starting this week I'm mailing out a hundred copies of black sparks 2 to semi-random bookstores around the US with the hopes that some of them will either buy more zines from me or just put them on a free shelf or something.

can't get these from the left bank website because they don't have isbns, but you can message me and I'll figure out mailing them

rats alice trujillo@txikiena.bsky.social · 6d ago

this one is doing so good. sold twenty copies in the one-ish weeks that it's existed. I'm sending copies of black sparks 2 to a bunch of bookstores this week, and then working on getting the newer zines into the other bookstores we have carcinogen stuff already stocked with

this one is doing so good. sold twenty copies in the one-ish weeks that it's existed. I'm sending copies of black sparks 2 to a bunch of bookstores this week, and then working on getting the newer zines into the other bookstores we have carcinogen stuff already stocked with

rats alice trujillo@txikiena.bsky.social · 2w ago

just finished making 50 copies of the new carcinogen press zine, (all godless creatures) by "rare gore". these will be at left bank and @seattlezinefest.org next weekend, and once I finish the other three zines I'm working on I'll start sending them to some other bookstores too.

tabling set up for @seattlezinefest.org today

did a reprint and redesign of another of my zines from last year. this one is called Other People's Blood. got it done in time for the @seattlezinefest.org on sunday, and then I'm going to start sending them and all the others to other book stores in the next few weeks.

just finished printing and assembling volume 2 of black sparks. this one has three pieces, one of my poems, one from @ky--steinberg.bsky.social and a story from "rare gore", whose zine I just released earlier in the week.

just finished making 50 copies of this short essay from last year. erotic poem? its about extinction, sadomasochism, submission, and mass culpability. kind of a proof of concept for my novel that I started writing immediately after

this is my second book of poems, and the first thing I published as carcinogen press. body apocalypse manifesto is a set of poems about insurrectionary psychosis and pain as an alchemical surface. I'm very very proud of this one. the art is by jonatan florez. leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

finished writing the second of eleven sections for my magic book. right now I'm calling it self immolation. i was calling it angel system. I finally learned how to pronounce goëtia yesterday.

This one is actually a homage to a previous painting I did and gifted to Rats about 5 years ago, Two Lovers (acrylic on canvas). It was back when my art style was a bit more abstract.

K. Y. Steinberg@ky--steinberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Vesuvius, acrylic and ink on canvas board. This painting is on the back cover of @txikiena.bsky.social 's Extremophiles.

Vesuvius, acrylic and ink on canvas board. This painting is on the back cover of @txikiena.bsky.social 's Extremophiles.

just finished making 50 copies of the new carcinogen press zine, (all godless creatures) by "rare gore". these will be at left bank and @seattlezinefest.org next weekend, and once I finish the other three zines I'm working on I'll start sending them to some other bookstores too.

here's my newest book on the erotica shelf at left bank. it's called Extemophiles and it's about losing and regaining your sense of self at the end of the world. It's also super violent porn. A trans woman kills a cop with a hammer on page 1. you can get it here... leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

my next fiction project is going to be about magic. something obscure and deeply anti social. something about the writing of extemophiles and the currents of my life these past two years have made me feel too much like a positive member of society. the new thing is about destruction and escape.

I'm waiting a little longer than usual to publish my next book because Im focusing on getting the press set up and releasing versions of my older books that I'm happy with printing in longer runs. right now I have one poetry book finished, halfway through writing the next and Im working on a novella

basically all of the art for my books and zines is paintings by my partner @ky--steinberg.bsky.social it makes wonderful and sickening art and writes incredible poems. it's zine called "Tell Me I Shouldn't Be Here" is the second thing we published with carcinogen press. please go follow it.

I'm really impatiently waiting for a new long arm stapler to come in the mail because my old one broke. I'm trying to release four more zines for carcinogen before the end of the month, mostly all formatted and finished, but I really want to start assembling them and I can't yet.

Insurrectionary Auto-Vivisection. this is my first book of poems i ever finished. it has poems from 2016 - 2022. a lot of this came from the times when I really didn't understand myself, or where the pain was coming from, or how to communicate. get it here: www.leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

doing another one in seattle the next day, july 11, 7:30pm at left bank books

the reading yesterday was wonderful. most of my books are now stocked at orca books and last word books in olympia. my second reading for the book release is tonight at left bank books in seattle.

my first of two book release readings is tonight. driving down to portland later and trying to drop off more books and zines there and olympia along the way.

book release reading in portland for my new book, extremophiles. july 10, 7pm

I'm getting ready to publish the first thing with my press that wasn't written by me or my partner. It's like this is really happening.

cover for my first novella. Check Engine Light is about being young, queer, psychotic and scared making minimum wage in a bad relationship. this art , like most of the art for my books and zines, is by my partner who publishes as K.Y. Steinberg buy it here: leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

a poem I wrote today, called 'Limit'.

Rats Alice Trujillo is back, with three poems on spreading concrete, frail lines, and dark reasons to avoid suicide at unlikelystories.org/content/vest... #poetry #litmag #smallpress

a poem called Hope, from near the end of my book, Two People Going to the Bottom of a River

my third book of poems, which I think has most of my best work in it. planning for a second edition toward the end of this year, with better formatting and a new cover. I wrote this one about time dislocation, mutual abuse, chronic illness, and being crushed alive. leftbankbooks.com/bookDetails....

I'll post other things from carcinogen press here in a bit. that's my books and zines project that's mostly just my stuff right now, but I'm trying to also publish other peoples stuff, individually and also in the compilation zine series we have that's called black sparks

gargantapress.com/products/ver... this is the book that i wrote the post 2020 post quarantine pre collapse wasteland and about being in love and being a rotten corpse at the same time. its the first and only thing I've had published by someone else and you can get it here from their website.

Vermin

July 2025  |  ISBN: 9798990889644  |  128 pages |  English The world is something dead that continues to speak and writhe. Its arteries are filled with coagulated forms of consciousness, moving agains...

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