Our legislature has a serious monopoly addiction, and it’s destroying lives. — Everyone in Michigan should care about what’s happening with our state’s marijuana legislature right now. Yes: I mean you. Because, whether you realize it or not, it affects us all. Every one of us either is, or has in our life a person who at one point or another will…

Hey there! Long time no read. COSGRRRL the digital magazine has not only gone to print — it’s created a monster. More specifically: a new indie press called creativeonion Press, which specializes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by outsider authors. What does that mean for you? Well, one of a…

creativeonion Press celebrates outsider voices with release of first two black-authored titles, forges ahead where mainstream publishers fear to tread “There’s something freeing about having little left to lose,” says creativeonion Press founder and publisher, Marjorie Steele. “For me, starting the press wasn’t so much a conscious decision, as it…

Female-founded creativeonion Press publishes black bard Duvay Knox’s first gripping novella — “This is the most important book of the year,” says Manny of Duvay Knox’s new novella, SOUL COLLECTOR, on Amazon’s book reviews. “I LOVED this book!” says Douglas. …

Emergent black author Gary E. Moore exercises demons of the past, present, and future in his first poetry chapbook, published by creativeonion Press “Revolution is in the air,” says Gary E. Moore in his first book of poetry; “while we stand at the brink / of the kitchen sink /…

Can Medium readers atone for Medium Staff’s disenfranchisement of creative writers? Yes! Buy my books! — No seriously. Buy my books. On creativeonionpress.com, not on Amazon. Tell your friends. This is a hard post for me to write. I’m not much for the hard sales pitch, and believe it or not, I really hate being aggressive. It’s against my nature. But it’s even more against my…