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BOOK: Kelland & Remastering Jerna AUTHOR: Paul Bens & Ann Somerville
DATE: Friday, October 30
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco
ABOUT PAUL BENS: A native Kentuckian, Paul Bens has lived in Los Angeles for the past twenty-five years and has worked in just about every segment of the entertainment industry. His short stories have appeared in Cemetery Dance, HeavyGlow, Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, Outsider Ink, Chick Flicks, Twisted Tongue, The Egg Box, Scared Naked, and Bleeding Quill. Kelland, a dark look at truth and lies and all of the gray areas in between, marks Bens' debut as a novelist.
KELLAND: When the Truth is All That Matters
The truth begins with a family evacuated from Saigon during the final days of the Việt Nam War. Or perhaps it begins later, with a devoutly Catholic child with the voice of an angel who is troubled by visions both sacred and profane. Or perhaps later still, with a couple drifting apart following a tragedy.
Kelland appears to them all in the guise of a small boy, a lover, a priest...Kelland is an enigma, a puzzle, and an almost imperceptible presence. Kelland is violence, sorrow, and joy. Kelland is the common thread tying five disparate strangers together.
Amazon: Kelland
ABOUT ANN SOMERVILLE: Author of the Darshian series of novels, including the immensely popular Kei's Gift, Ann Somerville is a native of Queensland, Australia, and a prolific author of gay speculative fiction. After many years living in London, she has returned home and now writes full time. She holds multiple degrees in science, history and literature, and her partner is a zoologist, so her head is full of occasionally useful knowledge about amazingly useless things. A complex novel of dominance and submission, Remastering Jerna, is the first of three books to be published by PD Publishing, and Ms. Somerville's appearance at A Different Light is likely to be her sole U.S. appearance for a number of years. REMASTERING JERNA: In a world not unlike our own, Jerna Setiq has a perfect life, a beloved wife and two adored children, with his past desires and needs firmly put behind him. But when he’s falsely accused of child abuse and imprisoned, he’s cast into hell, with no apparent means of redemption, or regaining all that he’s lost.
In the most unlikely of places, in the most unpromising of circumstances, fate offers Jerna his second chance and a path to freedom. With the cruelly fascinating Tolomy, a dominant in need of education and a patient submissive, Jerna dares to satisfy the long denied passions of his dual nature – but will he risk losing what has become so dear to him, all over again?
Remastering Jerna is a complex, erotic story of redemption, love, and the contract of trust in a relationship of control and submission.
Amazon: Remastering Jerna
