What Folks are Saying

“If William Burroughs and Clive Barker had a love child and fed it only BooBerry cereal, it's literary output might be as highly charged and frenetic as the sexy bloodbath that is Tattoo This Madness In. I'm waiting any day to hear that Haley Joel Osment has optioned it as his breakout role in an adult lead, now that he's 18 and old enough to do whatever the fuck he wants. TTMI could give him just what he needs -- Smurf tattoos, Jehovah's Witness teen abductions, and gay sex scenes in a burning sports car. Hot, hot, hot."

--Reed Massengill, photographer and author of Portrait of a Racist

“Daniel Allen Cox unravels the twisted truth in the heroic rebel yell of queer youth.”

--Richard Burnett, Hour magazine, Montreal

"In an edge-of-control world on the manic fringe of apostasy, Daniel Allen Cox poleaxes us into believing escape is possible. The ink from "Tattoo This Madness In" stains in the best way imaginable. Cox writes in the same manner that the needle-man at the core of his drama sins: outrageously,calculatingly, urgently. He kicked my ass all over the place."

-- Brian Ames, author of "Eighty-Sixed"


“Tattoo This Madness In is smart, weird, speedy, subversive, and intense. It's filled with surprising images and sharp, economical sentences. I was almost mad when it ended, so I immediately read it again.”

--Scott Heim, author of We Disappear and Mysterious Skin, now a major motion picture.