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Marie Sexton (born February 11)
Feb. 11th, 2015 04:32 pm
Marie Sexton lives in Colorado. She's a fan of just about anything that involves muscular young men piling on top of each other. In particular, she loves the Denver Broncos and enjoys going to the games with her husband. Her imaginary friends often tag along. Marie has one daughter, two cats, and one dog, all of whom seem bent on destroying what remains of her sanity. She loves them anyway.Strawberries for Dessert won a 2010 Rainbow Award as Best Gay Contemporary Romance. Song Of Oestend won a 2011 Rainbow Award as Best Gay Fantasy. Blind Space won a 2012 Rainbow Award as Best Gay Sci-fi/Fantasy.
Further Readings:
Promises (Coda Series) by Marie SextonPaperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (January 8, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615813780
ISBN-13: 978-1615813780
Amazon: Promises
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Part of the Coda Series
Jared Thomas has lived his whole life in the small mountain town of Coda, Colorado. He can't imagine living anywhere else. Unfortunately, the only other gay man in town is twice his age and used to be his teacher, so Jared is resigned to spending his life alone.
Until Matt Richards walks into his life, that is. Matt has just been hired by the Coda Police Department, and he and Jared immediately become friends. Matt claims he is straight, but for Jared, having a sexy friend like Matt is way too tempting. Facing Matt’s affair with a local woman, his disapproving family, and harassment from Matt’s co-workers, Jared fears they'll never find a way to be together—if he can even convince Matt to try.
Strawberries for Dessert (Coda Series) by Marie SextonPaperback: 242 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (August 6, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615815503
ISBN-13: 978-1615815500
Amazon: Strawberries for Dessert (Coda Series)
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When Jonathan Kechter agrees to a blind date with Cole Fenton, he expects nothing more than dinner and a one-night stand... but he gets more than he bargained for in Cole. Cole is arrogant, flamboyant, and definitely not Jon's type. Still, when Cole suggests an arrangement of getting together for casual sex whenever they're both in town, Jon readily agrees. Their arrangement may be casual, but Jonathan soon learns that when it comes to Cole Fenton, nothing is easy. Between Cole's fear of intimacy and his wandering lifestyle, Jonathan wonders if their relationship may be doomed from the start-but the more Cole pushes him away, the more determined Jon is to make it work.
Song of Oestend by Marie SextonPaperback: 412 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (October 26, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0857157477
ISBN-13: 978-0857157478
Amazon: Song of Oestend
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Symbols have power... Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths - mysterious creatures which come in the night and kill anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never had reason to believe the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch on the remote Oestend prairie, he soon learns that the wraiths are real. Aren suddenly finds himself living in a supposedly haunted house and depending on wards and generators to protect him from unseen things in the night. As if that’s not enough, he has to deal with a crotchety old blind woman, face “cows” that look like nothing he’s ever seen before, and try to ignore the fact that he’s apparently the most eligible bachelor around. Aren also finds himself the one and only confidante of Deacon, the BarChi’s burly foreman. Deacon runs the BarChi with an iron fist and is obviously relieved to finally have somebody he can talk to. As their relationship grows, Aren learns there’s more to Deacon and the BarChi than he’d anticipated. Deacon seems determined to deny both his Oestend heritage and any claim he may have to the BarChi ranch, but if Aren is to survive the perils of Oestend, he’ll have to convince Deacon to stop running from the past and finally claim everything that’s his.
Blind Space by Marie Sexton Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Marie Sexton (January 19, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0991415302
ISBN-13: 978-0991415304
Amazon: Blind Space
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Captain Tristan Kelley enjoys the luxuries of Regency service, as well as the pleasure of his Prince’s bed. It’s an easy life, if not a happy one. When the Prince decides to take a trip through the perilous Blind Space, Tristan must go with him, but somebody in the Prince’s guard is a traitor. Blind and held prisoner, Tristan finds himself at the mercy of Valero, a pirate who bears no love for the Regency. Valero is determined to seduce Tristan, and Tristan fears his resolve won’t last. His duty is clear, but so is his desire. As the days tick by with no word or ransom from the Regency, Tristan begins to question what loyalty means to his Prince, the Regency he’s sworn to, and to the man who holds him captive. He begins to realize that being a prisoner may actually set him free.
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Bob Randall won a 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special for David's Mother. 
John Wallowitch (February 11, 1926 – August 15, 2007) was an American songwriter and cabaret performer. He wrote over 2,000 songs; his works include "Bruce", "I See the World Through Your Eyes", "Back on the Town" and "Mary's Bar". For over 50 years he played and sang a catalogue of original songs at nightspots around New York City. He is also known for his sophisticated takes on the songs of Irving Berlin. Who knew in 1967, when he met the partner of Martha Graham, Bertram Ross, that he had found another elegant clown to share his passion? John and Bertram's love story, both on and off stage, is told in Richard Morris and Sue Gandy's 1998 documentary, Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment. It shows the two stars performing at the former Ballroom, the cabaret where their act debuted in 1984. Just to see them is to smile. John sits at the piano looking like a naughty professor; Bertram, handsome as a statue of a Roman general, stands erect with a tongue-in-cheek hauteur. Then he'll point a finger and sing, in the voice of a Yiddish businessman on his deathbed: "Cohen owes me ninety-seven DOLLAHS/And it's up to you to see that Cohen pays!" 
Wallowitch was born in the Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia. He attended Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School, Vare Junior High School, Central High School and Temple University in Philadelphia. Wallowitch spent his youth in a desolate neighborhood in South Philadelphia, dreaming about moving to New York. He finally arrived there in his late teens to study classical piano at Juilliard. In order to survive, he played rehearsal piano for shows, among them Leonard Sillman's New Faces of '52, and began to play at the Duplex, a Greenwich Village saloon.
Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time by Elisa Rolle
Edward Nicholas Backes, known to most as Nick Backes, passed peacefully from this life on the afternoon of February 11, 2013, surrounded by his family. He was born on January 2, 1950, to George Medford Backes and Billie Mae Backes. Nick was preceded in death by his mother, Billie Backes; brother, John Kinghorn; and his beloved partner of thirty-five years, Ron Martin. He is survived by sisters, Frances Calaway and Virginia Marchand. (Published in The Oklahoman on March 17, 2013) (P: OK - Let's Talk, 18" x 24" )
Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time by Elisa Rolle
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