![]() ![]() She’s the artist of her webcomic Love Circuits ( and Glass Castles on Patreon ( Her favorite things are robots and demons, and most of her comics feature one or the other. Genué Revuelta is a 24-year-old Xicana comic artist and illustrator from California, currently residing in the Pacific Northwest. Monster and recently launched Passion Fruit: A Queerotica Anthology. Monster, Sarah Graley (Illustrator) 4.18 1,000 ratings71 reviews The first Graphic Novel in the world of Gaming Phenomenon Minecraft Tyler is your everyday kid whose life is changed when his family has to move from the town hes always known. Taneka is currently working on Beyond 2 with Sfé R. She edited Afar for Image Comics and was recently nominated for an Eisner for her webcomic with Sara DuVall, Déjà Brew. As a founder of Beyond Press, she is known for editing and contributing to comic anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comic Anthology and the creators of color anthology ELEMENTS: Fire. ![]() Taneka Stotts is a queer little tumbleweed that stopped rolling somewhere in Portland, Oregon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book has both well thought out characters and a sturdy plot. ![]() There are some spicy books I haven’t even bothered to review because reading them was so abysmal. Sometimes the characters don’t fit the plot, or the plot doesn’t fit the characters. Sometimes there is a plot, but the characters are underdeveloped. Sometimes there is no plot, you’re just reading erotic porn. I have found with these reverse harem books that getting a good plot is a lucky dip. It’s a never-ending circle of elements that complement each other. A good plot can do wonders for the characters. In my exploration of reverse harem books, I’ve talked a lot about plot versus smut. It covers unsavoury topics that may be triggering to some, for example, violence, murder, assault, etc. Went to bed at 00:15am when I finished the book… ![]() Was only going to read a couple of chapters before going to bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() When his parents separated in 1778, his brother Johann Ludwig (1768 to 1822) stayed with his father, who moved to Insterburg, and Ernst Theodor and his mother moved back to their parents’ house. Hoffmann, The Devil’s Elixirs, 1815 Youth and EducationĮrnst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was born on 24 January 1776 in Königsberg as the youngest son of the court attorney Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann and his cousin Lovisa Albertina Doerffer. “Ha there is something divine about art, for art, my Lord, is not really both the art of which one speaks so much, but it arises rather only from all that one calls art! “ Hoffmann’s stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. On January 24, 1776, German author Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was born. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until he picked it up for the 3 rd time that it left an impression on him, and perhaps not in the same why it does for others. This is what has happened to Michael.ĭuring a recent interview he actually mentions that the first time he picked a copy of The Great Gatsby up he actually couldn’t see why everyone was raving about it. Like many wonderful classics, The Great Gatsby, has not always been well received by all, but for some it has left its mark. 2021 saw the end of the copyright on The Great Gatsby, an iconic twentieth century American novel which was first published in 1925. However, until this year he was unable to publish such a work. Michael Farris Smith who is a critically acclaimed novelist in his own right and probably best known for his debut novel, The Hands of Strangers, has been working on this project for some time now. This isn’t a long lost story by the well-known writer however, but a prequel written by an author fascinated with the character. ![]() Nick Carraway for anyone that has not read and or the movie is the narrator of The Great Gatsby by F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vanessa is finally free of her abusive marriage only to find out that Richard intends to marry Emma. ![]() She sets Richard up with his assistant, Emma, and the two begin an affair. ![]() However, Vanessa knows Richard will not let her go and that he needs to decide to divorce her himself. She starts seeing a therapist, who points out that Vanessa needs to leave. It becomes worse after they are unable to have children, which both believe is due to an abortion she had in college which she did not tell him about, partially due to the father being one of her professors, who was married. Richard started gas-lighting and abusing Vanessa, cutting her off from friends and family. Part two starts with what happened between Vanessa and Richard. ![]() It was Richard's idea to give Vanessa the nickname Nellie, because when they first met, she was a "nervous nellie." We learn that Vanessa and Nellie are the same person (Vanessa being her present self, and Nellie being her past self). Nellie is Richard's new fiancée, a pre-school teacher. She lives with her aunt in New York City and is working at a clothing store to get by after her divorce from Richard. Vanessa is watching her ex husband's new fiancée. The Wife Between Us is a 2018 thriller novel written by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. ![]() ![]() This happens so often with poems: It’s difficult to ignore one’s obsessions. Even a poem like “Space Junk,” which describes satellite debris drifting around in low-Earth thermosphere, has a father and his kids-he’s trying to point out various interstellar objects in the night sky through a telescope. But even when I made the conscious decision to write about a subject as far removed from it as I could manage, fatherhood kept creeping in. ![]() How is this piece representative of the treatment of the topic throughout the book?