Joely Sue Burkhart’s The Road to Shanhasson is up for best book of 2009 at Long and Short of It (Whipped Cream). Please stop in and vote and read Holly’s review.
“I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who loves a lot of action, a lot of passion and lots of steamy romance. Like the previous book in the series, this one is not for the faint of heart. If you want a simple “happily ever after” this is not the book for you. But if you want depth of characters and excellent storytelling, Joely Sue Burkhart comes through with one fantastic book. I can’t wait for the next one.”
To read more of this review go here. To read an excerpt of The Road to Shanhasson go here.
Marissa of Marissa’s Booklair posted her review of Joeyly Sue Burkhart’s The Rose of Shanhasson.
“Joely Sue Burkhart creates a rich and layered story by interlacing different elements like world-building, characterization, fantasy, suspense and romance perfect to a tee. It has been a while that a story took me by surprise and left me breathless, but Joely Sue Burkhart did it. The Rose of Shanhasson is intense, erotic, dark and addictive from start to finish, a perfect read!”
To read more of this review go here. To read an excerpt of The Rose of Shanhasson go here.
Romance Novel Review’s Patrice F. posted her review of Meredith Holmes’s Unseelie.
“The desire to keep on towards the end seemed downright hypnotic. My words may even be a bit inadequate in describing Unseelie. This is a rare, amazing, and thoroughly researched story. In a long line of books from this genre, this one captures the deepest realms of Faerie and the Fae without strangling you with scholarly language until you can’t stay awake to decode another sentence. Well done, Ms. Holmes.”
To read more of this review go here. To read an excerpt of Unseelie go here.
Drollerie Press is pleased to announce the launch of Flyleaf Press, our LGBTQ imprint, for which Joselle Vanderhooft has graciously agreed to serve as Senior Editor. The imprint is launching with a call for submissions for its first anthology:
Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic
edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff
We’re looking for stories about lesbian-identified sorceresses, witches, magicians and magic users of all kinds. Lesbian and trans protagonists are welcome. All stories must include a woman who identifies as a lesbian and who uses magic. The definition of magic is open to interpretation-surprise us, dazzle us, make us believe in all different kinds of magic all over again!
What we don’t want:
No erotica (we love erotica, just not for this anthology); no poetry (we love it too, just not for this anthology); no romance as the primary story plot arc (as in: this story only exists to bring these two characters together)-but romantic subplots are welcome; no fanfiction.
Please query with your story idea before you get started writing your story-we’d like to cut down on duplications as well as off-topic submissions (plus it wastes less of your time if you’re thinking of something we already know we don’t want).
Compensation is an equitable distribution of royalties based on word count.
Word count: 3-8K per story
Submission window: Feb. 15 – May 15, 2010
Submit queries and questions to: helleboreandrue@drollerie.com
JoSelle Vanderhooft is the editor of the Gaylactic Spectrum-nominated anthology Sleeping Beauty, Indeed and a poet with several collections to her name, including: Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts & Monsters, The Memory Palace, The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice-Told and Ossuary, which was a finalist for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award. She has also written one novella, “The Tale of the Miller’s Daughter” and one novel, Ebenezer, which will be released from Drollerie Press in time for Christmas 2010. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah where she works as the assistant editor of a gay and lesbian newspaper and spends the time she isn’t writing collecting perfume, making jewelry and playing with her cats.
Catherine Lundoff is the award-winning author of two short story collections, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing and Night’s Kiss, and the editor of Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories. Her stories have appeared in over 70 publications in different genres and she teaches writing classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Website: http://www.visi.com/~clundoff.
Submissions to Flyleaf Press for other projects are not yet open but will be announced soon.
Please mark your calendars and join us on February 28 at 9:00 PM Eastern time as we talk with Teri Riggs, the author of the upcoming police procedural The Eyes Die Last, about her book, and and her experience with the Brenda Novak auction. We’ll also talk about what DP will be doing for the auction this year (hint: a lot!). We’ve invited Brenda and her incredible assistant Anna, and at last word they expect to be able to pop in; we’ll keep our fingers crossed. We’ll also have the rest of our February releases and will be giving away a copy, but you’re sure to leave with at least one book if you come–you’ll receive a free PDF of The Eyes Die Last if you promise to blog, tweet, or otherwise chatter about the auction (though we hope you’ll talk about the book, too).
