The Blog

During this tsunami of change in the literary universe, the parties involved are constantly struggling for a bigger piece of the pie.  Apple, Amazon, publishers big and small, distributors, booksellers and agents; everyone is continually angling for position, power and profit. It’s a mob and everyone is screaming to be heard.

At Pens With Cojones, we wade through the mob, walloping everyone (including ourselves) with truncheons until the mob’s rabid chaos is an efficient and deadly phalanx and together we march, in perfect step, towards better books, better writers, better readers, better literary culture and a better publishing industry.

We will frequently be naive, hotheaded and shocking. Our earnest rebellion against convention and the status quo will probably offend you. Our unabashed championing of writers above the other parties may threaten you. We can only promise to tell you what our degenerate and disgruntled hearts feel.

Our greatest testis (do not Google this word at work) of wisdom for writers is this:

The world roars at us…

“Be afraid tiny writer peoples, write what status quo tell you, take what status quo give you, live life status quo allow you to live.”

We say write with Cojones, publish with Cojones, live with Cojones. Tell world to *bleep* itself.

Welcome.

The Man

Who is the man behind Pens With Cojones? Why does he write? What does he write? How many licks does it take to get to the center of his literary goodness? What manner of person is he?

Find out here - Mayowa Atte: The Man, the Myth, the Legend.