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Fiction Makes the Perfect Stocking Stuffer: LGBTQ Book Giveaway Starts Today!
You can read your way into the New Year with over 50 LGBTQ fiction titles available through January 15. Just CLICK TO BROWSE and start downloading directly from BookFunnel. You’ll find authors such as Marshall Thornton, Darby Horn, L.C. Mawson, Daniel De Lorne, Kat Silver, Brad Graber, me of course, and many more.
Subscription to an author’s email list is required. So sign up, download, and start reading today. And remember, murder never takes a holiday.
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Book Review: Dear Child, by Romy Hausmann
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez
Dear Child, by Romy Hausmann
c.2020, Flatiron Books $26.99 / $36.50 Canada 368 pagesThere’s no one else like you in the world.
No one with the same tongue-print or identical ear shape. Nobody else has your memories, and every experience you’ve ever had is unique to you alone. You might favor one parent or other, you may have a twin or a doppelganger, but in the end, you are one-of-a-kind. You’re irreplaceable but, as in the new novel, Dear Child, by Romy Hausmann, someone can sure try.
Hannah was sure that Sister Ruth wasn’t too smart.
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Lee Lynch’s Amazon Trail: But …
Photo by Sue Hardesty By Lee Lynch
The Amazon TrailBut…
The year 2020 wasn’t a total bust except for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who should not have died or have been permanently harmed by Covid 19. In the U.S., many lay those deaths and disablements at the hands of the greedy, power hungry 2020 administration and its followers.
Personally, I’ve been taking inventory of the bad and the good with my sweetheart, and finding some surprises.
Yes, over seventy-four million Americans voted to keep the traitorous officials in office, but eighty-one million plus voted to restore our democracy.
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The Twist Podcast #145: Post-Pandemic Daydreams, Curly Fried Waiters, and the Week in Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our second show in December, the month we’ve been waiting for forever. We imagine life after COVID, shout out a boo or two, discuss the GOP’s wall of delusion, and examine the week in headlines.
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Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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Save the Date! Ten Killers Killing … and a BookBub Deal
Homicide for the holidays! I’ll be having a 10-book Christmas sale from December 24 – 29, including a BookBub Featured Deal for my newest, Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery. Those Featured Deals are hard to get, so I could not be happier. Ten killers killing … and a great end to a difficult year.
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The Twist Podcast #144: A Very COVID Christmas, Remembering World AIDS Day, and Delusions of Unity Danced in Their Heads
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our post-Thanksgiving show. We take a look at this very COVID Christmas, a remembrance for World AIDS Day, and the fantasy of unity gripping half the country while the other half guzzles the Kool-Aid. Plus funnest headlines from the past week. Fasten your headphones!
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Copyright 2020 MadeMark Publishing
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Q Audiobooks: Inside Dumont, Narrated by Author Michael Craft
Inside Dumont
By: Michael Craft
Narrated by: Michael Craft
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-15-18
Language: EnglishPublisher: Questover Press
Author, craftsman and master storyteller Michael Craft’s novel, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories, was recently released on audiobook, available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
Narrated by the author himself, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories uses interconnected viewpoints to tell a touching, funny, intricate narrative about lead character Marson Miles’s later-life journey toward discovery—of himself, his desires, and his place in a town called Dumont.
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And the Twist Podcast 5th Anniversary Giveaway Winners Are …
Congratulations to David, Yvette, Rajee, Stephen, Jackie, and Linda. They’ve each won a Twist Podcast coffee cup or T-shirt (winner’s choice) as we celebrate 5 years of the show with co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose.
Fasten your headphones as we head into the next five years! And thanks for listening.
Mark & Rick
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Q Audiobooks: The Gay Revolution, Written by Lillian Faderman, Narrated by Donna Postel
The Gay Revolution
By: Lillian Faderman
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-13-15
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor AudioThe Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Written by Lillian Faderman, Narrated by Donna Postel
The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights – the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers – is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles, with all the sweep, depth, and intricacies that only an award-winning activist, scholar, and novelist like Lillian Faderman can evoke.
The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s, the counter reaction of the 1970s and early ’80s, the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic, and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.
©2015 Lillian Faderman (P)2015 TantorQ Audiobooks features audiobooks for the LGBTQ listener. Hearing is believing …
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The Twist Podcast #143: Thanksgiving Special, This Week’s Boos, and the Never Ending Headlines
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose for our pre-Thanksgiving show. We take a look at the never-ending election, nominate this week’s Boo-to-yous, scan the headlines, and oh so much more.
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A New Goodreads Giveaway! 100 Kindle Editions of ‘Reservation for Murder’
New book? New Goodreads giveaway! I love my Goodreads fans and always offer a giveaway with each new book. Starting today, you can enter to win one of 100 Kindle editions of Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery. Winners will be selected at random by Goodreads and each one will received a Kindle edition of the book. Winners will be chosen on December 15. JUST CLICK HERE to enter with your Goodreads account and watch your email when the giveaway ends.About Reservation for Murder: A Kyle Callahan Mystery
It’s been several years since Kyle Callahan sought the help of a New York City therapist to overcome the trauma of his encounter with a serial killer, and just as long since his investigation into a teenage girl’s murder brought down the Manhattan District Attorney. He and his husband Danny Durban have decided to move away, to start a new life in the idyllic river city of Lambertville, New Jersey. They have friends there. They’ll have peace and quiet. They can leave the hustle and bustle and stresses of America’s biggest metropolis behind.
They open a bed and breakfast, and soon discover that murder and mayhem are waiting to check in. There’s a writers conference in town, with big names and big egos heading for a clash—and a killing—of titans. No sooner has the ink dried on the guest registry than Kyle finds himself pursuing another murderer, this one closer to home than they’ve ever come. He enlists the help of his old friend and local resident Linda Sikorsky, once a detective on the New Hope, Pennsylvania, police force. The two of them follow one lead after another in a race against time until the shocking truth is exposed.
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Extended Audiobook Sample of ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller’ Now Available for Listening!
You can now enjoy a four chapter sample of the audiobook edition of ‘Beautiful Corpse: A Marshall James Thriller,’ directly from Book Funnel. Just CLICK HERE to listen or download. And if you’d like to hear the rest, it’s available at Audible and Amazon. Fasten your headphones!
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The Twist Podcast #142: Our Post-Election Party Down Let’s Move On Already Edition (Video Bonus Included)
Join Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we autopsy the 2020 presidential election, complete with suggestions for Secretary of Rainbow Sprinkles, a shout out to the trans community, and a prayer for peace.
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