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Le Jazz Hot: Dead Trees Edition

There are those who will always choose their books by scent, evidently. They believe that ebooks will never really catch on because you can't smell the pages. Of all of the arguments that I've heard pro-print, that one seems to be the one most used and the least compelling. Book smells. Well, okay.

To me, the argument in favor of print books is old people and Luddites–there are more of them then there are of us. Therefore, it is with much regret to trees that must give their lives for my nonsense, but nevertheless great enthusiasm in which I am to announce that Le Jazz Hot will soon be available in print.

As proof, I offer you the book cover:

With reviews on, even!

I do not yet have a date for when this will be available. After much squealing and pleasure, my next thought was that 'Hey! I could do signings now that I have something to sign!'

Now if only I could track down a pen.

Rush Limbaugh’s ouster may save the GOP

Something that was bothering me in 2008-sh and and has done little more than fester since then: RINO. For those not in the know, that means “Republican in Name Only.” It’s an insidious name those on the far right like to give Republican centrists.

In the interests of full disclosure, I’m going to reveal a couple of things. One will not be at all surprising. The other may be.

I’m registered Democrat. Yeah, I know. Pick yourselves up off the floor.

I used to be Secretary for the College Republicans.

Yeah, while everyone else was out there experimenting with drugs or figuring their sexuality out, I was messing with being an evangelical and going to Republican Conventions.

This is a strange turnabout for a woman who can still get passionately angry about Iran Contra. I was in debate about that time and that and mandatory drug testing were the hot debate topics.

But, in college I also experimented with being a Dittohead.

This was really for maybe a year or so before I snapped out of it. And it wasn’t that I even really agreed with him all of the time. But the truth is, I’m pretty fiscally conservative.

Now, when I say that, I mean that I won’t just throw money at problems. I own a Prius. I didn’t buy it to be good for the environment, though. I bought it because I didn’t enjoy the effects of a wildly unstable gas market on my discretionary funds. If speculation run rampant can increase the price of gas by several dollars a gallon, I’m going to be much less affected with my 10 gallons that last me 2-3 weeks than someone who has to fill up every week. With twice that. Or more.

It was a big up front outlay of cash (and I paid it in cash, I don’t have credit cards) but I have yet to leave the gas pump wishing I could’ve paid more.

I enjoy some of this freedom because I chose not to have children. Not everyone has my chilly attitude toward progeny and I’m not judging, merely pointing out the fact that family planning goes hand-in-hand with financial planning. Children cannot work until they’re sixteen by which time they’re likely to want to keep the proceeds for themselves. Not to mention the fact that you have to clothe, feed, and shelter them. That costs money. It’s not really a fiscally conservative choice to have a child. Yet…fiscal conservatives often want people to follow through with pregnancies they can ill afford.

And you know, I don’t personally have a problem paying extra taxes so other people’s kids can have an education. I have every right to be pissy about it, but I’m not and you know why? Because one of our best resources in the United States is our people and they are worth the investment.

Yeah, schools are expensive. Yeah, welfare gets expensive. But these are things that enrich our country. They are a solid investment. Not every investment I’ve ever made has gone well. Not every child will grow up to be a rocket scientist. But failure to try is going to result in failure. So it’s not fiscally conservative to deny benefits or schooling.

Back to energy. And the Prius. See, because energy is important and fracking, drilling, it’s expensive no matter what they try and tell you. And dangerous. Our natural resources, aside from our people, are a whole vast expanse of land on which we could have wind and solar farms.

This is not the only answer, it’s part of a portfolio of answers. And it’s not even the answer because of climate change. It’s the answer because instead of employing people going overseas to fight wars, we could employ people to build and run these things. Nuclear plants. We’ll need ‘em and we’ll need people smart enough to build them and run them.

There’s a problem transporting energy so these plants would remain local, supporting local economies and towns. The major push back on this is really this dopey idea that a free market exists. Oil subsidies anyone? Major oil companies don’t want to give up their power. They’d be smarter to start diversifying, but then they’d have to explain the “losses” to their investors.

So, yeah. I’m fiscally conservative, but in a way that doesn’t mean I refuse to write checks to buy a lawnmower while my grass overgrows till I can’t get to my house. That’s not conservative, that’s stupid.

That said, Republicans really do add to the political discourse. Not lately so much but I think that traces back to people like  Rush Limbaugh. People who can make politicians shudder and recant for no good reason at all.

