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June 1, 2013
Weekend Drawing at Elisa Rolle’s Review and Ramblings
Throughout LGBT Pride month there will be lots of contests and giveaways for Werecat: The Rearing.
The first is hosted by LGBT book blogger Elisa Rolle. Just drop a comment at her blog to answer the question: if you could be any kind of animal shapeshifter, what would you be?
Elisa will randomly pick a winner on Monday, June 3rd.
(Please post at her site hyperlinked above with your answer, not on my site!)
My answer: as if it was any surprise, I would be a werecat. A werejaguar specifically, or maybe a were-Bengal Tiger. 
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May 30, 2013
Reading at Newtown Literary Issue #2 Launch Event
June 6th come out to Odradek’s Coffee House for the launch of Newtown Literary’s second issue Spring/Summer 2013.
My short story “The Trouble with Finklesteins” is included in the issue, and I will be reading an excerpt from it along with other featured authors and poets. Here’s all the details:
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May 28, 2013
Release Day: WERECAT!!
My e-novelette Werecat: The Rearing is available for purchase at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble and very soon Vagabondage Press.
To celebrate, from May 28th – June 28th, early purchasers will receive a little swag: bookmarks and an autographed Werecat postcard, while supplies last. Just e-mail me proof of purchase (purchase confirmation from a retailer) with your address, and I will mail the items to you. My e-mail address is ajpeters [at] andrewjpeterswrites [dot] com.
Here’s the book’s back cover blurb:
For Jacks Dowd, a gay college senior who feels ungrounded from his family and life in general, an alcohol and sex-infused weekend in Montréal sounds like a pretty good escape. His Spring Break binge takes a detour when he meets Benoit, an admiring drifter with startling green eyes. A hook-up turns into a day, two days, and then a full week in Benoit’s hostel, making love and scarfing down take-out food. But at the end of the week, Benoit demands that Jacks make an impossible choice: stay with him forever or never see him again.
The night before Jacks is supposed to return to college, he meets Benoit in Mont Royal Park to try to work things out. Benoit springs on Jacks an unfathomable secret: he’s a werecat. He traps Jacks in an abandoned cabin and performs an occult rite so they will be mated forever.
With his dual nature, Jacks can shape-shift at will, and he has amazing new senses and physical abilities. But how will he live as an unfathomable hybrid creature? When Benoit shows Jacks the violence he’s capable of, Jacks may need to find a way to destroy the one person who can help him survive.
Werecat: The Rearing is book one in a series. Sequels will be released in 2014.
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May 22, 2013
Newtown Literary Spring/Summer 2013 Available for Purchase
My short story “The Trouble with Finklesteins” was picked up for publication by Newtown Literary. Now the issue is out and available for purchase here for a mere ten bucks.
Set in my very own neighborhood of Kew Gardens, NY, “The Trouble with Finklesteins” is about a monthly get-together of two longtime friends and flight attendants that exposes hidden jealousies and a terrible secret. A contemporary, realistic story from me? Yes it happens every now and then. I wrote the story some years back during a J.D. Salinger-esque streak.
From their website: “Newtown Literary is dedicated to writers from and writing about Queens, NY and allocates half the journal to these writers and their work.” For more about the journal, visit them here.
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