Sarah Black's Blog: Book Report, page 3
March 14, 2014
Street Art!
I took a trip around town with my camera today to celebrate 1 month with my new ETSY shop!
March 8, 2014
The new book! First chapter
Black Lila- this is a gay mystery set on a nuclear submarine.
Here's the first chapter:
“Hey, did you hear, Commander Gorshkov? Black Lila’s fucked another captain. Found swinging by a rope, just like the….”
Sergei reached across the table and grabbed the man by his uniform collar, his newspaper falling to the floor. “What did you say?”
“Hey! What the fuck’s wrong with you, man?” Sergei let go, and the lieutenant sat back, well out of reach. He jerked his uniform shirt straight and tucked it back in. He was young, still soft under the chin, with mud-brown eyes. He dropped his eyes to the table.
“What did you say about the Black Lila, dickhead?” Sergei was up now, reaching for his phone.
“That guy, Whitefeather, they found him hanging from a pipe in the torpedo room. That’s what I heard.”
“Whitehorse. Captain Clayton Whitehorse. And there are no pipes in the torpedo room. What the fuck’s wrong with you? Haven’t you ever even been on a submarine? Oh, no, look at that. No dolphins, no wings. What are you, a supply officer?” He punched in Clayton’s number, listened to it ring until the familiar voice told him to leave a message. “Clayton, call me when you get this. I’m in Monterey for another week.”
The kid stood up. “I didn’t say he was dead. He’s just in a coma or something.”
Sergei looked at him. “Don’t even think you can fuck with me.”
“Hey! You can’t talk to me like that.”
Sergei had just finished his degree at the Navy’s postgrad school, and was on his way to a teaching assignment at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He should have been on his way back to sea, but he interpreted his orders correctly to mean no one wanted him as their XO, and he was still considered too junior to pick up a CO’s billet. He was an excellent submariner, but Sergei Gorshkov was cursed with a famous name. His great-uncle, for whom he was named, had been America’s most ruthless enemy during the Cold War, Admiral of the Fleet, and Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy.
He’d grown up a Laguna Beach surfer, hair bleached silver-white by the salt and sun, nose always peeling. When it was time for college, his father had received a high-ranking visitor in a naval uniform. This visitor let them understand that, in appreciation of the new cooperation between the former Soviet Union and The United States of America, the US Naval Academy at Annapolis would be pleased to offer a cadet’s berth to the namesake of their most formidable former enemy.
Clayton Whitehorse was his roommate their first year in Annapolis. He was Dine’, from Crownpoint, and he also came to Annapolis by the grace of his ancestors. His grandfather and father had both been Medal of Honor winners, the only father and son to both win Medals of Honor in separate wars. Both had been Marine Corps. Both had died during their wars. It was Clayton who had explained to Sergei what they were doing at the Naval Academy. “They used to take the sons of defeated kings and hand them over to the victors to raise.”
“Yeah?”
“You and me, brother, we’re the sons of dead kings. We’re warriors of the defeated tribes. They want us in their uniforms. And they want to keep us close, so they can watch us. ”
Sergei had been a cynical teenager and this betrayal was no great surprise to him. “Well, fuck em if they can’t take a joke. I’m staying.”
Clayton laughed. “You got that right. And fuck the horse they rode in on.”
They might both have floundered and sunk under the weight of their bitter past defeats, Navajo and Soviet, except in their second year Clayton and Sergei climbed aboard a nuclear submarine. And looking around at the cramped, claustrophobic space painted dull, ugly gray, smelling the damp, stale air, stumbling blindly into the sonar shack, with its blinking red fluorescent lights, they both fell madly in love.
“Commander Gorshkov. Captain wants you.”
Sergei looked up from his phone at the yeoman standing in front of him. The young pest of a Lieutenant was gone. He was scrolling down through the numbers, looking for the New Mexico area code for Clayton’s mother. “I’ll be right there.”
Captain Marshall was an academic, a gentle man who had been at the post grad school for more than ten years. His office was covered with walls of books. He hadn’t been able to switch from paper to an ereader. “Commander, sit down.” Sergei took one of the chairs in front of his desk. “Did you hear about Clayton Whitehorse?”
Oh, no. Please don’t tell me….
“He’s in Portsmouth in the ICU. Still in a coma. You were roommates at Annapolis, right?”
“Yes, sir. What happened?”
“I don’t have any information other than he was found on board the sub, and it appears that he tried to hang himself.”
“Bullshit. He’d never….”
“I said I don’t have any information about what happened. NCIS is working on it. I do have some news for you, however.” Marshall hesitated, looked out his office window. There was nothing in the parking lot to keep his attention. “They’re going to send you to replace him. I’m sorry. I know this isn’t what you were hoping for your first command.”
“They’re sending me to skipper the Black Lila? That boat’s the joke of SUBLANT.”
“There’s nothing wrong with the boat. It’s just story, legend. Sailors love to bitch and if they don’t have anything to bitch about….”
Sergei held up his hand. The Black Lila wasn’t a joke, and it wasn’t a story. It was a ghost, collecting submariner’s bad luck and bodies. The first Black Lila had been a Soviet sub, K-108. It had broken to pieces and hit the bottom of the sea after a collision with USS Tautog. All hands were lost in the icy black waters off Petropavlovsk. Rumors had flown for years that the Black Lila had somehow limped back to port, her sail gashed open. One of her screws was embedded in the black steel hull of Tautog. It was a legend, and it was untrue. Black Lila had been lost in 1970.
Sergei wasn’t sure who the genius was who decided to give the new hybrid reactor boat the bad-luck name. The liquid-metal cooled nuclear reactor had failed every trial. A Washington politician must have had his hands deep into some Admiral’s pockets to get that boondoggle pushed through despite all the failures and bad press. But even Washington couldn’t quiet the rumors of a perpetually failing nuclear reactor, a torpedo tube explosion, a battery fire at depth that cost four hands, and now two Captains, one dead from suicide, one in a coma. That boat was murder.