In 2008 when McCain was to be the nominee, I was actually kind of excited. It sounded like a real two man race. I was pretty disenfranchised that we passed over Hilary Clinton (who was kind of president before–Billary anyone? and during the most profitable time in recent memory) for Barack Obama. I was taking a serious look because McCain seemed to have some real backbone and like he’d really rise up to the task and tell other Republicans to suck it if they didn’t like his ideas.

And then…he was a RINO. Something broke and he became this sad old war veteran who kowtowed to every whim some batshitloco group of people (who were consistently overreported on–I was at Perry’s succession “speech” there were people but it wasn’t anywhere near a majority.) I really couldn’t believe it. When he announced his running mate, I was intrigued. A woman! Then she opened her mouth.

Even now, with as much gridlock as we face, we have some serious shit going down from the Democrats that needs review. And it isn’t gay marriage or insurance copays. We’re letting American citizens be blown up without due process. Indefinitely detained. This is where some real arguing should be happening, but it isn’t.

It’s frittered away on whether climate change is happening or not. So either a bunch of scientists are wrong or Pat Robertson is right and the tornadoes are here because we don’t pray enough. Really?

Anyway, I hope for the Republican Party’s sake that this fool Limbaugh is finally put in the dark corner of the party where he belongs. He’s not only ruined McCain, he’s ruining the party.

And it’s not just me who feels this way. Ask George Will.

Rush Limbaugh's ouster may save the GOP

Something that was bothering me in 2008-sh and and has done little more than fester since then: RINO. For those not in the know, that means "Republican in Name Only." It's an insidious name those on the far right like to give Republican centrists.

In the interests of full disclosure, I'm going to reveal a couple of things. One will not be at all surprising. The other may be.

I'm registered Democrat. Yeah, I know. Pick yourselves up off the floor.

I used to be Secretary for the College Republicans.

Yeah, while everyone else was out there experimenting with drugs or figuring their sexuality out, I was messing with being an evangelical and going to Republican Conventions.

This is a strange turnabout for a woman who can still get passionately angry about Iran Contra. I was in debate about that time and that and mandatory drug testing were the hot debate topics.

But, in college I also experimented with being a Dittohead.

This was really for maybe a year or so before I snapped out of it. And it wasn't that I even really agreed with him all of the time. But the truth is, I'm pretty fiscally conservative.

Now, when I say that, I mean that I won't just throw money at problems. I own a Prius. I didn't buy it to be good for the environment, though. I bought it because I didn't enjoy the effects of a wildly unstable gas market on my discretionary funds. If speculation run rampant can increase the price of gas by several dollars a gallon, I'm going to be much less affected with my 10 gallons that last me 2-3 weeks than someone who has to fill up every week. With twice that. Or more.

It was a big up front outlay of cash (and I paid it in cash, I don't have credit cards) but I have yet to leave the gas pump wishing I could've paid more.

I enjoy some of this freedom because I chose not to have children. Not everyone has my chilly attitude toward progeny and I'm not judging, merely pointing out the fact that family planning goes hand-in-hand with financial planning. Children cannot work until they're sixteen by which time they're likely to want to keep the proceeds for themselves. Not to mention the fact that you have to clothe, feed, and shelter them. That costs money. It's not really a fiscally conservative choice to have a child. Yet…fiscal conservatives often want people to follow through with pregnancies they can ill afford.

And you know, I don't personally have a problem paying extra taxes so other people's kids can have an education. I have every right to be pissy about it, but I'm not and you know why? Because one of our best resources in the United States is our people and they are worth the investment.

Yeah, schools are expensive. Yeah, welfare gets expensive. But these are things that enrich our country. They are a solid investment. Not every investment I've ever made has gone well. Not every child will grow up to be a rocket scientist. But failure to try is going to result in failure. So it's not fiscally conservative to deny benefits or schooling.

Back to energy. And the Prius. See, because energy is important and fracking, drilling, it's expensive no matter what they try and tell you. And dangerous. Our natural resources, aside from our people, are a whole vast expanse of land on which we could have wind and solar farms.

This is not the only answer, it's part of a portfolio of answers. And it's not even the answer because of climate change. It's the answer because instead of employing people going overseas to fight wars, we could employ people to build and run these things. Nuclear plants. We'll need 'em and we'll need people smart enough to build them and run them.

