New Podcast... and PornHub Nation?

I recently appeared on the Susie Bright podcast, In Bed with Susie Bright. I'd never met Susie before, but I was familiar with her work as a feminist author and journalist. We'd both been published in The Feminist P*rn Book.

If you own The Feminist P*rn Book, or happen to pick it up after reading this, you should read Susie's essay, "The Birth of the Blue Movie Critic." It's a great piece of radical p*rn history."

Anyway, the episode of Susie's podcast, on which I'm featured, premiered yesterday. I have to say that she was an absolute pleasure to speak with. The conversation is also, perhaps, unusually interesting because of Susie's knowledge of sex work and adult industry politics, and ability to place such topics in a greater context.

So please, if you will, have a listen to the latest episode of In Bed with Susie Bright - Body to Job: The Most Brilliant Avant Garde Writer in Town is a P*rn Star Who Nearly Lost His Penis - But Never His Soul. "Susie talks to Christopher Zeischegg, aka Danny Wylde. He's a former p*rn performer and musician, and an extraordinary writer. His book Body to Job looks at his career from amateur model to finding his feet after p*rn."

Next up, PornHub Nation. What the fuck is that?

Some of you may have heard me, or some other p*rn folk, talk a lot of shit about PornHub. Because they completely destroyed the old model of business for the adult industry.

In the wake of the collapse, things have become more complicated; nuanced. It is actually possible for performers to now monetize their amateur (or professional) content through PornHub. I happen to manage a few of my friends' PH accounts. So is PornHub good now? Are they a necessary evil? Am I growing increasingly ambivalent in my "old" age? I can at least say, "Yes," to that last question. 

Regardless of how I feel or may have felt in the past, PornHub Nation is a thing I'm pretty into. My girlfriend, Maggie West (you may recognize her absolutely stunning photography from the internet), teamed up with the artist, Ryder Ripps, and PornHub to create a huge immersive art installation, set to open in Los Angeles on July 14th. It features a lot of p*rn stars, but is otherwise pretty PG-13. Think about it like an art theme part for adults, but with dick jokes.

Tickets are on sale now. You can reserve your spot at the PornHub Nation website. 

BODY TO JOB

BODY TO JOB (book trailer) from Christopher Zeischegg on Vimeo.

Body to Job is available now through Rare Bird Lit and wherever good books are sold!


Body to Job (about) from Christopher Zeischegg on Vimeo.

COME TO MY BROTHER - RE-RELEASE

I'd like to share a new release with you. Well, a kind-of-new-release.

I wrote my first novel, Come to my Brother, in my early twenties, when I was a film student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and had barely started my porn career. The work was supposed to be a coming-of-age/horror hybrid; a queer love story; a vampire fiction. This was before the Twilight series, and before I'd read my first Poppy Z. Brite novel.

By the time I'd finished a solid first draft of Come to my Brother, young adult fiction had become a new cultural phenomenon, and one that swallowed up the vampire genre. I felt embarrassed at what I thought would be assumed about me: that I was another Stephenie Meyer copycat, jumping on the YA vampire bandwagon to sell a few books.

After several rejection letters from publishers, I put aside the manuscript. Maybe it's best for Come to my Brother to never see the light of day, I thought.

A few years passed.

I gained some recognition from my work as a porn performer, and built a small, cult following around my (retired) Trve West Coast Fiction blog. The stories and essay I posted were predominantly based on my experiences in the adult film industry. Though, as an experiment, I decided to release a few chapters from my unpublished Come to my Brother novel. I wanted to see if my audience would be into it.

A man named Jared Rourke contacted me shortly after I posted the chapters. At the time, he ran a small press called Queer Young Cowboys. He asked if he could read the rest of my manuscript, and maybe publish it.

Of course, I agreed. I was excited at the opportunity, and took it as a sign that my work existed outside the Stephenie Meyer YA camp; that it might be good enough to read. In a way, Jared gave me the encouragement I needed to keep writing books.

Queer Young Cowboys published the first edition of Come to my Brother in 2013. Though, that edition has since gone out of print.

Earlier this year, I decided to revisit the manuscript and give it a face-lift, so to speak.

I loved many of Come to my Brother's qualities. It was preoccupied with first love and emotional extremity, and it flirted with violence and the supernatural. But in a lot of ways, Come to my Brother was a young novel -- thematically and in terms of structure, prose, and aesthetics.

I wanted to keep the story, themes, and structure intact, but I felt that the writing could be tightened and improved, and in some instances, replaced. So I took several months to go through and update the manuscript.

I hope you enjoy the final product.

#WYLDEFIRE Hot Sauce Valentine's Day Collector's Box

 I'm very happy to announce the limited edition #WYLDEFIRE Hot Sauce Valentine's Day Collectors Box, available only at ChristopherZeischegg.com

 

Designed by Luka Fisher and photographed by Sydney Mills.  

 

 

Looking to spice up your Valentines Day? Wyldefire Hot Sauce is bound to make you and your lover hot with passion. 

Food is like relationships. When it's bland and boring, you need to spice things up. So why not call on Pornstar-turned-DJ, Danny Wylde, to bring the heat!?!

Thanks to his recent collaboration with the Rogue Chef Royce Burke (Chimney Coffee), you can spread Danny's #Wyldefire all over your basic-ass tacos and bland sausages. 

Though, on a special occasion, like Valentine's Day, you need more than just some hot sauce to bring the heat. You need the Wyldefire limited edition Valentine's Day Collector's Box!

Each silk-lined box comes with a sexy, candid polaroid of DJ Danny Wylde, shot by artist, Luka Fisher.

The Wyldefire Valentine's Day Collector's Box is strictly limited to 8 editions. 1 per household.

#WYLDEFIRE

Ex-Porn Bummer, Danny Wylde (aka Christopher Zeischegg), Opens Online Store

The porn star, Danny Wylde (who's birth name is Christopher Zeischegg), has been retired from XXX for three years now. But that's not stopping him from keeping his greedy hands in the adult entertainment market.

He recently launched his official website, ChristopherZeischegg.com. Today, he launches his first official store.

The 'merch' section of ChristopherZeischegg.com is a post-modern nod towards America and its love of neo-fascism. Wylde has opted to give his fans less of what they want, and more of what they don't. He's kept his store boring, useless, and free of pornography. In fact, the only items currently for sale are a paperback novel, penned by Wylde, and a t-shirt, which references his casual relationship to the occult.

More items are sure to be on their way.

In the meantime, one can explore wylde's website, and find links to his Wyldefire hot sauce collaboration with chef, Royce Burke.

ChristopherZeischegg.com

This blog is kind of dead. Check my new website at ChristopherZeischegg.com.

#WYLDEFIRE HOT SAUCE

Check out my new HOT SAUCE in collaboration with Chef Royce Burke!

You can buy the hot sauce HERE.