Sergei had never doubted Captain Jack Halloran had hung himself on the Black Lila. The man had been trying to drink himself to death since he was seventeen. He was perpetually depressed and angry, usually in the middle of an ugly divorce or a complaint of assault. But Clayton? Never. He’d never believe it. When Clayton called him and told him the brass was sending him under the polar ice on the Black Lila, he’d laughed and said the bastards were still trying to kill him. Sergei hadn’t thought it was very funny. It was the kind of boat where they sent the screw-ups and the egg-head scientists. The missions didn’t really matter to anyone with power or authority. It was a side-step out of the rotation for sub captains on their way up, and Sergei could hear the bitterness in Clayton’s laughter.
And now they were sending him. He sat back, stared at the parking lot through the window in Marshall’s office. Sergei didn’t believe in ghosts. He didn’t believe in curses. And he didn’t give a fuck about bad luck. Whoever had tried to kill Clayton Whitehorse was on that boat.
Marshall was still talking. “I’m not surprised they’re sending you.”
“Really? Why is that?”
Marshall stared at him for a moment, not speaking.
“Because my family name is Gorshkov? Or because I’m gay? Or what, exactly?”
“Because you’re a bad-tempered asshole, and you don’t even try to get along. You didn’t have to announce you were gay to the world, Sergei. You knew exactly what would happen when you decided to come out of the closet. The sub community is very small and a nuclear submarine is even smaller. You were just spitting on them before anybody had a chance to spit on you. You don’t always have to throw the first punch, you know.”
“I guess I won’t ask the XO to suck my dick, then.”
“Spare me.” Marshall looked down at the papers on his desk and winced. “Your XO is Patrick Wheeler. Jesus, that’s an image I don’t want in my head.”
“Oh, fucking hell. Old Bitch-n-Moan.”
“You know him?” Marshall didn’t seem surprised by Sergei’s reaction.
“I was a few years behind him at the Academy. I have to go to New Mexico before I pick up the ship.”
“Why? There’s no time.”
“To see Clayton’s mother.”
Here's the first chapter:
“Hey, did you hear, Commander Gorshkov? Black Lila’s fucked another captain. Found swinging by a rope, just like the….”
Sergei reached across the table and grabbed the man by his uniform collar, his newspaper falling to the floor. “What did you say?”
“Hey! What the fuck’s wrong with you, man?” Sergei let go, and the lieutenant sat back, well out of reach. He jerked his uniform shirt straight and tucked it back in. He was young, still soft under the chin, with mud-brown eyes. He dropped his eyes to the table.
“What did you say about the Black Lila, dickhead?” Sergei was up now, reaching for his phone.
“That guy, Whitefeather, they found him hanging from a pipe in the torpedo room. That’s what I heard.”
“Whitehorse. Captain Clayton Whitehorse. And there are no pipes in the torpedo room. What the fuck’s wrong with you? Haven’t you ever even been on a submarine? Oh, no, look at that. No dolphins, no wings. What are you, a supply officer?” He punched in Clayton’s number, listened to it ring until the familiar voice told him to leave a message. “Clayton, call me when you get this. I’m in Monterey for another week.”
The kid stood up. “I didn’t say he was dead. He’s just in a coma or something.”
Sergei looked at him. “Don’t even think you can fuck with me.”
“Hey! You can’t talk to me like that.”
Sergei had just finished his degree at the Navy’s postgrad school, and was on his way to a teaching assignment at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He should have been on his way back to sea, but he interpreted his orders correctly to mean no one wanted him as their XO, and he was still considered too junior to pick up a CO’s billet. He was an excellent submariner, but Sergei Gorshkov was cursed with a famous name. His great-uncle, for whom he was named, had been America’s most ruthless enemy during the Cold War, Admiral of the Fleet, and Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy.
He’d grown up a Laguna Beach surfer, hair bleached silver-white by the salt and sun, nose always peeling. When it was time for college, his father had received a high-ranking visitor in a naval uniform. This visitor let them understand that, in appreciation of the new cooperation between the former Soviet Union and The United States of America, the US Naval Academy at Annapolis would be pleased to offer a cadet’s berth to the namesake of their most formidable former enemy.
Clayton Whitehorse was his roommate their first year in Annapolis. He was Dine’, from Crownpoint, and he also came to Annapolis by the grace of his ancestors. His grandfather and father had both been Medal of Honor winners, the only father and son to both win Medals of Honor in separate wars. Both had been Marine Corps. Both had died during their wars. It was Clayton who had explained to Sergei what they were doing at the Naval Academy. “They used to take the sons of defeated kings and hand them over to the victors to raise.”
“Yeah?”
“You and me, brother, we’re the sons of dead kings. We’re warriors of the defeated tribes. They want us in their uniforms. And they want to keep us close, so they can watch us. ”
Sergei had been a cynical teenager and this betrayal was no great surprise to him. “Well, fuck em if they can’t take a joke. I’m staying.”
Clayton laughed. “You got that right. And fuck the horse they rode in on.”
They might both have floundered and sunk under the weight of their bitter past defeats, Navajo and Soviet, except in their second year Clayton and Sergei climbed aboard a nuclear submarine. And looking around at the cramped, claustrophobic space painted dull, ugly gray, smelling the damp, stale air, stumbling blindly into the sonar shack, with its blinking red fluorescent lights, they both fell madly in love.
“Commander Gorshkov. Captain wants you.”
Sergei looked up from his phone at the yeoman standing in front of him. The young pest of a Lieutenant was gone. He was scrolling down through the numbers, looking for the New Mexico area code for Clayton’s mother. “I’ll be right there.”
