I have been working on a very important novella that explores this dark period in human history. A period that while seems far from us in time feels as if we’re walking parallel to the evils of almost hundred years ago.
Yesterday marked 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising when on April 19th 1943, SS Commanders ordered buildings burned block by block resulting in the death, suffocation, and extermination of 13,000 Jews who refused to capitulate to the Nazis.
The book is titled I am Someday: A Novella of Broken Stars and will be released by Madness Heart Press in 2024. It follows Death itself as cosmic witness to the human horrors of the Holocaust and small miracles like stars that managed to sparkle in the midst of such vile hatred.
Someday is a personification of death I’ve worked on and used in my poetry and short stories. This novella has allowed me to explore and expand it in a much more cosmic and personal way than with my other works of fiction.
Also, this was one of the hardest pieces of long fiction I’ve written and will also be the first novella I’ve had published. It’s a very important subject to me and one that I feel need to be talked about. I’m looking forward to sharing more on this with you all soon.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈UPDATE🏳️🌈🏳️🌈: When I said to stay tuned, I meant it.
“Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums” release date and preorder information is here!
Full cover art coming soon though… you can catch a glimpse of a few interior illustrations in the preorder link. I can’t stress enough how excited I am and happy I am to have been able to work with Josh and Hex Publishers putting this book together.
And a special thank you to my good friend, Angela Yuriko Smith for her honest and visceral introduction. It brought tears to my eyes.
This poetry collection will be FULL COLOR with both paperback AND hardback (with dust jacket) editions and will be released on June20th, 2023.
Additionally, I’ve received some incredibly kind, thoughtful, and generous blurbs from friends and colleagues in the writing community (with more on the way).
Here’s what they have to say:
“If Zeus picked up Ganymede in a gay bathhouse, if Laura met Carmilla in a BDSM dungeon for vampires, their tales of supernatural sexual awakening would resemble the poetry in Maxwell Gold’s terrifying—and incredibly sexy—Bleeding Rainbows and Other Spectrums. Gay sex isn’t relegated to metaphor in Gold’s steamy verse, for Bleeding Rainbows has smashed all of its closets, freeing the monsters who live within and shining its fearless light on the many ways in which they arouse us. Vampires, werewolves, and the ancient gods themselves are as hungry as they are mesmerizing, and are prowling your local nightclub where they dangerously exude the seductive aroma of leather.”
—Sumiko Saulson BRAM STOKER AWARD®-NOMINATED AUTHOR OF THE RAT KING, A BOOK OF DARK POETRY
“A bold, visceral collection that pushes past comfort zones into a fever dream of raw, ugly truths refracted by the spinning disco ball of Gold’s audacious poetic storytelling. Anchored in tremendous humanity, Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums will transport readers through their own personal infernos of guilt, shame, and utter imperfection, shooting them out somewhere into a cosmic void where voracious mirror monsters are slain by the healing light of self-forgiveness.”
-Vince Liaguno BRAM STOKER AWARD®-WINNING EDITOR OF UNSPEAKABLE HORROR: FROM THE SHADOWS OF THE CLOSET AND OTHER TERRORS: AN INCLUSIVE ANTHOLOGY
“With this bold collection of desiccated erotic fantasies, Maxwell I. Gold creates a dread-palace of beautiful perversion. Confronting and brimming with universal truth, Bleeding Rainbows is a primal and dangerous work. Authentic and affective.”
I’ve always been nervous about reading my own poetry, and I know that has to change at some point. Though, when my friend Angela Yuriko Smith asked me to read my poem for her online show SPILLING THE INK you can sure bet, yes, I was just as hesitant.
Back in 2018 when my now Rhysling Award nominated poem Crimson Faces was published Angela’s husband, Ryan Smith produced an audio recording with him narrating the poem. The way he read every word, emphasized every breath, it was beautiful.
Naturally, I asked Angela if Ryan had the time to produce a similar version for The Gates of Katharion (Weird Tales #366, 2022) and well, without further explanation I’m pleased to share with you the finished product
