cover art is done by a former TJ artist named Darren Hopes.