Captain Marshall was an academic, a gentle man who had been at the post grad school for more than ten years. His office was covered with walls of books. He hadn’t been able to switch from paper to an ereader. “Commander, sit down.” Sergei took one of the chairs in front of his desk. “Did you hear about Clayton Whitehorse?”
Oh, no. Please don’t tell me….
“He’s in Portsmouth in the ICU. Still in a coma. You were roommates at Annapolis, right?”
“Yes, sir. What happened?”
“I don’t have any information other than he was found on board the sub, and it appears that he tried to hang himself.”
“Bullshit. He’d never….”
“I said I don’t have any information about what happened. NCIS is working on it. I do have some news for you, however.” Marshall hesitated, looked out his office window. There was nothing in the parking lot to keep his attention. “They’re going to send you to replace him. I’m sorry. I know this isn’t what you were hoping for your first command.”
“They’re sending me to skipper the Black Lila? That boat’s the joke of SUBLANT.”
“There’s nothing wrong with the boat. It’s just story, legend. Sailors love to bitch and if they don’t have anything to bitch about….”
Sergei held up his hand. The Black Lila wasn’t a joke, and it wasn’t a story. It was a ghost, collecting submariner’s bad luck and bodies. The first Black Lila had been a Soviet sub, K-108. It had broken to pieces and hit the bottom of the sea after a collision with USS Tautog. All hands were lost in the icy black waters off Petropavlovsk. Rumors had flown for years that the Black Lila had somehow limped back to port, her sail gashed open. One of her screws was embedded in the black steel hull of Tautog. It was a legend, and it was untrue. Black Lila had been lost in 1970.
Sergei wasn’t sure who the genius was who decided to give the new hybrid reactor boat the bad-luck name. The liquid-metal cooled nuclear reactor had failed every trial. A Washington politician must have had his hands deep into some Admiral’s pockets to get that boondoggle pushed through despite all the failures and bad press. But even Washington couldn’t quiet the rumors of a perpetually failing nuclear reactor, a torpedo tube explosion, a battery fire at depth that cost four hands, and now two Captains, one dead from suicide, one in a coma. That boat was murder.
Sergei had never doubted Captain Jack Halloran had hung himself on the Black Lila. The man had been trying to drink himself to death since he was seventeen. He was perpetually depressed and angry, usually in the middle of an ugly divorce or a complaint of assault. But Clayton? Never. He’d never believe it. When Clayton called him and told him the brass was sending him under the polar ice on the Black Lila, he’d laughed and said the bastards were still trying to kill him. Sergei hadn’t thought it was very funny. It was the kind of boat where they sent the screw-ups and the egg-head scientists. The missions didn’t really matter to anyone with power or authority. It was a side-step out of the rotation for sub captains on their way up, and Sergei could hear the bitterness in Clayton’s laughter.
And now they were sending him. He sat back, stared at the parking lot through the window in Marshall’s office. Sergei didn’t believe in ghosts. He didn’t believe in curses. And he didn’t give a fuck about bad luck. Whoever had tried to kill Clayton Whitehorse was on that boat.
Marshall was still talking. “I’m not surprised they’re sending you.”
“Really? Why is that?”
Marshall stared at him for a moment, not speaking.
“Because my family name is Gorshkov? Or because I’m gay? Or what, exactly?”
“Because you’re a bad-tempered asshole, and you don’t even try to get along. You didn’t have to announce you were gay to the world, Sergei. You knew exactly what would happen when you decided to come out of the closet. The sub community is very small and a nuclear submarine is even smaller. You were just spitting on them before anybody had a chance to spit on you. You don’t always have to throw the first punch, you know.”
“I guess I won’t ask the XO to suck my dick, then.”
“Spare me.” Marshall looked down at the papers on his desk and winced. “Your XO is Patrick Wheeler. Jesus, that’s an image I don’t want in my head.”
“Oh, fucking hell. Old Bitch-n-Moan.”
“You know him?” Marshall didn’t seem surprised by Sergei’s reaction.
“I was a few years behind him at the Academy. I have to go to New Mexico before I pick up the ship.”
“Why? There’s no time.”
“To see Clayton’s mother.”
March 6, 2014
The Lammys!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, March 6, 2014
Publicity contact: Tony Valenzuela, Executive Director
Phone: (323) 376-6801
tvalenzuela@lambdaliterary.org
26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced
2014 Marks the Debut of the New Graphic Novel Category
Awards Ceremony: Monday, June 2, 2014 in New York City
Early Bird Gala Tickets On-Sale Now
Los Angeles, CA - The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards - or the "Lammys," as they are affectionately known - mark another record-breaking year and usher in the debut of the new category of Graphic Novel. Finalists for the Lammys were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles after reviewing a record 746 submissions (up from 687 last year) from 352 publishers (up from 332 last year). Submissions came from major mainstream publishers and from academic presses, from both long-established and new LGBT publishers, as well as from emerging publish-on-demand technologies.
"Today is a day to celebrate the richness of our literature and to give hearty congratulations to our outstanding shortlisted authors and their publishers," said LLF Executive Director, Tony Valenzuela. "The deep commitment to advance our community's literature by our highly qualified volunteer judges who read and deliberate on the submitted books - and often anguish over the selection of finalists - make the Lammys possible."
Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. Winners will be announced during a ceremony on Monday evening, June 2, 2014, at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street, New York City 10003). Details on the annual after-party location are forthcoming. For more information and to buy tickets, please visit: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/
More than 90 literary professionals, including booksellers, book reviewers, librarians, authors, and previous Lammy winners and finalists volunteered countless hours of reading, critical thinking, and invigorating discussion to select the finalists in 24 categories.
"This is our fifth straight year of record-breaking Lambda Literary Award submissions," said LLF Board President, S. Chris Shirley. "We're especially excited to add an LGBT Graphic Novel category to accommodate their explosive growth over the past few years and to recognize the extraordinary talent behind them."
