2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: The Sacred Beasts Bev Jafek

The Sacred Beasts Bev Jafek
Lesbian - Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing (October 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1943837465
ISBN-13: 978-1943837465
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Ruth, a brilliant zoologist and geologist, has just retired with her lover, Katia, to her family home in the southern tip of Argentinean Patagonia. Ruth conceives a unique way of dealing with her grief over Katia’s sudden suicide with the creation of an outdoor art garden made of cast-off objects and garbage. Sylvie, a young French artist, is drawn to the art garden and she and Ruth discover that they are kindred spirits. They travel to Spain’s Costa Brava and then on to Barcelona—Ruth filtering the world through her feminist political and zoological/environmental perspective, and Sylvie capturing the world around her with a vivid, penetrating artist eye. Together they discover a new vision of liberated women: sacred beasts.

2017 Rainbow Awards Submission: Under the influence cat mac

Under the influence cat mac
Lesbian - Poetry
Paperback: 70 pages
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing (October 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1943837422
ISBN-13: 978-1943837427
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Cat Mac's first collection of poetry, set in Vancouver, B.C. and Mexico, is about a poet growing up in the sixties, in a home of multiple addictions, who gets out from under negative influences, comes out as a lesbian, and becomes a healthy, happy poet-singer-songwriter. She received the Milieu Emerging Writer's Award for under the influence in 2004.