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Gay DVD Review: Man 2 Man: A Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love. A new documentary by the director of The Butch Factor explores gay male relationships, from the perspectives of single men, couples, matchmakers, and relationship counselors. Read my review at ThisWeekInTexas.Com. The DVD arrives on Valentine's Day.
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Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure  4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Acorn Stories: Written 1988-1998  3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure by Duane Simolke (Goodreads Author), Toni Davis 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Holding Me Together 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Selected Poems 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer by Duane Simolke (Goodreads Author), Jan Chandler, Shawna Chandler 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Acorn, Texas
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by Duane Simolke (Goodreads Author), Jan Chandler, Shawna Chandler, Huda Orfali, Timothy Morris Taylor, Bill Wetzel, Writers Uniting Against Cancer
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by Duane Simolke (Goodreads Author), Jan Chandler, Shawna Chandler, Huda Orfali, Timothy Morris Taylor, Bill Wetzel, Writers Uniting Against Cancer
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A West Texas librarian makes fun of herself and the other people in her town, while writing about her reasons for wanting to lose weight.
The Maintainers Arrive. (Gay & Lesbian)
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On the planet Valchondria, no illness exists, gay marriage is legal, and everyone is a person of color. However, a group called “the Maintainers” carefully monitors everyone’s speech, actions, and weight; the Maintainers also force so-called “colorsighted” people to hide their ability to see in color. In Chapter 1, we meet the brilliant scientist Taldra, initially known by the given name she hates: Lorfeltez.
Elephant On An Opera Stage (Poetry)
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Awkwardness captured in an image. What else can you read into it? Let me know. A short poem.
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Thanks! My readers at GoodReads seem interested in Degranon, with 60 of them adding it to their To Read list.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33321...
Now one of them might win a copy!
Hi Duane!!
Just wanted to let you know that your sci fi adventure DEGRANON is the www.AuthorIsland.com Book of the Day today!!
Thanks for offering up a copy to one of our lucky readers today!
Now available: THE ACORN STORIES - Duane Simolke's award-winning tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences - check it out at www.DuaneSimolke.blogspot.com
Readers! Last day to get your name in the hat for Duane Simolke's sci fi adventure DEGRANON - check it out www.AuthorIslandTikiHut.blogspot.com !
Happy Monday Duane!!
Thanks so much for being our special guest blogger this week - and thanks for offering up a copy of DEGRANON for one of our lucky readers this week!
This week at www.AuthorIslandTikiHut.blogspot.com , we welcome author Duane Simolke to the Tiki Hut to talk about his science fiction novel DEGRANON: A Science Fiction Adventure.
Majoring in English, Duane Simolke received degrees from Belmont University (B.A., 1989), Hardin-Simmons University (M.A., 1991), and Texas Tech University (Ph.D., 1996). His doctoral dissertation was on Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. StoneWall Society gave Pride in the Arts literary awards to The Acorn Stories, Degranon, and Holding Me Together. AllBooks Reviews gave The Return of Innocence a Reviewers Choice Award.
Simolke also edited and co-wrote a fundraiser, The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer.
Learn more at www.duanesimolke.blogspot.com
WIN - Leave Duane a comment or question this week at the Authorisland Tiki Hut and your name goes in the hat for a free ebook of DEGRANON.
Hi Duane!!
AuthorIsland.com is celebrating your anthlogy - THE ACORN GATHERING today - what a great cause!
Thank you for putting this together.
Anthology Edited By Duane Simolke Benefits American Cancer Society
The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer.
Author and editor Duane Simolke presents an unusual fiction collection. From a scandal-rocked town in West Texas to the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana, these short stories take readers to surprising places in America and the human heart!
Join the fight against cancer by purchasing this fundraiser by authors Jan Chandler, Huda Orfali, Duane Simolke, Timothy Morris Taylor, Shawna R. Van Arum, and Bill Wetzel. All author and editor royalties go to the American Cancer Society!
These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke's collection The Acorn Stories, this new anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph. Edited by Duane Simolke.
Learn more at www.DuaneSimolke.blogspot.com
Hi Duane!!!
Welcome to AuthorIsland.com - so glad to have you with us and to celebrate we're throwing you a Cyber Launch Party today for your fantasy adventure THE RETURN OF INNOCENCE over at www.CyberLaunchParty.blogspot.com!
Best of luck with the book and thanks so much for offering up a copy of it as a prize today!