Tickets for the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony and after-party go on sale today. For information, visit LLF's website and join the conversation by following the hashtag #Lammys on Twitter. For the month of March only, early bird tickets are $100 for the ceremony only and $200 for the ceremony plus after-party. Prices will increase by $25 beginning April 1st.
Pioneer and Trustee Award honorees, the master of ceremonies, and presenters will be announced the third week of April.
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2014 Lambda Literary Awards Host Committee
Co-Chairs: Melanie La Rosa, David McConnell, Don Weise
John Bateman Brad Boles Kevin Brannon Jamie Brickhouse
Michael Carroll Paul Dierkes Dick Donahue Michael Fauver
Paul Florez David Gale Antonio Gonzalez Tal Goretsky
David Groff William Johnson Karl Jones Dean Klingler
Mario Lopez-Cordero Bill Miller Dan Manjovi Jay Moore
Jerome Murphy Nick Nicholson Angelo Nikolopoulos Julia Pastore
Lori Perkins Charles Rice-Gonzalez Patrick Ryan Eddie Sarfaty
Liz Scheier Bob Smith Jerl Surratt Jason Wells
Jennifer Zivic
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Awards logo gold26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists
Note: The number of finalists in a category is determined by the number of submissions in that category.
TRANSGENDER FICTION
Nevada, a novel, Imogen Binnie, Topside Press
Tiresias, Devon Llywelyn Jones, Devon Llywelyn Jones
Wanting in Arabic, Trish Salah, TSAR Publications
BISEXUAL FICTION
Corona, Bushra Rehman, Sibling Rivalry Press
Hild: A Novel, Nicola Griffith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In His Secret Life, Mel Bossa, Bold Strokes Books
My Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking
The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel, David Leavitt, Bloomsbury
GAY GENERAL FICTION
A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
An Honest Ghost, Rick Whitaker, Jaded Ibis Press
The City of Devi, Manil Suri, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Damn Love, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Ig Publishing
The Desperates, Greg Kearney, Cormorant Books
Fire Year, Jason K Friedman, Sarabande Books
Local Souls, Allan Gurganus, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press
Necessary Errors, Caleb Crain, Penguin Books
The Red Shoes, John Stewart Wynne, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION
The Albino Album, Chavisa Woods, Seven Stories Press
Bodies of Water, T. Greenwood, Kensington
Cha-Ching!, Ali Liebegott, City Lights
Cream, Christiana Harrell, Createspace
The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson, Grove/Atlantic Inc./Grove Press
Fat Angie, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Candlewick Press
Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
She Rises: A Novel, Kate Worsley, Bloomsbury
Survival Skills, Jean Ryan, Ashland Creek Press
We Are Water, Wally Lamb, HarperCollins/Harper
LGBT DEBUT FICTION
The Affairs of Others: A Novel, Amy Grace Loyd, Picador
Descendants of Hagar, Nik Nicholson, AuthorHouse
Golden Boy, Abigail Tarttelin, Simon & Schuster/Atria Books
How to Shake the Other Man, Derek Palacio, Nouvella
In Between, Jane Hoppen, Bold Strokes Books
Inside, Charles L. Ross, Ink Inc.
Jane and the Whales, Andrea Routley, Caitlin Press
My Brother's Name: A Novel, Laura Krughoff, Scarletta / Scarletta Press
Prick Queasy, Ronald Palmer, Publication Studio
The Rest of Us: Stories, Guy Mark Foster, Tincture/Lethe Press
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION
Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter, S. Bear Bergman, Arsenal Pulp Press
The End of San Francisco, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights Publishers
Testo Junkie, Beatriz Preciado, Feminist Press
BISEXUAL NONFICTION
The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo, Indiana University Press
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Shiri Eisner, Seal Press
The Soundtrack of My Life, Clive Davis, Simon & Schuster
LGBT NONFICTION
Among the Bloodpeople, Thomas Glave, Akashic Books
Does Jesus Really Love Me?, Jeff Chu, Harper Collins
The End of the Homosexual?, Dennis Altman, University of Queensland Press
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, NYU Press
Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect, Jamie Woo, Self-Published
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants, Phil Tiemeyer, University of California Press
The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution, Matt Richardson, The Ohio State University Press
Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II, Daniel Winunwe Rivers, University of North Carolina Press
Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983, Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi, Edmund White, Damiani
White Girls, Hilton Als, McSweeney's Publishing
You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People, Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, Beacon Press
GAY POETRY
Alternative Medicine, Rafael Campo, Duke University Press
The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, Michael D. Snediker, Peanut Books (an imprint of punctum books)
Clay, David Groff, Trio House Press
Companion Grasses, Brian Teare, Omnidawn Publishing
Metaphysical Dog, Frank Bidart, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Obscenely Yours, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Alice James Books
Silverchest, Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Straight Razor, Randall Mann, Persea Books
The Talking Day, Michael Klein, Sibling Rivalry Press
Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books
LESBIAN POETRY
A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press
Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives, Veronica Reyes, Red Hen Press/Arktoi Books
Chord Box, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, The University of Arkansas Press
The Collected Poems of Ai, Ai, W.W. Norton & Company
The Exchange, Sophie Cabot Black, Graywolf Press
Proxy, R. Erica Doyle, Belladonna Collaborative
Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds, LLC
She Has a Name, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Four Way Books
Viral, Suzanne Parker, Alice James Books
We Come Elemental, Tamiko Beyer, Alice James Books
GAY MYSTERY
Baton Rouge Bingo, Greg Herren, Bold Strokes Books
Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press
Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press
How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press
In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services Inc
Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press
Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press
The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
LESBIAN MYSTERY
Cross and Burn, Val McDermid, Grove/Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly Press
Death of the Demon, Annel Holt, Scribner
High Desert, Katherine V. Forrest, Spinsters Ink
The Killer Wore Leather: A Mystery, Laura Antoniou, Cleis Press
Point of Betrayal, Ann Roberts, Bella Books
The Rainey Season, R.E. Bradshaw, R.E. Bradshaw Books
She Overheard Murder, Jean Sheldon, Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press
Taken by the Wind, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books
Turning on the Tide, Jenna Rae, Bella Books
Web of Obsessions, Diane Wood, Bella Books
The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel, Ian Hamilton, Picador
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience, Perry N. Halkitis, Oxford University Press
