Lisa Haddock's Blog
May 14, 2020
Publishers Weekly praise for 1994 edition of Edited Out
Reviewed on: 04/04/1994.
Used by permission. Copyright Publishers Weekly 1994. Publishers Weekly
Carmen Ramirez, Haddock's 24-year-old Irish-Puerto Rican lesbian protagonist, is no detective. Rather, she is a copy editor at her hometown newspaper in Frontier City, Okla., where she lives in her homophobic grandmother's renovated garage and mourns the end of her first relationship. Assigned to assist a columnist, Carmen begins to dig into the two-year-old story of a lesbian teacher who molested and killed a 12-year-old, then committed suicide--or did she? Carmen is pulled off the story, but she continues her investigation, asking tough questions and tangling with everyone, including an at-first suspicious lesbian bartender, her own boss, the schools, the powerful local church and, of course, her irascible grandmother. A trail of cover-ups and half-truths leads Carmen and love-interest/sidekick Julia to Lovell Taft University, where the murdered girl's sister is sequestered with her secrets. As Carmen draws closer to the truth, she risks job, relationships and even her life. Edited Out is a fast-paced murder mystery with more complexity than the usual fare. The characters are likable if somewhat unidimensional and broadly drawn, and the writing is straightforward and generally clean, with a fast tempo and a plot that ebbs and flow engagingly. (Aug.)
Used by permission. Copyright Publishers Weekly 1994. Publishers Weekly
Carmen Ramirez, Haddock's 24-year-old Irish-Puerto Rican lesbian protagonist, is no detective. Rather, she is a copy editor at her hometown newspaper in Frontier City, Okla., where she lives in her homophobic grandmother's renovated garage and mourns the end of her first relationship. Assigned to assist a columnist, Carmen begins to dig into the two-year-old story of a lesbian teacher who molested and killed a 12-year-old, then committed suicide--or did she? Carmen is pulled off the story, but she continues her investigation, asking tough questions and tangling with everyone, including an at-first suspicious lesbian bartender, her own boss, the schools, the powerful local church and, of course, her irascible grandmother. A trail of cover-ups and half-truths leads Carmen and love-interest/sidekick Julia to Lovell Taft University, where the murdered girl's sister is sequestered with her secrets. As Carmen draws closer to the truth, she risks job, relationships and even her life. Edited Out is a fast-paced murder mystery with more complexity than the usual fare. The characters are likable if somewhat unidimensional and broadly drawn, and the writing is straightforward and generally clean, with a fast tempo and a plot that ebbs and flow engagingly. (Aug.)
August 19, 2019
Edited Out: the audiobook
I'm thrilled to announce that Tavia Gilbert will narrate the audiobook version of Edited Out. Tavia was named Booklist's 2018 Voice of Choice. She also won 2017 Audie Award for Best Female Narrator.
The audio version will be available on Audible.com as well as Amazon. If you buy the Kindle and audio versions together, you can enjoy the Whispersync feature. If you use the Kindle app on your smart phone, tablet, or computer, you can plunge into immersive reading. And if you like a real book, get ready to flip pages of the trade paperback edition.
Edited Out will be available this fall.
The audio version will be available on Audible.com as well as Amazon. If you buy the Kindle and audio versions together, you can enjoy the Whispersync feature. If you use the Kindle app on your smart phone, tablet, or computer, you can plunge into immersive reading. And if you like a real book, get ready to flip pages of the trade paperback edition.
Edited Out will be available this fall.
