I’ve known Jean Ryan since she submitted one of her amazing stories for the anthology Outer Voices Inner Lives I co-edited with Stephen Dolainski. Now I have the great pleasure of publishing Jean’s new collection, Lovers and Loners, through MadeMark Publishing. Enjoy it in print or eBook.

LGBTSR just hit the 400 email subscriber mark thanks to you! Welcome to all the new folks, and don’t forget to spread the work

What you get as a subscriber: A weekly email every Friday with new content – featured books, book reviews, interviews, the Savvy Senior, columns, news of note, The Twist Podcast, and The Weekly Readlines. All delivered to your virtual doorstep, waiting for you to enjoy with your favorite morning beverage. What you don’t get: spam or abuse of any kind. Emails are kept strictly confidential and only used for the weekly lgbtSr email blast.

What we get: knowing we’re valued, that in these trying times we can be counted on as a small but vital online space for the over-50 LGBTQ audience and our friends and allies.  Every new subscriber is another vote of confidence as we head into our seventh year.

Mark McNease/Editor

Very few of us make it through life without being touched by cancer – our own or a loved one’s. Coming May 6, Susan G. Komen of North Louisiana will be holding it’s annual ‘Dancing for the Cure.’ This year my longtime collaborator, friend, contributor to LGBTSR, and co-host of our weekly Twist Podcast, is participating AND competing!

You can donate here, or, just as importantly (and simply!) like his Facebook page for the event. The person who gets the most likes gains a special award for their company as well as more money for the cause! So, if you can’t swing a few dollars, just give Rick’s page a like. Truly, madly, deeply appreciated.

5-star fan fave ‘Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge’ is featured today at Kindle Nation Daily. It’s also a sponsor for their Kindle Fire giveaway! Check them out for instructions on how to enter.

Says Publishers Weekly: “Plausible sleuthing and smart characterizations combine for a winner.” (BookLife)

For those who didn’t know, The Twist Podcast is hosted on Libsyn, along with many other fine podcasts. Libsyn recently updated their podcast pages and I think it’s very nice looking. Of course, you can also listen at TheTwistPodcast.com, or on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and YouTube. Are you listening?

Join co-hosts Rick Rose and Mark McNease for news and opinion with a Twist. This week: a look at the headlines, art matters, Boomer dreams at the grocery store, and Oxford’s new word order.

Enjoy The Twist Podcast on iTunes, Libsyn, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and YouTube. Are you listening?

It’s a looooong story, involving changing hosts six years ago, thousands of posts and media files, and, most recently, a beloved but corrupted website. The only solution was to migrate lgbtSr.org to lgbtSr.com, which I’d owned anyway but didn’t use because … it’s a long story.

We’re still here after six years, minus a recent few months spent at a remote mountain location. Times have changed dramatically since the last election, and we must do what we can, including keeping this site going. All posts from the past six years at lgbtSr.org are still online, but the website now redirects to this lovely, clean, fresh site. Enjoy it, and remember, happiness is a new subscriber!

Mark McNease/Editor