American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement, Hillary Holladay, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, Richard Rodriguez, Penguin Group/Viking
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, David Margolick, Other Press
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, Blake Bailey, Alfred A. Knopf
Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist, Jim Elledge, Overlook Duckworth
In Bed With Gore Vidal, Tim Teeman, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon, Semiotext(e)
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich, University of Nebraska Press
Growing up Golem, Donna Minkowitz, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn, Arsenal Pulp Press
L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, Annie Rachel Lanzillotto, SUNY Press, Excelsior Editions
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton, Bloomsbury
GAY ROMANCE
Covet Thy Neighbor, L. A. Witt, Riptide Publishing
Glitterland, Alexis Hall, Riptide Publishing
Into This River I Drown, TJ Klune, Dreamspinner Press
King Mai, Edmond Manning, Pickwick Ink Publishing
My Dear Watson, L.A. Fields, Lethe Press
Pickup Men, L.C. Chase, Riptide Publishing
Play Me, I'm Yours, Madison Parker, Harmony Ink Press
Rocky's Road, Lynley Wayne, MLR Press
Unbroken, Larry Benjamin, Beaten Track Publishing
Where You Are, J.H. Trumble, Kensington
LESBIAN ROMANCE
All That Lies Within, Lynn Ames, Phoenix Rising Press
At Seventeen, Gerri Hill, Bella Books
Broken Trails, D Jordan Redhawk, Bella Books
Clean Slate, Andrea Bramhall, Bold Strokes Books
Date with Destiny, Mason Dixon, Bold Strokes Books
Hold Me Forever, D. Jackson Leigh, Bold Strokes Books
Hoosier Daddy, Ann McMan, Salem West, Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company/Nuance
Last Salute, Tracey Richardson, Bella Books
Love by the Numbers, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books
The Princess Affair, Nell Stark, Bold Strokes Books
GAY EROTICA
Capture & Surrender, Aleksandr Voinov & L.A. Witt, Riptide Publishing
The Padisah's Son and the Fox: an erotic novella, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press
Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories, Michael Luongo (Ed.), Bruno Gmuender
Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories, Ed. Richard Labonte, Cleis Press
Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories, Winston Gieseke (Ed.), Bruno Gmuender
LESBIAN EROTICA
At Her Feet, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Bold Strokes Books
Best Lesbian Erotica 2014, Kathleen Warnock, Ed., Cleis Press
Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories, Ed. Sacchi Green, Cleis Press
LGBT ANTHOLOGY
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings, Harvey Milk, Jason Edward Black, Charles E. Morris, University of California Press
The Feminist Porn Book, Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu & Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Press
Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry, Editors: Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, Lowbrow Press
Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5, Evan J Peterson & Vincent Kovar, Gay City Anthologies
Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, MaThoko's Books
Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out, Ed. Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido, Cognella Academic Publishing
This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, Megan Volpert, Sibling Rivalry Press
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, T.C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Nightboat Books
What I LOVE about being QUEER, Vivek Shraya, George Brown College
Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, Eds. Jim Elledge and David Groff, The University of Wisconsin Press
LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster, Inc./ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Boy In Box, Christopher R. Michael, Hubbub Publishing
Girls I've Run Away With, Rhiannon Argo, Moonshine Press
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books
Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg, Arthur A. Levine Books
Rapture Practice, Aaron Hartzler, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Secret City, Julia Watts, Bella Books
The Secret Ingredient, Stewart Lewis- Author, Rebecca Short-Editor, Delacorte Press (Penguin/Random House)
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Arthur A. Levine Books
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square
LGBT DRAMA
Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains, Adelina Anthony, Korima Press
sash & trim and other plays, Djola Branner, RedBone Press
Tom at the Farm, Michel Marc Bouchard, Talonbooks
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVEL
Artifice, Alex Woolfson (author), Winona Nelson (Illustrator), AMW Comics
Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Duck! Second Chances, Tana Ford, Bang A Left
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, Kyle Baker, Steve Dutro, M Press
LGBT SF/F/HORROR
Collaborators, Deborah Wheeler, Dragon Moon Press
Death by Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press
Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press
Dragon Slayer, Isabella Carter, Less Than Three Press
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, Richard Bowes, Lethe Press
Hell's Belle, Marie Castle, Bella Books
Invisible Soft Return :\, Roberta Degnore, Digital Fabulists
Light, Nathan Burgoryne, Bold Strokes Books
Like Light for Flies, Lee Thomas, Lethe Press
The Stars Change, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Circlet Press, Inc.
LGBT STUDIES
Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, Marlon M. Bailey, University of Michigan Press
Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford, Duke University Press
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, Colin R. Johnson, Temple University Press
Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production, Lisa Henderson, NYU Press
Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami, Susana Pena, University of Minnesota Press
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Duke University Press
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt, Duke University Press
Shanghai Lalas, Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Hong Kong University Press
Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely, Peter M. Coviello, NYU Press
Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law, Isaac West, NYU Press
For information:
Tony Valenzuela
Lambda Literary Foundation
5482 Wilshire Blvd, #1595
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-643-4281 (Main)
323-376-6801 (Mobile)
http://LambdaLiterary.org
http://facebook.com/LambdaLiterary
https://twitter.com/LambdaLiterary
Publicity contact: Tony Valenzuela, Executive Director
Phone: (323) 376-6801
tvalenzuela@lambdaliterary.org
26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced
2014 Marks the Debut of the New Graphic Novel Category
Awards Ceremony: Monday, June 2, 2014 in New York City
Early Bird Gala Tickets On-Sale Now
Los Angeles, CA - The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards - or the "Lammys," as they are affectionately known - mark another record-breaking year and usher in the debut of the new category of Graphic Novel. Finalists for the Lammys were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles after reviewing a record 746 submissions (up from 687 last year) from 352 publishers (up from 332 last year). Submissions came from major mainstream publishers and from academic presses, from both long-established and new LGBT publishers, as well as from emerging publish-on-demand technologies.
