Event: Romance Story Voting Begins

You, the reader, get to decide who wins the 1PFR Romance Story Contest

for Rising Stars and Published Authors!

Read each excerpt then vote for your favorite in the Rising Stars and the Published Authors categories. Vote only once in each category.

One voter in each category will be selected at random to receive a $25.00 gift code from 1PFR!

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Rising Stars:	Published Authors:
ANNA BIRMINGHAM ~ THE TRAVELING SHOW	SCOT D. RYERSSON ~ SUMMER'S LEASE
C.E. HART ~ PIPER'S PASSION COOKIES	L.C. DEAN ~ TOO HOT TO HANDLE
KATIE HARPER ~ BEST SERVED COLD	SELESTE DELANEY ~ FOREVER SUMMER
C.C. WILLIAMS ~ SUMMER STOCK	CLAIRE MATTHEWS ~ MAKING SUMMER LAST
JAMALLAH BERGMAN ~ THE SUMMER I FOUND LOVE	ADERA ORFANELLI ~ AN UNDERCOVER FLING

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Event: Romance Story Voting Begins

You, the reader, get to decide who wins the 1PFR Romance Story Contest

for Rising Stars and Published Authors!

Read each excerpt then vote for your favorite in the Rising Stars and the Published Authors categories. Vote only once in each category.

One voter in each category will be selected at random to receive a $25.00 gift code from 1PFR!

Read the Excerpts

Rising Stars:	Published Authors:
ANNA BIRMINGHAM ~ THE TRAVELING SHOW	SCOT D. RYERSSON ~ SUMMER'S LEASE
C.E. HART ~ PIPER'S PASSION COOKIES	L.C. DEAN ~ TOO HOT TO HANDLE
KATIE HARPER ~ BEST SERVED COLD	SELESTE DELANEY ~ FOREVER SUMMER
C.C. WILLIAMS ~ SUMMER STOCK	CLAIRE MATTHEWS ~ MAKING SUMMER LAST
JAMALLAH BERGMAN ~ THE SUMMER I FOUND LOVE	ADERA ORFANELLI ~ AN UNDERCOVER FLING

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Event: DAVID PRATT & FELICE PICANO in the Castro

Date: 06/23/2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Books Inc. in the Castro
2275 Market Street, San Francisco, 94114

DAVID PRATT, author of Bob the Book and FELICE PICANO author of True Stories read, sign, and converse.

Bob the Book by David Pratt
Paperback: 202 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions; First edition (October 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984470719
ISBN-13: 978-0984470716
Amazon: Bob the Book

Just what is a 'gay book'? -A book attracted to books of the same gender! Meet 'Bob the Book,' a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park' and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners and readers are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work? Read 'Bob the Book' to find all the answers.

True Stories by Felice Picano
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions (March 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984470778
ISBN-13: 978-0984470778
Amazon: True Stories

From author Felice Picano, co-founder of the path breaking Violet Quill Club, comes a new collection of memoirs, many of which have never appeared in print. Picano presents sweet and sometimes controversial anecdotes of his precocious childhood, odd, funny, and often disturbing encounters from before he found his calling as a writer and later as one of the first GLBT publishers. Throughout are his delightful encounters and surprising relationships with the one-of-a-kind and the famous-including Tennessee Williams, W.H. Auden, Charles Henri Ford, Bette Midler, and Diana Vreeland.

Event: DAVID PRATT & FELICE PICANO in the Castro

Date: 06/23/2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Books Inc. in the Castro
2275 Market Street, San Francisco, 94114

DAVID PRATT, author of Bob the Book and FELICE PICANO author of True Stories read, sign, and converse.

Bob the Book by David Pratt
Paperback: 202 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions; First edition (October 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984470719
ISBN-13: 978-0984470716
Amazon: Bob the Book

Just what is a 'gay book'? -A book attracted to books of the same gender! Meet 'Bob the Book,' a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park' and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners and readers are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work? Read 'Bob the Book' to find all the answers.

True Stories by Felice Picano
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions (March 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984470778
ISBN-13: 978-0984470778
Amazon: True Stories

From author Felice Picano, co-founder of the path breaking Violet Quill Club, comes a new collection of memoirs, many of which have never appeared in print. Picano presents sweet and sometimes controversial anecdotes of his precocious childhood, odd, funny, and often disturbing encounters from before he found his calling as a writer and later as one of the first GLBT publishers. Throughout are his delightful encounters and surprising relationships with the one-of-a-kind and the famous-including Tennessee Williams, W.H. Auden, Charles Henri Ford, Bette Midler, and Diana Vreeland.