There's a problem transporting energy so these plants would remain local, supporting local economies and towns. The major push back on this is really this dopey idea that a free market exists. Oil subsidies anyone? Major oil companies don't want to give up their power. They'd be smarter to start diversifying, but then they'd have to explain the "losses" to their investors.

So, yeah. I'm fiscally conservative, but in a way that doesn't mean I refuse to write checks to buy a lawnmower while my grass overgrows till I can't get to my house. That's not conservative, that's stupid.

That said, Republicans really do add to the political discourse. Not lately so much but I think that traces back to people like  Rush Limbaugh. People who can make politicians shudder and recant for no good reason at all.

In 2008 when McCain was to be the nominee, I was actually kind of excited. It sounded like a real two man race. I was pretty disenfranchised that we passed over Hilary Clinton (who was kind of president before–Billary anyone? and during the most profitable time in recent memory) for Barack Obama. I was taking a serious look because McCain seemed to have some real backbone and like he'd really rise up to the task and tell other Republicans to suck it if they didn't like his ideas.

And then…he was a RINO. Something broke and he became this sad old war veteran who kowtowed to every whim some batshitloco group of people (who were consistently overreported on–I was at Perry's succession "speech" there were people but it wasn't anywhere near a majority.) I really couldn't believe it. When he announced his running mate, I was intrigued. A woman! Then she opened her mouth.

Even now, with as much gridlock as we face, we have some serious shit going down from the Democrats that needs review. And it isn't gay marriage or insurance copays. We're letting American citizens be blown up without due process. Indefinitely detained. This is where some real arguing should be happening, but it isn't.

It's frittered away on whether climate change is happening or not. So either a bunch of scientists are wrong or Pat Robertson is right and the tornadoes are here because we don't pray enough. Really?

Anyway, I hope for the Republican Party's sake that this fool Limbaugh is finally put in the dark corner of the party where he belongs. He's not only ruined McCain, he's ruining the party.

And it's not just me who feels this way. Ask George Will.

In which there is little point and a lot of rant

I took a couple of days off of work around my birthday (which was last week) where I fully intended to get Really Angry about something and write a blog post about it.

There's actually been a few issues I've been Really Angry about that just never quite culminated into blog posts for a variety of reasons, mostly work-related (day job AND writing/editing.)

I guess if my excuse for not writing is writing, things could be worse.

Things I didn't post about that I should have:

RWA's exclusion of LGBT fiction and writers from their contest which they would rather remove than allow LGBT fiction in–this isn't a new subject and I'm not a member. I'm not a member because I hate giving money to groups that encourages bigotry. Especially when they're all up in your face about it. I don't always have the opportunity to control where my money goes, but when I do, boy howdy, they ain't gettin' it. I know a lot of LGBT writers are members of RWA and are fighting the good fight from within. They even have a Rainbow Romance Writers group. I lack the intestinal fortitude to live in the lion's den. I admire those who do. Even when I think I might be able to manage it without turning into Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged, I can't help worrying over what nefarious purpose my discretionary income is being put to.
On that topic, for whatever reason, when I gave money to the Courage Campaign (you betcha Prop 8 is unconstitutional–it's not even a matter of supporting gay marriage–it's the CONSTITUTION), they asked for the name of my employer for compliance. Compliance to what? I said I didn't work anywhere. I wasn't asked about my employer when I gave to Planned Parenthood.
And on that topic, Susan G. Komen can suck it, too. Thank whomever needs to be thanked that I have not had cancer, but friends of mine are survivors (and some didn't survive) and so that's a charity I gave to. When I was in college, Planned Parenthood was there for me. I didn't have need of their more controversial services, but I vowed that I would get myself in a position to repay them. And I have. I had given to SGK with the understanding that some of that would filter down. I know there was a resignation and things were cleared up, but frankly, I don't trust them anymore. Someone hired that woman.

I had other things on my mind but while they're topical to an extent, they're things I can probably explore without the pressure of time passing. Indefinite detention is indefinite.

My new favorite site may be Wonkette. If you like your US liberal politics with a heavy application of snark, you have a home now.

Teenagers are jerks. I wonder where they get that from.

I spent a bit of the afternoon reading The New Yorker's account of Dharun Ravi's trial and the account of what happened prior to Tyler Clementi's suicide. I admittedly have mostly scanned the headlines and read some of the less factual and more sensationalized accounts of what prompted the suicide.

