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But I've got a kind of third career going here. I still work for Amazon, still run my little editorial services company, Two Brother Press, and still cast my eyes covetously to my latest novel, which is getting scant attention from me. I hope to have blocks of time to work on it, but as I say, there are only half as many hours in the day as there used to be. I now live in a small, historic town of Mesilla, New Mexico. It's mainly a tourist town, and my house is right off the plaza. There's a nifty cafe right across the street who has a retired French chef in every morning to make French pastires, and then there's a coffee shop just up the street where I like to go in the afternoons and catch up on the lastest town gossip. The owner is lately from Quebec, Canada, where she lived for twenty-five years and raised her children who are still in Canada. One of the neat things about Mesilla is the number of gay and lesbian couples who also live here and the gay and lesbian couples who visit. I guess if a town is artsy fartsy and small enough, like Mesilla, you just don't run into anyone who projects prejudice against LGBTs. And now that New Mexico has become the seventeenth state to allow gay marriage, it's just the icing on the cake. At any rate, I've finally brought this page up to date. I know it will only seem like a couple a days before a month has passed and I need to update it again...meh!
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  Books for February 2014
 Wingspan
by Karis WalshISBN13: 978-1-60282-983-1 Price: $16.95 Genre: Lesbian Romance Publication Date: February 2014, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. When architect Kendall Pearson finds an injured osprey on her property, she expects to simply drop it off at a local wild bird rehabilitation center and be done with it. Quick and painless, like every other relationship she has. But wildlife biologist Bailey Chase has other plans for Ken. First, as surgical assistant, and second, as the designer for her new raptor sanctuary. Bailey protects her privacy with the vigilance of a hawk, hiding in her rescue center where she has complete control over her life and her work. Isolated on Washington?s Olympic Peninsula, she?s surrounded by natural beauty and plenty of solitude. Until sexy Ken Pearson walks in with a wounded bird and Bailey finds her life has been invaded by more than just an extra beak to feed. Sometimes pain is invisible, and only love can soar over protective barriers and heal a wounded heart. 
The Blush Factor by Gun BrookeISBN13: 978-1-60282-985-5 Price: $16.95 Genre: Lesbian Romance Publication Date: February 2014, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. Eleanor Ashcroft is at the top of her game. Revered by stockholders, feared in boardrooms and by employees all over the Eastern Seaboard, her life changes when she decides to restore an inherited makeup company to its former glory. While doing research, Eleanor discovers the YouTube makeup gurus and the most successful channel, ?The Blush Factor,? becomes her guilty pleasure. She finds the much-younger woman in the videos mesmerizing and profoundly attractive in a way she had never felt about a woman before. Addison Garry loves makeup. A YouTube celebrity, her video tutorials and reviews attract hordes of viewers. When Eleanor wants Addison to do consulting for her company, Addison needs the money and knows she can?t refuse the infamous businesswoman. Working with Eleanor, Addison finds it hard to act strictly professional as she both fears her and dreams of winning her heart. Eleanor in turn realizes that her attraction to Addison is not a mere midlife crisis at all, but looks very much like love.  Slash and Burn by Valerie BronwenISBN13: 978-1-60282-986-2 Price: $16.95 Genre: Lesbian Mystery Publication Date: February 2014, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. The Angels and Demons Literary Weekend brings former New Orleans resident Winter Lovelace back to town from her gig as writer-in-residence at a prestigious women?s college in upstate New York. Winter desperately needs a break from the book she is struggling to finish, and hopes that this weekend will inspire her and trigger her creativity. But while waiting for a friend in a hotel courtyard, a body lands at her feet, and Winter is dragged into a baffling mystery quite against her will. The victim is a notorious ?m/m romance? author who is also a homophobe, and the list of people who wanted her dead is quite extensive. Winter herself is considered a suspect! To make matters worse, Winter?s ex shows up to cover the story for a local news station?an ex Winter had hoped she?d never see again.  Turnbull House by Jess FaradaySBN13: 978-1-60282-987-9 Price: $16.95 Genre: Gay Mystery Publication Date: February 2014, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. London 1891. Former criminal Ira Adler has built a respectable, if dull, life for himself as a confidential secretary. He even sits on the board of a youth shelter. When the shelter?s landlord threatens to sell the building out from under them, Ira turns to his ex-lover, crime lord Cain Goddard, for a loan. But the loan comes with strings, and before he knows it, Ira is tangled up in them and tumbling back into the life of crime he worked so hard to escape. Two old flames come back into Ira?s life, along with a new young man who reminds Ira of his former self. Will Ira hold fast to his principles, or will he succumb to the temptations of easy riches and lost pleasures?  Stronger Than This by David-Matthew BarnesISBN13: 978-1-60282-988-6 Price: $16.95 Genre: Gay Fiction Publication Date: February 2014, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. Charlene?s soul mate, Samantha, has been killed in a car accident. Daniel?s partner, Martin, has been murdered in a robbery gone wrong. Seeking comfort, Charlene and Daniel attend a support group where they meet for the first time. Emotionally devastated and discarded by their loved ones conservative families, Charlene and Daniel feel an immediate connection. Rather than reveal their pain to a room full of strangers, they decide to see each other through their shared anguish. As a beautiful friendship emerges from grief, slivers of new hope are found.  Tumbledown by Cari HunterISBN13: 978-1-62639-085-1 Price: $16.95 Genre: Lesbian Intrigue/Thriller Publication Date: February 2014, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. How far would you go to protect the one you love? Two years after surviving their ordeal at the hands of white supremacists, Alex Pascal and Sarah Kent have new identities, new careers, and a new home together. The FBI warned them to keep their heads down, and a small town in Maine seems like the perfect place to do this, until a chance occurrence sets in motion a chain of events that no one could have predicted. With enemies closing in and friends turning their backs, Alex and Sarah find themselves fighting not only for their freedom, but for their lives.  |
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