Rather than clutter up the welcome page, I just moved some of the links to a post. I hope that makes it easier to find these recent books. Thanks.
Most recently I’ve been working on sketching. Two small collections came out in 2024, self-published it’s true but hey, no shame in that! For novels and larger works, I work with other presses for their editing and reputations but for these booklets made primarily for friends, we have the internet…
Always, Harold
Always, Harold is a compilation of the cartoons featuring Harold as well as Rosie and Stevie, many are from their travels with Sarah across the States, from the Southwest to the Northeast. Heartwarming, insightful and entertaining, these comics reflect the connection between the four of them.
The Camphost Diaries
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work as a camphost? Well, here are the sketches from one season in Colorado, five months of living next to a lake in the mountains, and getting paid to be a homeless janitor, redundant question-answerer, and generally all-round helpful host at a rustic campground. Find out more through this collection of cartoons.
For anyone looking into working with small micro-publishers or self-publishing, I created a short chapbook on formatting, suggestions, things you’ll need to prepare as far as front matter, content, key words, etc. ALL ABOUT SELF-PUBLISHING (and some of the steps along the way) covers all the basics from types of editing, tips on proofreading, links for formatting advice, front and backmatter contents, publishing platforms and more.
The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2022 came out in 2023 with a short story of hers.
G’dog
Flash fiction from Finishing Line Press, 2022
G’Dog is a collection of vignettes set in the animal world and inspired by a few anonymous Russian fables of the early 20th century.
“Gritty and heartening, these fables give us a magical look at critters, creativity and life itself.” Denise Ryan (award-winning journalist and essayist)
“Unconditional love for animals, art, words, and weirdness.” Kayleigh Marinelli (The Fantastic Fabricated Life of Lyle Parker)
“Here is a mad romp into the lives of animals; a work of expansive, fundamental empathy.” Miriam McEwen (Editor at South Carolina Review)
“Genuine animal-sprinkled stories that will suck you in.” Gina Tron (Employment)
Hidden
Finishing Line Press, 2021
$14.99
“Memory lives on the cusp between life and dream, seeing and saying, falling to pieces and finding form. Sleam’s Hidden is a brilliant constellation of fragments, flashes, and waves that collect emotion, memory, desire, love, animals, land, and identities. This work is nothing short of breathtaking to me. Defiant in form, tender of heart, I took it into my body without hesitation. A heart triumph.”
–Lidia Yuknavitch, (Verge, Misfit Manifesto, Chronology of Water)
“Humorous, sensual, and vulnerable. Sleam’s narrative poems whisper the intricacies of relationship, appealing to the voyeur in all of us.”
–Jasminum McMullen, (By the Hour)
“Tess Gallagher once said that ‘The best love poems confirm something we secretly felt but never said’. I think this is true about Sarah Leamy‘s Hidden though the poems in this collection go even further: not just confirming something we never said but giving that secret thing a language that can hold it. In this beautifully narrative collection we are blessed by a poet whose central power is love. What a gift. Especially in a world that seems less and less interested in something so radically powerful. Hidden should not be hidden at all. It should be shared with everyone.”
–Matthew Dickman (Wonderland, 2018)
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