What did happen, in some ways, is not that exciting. Or that unusual. No videos or sex tapes were released online. Tyler was, if not advertising being gay, was not completely in the closet either. That said, it's hard to say how comfortable anyone would be with public exposure of their private lives and this young man sounded shy.

There's little other than speculation as to what drove this young man to finally end it. There's certainly a lot of stress at that time of your life whether you're gay, straight, or any shades in between. I had a friend end his life when I was in college. He was a happy-go-lucky sort of guy and when my friend came to tell me that he'd killed himself, I immediately responded with, "That's not funny."

Because he wasn't a person that you'd expect would even have thoughts like that. Me, with my black hair and Cure t-shirts, sure. I won't deny my own struggles with depression, but maybe my ability to be open (and whiny) about it was what ultimately kept me from going that far.

I, and maybe we, would prefer it if there were something bigger to point to in Tyler's case. Obvious bullying where there are bruises and scads of "Go kill yourself," messages are easy to point to. Some of what motivated Tyler was even his inner struggle with a roommate that he perceived was nice. Maybe someone he even liked, who so casually and callously treated him with such disrespect. Then the shared disgust with what probably felt like the world.

And, of course, the roommate. He with his own struggles to find his place. Kind of a jerk. I don't know too many 18-year-old boys who aren't. Or 18-year-old anyones who aren't hopelessly self-involved. You can almost feel the desperation to be special, to be the center of attention. Regardless of his personal feelings, which may or may not have been homophobic, his actions were at best unconscionable, and illegal.

I suppose he's got plenty of attention now.

So what of it? In projecting myself back to that age, I can see myself in both of those struggles. Scared and sensitive, feeling unanchored, as well as the occasional mean girl who used sarcasm and gutting remarks to defend her wall. And, sometimes, for selfish amusement.

When I was nearly to the end of the story, I recognized a name — the name of the man who found Tyler Clementi's body. I went to high school and college with him and he has since moved to New York. I didn't know him that well as I was a freshman when he was a senior, but I recalled him from debate competitions. He was older and wiser and I was quite new to the life of high school and more than a little intimidated by the world. I hadn't moved but our high school fed from two different junior high schools, plus people who knew how to drive, who had been in high school level debates, seemed so worldly.

Not many of my friends from junior high went on to participate in high school competitions and without my debate coach, I felt very lost and too shy to make much conversation with the older students. I remember being very wide-eyed and stuttering when spoken to. And without anything in particular to say, I'd just keep quiet and watch from a distance, wishing I could just force myself to swagger in and break the ice.

In other classes, filled with familiar faces, I was fine. Gregarious, even. But that lost, scared feeling, being too intimidated to reach out, I get that.

It sounds like he was a talented, quirky kid. The world needs those.

But what sticks with me is that the problem isn't Dharun Ravi. It isn't even a team of Dharun Ravis. He was just a stupid kid doing stupid things. But what empowered him to do those stupid things was the shock and stigma of Tyler Clementi being with another man. It's hard to imagine anyone being that shocked or curious if a young or even older woman showed up in the dorm room. Hell, they may have even acted like he was a stud.

The systematic humiliation of the LGBT community by allowing laws that deny equal human rights is the root of the problem and will continue to be, no matter how many "It gets better" videos are launched. Dharun Ravi was simply the socially acceptable level of homophobic and for that reason, he feels like he did nothing wrong. Or at least not enough wrong to be going to prison.

In a world where homosexual relations are compared to sex with dogs, his behavior isn't nearly that extreme. And that's the problem. You can't tell high school students to play nice and tell the LGBT students that it gets better when you know damn well that it doesn't. Not completely. It's just not so open or so extreme.

Maybe Tyler realized that. Maybe it was an impulsive teenager thing. Maybe it was something so unrelated that we'd all be shocked. None of that matters now.

What matters now is what we do going forward.

Megaupload shutdown: A content creator’s thoughts on why it’s bad

One day after SOPA/PIPA was pushed off the books (for the time being) the government moved forward with bringing down file sharing site Megaupload and all of its children. Now, I hear a faint cheer of “yay” from authors of e-books and their publishers. No doubt Megaupload was the file carrier of many pirated files and eliminating them would seem to be a tidy solution to many of your profit problems.

