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Barry Brennessel
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Tinseltown
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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The Celestial
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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The Sulphur Cure
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All the Souls on Earth
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Reunion
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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The Price of Silence
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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Reflections
— published 2012 |
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Firenze (Crossroads, #2)
— published 2012 |
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Sete (Crossroads, #1)
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Dubrovnik (Crossroads, #3)
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The Curtain Wall (Gay & Lesbian)
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updated Jan 26, 2013 12:00pm
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Free short story written as part of the Goodreads Gay-Straight Alliance Group's "Traveling to Better" series. My topic is "Bullying in Schools."
The Sulphur Cure (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Sep 05, 2011 05:13pm
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Vincent Rhodes, an artist whose family fortune has been lost in the Great Depression, receives four rambling letters from his brother, Theo, who went missing during the first Great War in Europe.
Though postmarked April 1933, from Claremont, New Hampshire, the letters are dated 1918, the year Theo disappeared. Vincent leaves his Brooklyn flat to find him. Based on clues from the letters, Vincent tracks Theo to his last-known location: a decaying New England health resort known to locals as the Sulphur Cure.
There he meets Helen Sage-Brown, the last descendant of the original owners. Though Vincent is convinced his brother was at this strange complex, Miss Sage-Brown insists that she has never seen him.
As Vincent digs deeper into the lives of the eccentric residents in search of answers, he finds there is more to this place than sagging floors and broken windows. He discovers that the people inhabiting the old grounds have as many secrets as he does, and that his life will change forever once those secrets come to light.
Excerpt from Crossroads (Sete, #1) (Gay & Lesbian)
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updated Aug 30, 2011 09:32am
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Brandon Meier’s academic year in Europe takes him far beyond museums, castles, and classrooms. When he embarks on a month-long rail journey, his sightseeing includes an edgy French boy, a Carravagio-esque Italian, a rich Swiss lad, a Croatian heartbreaker, and an Indonesian beauty in Amsterdam, to name but a few. These are lessons no textbook can ever teach.
It’s not long before Brandon realizes that the best sightseeing is almost always off the beaten path. From sultry nights in saunas, to midnight strolls in seemingly endless parks, chance encounters in sleepy seaside towns and nights of wining, dining, BMW convertibles and penthouse apartments, Brian’s year in Europe is anything but “by the textbook.”
The Price of Silence (Mystery & Thrillers)
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updated May 04, 2011 10:14am
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Each of their meetings had been a disaster. He paid her to get lost, and thought he’d rid himself of her for good. But then he found the party invitation stuffed in his mailbox.
Was he suspicious? Indeed. Should he fear for his safety, sanity, and Swiss bank accounts? Oh, you bet.
Nathan Tanyon’s encounters with a ditzy social climber are hardly by chance. Helena Arntree claims to have far more detail about the death of Nathan’s wealthy aunt than those presented to the police. Nathan insists she has it all wrong. But when she manipulates him into some compromising positions that might harm his credibility, he ends up paying her a healthy sum to keep her mouth shut and go away. So she vanishes. At least for a while. Two years later, she invites him to a costume party in honor of her recent marriage to a man she doesn’t bother to name. Nathan soon finds out the real reason for the invite. When he contemplates skipping the party, he fears doing so might place him in even greater danger. Can he ever escape this woman? Just how much is Nathan willing to sacrifice to keep Miss Arntree from spinning her fanciful tales? Just what is the ultimate price of silence?
Finalist, 2009 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest
Tinseltown (Gay & Lesbian)
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updated May 04, 2011 10:07am
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Film student Micah Malone learns the hard way that when life sucks, you can’t just yell, “Cut! Let’s do another take!” His grades are a box-office bomb. His friends create more drama than a soap opera. And his love life needs a laughtrack. While there’s no script to dictate what happens next, can Micah find the direction he needs? Life, after all, is no film school project. But it is great source material. The only source material. Let the cameras roll. Micah’s quirky story has begun filming.
[Intro and Chapter 1 from Tinseltown, available in May from MLR Press. (3rd Place Winner, 2010 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest)]
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“I always believed that for every good thing that happens in life, two tragedies rush in to kick your ass to keep you from getting all saccharine and deluded. It was as if just before you turned left into paradise, Ethel Merman popped up in your backseat and shouted, ‘Turn right, you idiot!”
― Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
― Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
“I am yours, too,” I whispered back, and those several minutes were the happiest in my life, eclipsing everything that came before and everything that has come after.”
― Barry Brennessel, Reunion
― Barry Brennessel, Reunion
“My Greek Chorus takes a break when I meet with Mrs. Castor. I’ve never told her about them, or the fact that I converse with my sister’s cat whenever I’m over there visiting. Probably a lot of things will remain a secret to Mrs. Castor. Some people might argue that going to see a counselor is a waste if I’m going to remain so guarded. But the appointments are only a ten dollar co-pay thanks to the university’s generous nature and, unlike my chorus and the cat, she answers back independent of my brain cells and challenges my ‘long held beliefs about the way people interact’. Or somethin”
― Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
― Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
“That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven.”
― Truman Capote
― Truman Capote
“Diddly-dah, diddly-dum, twiddly-dum, twiddly, twiddly, twiddly, dah; blinkety-blink, blinkety-blink, chaddily-dum, chaddily-dah, boopity-boop.”
― Emma Peel
― Emma Peel
“I always believed that for every good thing that happens in life, two tragedies rush in to kick your ass to keep you from getting all saccharine and deluded. It was as if just before you turned left into paradise, Ethel Merman popped up in your backseat and shouted, ‘Turn right, you idiot!”
― Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
― Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown
“I am yours, too,” I whispered back, and those several minutes were the happiest in my life, eclipsing everything that came before and everything that has come after.”
― Barry Brennessel, Reunion
― Barry Brennessel, Reunion
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Cole
Nov 16, 2012 05:43pm
Hi Barry! :)
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Hey, Barry! It was so cool meeting you at the Lambdas! I hope our paths cross again soon. Let's sweep the awards next year! I mean like, take all the prizes, not clean up afterwards... ;)
We're gonna have so much fun. You should come do the STEAMY challenge with us! :) http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5253...





















































