GayRomLit Ebook Giveaway: Timothy McGivney - Vampalicious

I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Albuquerque in October (http://gayromlit.com/authors.php) a personal favor, a special Ebook Giveaway: every day I will post 1 book from each author, and among those who will leave a comment, I will draw a winner. Very easy and very fast ;-) I will send a PM to the winner, so remember to not leave anonymous comments! (comments close on August 30)

And the ebook giveaway goes to: xamaque, please contact me.

Today author is Timothy McGivney (http://timothymcgivney.com/)

Vampalicious by Timothy McGivney
Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: MLR Press (August 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1608207218
ISBN-13: 978-1608207213
Amazon: Vampalicious
Amazon Kindle: Vampalicious

After barely surviving the first brutal days of a zombie apocalypse, doomsday lovers Joey and Walt find themselves at the mercy of two blood deprived vampires; Santos, a charming sociopath once idolized by millions and his out of control progeny, Jeanette, hell bent on a quest for the unattainable. Also caught in the crossfire is lone vigilante Taco, fearlessly searching for her beloved's killer.

In a world now dominated by flesh craving zombies, humans and vampires must forge a new existence, learn to trust and live amongst one another, or face certain annihilation at the hands, and the jaws, of the undead...

Around the World: Hong Kong

A little late in posting this but I had two very busy days....





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Always Forever by Ansh Das

The main question this memoir left me is: did AD meet Mikee too late or just in time? From the blurb of the book, you know that Mikee is dead and that his lover AD is attending his funeral. You start the book thinking you will read about a passionate love story, boy meets and loves boy, they will live happily ever after but fate has other plans. In any case the feeling is, this is a long term couple that only death shall part… and instead you open the book and read this date: 10 March 2011. And it’s now August 2012, and the book is already printed and released, so how is that possible?

AD is flying to Manila to attend the Mr. Gay World competition as web reporter and the first day, 10 March 2011, he meets Mike Francis, Francis for his foreign friends, Mikee for his family. I don’t think AD likes Mikee at first, but there was something pulling him to the guy. As an epiphany, when AD sees Mikee’s angel wings tattoo, he realized Mikee is the love of his life. He would do everything for living this story, even moving to Manila from Hong Kong. But then, on 26 May 2011, not even 3 months after they met, Mikee is dead, and AD is coping with the loss. Or not coping. The strange thing is that AD didn’t really know Mikee until he is dead; while attending Mikee’s funeral, he has the chance to meet Mikee’s family and friends, to start to understand who Mikee really was and what he wanted from life. AD will also understand that Mikee’s reticence to talk about their future together was since Mikee knew they didn’t have a future together. AD is really a fatalist guy, very into spiritual things and dealing with your emotional side, so, strange as it sounds, he is accepting Mikee’s death, what he is not accepting is that he, at first, doesn’t understand what was the meaning of meeting Mikee. The aftermath of Mikee’s death will give him the chance to grasp that meaning.

This memoir was written like an outpouring of emotions into papers. It’s not perfect, sometime I wanted to tell AD, stop doing that, but that is the difference of memoirs and novels, memoir is life and it doesn’t have a carefully planned plot, and you cannot chance an event since you don’t like it.

If I have to be true, I have the feeling that AD and Mikee were not destined to be a long term couple. They were too different, in age, in culture, in social status, even in their beliefs. AD met Mikee for a reason, and you will understand it reading this book, but the reason was not a love story. Truth be told, AD and Mikee don’t have neither the time to decide if there was or not a love story between them; at today, AD considers himself Mikee’s husband, he adopts Mikee’s surname, and he made Mikee’s family his own. But I think AD will find love sooner or later, and Mikee will be always a cherished memory, or at least I hope for him.

Amazon: Always Forever: From the depths of sorrow begins a journey of hope
Amazon Kindle: Always Forever: From the depths of sorrow begins a journey of hope
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 23, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1477422269
ISBN-13: 978-1477422267

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LGBT Ebook and Print Releases August, 2012

(Un)Masked by Anyta Sunday and Andrew Q. Gordon (Dreamspinner Press)
A Brown Eyed Handsome Man by DC Juris (Torquere Books)
A Fighting Chance by Andi Penn (Torquere Books)
A Guitarist in the Fae Queen's Court (Fae Connections) by Amber Kell (Silver Publishing)
A History of Women's Menstruation from Ancient Greece to the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Social, Medical, Religious, and Educational Issues by Glenda Lewin Hufnagel and Carolyn Stout Morgan
A Matter of Trust by A. C. Katt (MLR Press)
A Touch Of The Son by Barry Lowe
Age of Mycea: Age of Mycea: Circle Trilogy (Volume 1) by Leigh Jarrett
Alaska Hunt by Shelter Somerset (Dreamspinner Press)
All Stirred Together by Z.A. Maxfield
All Wrapped Up by Laylah Hunter, Thea Hayworth, Gryvon and Morgan Harcourt (Storm Moon Press)
Alphabet City by David Clive Price
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) by François Soyer
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Rainbow Awards: Cover Contest (August)

This is the last poll for Round 1, with August eligibility period for the 2012 Rainbow Awards is closed and so are the entries for the cover contest.

- in round 1 there will be 12 slots, 1 for each month in the Submission period (from September 2011 to August 2012).
- in parallel with the poll, a special jury will vote the covers; the jury is composed by: Damon Suede, Dylan Rosser, Jodie, Julie, Max Rhyser, Mitzie, Tammy.
- you can vote as many covers as you want, using the poll in this post or "liking" the cover on FB (I prefer the poll, it's easier for me, and you can vote logging with FB, Twitter or other accounts)

Most Voted Covers last round:


Dreamer


Tattoos & Teacups (Shobana Appavu)


Technically Dead (Shobana Appavu)


All My Crimes


Stamp of Fate (Shobana Appavu)

All the covers are here:

http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/2012CoverContest_12August.htm

or here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.471517912882296.109656.100000722741394&type=3&l=0ef4be85bd

and here is the poll:

[Poll #1862970]