But it’s not.

While it could be (and certainly will be) argued that their reward scheme for popular uploaded files led to the uploading of pirated material, those files did not upload themselves. Furthermore, not every file uploaded to their site was copyrighted content, yet every file is not accessible.

Trust me, I know the pain of having to file the DMCA notices for every file that’s been uploaded. I’m not saying any of this from a place of ignorance. I’m saying all of this from a place of careful caution.

There is more than one way to skin a cat. Congress does not have to pass a law to get SOPA/PIPA’s principles across. Court precedence has a huge impact on the rule of law and by idly standing by while a site is pulled down by the government–how different is that from the possibility of violating free speech with SOPA, really?

Basically, the government just decided that site should be shut down and it was. Rather than having ISPs ignore it, they made it go away. All files that may or may not have been copyrighted material are offline with no discrimination. File sharers made the site popular, but businesses were using it. People sharing photos and videos with their families. People using it to back up old files. They had no warning, nor are they guilty of anything, but their files are inaccessible either way.

Another thing that bothers me is that this is just another form of corporate welfare. Hear me out here. My tax dollars are going for the prosecution of these people who ran a hosting company, basically. And was it because they were hosting a weapon of mass destruction? No. They were hosting files that violated copyright. Okay, not good, but does that come out of my pocket as a citizen? Sure, it can come out of my pocket as a content creator, but I don’t expect the government to file my DMCAs for me. However, Megaupload executives are being seized at great expense to us for the profit of movie and music companies. It’s their pocketbooks that are supposedly suffering (though they can only estimate what their damages would really be.) Why is that a national issue? Oh, right. Lobbyists.

Did they know files violating copyright are up? Sure they do. Youtube knows this, too. But no one is required to respond unless a DMCA notice is sent. Then the response is to take the file down. Sure, they get uploaded again, but guess who’s doing that? The pirates.

And guess who’s just going to move their target site? The pirates.

And guess what problem isn’t resolved? Pirating.

And guess what problem is resolved? The government’s ability to take down sites for fairly nebulous reasons.

Pirates are annoying. I get that. But this is not going to stop them. It’s not even going to stun them. The only real way to do so is to give up your freedom on the internet. Maybe I could’ve made a couple hundred more dollars this year. Maybe a couple of thousand. I don’t know. I have no way to know how many people shared my files or in what way or if they would’ve ever even bought my book to start with.

Hell, I don’t know if they got a book free from an internet site and bought the rest of the catalog because they liked it. I have no way of calculating or understanding any of that.

But I can tell you that I would give a lot more money than what I would’ve gotten to keep the internet free.

Especially if it ever comes to that conservative Supreme Court ever getting to weigh in on what smut or pornography is.

Think about it.

Megaupload shutdown: A content creator's thoughts on why it's bad

One day after SOPA/PIPA was pushed off the books (for the time being) the government moved forward with bringing down file sharing site Megaupload and all of its children. Now, I hear a faint cheer of "yay" from authors of e-books and their publishers. No doubt Megaupload was the file carrier of many pirated files and eliminating them would seem to be a tidy solution to many of your profit problems.

But it's not.

While it could be (and certainly will be) argued that their reward scheme for popular uploaded files led to the uploading of pirated material, those files did not upload themselves. Furthermore, not every file uploaded to their site was copyrighted content, yet every file is not accessible.

Trust me, I know the pain of having to file the DMCA notices for every file that's been uploaded. I'm not saying any of this from a place of ignorance. I'm saying all of this from a place of careful caution.

There is more than one way to skin a cat. Congress does not have to pass a law to get SOPA/PIPA's principles across. Court precedence has a huge impact on the rule of law and by idly standing by while a site is pulled down by the government–how different is that from the possibility of violating free speech with SOPA, really?

Basically, the government just decided that site should be shut down and it was. Rather than having ISPs ignore it, they made it go away. All files that may or may not have been copyrighted material are offline with no discrimination. File sharers made the site popular, but businesses were using it. People sharing photos and videos with their families. People using it to back up old files. They had no warning, nor are they guilty of anything, but their files are inaccessible either way.

