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Coffee: Hot News and My Media Reviews

22 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by averyvanderlyle in GLBT, miscellany, stories, writing

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Hope you all are having a wonderful summer.  The Coffee: Hot Anthology is due out on August 4th, and here is the cover!  I love it, don’t you?

 I’ll be participating in a blog tour in which six of the authors in the anthology interview each other.  I’m looking forward to that and I’ll be posting more about it as the interviews start coming in.  I’ve never been interviewed about my writing before (or about much of anything – job interviews don’t count).

In between getting ready for the release and working on the first draft of a new story, I’ve been entertaining myself with a couple of things that might be of interest:

Book:  Puxhill by Night:  Lesbian Erotic Urban Fantasy, by Michael M. Jones.  Published by Circlet Press, 2015

I love connected short stories, and Jones’ eight stories all take place in Puxhill, a city where bartenders rub elbows (and other body parts) with goddesses, innkeepers cast spell from ancient books, and comic book shops come with sexy secrets.  The setting is creative, the characters are real, the sex is hot, and you’ll long for more — and a bus ticket to Puxhill.

Digital/Online:  Sense8, created by the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski. Netflix streaming.

When eight people from around the world are suddenly connected, able to sense each others’ surroundings and utilize each others’ skills, they have to figure out how to use this synergy and stay one step ahead of mysterious forces who want to disable or destroy them.

I want to call this the “queerest show on television,” but it’s not on TV.  The show starts with two characters in same-sex relationships (including a trans woman in a lesbian relationship), and the sensory connections between the eight blur some characters’ sexuality further as the season progresses.

In some ways Sense8 reminds me of the first season of “Heroes,” but it’s much more character focused as each of the eight deal with personal challenges in their lives that are sometimes simplified and sometimes complicated by their new abilities.  If you enjoyed the philosophical and religious musings as much as the action in Babylon 5, or loved the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas film, get yourself a Netflix subscription (there’s a free month trial), and try Sense8. The entire twelve episodes of the first season are available.

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My published stories

New! "Deflowered" in the anthology A Beastly Affair from Circlet Press. Published December 18, 2017.

New! You can listen to "Deflowered" as episode 394 of the Nobilis Erotica Podcast.

"Passage, Performance, Passion" in the anthology Like a Spell 2 from Circlet Press. Published October 12, 2017.

"The Ruby" in the anthology Starstruck from Dreamspinner Press. Published September 12, 2016.

"Drink to Seal the Bond" in the anthology Coffee: Hot from Circlet Press. Published August 4, 2015.

Mirrors, the Moon and the Boy" in the anthology Forgotten Menagerie from Storm Moon Press. Published October 15, 2013.

"Fugue in Gold and Fire"in the anthology Dracones from Storm Moon Press. Published May 17, 2013.

"Sounthern Exposure" Free Read from Storm Moon Press in honor of Earth Day!

"Thicker than Blood" e-book published by Storm Moon Press. Published August 3, 2012. Currently out of print.

"New Tides" in the Anthology Animal Magnetism published by DreamSpinner press. Available August 13th, 2012, in e-book or paperback.

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