īB: I never intended for parenthood to be such a leitmotif. “Primer” is one of many poems in your new book that addresses parenting. Inevitably, too, I kept repeating that “antique” refrain, as the poem says, too soon, too soon. I remember wishing, as she zipped across the asphalt, that bike-riding took a little more time for her to learn-just so we had a project to work on together, something to fill those afternoons after she finished schoolwork. Well, I say “taught,” but really she just sort of hopped on and started pumping. ![]() During that initial lockdown period in March, when we were all stuck at home, I taught my 6-year-old daughter to ride a bike in a church parking lot down the street from our house. ![]() Brian Brodeur Talk a little bit about what kind of mood you wanted to establish in the poem “Primer.”īrian Brodeur: I must have started drafting “Primer,” like several poems in the book, amid the challenges of the first “pandemic year” in 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was known for her treatment of gender ( The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems ( The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Both volumes include new introductions by the author.Ī Week in the Country (1976, 2004, Orsinia)īuffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight (1987) Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.Ĭompanion volume Outer Space, Inner Lands includes Le Guin's best known nonrealistic stories. Le Guin's best short stories-as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself-the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know we’re all always on the lookout for more particularly good Cozy Mystery authors! (If you have a lot of Cozies you think are great, please post the ones you like the most at the top of the list.)Īs always, please do not tell us about the Cozy Mysteries you did not like. So, what have you been reading that you can recommend in January? Please be sure to tell us why you liked these Cozies so much. ![]() For the reasons I want to recommend it, be sure to check out the blog entry! If you read a Cozy mystery this month and want to recommend it to the rest of us, be sure to post it here! For this month, I read the first entry of Linda Reilly’s Grilled Cheese Mystery Series. January is almost over, so it’s time to discuss our favorite Cozies that we read this month! ![]() ![]() Jerry lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Rosemary and their little Yorkie, Stormy.įrom the steamy jungles of Vietnam, to the ancient city of Istanbul, Blake Tanner is a man you want on your side. He provides exciting reading with a fiction romance novel set in Southwest Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() His passion for romance and suspense and the lives of the American cowboy inspired him to write, Night Shadows Over Sandy Creek. Jerry is a Vietnam Veteran and is a Life Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion. He entered the military after graduating from high school in 1957, and successfully fulfilled his dreams of serving in the military and federal service, traveling to exotic locations for over fifty years. He was raised and went to school in Indianola, Iowa. Jerry Snodgrass was born in Butler, Missouri, in 1938. Learn more about Jerry through this week’s Self-Publishing Author Spotlight. ![]() This week we highlight self-publishing author Jerry Snodgrass, who has published an astounding 9 successful titles! At Outskirts Press, Inc., we take great pride in celebrating the work of our successful self-publishing authors, and we do so each week through our Self-Publishing Author Spotlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() National Park Service is the foundational context of Abbey’s book. For these two influential works, and for his angry presence as a public figure, Abbey is regarded is an essential figure in the environmentalist movement of the 1960s and ’70s. Abbey continued to publish environmentalist novels, memoirs, and political commentary until he died at age 62. He furthered that book’s harsh political rhetoric in The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), a novel that later inspired the real-life eco-terrorist group Earth First!. Though several of Abbey’s novels became Hollywood films, this memoir, coinciding with the 1960s environmentalist movement, became his first real bestseller. Here, he kept notebooks that he would later turn into his politically charged memoir, Desert Solitaire (1968). His early love of nature-cultivated in hitchhiking trips throughout the American West-brought him at age 29 to Arches National Monument, near Moab, Utah, for a summer park ranger job. Thanks to these interests, the FBI opened a file on him “I’d be insulted if they weren’t watching me,” Abbey later bragged. Honorably discharged from a clerk position in the military-a distinction he rejected-Abbey studied the use of violence in political rebellion and openly espoused anarchy in his published essays. ![]() Born to an organist mother who taught him to love art and an anarchist father who taught him to be skeptical of the government, Edward Abbey took to literature and politics at a very young age. ![]() |