Another thing that bothers me is that this is just another form of corporate welfare. Hear me out here. My tax dollars are going for the prosecution of these people who ran a hosting company, basically. And was it because they were hosting a weapon of mass destruction? No. They were hosting files that violated copyright. Okay, not good, but does that come out of my pocket as a citizen? Sure, it can come out of my pocket as a content creator, but I don't expect the government to file my DMCAs for me. However, Megaupload executives are being seized at great expense to us for the profit of movie and music companies. It's their pocketbooks that are supposedly suffering (though they can only estimate what their damages would really be.) Why is that a national issue? Oh, right. Lobbyists.

Did they know files violating copyright are up? Sure they do. Youtube knows this, too. But no one is required to respond unless a DMCA notice is sent. Then the response is to take the file down. Sure, they get uploaded again, but guess who's doing that? The pirates.

And guess who's just going to move their target site? The pirates.

And guess what problem isn't resolved? Pirating.

And guess what problem is resolved? The government's ability to take down sites for fairly nebulous reasons.

Pirates are annoying. I get that. But this is not going to stop them. It's not even going to stun them. The only real way to do so is to give up your freedom on the internet. Maybe I could've made a couple hundred more dollars this year. Maybe a couple of thousand. I don't know. I have no way to know how many people shared my files or in what way or if they would've ever even bought my book to start with.

Hell, I don't know if they got a book free from an internet site and bought the rest of the catalog because they liked it. I have no way of calculating or understanding any of that.

But I can tell you that I would give a lot more money than what I would've gotten to keep the internet free.

Especially if it ever comes to that conservative Supreme Court ever getting to weigh in on what smut or pornography is.

Think about it.

Love it or leave it

Anyone following my Twitter knows that I've been coming out as a bit of a political junkie. I've hesitated being too open about this in the past because I wasn't sure how it would go over.

But, as I try and communicate more and be more personal and not just this unknown entity producing books, I started to feel dishonest. Plus, being someone who doesn't really love sharing personal woes, it left me with little to talk about.

The next couple of manuscripts I'm working on are not just the romance and sex but also are thrillers and political. So I don't think my punditry would've remained in the closet long either way. So I come out now as a liberal. Progressive. Card-carrying member of the ACLU.

Okay, there are no cards. I lied about that part. But I do make yearly donations.

Now, I don't mind debating my beliefs. I enjoy political discussions, particularly over dinner with a bottle of wine to lubricate the conversation, so long as everyone can agree to disagree and go home as friends. What I get, on occasion, is, "This is America, love it or leave it."

Here's the thing. I live in a nice house that I like. If the roof springs a leak, I don't enjoy the deluge or move out. I try to fix the leak.

That's the point of all of this. Everyone has their own idea of how to fix the leak, or even different ideas on what would be an attractive addition to the house. Since we all share the house, we have to work out a compromise. It isn't always pretty. In fact, sometimes it's downright ugly and no one's happy with it (o hai Citizens United!) But it's still ours and even if it embarrasses me or makes me feel downright ill (indefinite detention anyone?) it's still a nice house and worth repairing.

Rainy days & meetings around lunch always get me down

I guess I should count myself lucky to have a job in this economy, let alone whinging about meetings crowding around lunch. Still, it's annoying when everything else in the day is empty except right around that half hour where I need to either brave the line for the microwave or zip out to find sustenance.

I could always plan a lunch that doesn't require heating, but that assumes that I can plan ahead, which  isn't part of my admittedly meager skillset.

Now, if I were reading this (which I would never, because who cares what that Clancy person gets up there) I'd be wondering why after a blog that appears to be all promo all the time suddenly there's a whitegirlproblem post. Well, I'm going to try to actually blog. As vapid as this post looks, this is a growth moment for me.

Sort of.

Or something.

I don't have anything to promote at the moment (oh I always could, I suppose…) I'm just attempting to act like a normal person. How's that working out for me?

Joyfully Reviewed “The WASPs”

The WASPs actually made the top 20 Amazon gay romance list at one point. It’s one of those books that seems to be love it or hate it. I’m happy to report that Lisa of Joyfully Reviewed loved it!

Enjoy an uncompromising look at the idle and not so idle rich in the book, The WASPs. Funny, irreverent Blake and his bestie the suave, enigmatic Tyrone let us peek into their sometimes less than idyllic lives. Still water does run deep for them when the past collides with the present and secrets are unearthed. By stories end we discover there’s so much more to both men than the frothy lives presented when this book began. The WASPs gets more complicated and fascinating with each chapter. A surprising treat.

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