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Author Paula Martinac’s ‘The Ada Decades’ Named a Finalist for Ferro-Grumley Literary Award
Paula Martinac’s stunning novel ‘The Ada Decades’ has been named a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award:
We’ve just announced the Ferro-Grumley finalists for 2018 (books published in 2017). In alphabetical order by author, they are:
The Heart’s Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Hogarth Press)
Outside Is The Ocean, by Matthew Lansburgh (University of Iowa Press)
The Disintegrations, by Alistair McCartney (University of Wisconsin Press)
Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado (Greywolf Press)
The Ada Decades, by Paula Martinac (Bywater Books)
Our warmest congratulations to the authors, as well as to the publishing teams that made these books possible.
Continue reading my recent interview with author Paula Martinac. – Mark/Editor
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Quotes and Quotable: Stephen Hawking
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”
– Stephen Hawking
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Complimentary Copy of ‘Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge’ for All Current and New LGBTSr Subscribers!
Along with a fabulous, refreshed and reinvigorated LGBTsr, subscribers will be treated to a complimentary copy of ‘Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge‘, a seat-of-your-pants thriller featuring retired detective Linda Sikorsky and her wife, Kirsten McClellan.
A download link will be sent out in next week’s subscriber email with new content, allowing subscribers to download the eBook directly from Book Funnel (no muss, no fuss), in ePub, MOBI or PDF format. AND it’s complimentary to all new subscribers with their confirmation and welcome emails from MailChimp. So spread the word! Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge … Where checking in is easy, and checking out is hell. And don’t miss the audiobook edition narrated by the spectacular Daniela Acitelli!
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Complimentary Copy of ‘Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge’ for All Current and New LGBTSr Subscribers!
Along with a fabulous, refreshed and reinvigorated LGBTsr, subscribers will be treated to a complimentary copy of ‘Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge‘, a seat-of-your-pants thriller featuring retired detective Linda Sikorsky and her wife, Kirsten McClellan.A download link will be sent out in next week’s subscriber email with new content, allowing subscribers to download the eBook directly from Book Funnel (no muss, no fuss), in ePub, MOBI or PDF format. AND it’s complimentary to all new subscribers with their confirmation and welcome emails from MailChimp. So spread the word! Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge … Where checking in is easy, and checking out is hell. And don’t miss the audiobook edition narrated by the spectacular Daniela Acitelli!
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Dave Hughes: Senior Housing Needs to Increase Its Diversity Competency
Dave Hughes of RetireFabulous.com Senior Housing Needs to Increase Its Diversity Competency
Changing Workforce Demographics Signal a Change in Retiree DemographicsBy Dave Hughes
During their working years, the Baby Boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) experienced a dramatic environmental shift in workplace demographics and culture. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, employers have become more attuned to the need to provide workplaces that are more welcoming of career-oriented women and diverse people of all sorts. Corporate America and academia, in particular, implemented policies and training programs which foster inclusion for employees of various races, nationalities, religions, and physical abilities, as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people who want to be able to live and work more openly.
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The Twist Podcast #59: Spaceships Galore, Trigger Tweets, and Stormy with a Chance of Lawsuit
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we talk about the news, spaceships in the neighborhood, Stormy Daniels porn spectacular, indigenous food trends, and revenge tweeting.Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
Copyright 2018 MadeMark Publishing
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The Twist Podcast #59: Spaceships Galore, Trigger Tweets, and Stormy with a Chance of Lawsuit
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we talk about the news, spaceships in the neighborhood, Stormy Daniels porn spectacular, indigenous food trends, and revenge tweeting.Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
Copyright 2018 MadeMark Publishing
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The Return of LGBTSr (If not Now, When?)
Mark McNease, EditorLife is not linear. Love is eternal. Strength is essential.
An excellent grief counselor once told me grief is not linear—it does not build, crescendo, then recede and leave us to move on with our lives. It comes and goes, sometimes for many years.
I look at life that way. It’s not, and need not be lived, as a linear experience: young, older, old. Here, there, gone. Life can be made of cycles and phases, and letting go of something doesn’t mean we won’t do it, or hold it, or be it again.
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The Return of LGBTSr (If not Now, When?)
Mark McNease, EditorLife is not linear. Love is eternal. Strength is essential.
An excellent grief counselor once told me grief is not linear—it does not build, crescendo, then recede and leave us to move on with our lives. It comes and goes, sometimes for many years.
I look at life that way. It’s not, and need not be lived, as a linear experience: young, older, old. Here, there, gone. Life can be made of cycles and phases, and letting go of something doesn’t mean we won’t do it, or hold it, or be it again.
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The Savvy Senior: How to Get Cash For Your Life Insurance Policy
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
I have a life insurance policy that I’ve been paying on for years that I really don’t need any longer. I’ve been thinking about letting it lapse, but I’ve heard that I can actually sell it for a nice payout. What can you tell me about this?
Interested In Selling
Dear Interested,
Selling a life insurance policy, even a term life policy that you don’t want or need any longer – a transaction known as a “life settlement” – has become a popular option among retirees in recent years that could use some extra cash. Here’s how it works.
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Gay Travelers Magazine: Vinales Valley, Cuba – Touring the UNESCO World Heritage Site
This article first appeared at Gay Travelers Magazine, reprinted with PermissionBy Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
On our second trip to explore Cuba, we decided to venture outside Havana to the amazing Vinales Valley. We booked an 11 hour tour called “The Vinales Valley – A UNESCO World Heritage Site” and we discovered a Cuban treasure.
The Vinales National Park is a Cuban National Monument. More than 90 percent of the property is in the hands of private owners. Thirty percent is owned by individual farmers and another 62 percent is owned by the National Association of Small Farmers. If you want to see the real Cuba, this is the place.
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Stephanie Mott: The Kansas Republican Party
Stephanie Mott By Stephanie Mott
And ultimately, an ideology that says you can determine my gender identity is broken and is causing a lot of pain, and that’s why it’s important to bring us back to what we know to be true and good.
The Kansas Republican Party has lost its mind, and its heart, and its soul. Not that this is news in Kansas right now, rather more of a status quo, but if any doubt still remained, the recently approved resolution on “sexuality” removed any remnants of even the most basic humanity.
In case you missed it, KRP approved, by voice vote, this resolution completely inaccurate and horribly destructive to transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) Kansans, and then turned around and absurdly proposed it was the product of love.
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Rod Hensel: It’s Time for New York State to Step Up for LGBT Seniors
Rod Hensel By Rod Hensel
The Gayging AdvocateOur LGBT seniors who are still out and about and active need to be willing show they know how to post on Facebook and use a phone when election time draws near. We’re not even asking for money, just the right to live with dignity and pride.
On the west coast, California gets it. Washington state gets it. It’s time for New York State to take a leadership role on the east coast and show they “get it” too.
The “it” is legislation requiring professional caregivers — especially those in nursing homes and senior housing facilities — to take a course on the special needs of LGBT seniors so their charges can be out, open and comfortable in their senior years.
You can call it “cultural competency” or “sensitivity training” or whatever you wish, but the fact is LGBT people of my generation are scared to just be themselves and are going back into the closet in their autumn years.