"Today is a day to celebrate the richness of our literature and to give hearty congratulations to our outstanding shortlisted authors and their publishers," said LLF Executive Director, Tony Valenzuela. "The deep commitment to advance our community's literature by our highly qualified volunteer judges who read and deliberate on the submitted books - and often anguish over the selection of finalists - make the Lammys possible."
Now in their twenty-sixth year, the Lambda Literary Awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2013. Winners will be announced during a ceremony on Monday evening, June 2, 2014, at The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th Street, New York City 10003). Details on the annual after-party location are forthcoming. For more information and to buy tickets, please visit: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/
More than 90 literary professionals, including booksellers, book reviewers, librarians, authors, and previous Lammy winners and finalists volunteered countless hours of reading, critical thinking, and invigorating discussion to select the finalists in 24 categories.
"This is our fifth straight year of record-breaking Lambda Literary Award submissions," said LLF Board President, S. Chris Shirley. "We're especially excited to add an LGBT Graphic Novel category to accommodate their explosive growth over the past few years and to recognize the extraordinary talent behind them."
Tickets for the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony and after-party go on sale today. For information, visit LLF's website and join the conversation by following the hashtag #Lammys on Twitter. For the month of March only, early bird tickets are $100 for the ceremony only and $200 for the ceremony plus after-party. Prices will increase by $25 beginning April 1st.
Pioneer and Trustee Award honorees, the master of ceremonies, and presenters will be announced the third week of April.
Tickets for the Lambda Literary Awards ceremony go on sale today. For information visit LLF's website at http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/
2014 Lambda Literary Awards Host Committee
Co-Chairs: Melanie La Rosa, David McConnell, Don Weise
John Bateman Brad Boles Kevin Brannon Jamie Brickhouse
Michael Carroll Paul Dierkes Dick Donahue Michael Fauver
Paul Florez David Gale Antonio Gonzalez Tal Goretsky
David Groff William Johnson Karl Jones Dean Klingler
Mario Lopez-Cordero Bill Miller Dan Manjovi Jay Moore
Jerome Murphy Nick Nicholson Angelo Nikolopoulos Julia Pastore
Lori Perkins Charles Rice-Gonzalez Patrick Ryan Eddie Sarfaty
Liz Scheier Bob Smith Jerl Surratt Jason Wells
Jennifer Zivic
About the Lambda Literary Foundation:
The Lambda Literary Foundation nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers. LLF's programs include: the Lambda Literary Awards, the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, LGBT Writers in Schools, and our web magazine, The Lambda Literary Review at www.LambdaLiterary.org. For more information call (323) 643-4281 or e-mail admin@lambdaliterary.org
Join the conversation by following the Twitter hashtag #Lammys. Learn more at www.LambdaLiterary.org and connect with us on facebook.com/LambdaLiterary and twitter.com/LambdaLiterary.
Awards logo gold26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists
Note: The number of finalists in a category is determined by the number of submissions in that category.
TRANSGENDER FICTION
Nevada, a novel, Imogen Binnie, Topside Press
Tiresias, Devon Llywelyn Jones, Devon Llywelyn Jones
Wanting in Arabic, Trish Salah, TSAR Publications
BISEXUAL FICTION
Corona, Bushra Rehman, Sibling Rivalry Press
Hild: A Novel, Nicola Griffith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In His Secret Life, Mel Bossa, Bold Strokes Books
My Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking
The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel, David Leavitt, Bloomsbury
GAY GENERAL FICTION
A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
An Honest Ghost, Rick Whitaker, Jaded Ibis Press
The City of Devi, Manil Suri, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Damn Love, Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Ig Publishing
The Desperates, Greg Kearney, Cormorant Books
Fire Year, Jason K Friedman, Sarabande Books
Local Souls, Allan Gurganus, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Mundo Cruel: Stories, Luis Negron; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Seven Stories Press
Necessary Errors, Caleb Crain, Penguin Books
The Red Shoes, John Stewart Wynne, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
LESBIAN GENERAL FICTION
The Albino Album, Chavisa Woods, Seven Stories Press
Bodies of Water, T. Greenwood, Kensington
Cha-Ching!, Ali Liebegott, City Lights
Cream, Christiana Harrell, Createspace
The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson, Grove/Atlantic Inc./Grove Press
Fat Angie, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Candlewick Press
Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta, Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
She Rises: A Novel, Kate Worsley, Bloomsbury
Survival Skills, Jean Ryan, Ashland Creek Press
We Are Water, Wally Lamb, HarperCollins/Harper
LGBT DEBUT FICTION
The Affairs of Others: A Novel, Amy Grace Loyd, Picador
Descendants of Hagar, Nik Nicholson, AuthorHouse
Golden Boy, Abigail Tarttelin, Simon & Schuster/Atria Books
How to Shake the Other Man, Derek Palacio, Nouvella
In Between, Jane Hoppen, Bold Strokes Books
Inside, Charles L. Ross, Ink Inc.
