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July 8, 2015
Now Available: The Luckiest by Mila McWarren
…there’s a man—The Boy, in fact. We’ve
reunited after a long time apart, and he’s sweet and beautiful and he’s grown
into himself. And he’s changing his whole life to try to be with me, and I want
it—I want him, all of him.* * *
When New York-based memoirist Aaron Wilkinson gathers with his high school friends to marry off two of their own, he is forced to spend a week with Nik, the boy who broke his heart.As they settle into the Texas beach house where the nuptials will be performed, Nik quickly makes his intentions clear: he wants Aaron back. “He’s coming hard, baby,” a friend warns, setting the tone for a week of transition where Aaron and Nik must decide if they are playing for keeps.
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Mila McWarren’s debut novel, The Luckiest, is available at IP Web Store, Smashwords, Apple’s iBookstore, Book Depository, Amazon and an indie book seller near you.ISBN: 978-1-941530-39-9
Pages: 256
Price: $16.99 U.S. print / $7.99 U.S. multi-format eBook
International: Order The Luckiest print edition by September 7, 2015 from your favorite book retailer and receive free multi-format eBook by submitting a copy of your receipt to promotions@interludepress.com.About the Author
Mila McWarren grew up in Texas, but has happily made her home on the East Coast for the last decade. In her day job she works as a social scientist and she has spent the last ten years developing her fiction writing online. She lives with her husband and their two kids. When she isn’t working, writing or hanging out with her family, she likes knitting and watching television, because they go together like peanut butter and chocolate, two of her other great loves.
Connect with Mila at milamcwarren.com, on Twitter @milamcwarren, on Tumblr at MilaMcWarren and on Goodreads at Mila_McWarren.
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June 26, 2015
June 24, 2015
Now Available: “Summer Love,” A Collection of LGBTQ Young Adult Short Stories
Now available from the IP Web Store, Summer Love is a collection of short stories about the discovery of both romantic and platonic love by young LGBTQ characters.
Nine stories from debut authors make up this collection of stories where love serves as a catalyst for an awakening to new ideas, new possibilities and new confidence.
The stories in the Summer Love collection feature characters from across the LGBTGQ spectrum—including gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, queer/questioning and pansexual—written by authors who also represent a range of gender and sexual identity.
Included in the collection are:
Beautiful Monsters (Rachel Davidson Leigh): A campaign volunteer is assigned to assist his high school’s Gay Straight Alliance for the Pride Parade, forcing him to face the students he had previously avoided, and the truth about himself.
The Willow Weeps for Us (Suzey Ingold): At the dawn of World War II, Jack, the young son of a grocer, falls for a charming piano teacher.
The Fire Eater’s Daughter (Amy Stilgenbauer): When a traveling carnival comes back to town, Ruth must choose between caring for her mother and a life with the beautiful and mysterious Constance, the fire eater’s daughter.
Surface Tension: (Ella J. Ash): Logan just wants a summer where he can be anonymous and fit in without labels, but that all changes when he meets out-and-proud Dave at summer camp.
My Best Friend (H.J. Coulter): In a letter to his best friend, a young gay man reminisces about their relationship.
What the Heart Wants (Naomi Tajedler): A young student discovers attraction and desire through her experience drawing figures in a summer art class.
The Most Handsome (S.J. Martin) Carter, a Cape Cod boy who recently came out as transgender, meets and falls in love with a college student visiting for the summer.
Something Like Freedom (Caroline Hanlin): After he is kicked out of his family home, Gabe experiences freedom for the first time in his life, thanks in part to a new friend.
On the Shore (Rachel Blackburn): Poppy retreats to her parents’ beach house to nurse a broken heart, but instead meets the vivacious Eva, who helps her find joy again.* * *
Summer Love is available by order from Duet Books, the IP Web Store, Amazon, Smashwords, Book Depository, the Apple iBookstore and an indie bookstore near you.
International: Order the print edition of Summer Love by August 23, 2015 from your favorite book retailer and receive free multi-format eBook by submitting a copy of your receipt to promotions@interludepress.com.
ISBN: 978-1-941530-36-8
Pages: 276
Price: $15.99 US print*/ $7.99 US multi-format eBook
*Print editions pre-orders available for US and Canada only. eBook orders available worldwide.
June 23, 2015
Happy Book Birthday!
Today, the Summer Love Anthology from the YA imprint of Interlude Press comes into the world. To be honest, I am giddy at the thought of seeing our stories in print and in our readers’ hot little hands.
Last night, in my anticipation, I reread the anthology and I found myself imagining what would happen if our characters all threw a party. Would my Cody get along with Eli from “Something Like Freedom” or laugh with Noam from “What the Heart Wants”? What about Logan, Carter, or Poppy? I’d at least like to think that they’d have a good time. Sadly, we’ll never know. Our stories only co-exist, but for the reader, I wonder whether they can ever really be separated.
A story collection is a funny thing. On paper, our characters live their own lives. They fall in love in 2015, 1955, or 1939; in Cape Cod or St. Claire. However, for the reader, the stories build. Jack’s love story builds on top of Ruth’s which builds on top of Nikki’s, until all nine stories are richer than they would have been on their own.
Perhaps I’ve been watching too much Sense8, but I’m quite excited to be a “we.” An anthology is also an intimate thing, and I couldn’t have asked for a better “cluster” to call my own.
Summer Love is now available from DuetBooks.com, as well as the IP Web Store, Amazon, Smashwords, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository (international), and an independent book seller near you.
Welcome to the party!
