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December 29, 2016
IP Titles & the Closing of All Romance eBooks
As you may have heard, All Romance eBooks announced today that it will be closing effective December 31st. We are currently in the process of removing all books from Interlude and its imprints, Duet and Consent, from the All Romance platform.
If you have pre-ordered any of our books from AllRomance, please send us confirmation of your purchase (your emailed receipt or a screenshot) and we will honor your order at the IP Web Store (store.interludepress.com).
December 21, 2016
"I knew I would enjoy this book as soon as I could read it. But oh man did I underestimate how good..."
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Molly Lolly Book Blog review of The King and The Criminal by Charlotte Ashe
The King and The Criminal is now available from the IP Web Store and other online book retailers.
(via interludepress)
A Great Big Guide to Wonderful Books of 2016 from 100+ Indie Presses
Thank you, @bookriot for the shout-outs to Not Your Sidekick by @authorcblee and Luchador by @erinfinnegan!
I love seeing @interludepress beginning to show up in @bookriot, one of my favorite bookish sites. And I’m giddy and humbled to see Luchador on this list —and congrats to fellow IP’er C.B. Lee, whose delightful Not Your Sidekick is also listed!
… Cover, modified for the holidays.
Holiday cheer and a little fuck you to the establishment
2016 has been such a great year for me in so many ways. I bookended the year with publications: What it Takes in January and Idlewild in December. I’ve been blessed with such wonderful reception from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. I was accepted to an incredibly competitive PhD program and seen my mother come through a seriously life threatening cancer diagnosis.
That said, 2016 has also been frightening and tense and difficult. So I wanted to encourage people to reach for happy endings, even if they’re just fictional ones. And not just my books (although I totally encourage that), but ANY of the amazing LGBTQAI, diverse, beautifully written stories out there (need recommendations? I’m happy to). I struggled in November to keep writing and hoping. I wrote more about this here, but I want to emphasize this part:
“Thankfully, several very wise women advised me: now is the time more than ever. It is the time to celebrate diversity, to influence change through support, to refuse to be quiet, to give up on love and freedom of expression.”
Idlewild came out at a particularly apt time. “
I wrote a story about people: people I see around me, love stories I see around me, the fucking diverse and subversive, those who want a happy ending, or whose happy ending is a middle finger at the establishment. All of us.”
A few ways right now you can do this: today is the LAST day of my rafflecopter giveaway for Idlewild. Enter to win one of 5 eBooks, or a grand prize of an eBook AND 25$ gift card.
Also, holiday gift giving time comes with a great offer: free shipping and gift wrapping from Interlude Press. Even if you’re gifting to yourself, opening presents is always fun!
Hush, What it Takes and Idlewild are all available for purchase through multiple retailers (links on my book page). Remember that you’ll get a shipping upgrade through Interlude Press’s online store.
December 20, 2016
Bisexual Author Finds Delicate Balance Between Her Fiction and Southern Home
Lilah Suzanne, author of the Spotlight Series, Spice, and Pivot & Slip, on striking a balance between her love of her North Carolina home and her commitment to the LGBTQ community, from Foreword Reviews.
Thank you to Foreword Reviews for featuring my column in their new #IndieVoices series! I’m incredibly honored to be a part of it.
December 15, 2016
200 Tennessee businesses sign pledge to fight back against anti-LGBT discrimination
Some 200 businesses in Nashville and elsewhere in Tennessee have vowed to fight back against any attempts to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination.
It’s no secret that North Carolina’s discriminatory HB2 has hurt that state in countless ways, and so businesses like Jack Daniels, CMT, AT&T and FedEx pledged to oppose any similar measures in Tennessee.
Nashville’s Music Row also signed up to keep Tennessee free of LGBT+ discrimination.
The coalition recognises the huge amount of money tourism brings to Tennessee, and the need to rid the state of discrimination in order to remain a popular tourist destination.
The statement goes against moves in other states like North Carolina, where the HB2 bill has caused immeasurable damage to the state’s reputation.
HB2 bans trans people from using gender appropriate bathrooms and rolled back local ordinances protecting LGBT+ people.
Come through, Tennessee.
December 13, 2016
julianwinters:
A Rainbow of Books
“Books are the quietest and...
December 11, 2016
Books You Need In Your Life: Idlewild by Jude Sierra
(From my blog, which has a longer, more detailed review)
It all comes together here, in the restaurant Idlewild:
This cover, which is another glorious bit of work from Interlude Press’s art director, tells you right away that this is an intimate look at these two men–it’s not about the other characters. I feel like a voyeur in the best of ways. The book pulls you in immediately giving you a sense of intimacy, of longing, and of men who don’t know what they want other than for things to change.
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This is a book that handles the issues of classism and racism (Asher, white, comes from privilege; Tyler, black, doesn’t. Their Detroits are vastly different entities, and yet they are both Detroit.).
This is also a massive love letter to both Detroits, which is really the one Detroit. This is a quiet introspection into a young widower’s grief and how he allows himself to love again. This is a powerful look at a young gay black man who believes his family’s future rests on his shoulders, but doesn’t know how to please them to achieve that goal.
But most of all, this is a deeply romantic story of two men who can see the other’s potential. Who love their city fiercely. Who want to love someone passionately and learn how to do so without reservation. (Ha. See what I… Sorry.)
This is a beautiful, masterfully written bit of literary romance. I do hope you’ll take the time to get to know these two men and the better world they’re trying to make in their little bit of Detroit. It’s worth it.
Buy Idlewild at your local bookseller, from the publisher, Amazon, or wherever fine books are sold.
Please support the writers trying to bring excellent literature that features diverse characters to the mainstream world by either buying their books, reblogging to bring attention to their books, or by requesting a copy at your local library. That’s how change happens! <3
Thank you for this lovely, lovely review!
do you know of any books with bisexual guys where they actually say they are bi?
Yep! Whatever. by SJ Goslee and Been Here All Along by Sandy Hall have main characters who do, and All the Feels by Danika Stone and History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera have love interests who do. (Also worth mentioning that Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate has a main character who openly IDs as pansexual.)
