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Françoise Sagan (21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager. She had life long friendships, like the one with Juliette Greco, who remained close until the end, with Yves Saint-Laurent, a young man who heads an empire, with writer and journalist Bernard Frank, with former Opera dancer Jacques Chazot and Peggy Roche, designer, lover and muse of elegance. She had a relationship with wealthy heiress Ingrid Mechoulam, who isolated her from the rest of the world.
Sagan was married twice. On March 13, 1958, she married her first husband, Guy Schoeller, an editor with Hachette, who was 20 years older than Sagan. The couple divorced in June, 1960. In 1962, she married Bob Westhof, a young American playboy and would-be ceramicist. The couple divorced in 1963; their son Denis was born in June 1963. She then had a long-term lesbian relationship with fashion stylist Peggy Roche. She also had a male lover, Bernard Frank, a married essayist obsessed with reading and eating. She added to her self-styled "family" by beginning a long-term lesbian affair with the French Playboy magazine editor Annick Geille, after Geille approached Sagan for an article for her magazine. (Photo: Peggy Roche photographed by Lothar Schmid for French ELLE, December 1974)Sagan was born in Cajarc (Lot) and spent her early childhood in Lot, surrounded by animals, a passion that stayed with her throughout her life. Nicknamed 'Kiki', she was the youngest child of bourgeois parents – her father a company director, and her mother the daughter of landowners. Her family spent the war in the Dauphiné, then in the Vercors. Her paternal great-grandmother was Russian from Saint Petersburg. Although she later attended university, she was an indifferent student, and did not graduate.
Juliette Greco with Jacques Chazot and Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan had life long friendships, like the one with Juliette Greco, who remained close until the end, with Yves Saint-Laurent, a young man who heads an empire, with writer and journalist Bernard Frank, with former Opera dancer Jacques Chazot and Peggy Roche, designer, lover and muse of elegance. She had a relationship with wealthy Ingrid Mechoulam, who isolated her from the rest of the world.
Françoise Sagan & Catherine Deneuve
Françoise Sagan was married twice. In 1958, she married her first husband, Guy Schoeller, an editor with Hachette, who was 20 years older. The couple divorced in June, 1960. In 1962, she married Bob Westhof, a young American playboy and would-be ceramicist. The couple divorced in 1963; their son Denis was born in June 1963. She then had a long-term lesbian relationship with fashion stylist Peggy Roche. She also had a male lover, Bernard Frank, a married essayist obsessed with reading and eating.
Annick Geille with Bernard Frank and Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan added to her self-styled "family" by beginning a long-term lesbian affair with the French Playboy magazine editor Annick Geille, after Geille approached Sagan for an article for her magazine. In his memorial statement, the French President Jacques Chirac said: "With her death, France loses one of its most brilliant and sensitive writers – an eminent figure of our literary life." Sagan's life was dramatized in a biographical film, Sagan, directed by Diane Kurys, released in 2008.
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Storm Constantine (born 1956) is a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series. 
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For sure the story wins the originality badge for the choice of shifter: at first I thought it was a problem of my English knowledge, cause I was reading the story, and going through the first shift of Jake, and still I didn’t know which shifter he was. When also Vaughn had the same issue, I understood it was not me, but actually the key point of the story. Due to this, I will actually not say it, I think the author wanted for the discovery to be part of the enjoyment of reading the story, enough to say, this is probably the reason why you should read the story.
For a short story I thought both characters, but especially Josh, were well developed. The first scene, with Josh leaving New York and mourning the loss of his house was so sad, but so good to put the reader in Josh’s shoes; also the following travel back to Texas, all Josh’s life stowed in the trunk of his car, just a step before living on the streets, and that step is Josh’s father home, an homophobic father who will never accept Josh being gay. And then the first day at his new construction job, Josh meets Zach, a man who can be his dream man.
Considering I liked a lot the previous one, Love Is in the Title, there is no wonder I liked also this one; again, despite this being a short story, the feeling was of something bigger, of a whole novel concentrated in little more than 40 pages.