Jane and the Whales, Andrea Routley, Caitlin Press
My Brother's Name: A Novel, Laura Krughoff, Scarletta / Scarletta Press
Prick Queasy, Ronald Palmer, Publication Studio
The Rest of Us: Stories, Guy Mark Foster, Tincture/Lethe Press
TRANSGENDER NONFICTION
Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter, S. Bear Bergman, Arsenal Pulp Press
The End of San Francisco, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights Publishers
Testo Junkie, Beatriz Preciado, Feminist Press
BISEXUAL NONFICTION
The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television, Maria San Filippo, Indiana University Press
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Shiri Eisner, Seal Press
The Soundtrack of My Life, Clive Davis, Simon & Schuster
LGBT NONFICTION
Among the Bloodpeople, Thomas Glave, Akashic Books
Does Jesus Really Love Me?, Jeff Chu, Harper Collins
The End of the Homosexual?, Dennis Altman, University of Queensland Press
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, NYU Press
Meet Grindr: How One App Changed The Way We Connect, Jamie Woo, Self-Published
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants, Phil Tiemeyer, University of California Press
The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution, Matt Richardson, The Ohio State University Press
Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II, Daniel Winunwe Rivers, University of North Carolina Press
Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines. Polaroids 1975-1983, Ben Smales, Tom Bianchi, Edmund White, Damiani
White Girls, Hilton Als, McSweeney's Publishing
You Can Tell Just By Looking: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People, Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini and Michael Amico, Beacon Press
GAY POETRY
Alternative Medicine, Rafael Campo, Duke University Press
The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, Michael D. Snediker, Peanut Books (an imprint of punctum books)
Clay, David Groff, Trio House Press
Companion Grasses, Brian Teare, Omnidawn Publishing
Metaphysical Dog, Frank Bidart, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Obscenely Yours, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Alice James Books
Silverchest, Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Straight Razor, Randall Mann, Persea Books
The Talking Day, Michael Klein, Sibling Rivalry Press
Unpeopled Eden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Four Way Books
LESBIAN POETRY
A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press
Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives, Veronica Reyes, Red Hen Press/Arktoi Books
Chord Box, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, The University of Arkansas Press
The Collected Poems of Ai, Ai, W.W. Norton & Company
The Exchange, Sophie Cabot Black, Graywolf Press
Proxy, R. Erica Doyle, Belladonna Collaborative
Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds, LLC
She Has a Name, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Four Way Books
Viral, Suzanne Parker, Alice James Books
We Come Elemental, Tamiko Beyer, Alice James Books
GAY MYSTERY
Baton Rouge Bingo, Greg Herren, Bold Strokes Books
Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press
Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press
How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press
In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services Inc
Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press
Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press
The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
LESBIAN MYSTERY
Cross and Burn, Val McDermid, Grove/Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly Press
Death of the Demon, Annel Holt, Scribner
High Desert, Katherine V. Forrest, Spinsters Ink
The Killer Wore Leather: A Mystery, Laura Antoniou, Cleis Press
Point of Betrayal, Ann Roberts, Bella Books
The Rainey Season, R.E. Bradshaw, R.E. Bradshaw Books
She Overheard Murder, Jean Sheldon, Wellworth Publishing/Bast Press
Taken by the Wind, Ellen Hart, St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books
Turning on the Tide, Jenna Rae, Bella Books
Web of Obsessions, Diane Wood, Bella Books
The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel, Ian Hamilton, Picador
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
A Heaven of Words: Last Journals, by Glenway Wescott, Ed. Jerry Rosco, University of Wisconsin Press
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience, Perry N. Halkitis, Oxford University Press
American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke, The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement, Hillary Holladay, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, Richard Rodriguez, Penguin Group/Viking
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, David Margolick, Other Press
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, Blake Bailey, Alfred A. Knopf
Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist, Jim Elledge, Overlook Duckworth
In Bed With Gore Vidal, Tim Teeman, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon, Semiotext(e)
LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich, University of Nebraska Press
Growing up Golem, Donna Minkowitz, Riverdale Ave Books/Magnus
How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn, Arsenal Pulp Press
L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, Annie Rachel Lanzillotto, SUNY Press, Excelsior Editions
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton, Bloomsbury
GAY ROMANCE
Covet Thy Neighbor, L. A. Witt, Riptide Publishing
Glitterland, Alexis Hall, Riptide Publishing
Into This River I Drown, TJ Klune, Dreamspinner Press
King Mai, Edmond Manning, Pickwick Ink Publishing
My Dear Watson, L.A. Fields, Lethe Press
Pickup Men, L.C. Chase, Riptide Publishing
Play Me, I'm Yours, Madison Parker, Harmony Ink Press
Rocky's Road, Lynley Wayne, MLR Press
Unbroken, Larry Benjamin, Beaten Track Publishing
Where You Are, J.H. Trumble, Kensington
LESBIAN ROMANCE
All That Lies Within, Lynn Ames, Phoenix Rising Press
At Seventeen, Gerri Hill, Bella Books
Broken Trails, D Jordan Redhawk, Bella Books
Clean Slate, Andrea Bramhall, Bold Strokes Books
Date with Destiny, Mason Dixon, Bold Strokes Books
Hold Me Forever, D. Jackson Leigh, Bold Strokes Books
Hoosier Daddy, Ann McMan, Salem West, Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company/Nuance
Last Salute, Tracey Richardson, Bella Books
Love by the Numbers, Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books
The Princess Affair, Nell Stark, Bold Strokes Books
GAY EROTICA
Capture & Surrender, Aleksandr Voinov & L.A. Witt, Riptide Publishing
The Padisah's Son and the Fox: an erotic novella, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press
Sensual Travels: Gay Erotic Stories, Michael Luongo (Ed.), Bruno Gmuender
Show-Offs: Gay Erotic Stories, Ed. Richard Labonte, Cleis Press
Team Players: Gay Erotic Stories, Winston Gieseke (Ed.), Bruno Gmuender
LESBIAN EROTICA
At Her Feet, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Bold Strokes Books
Best Lesbian Erotica 2014, Kathleen Warnock, Ed., Cleis Press
Wild Girls Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories, Ed. Sacchi Green, Cleis Press
LGBT ANTHOLOGY
