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On the Map: Provincetown Paradise with a Side Trip to Wellfleet
On the Map is a feature at LGBTSr.com offering travelogues and recommendations. Narration provided by Wondervox.
By Mark McNease
As we come to the end of another annual trip to Provincetown, I’m reminded why we value our visits here. Frank has had a timeshare for 35 years or so, at a place called Eastwood at Provincetown. It’s like a sprawling motel complex on the far east side of town, and has been very lesbian-centric for years. Plenty of gay men, too, but a lot of women come here. This time I noticed several children with their opposite-sex parents, and I found myself hoping it’s not losing its edge. We’ll see.
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On Dreamshaping: The Slippage of Time
Are human beings the only animals aware of time passing? Do cats know they’re getting old? Do fish ever wish they’d swum in this direction instead of that one? Is a tree concerned at all with the number of years it has stood rooted in one spot?
When we were children, most of us had occasion to hear those words, “When you’re older …” We were told that someday we would be able to drive a car, or go on a date, or leave home. Patience was required, tested by anticipation and desire. We waited because we had to, and each time we reached that milestone, that magical “older,” and we got our driver’s license, or we went on a first date, we looked ahead to the next thing we could experience when the time came.
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The Twist Podcast #237: Married 10 Years, COVID Double Whammy, and An Interview with Keto Baker Rebecca Hall
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we congratulate Mark and Frank on 10 years of marriage, hear how awful a second bout of Covid can be, and enjoy an interview with Keto Baker Rebecca Hall.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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New Video Promo for Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella
Chapter 3 goes up this weekend. I’ll be offering an audio sample of the first three chapters as well. Be sure to ‘like’ the chapters after you’ve read them! Harry’s a badass. Here’s the Amazon link:
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‘Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella’ Now a Kindle Vella Exclusive!
Harry Hell has lived in my head for several years now, and he’s finally found a way out! Intended as a three-book series, the Harry Hell Novellas have begun as a Kindle Vella serial, with a new chapter coming out every Sunday. The first three chapters of every Vella story are free to read, then subsequent chapters are accessed with token you can purchase for the stories. CLICK ON OVER and read the first, intense beginning of Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella.
About Dead Eyes:
The year is sometime in the distant future. Planet Earth remains inhabitable, but only by those on the extremes: the wealthy, in their fenced-in fortresses, and everyone else killing or being killed to survive another day. Harry Hell strides atop the have-nots, having once been an elite assassin for Control, the ultimate authority that maintains what’s left of order. He chose the harder life after his partner and lover Raul was murdered by the villainess Nectar. Since then he has lived for one reason only: to take revenge. He is determined to watch her eyes go cold as she exhales one last time and dies by his hand.
Meet Harry Hell, Crater, Echo, Nectar, the Witch Woman, and many others as they prowl the Ruins, travel in and out of the Slopes, and watch from afar as the distant, gleaming Eastward reminds them of everything they’ve lost. As much a love story as a tale of revenge, Dead Eyes begins a journey of one man, with one mission, who is prepared to destroy it all to get what he wants.
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New Website Header
New era, new drive. This is the image I’ve used for all the new Kyle Callahan Mysteries covers. Truth in advertising: I write mysteries, thrillers, horror … and so much more.
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Hot August Giveaway: All 6 Kyle Callahan Mysteries Free for 6 Days!
Get all 6 of my Kyle Callahan Mysteries FREE on Kindle from August 1 – 5. CLICK HERE to see all my books. New covers, new regular price, new adventures await for Kyle and the gang.
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My Interview on Daniela Acitelli’s YouTube Vlogcast
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Interview: 6 Questions for Dave Hughes, Author and Founder of Retire Fabulously
Shared from LGBTSr.com
By Mark McNease
I’m delighted to share a new interview with someone I consider a longtime friend, inspiration, and fellow go-getter. Dave Hughes started his website, RetireFabulously.com, ten years ago. We managed to connect, considering some shared demographics with LGBTSr.com. Since then we’ve had many communications and several interviews. I believe he offers some of the best advice on retiring and living in retirement, and he’s now a novelist as well. Can you say dynamo? Enjoy the latest ‘6 Questions’ interview with Dave, and hopefully he’ll inspire some readers to pursue their goals as well, whether you’re retired or not. – Mark
Dave Hughes Congratulations on 10 years of Retire Fabulously! What’s the 411 on Dave Hughes for readers: who/what/where/why.
I enjoyed a reasonably successful career as a software engineer. That’s a broad job title, but at various times in my career, my responsibilities included writing code, customer support, training, and management. Overall, it was very enjoyable. It certainly paid better than being a jazz musician, which was my true passion (and still is). I spent the last 17½ years of my career at Intel Corporation where, in addition to my regular job, I was very active in their diversity and inclusion initiatives, primarily on behalf of LGBTQ employees.
I’m originally from Ohio. I lived in the Washington, DC suburbs for 11½ years before moving to warm, sunny Phoenix, Arizona in late 1995, at age 38. At the time, my motivations were to move to someplace where it doesn’t snow and freeze, and where the cost of living (especially real estate) was much less expensive. At the time, I wasn’t considering where I’d retire, but as it turns out, Phoenix is an excellent place to retire – at least for me.
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Kyle Callahan Mysteries Get a Cover Refresh (and a New Price)
It was time to breathe some new life into my Kyle Callahan Mysteries. I love these new covers, and the eBooks are now just $2.99 on Amazon.
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The Weekly Readlines July 19
Quote for the times: “Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.” – the late Larry Kramer, true as it ever was
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Actors joined writers on strike, when SAG-AFTRA walked out over stalled contract negotiations.
Republicans assured defeat of the must-pass Defense bill by stuffing it with anti-women, anti-LGBTQ amendments meant to thrill the base but cripple the military. We predict the extortion will fail.
And California voters will have the chance to right a wrong by repealing Prop 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban, with a vote in 2024. Be careful what you wish for, they could keep it.
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Idaho ‘Abortion Travel Ban’ Challenged By LGBT Group
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New Video Promo for ‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery,’ Audiobook Out Now, Narrated by Daniela Acitelli
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‘Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery’ Audiobook Out Now, Narrated by Daniela Acitelli
It’s out! My newest audiobook, Open Secrets: A Maggie Dahl Mystery, narrated by the terrific Daniela Acitelli, is now available. It’s our fourth audiobook together. Listen to a three-chapter sample.
Publisher’s Summary
Maggie Dahl returns in Open Secrets. It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved and a year since her beloved husband, David, died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then, one morning, a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.
Soon, a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to kill for? And who murdered the woman found in the woods? Maggie is determined to find out, even as her life continues its road back to normal, complete with the possibility of new love.
Can she find the answers she seeks in the death of a local celebrity? And will love be part of her life once again when she least expects it?
©2022 Mark McNease (P)2023 MadeMark Publishing