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings, Harvey Milk, Jason Edward Black, Charles E. Morris, University of California Press
The Feminist Porn Book, Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu & Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Press
Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry, Editors: Brittany Fonte and Regie Cabico, Lowbrow Press
Ghosts in Gaslight. Monsters in Steam. Gay City: Volume 5, Evan J Peterson & Vincent Kovar, Gay City Anthologies
Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba, MaThoko's Books
Queer in Aztlan: Chicano Male Recollentions of Consciousness and Coming Out, Ed. Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibran Guido, Cognella Academic Publishing
This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, Megan Volpert, Sibling Rivalry Press
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, T.C. Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Nightboat Books
What I LOVE about being QUEER, Vivek Shraya, George Brown College
Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, Eds. Jim Elledge and David Groff, The University of Wisconsin Press
LGBT CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster, Inc./ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Boy In Box, Christopher R. Michael, Hubbub Publishing
Girls I've Run Away With, Rhiannon Argo, Moonshine Press
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan, Algonquin Books
Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg, Arthur A. Levine Books
Rapture Practice, Aaron Hartzler, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Secret City, Julia Watts, Bella Books
The Secret Ingredient, Stewart Lewis- Author, Rebecca Short-Editor, Delacorte Press (Penguin/Random House)
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Arthur A. Levine Books
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
What Makes a Baby, Cory Silverberg and illustrated by Fiona Smyth, Seven Stories Press/Triangle Square
LGBT DRAMA
Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains, Adelina Anthony, Korima Press
sash & trim and other plays, Djola Branner, RedBone Press
Tom at the Farm, Michel Marc Bouchard, Talonbooks
LGBT GRAPHIC NOVEL
Artifice, Alex Woolfson (author), Winona Nelson (Illustrator), AMW Comics
Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir, Nicole J. Georges, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Duck! Second Chances, Tana Ford, Bang A Left
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, Kyle Baker, Steve Dutro, M Press
LGBT SF/F/HORROR
Collaborators, Deborah Wheeler, Dragon Moon Press
Death by Silver, Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Lethe Press
Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy, Alex Jeffers, Lethe Press
Dragon Slayer, Isabella Carter, Less Than Three Press
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, Richard Bowes, Lethe Press
Hell's Belle, Marie Castle, Bella Books
Invisible Soft Return :\, Roberta Degnore, Digital Fabulists
Light, Nathan Burgoryne, Bold Strokes Books
Like Light for Flies, Lee Thomas, Lethe Press
The Stars Change, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Circlet Press, Inc.
LGBT STUDIES
Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, Marlon M. Bailey, University of Michigan Press
Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford, Duke University Press
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, Colin R. Johnson, Temple University Press
Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production, Lisa Henderson, NYU Press
Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami, Susana Pena, University of Minnesota Press
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Duke University Press
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Christina B. Hanhardt, Duke University Press
Shanghai Lalas, Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, Hong Kong University Press
Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely, Peter M. Coviello, NYU Press
Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law, Isaac West, NYU Press
For information:
Tony Valenzuela
Lambda Literary Foundation
5482 Wilshire Blvd, #1595
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-643-4281 (Main)
323-376-6801 (Mobile)
http://LambdaLiterary.org
http://facebook.com/LambdaLiterary
https://twitter.com/LambdaLiterary
February 27, 2014
February 17, 2014
My Happy Boys
I would crawl in there with them, but the rest of the bed is covered with Cheetos bags and Nintendos
February 14, 2014
My new ETSY shop!! Happy Dance!
I'm so happy to show you my new ETSY shop! I've been making mixed media ACEOs- small collectible art cards
etsy.com/shop/BlackandBlueACEOs
I'll put some pics on this thread-
etsy.com/shop/BlackandBlueACEOs
I'll put some pics on this thread-
February 8, 2014
Art-O-Mat!!
Art-O-Mat is a cool project where old ciggie vending machines are retooled to vend art, instead. They are all over the world, mostly in museum gift shops and coffee shops and other arty hang-outs--
I was so happy when they accepted my small mixed media lino-block prints, and I have the first fifty ready to ship- this is an animal portrait of my friend Julio
http://www.artomat.org/
I was so happy when they accepted my small mixed media lino-block prints, and I have the first fifty ready to ship- this is an animal portrait of my friend Julio
http://www.artomat.org/
January 27, 2014
Tunisia has a new constitution!
http://news.yahoo.com/tunisia-pm-desi...
the first govt toppled during the Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia signed their new constitution last night! Sometimes revolution produces more than chaos and anarchy, if people are willing to work hard enough.
I fell in love with Tunisia writing The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, and I am so happy for them, and so hopeful their model of working together and finding a middle path will be a model for the region.
the first govt toppled during the Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia signed their new constitution last night! Sometimes revolution produces more than chaos and anarchy, if people are willing to work hard enough.
I fell in love with Tunisia writing The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, and I am so happy for them, and so hopeful their model of working together and finding a middle path will be a model for the region.
January 22, 2014
January 10, 2014
Postcards from America
I've been searching for a way to combine meaning with image in a series of artworks. I wanted to do some small images to show my fierce love for this country, the American West, which is my home. I also wanted to avoid the traps of sentimentality, to look at the land I love with wide-open eyes. But how to do this and stay positive? It would be easy enough to look at history, especially the history of the west, and make a list of the screw-ups and human failures. But this land would not be so rich and diverse and beautiful unless there were successes, too. It's complex. It's been exciting to work through these ideas.
I decided to make a series of fabric postcards to explore this theme. Here are the first two
I decided to make a series of fabric postcards to explore this theme. Here are the first two
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