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When: Sunday, June 20, 2010 Time: 14.00 - 16.00
Place: Hamburger Mary's Cedar Rapids
222 Glenbrook Dr SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
Novelists Joshua Dagon, Brett Edward Stout, and John Riley Myers will be each be reading from their works and discussing the experience and process of writing, publishing, and promoting first novels.
The authors will be available after the discussion to sign books and chat one on one.
Demon Tears by Joshua Dagon
Paperback: 382 pages
Publisher: Breur Media Corporation (February 21, 2007)
ISBN-10: 097899552X
ISBN-13: 978-0978995522
Amazon: Demon Tears
Bishop Robert Patrick had no sympathy at all for the gang of stupid boys who'd befriended the demon. They'd been enthralled, to be sure, but that didn't entirely excuse their complacency. It had taken him years to track down the demon, the skotos, but he'd finally cornered it in Los Angeles. The city, Robert discovered, was positively teeming with hedonists and homosexuals, tweakers and twits, deviants and demons. Despite the attractive, human form the skotos had assumed, Robert recognized it. The time to act had come. The demon would be put back where it belonged, contained among the treasures of the Church for the rest of time. True, matters were complicated by the crew of stupid, stupid boys. Maybe they were clueless, and therefore innocent, but it didn't matter. Robert had everything he needed: the ancient vessel of brass, the enthusiastic support of the Church, and through obvious signs and inspiration the unquestionable direction of the Divine. The final confrontation was inevitable, sweeping aside the sinful and the sacred alike. Unfortunate about the boys. Robert would pray for them. In this startling and deeply moving conclusion to The Fallen, Joshua Dagon takes his characters and his readers on an exhilarating ride generously filled with humor, excitement, personal exploration, and often surprising wisdom. For three months, Nick, Darren, and their friends have been living it up with the generosity of the fallen angel, Marbas. But another ancient and powerful demon has been chasing Marbas, with plans of her own... Without compromising his clear compassion for every one of his characters, Joshua Dagon takes an unflinching look at the perils of blind faith, prejudice, and arrogance. Demon Tears leaves us with the hope that even the most desperate of us can ultimately become more than what we are.
Sugar-baby Bridge by Brett Edward Stout Paperback: 362 pages
Publisher: Breur Media Corporation (August 4, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0981947417
ISBN-13: 978-0981947419
Amazon: Sugar-baby Bridge
When what's expected to be a one-night stand is followed by an offer to visit a lakeside cabin in Tahoe, Brad postpones his flight back home to Hawaii. After all, what's waiting for him back there except the vague prospect of life after the Marine Corps? Besides, he is curious about Ron, the wealthy older man making the offer, who seems to be both intelligent and competent-but also dangerously reckless. And so it is that Brad finds himself mingling with the very, very elite while bit by bit discovering more of Ron's unsettled past-and all the while pondering his own unsettled future.
Prince of the Pharisees by John Riley Myers Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Breur Media Corporation (November 13, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0981947425
ISBN-13: 978-0981947426
Amazon: Prince of the Pharisees
Prince of the Pharisees is a raucous social satire on the current state of politics, religion, and sex in this country. The ensemble cast of characters includes the reigning queen of family values, a brassy black lesbian journalist, a charismatic conservative U.S. senator determined to be the Republican presidential nominee and a lonely drag queen searching for his biological family. Their lives intertwine in the days leading up to the Republican convention in 2012 with tragi-comic consequences. Disappointed by wedge politics used to sow hate, author John Myers has put into words a dream that came to him in the final days before the 2004 election. An active volunteer in Barack Obama's U.S. Senate campaign, Myers served as Chairman of the campaign's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Committee. Long before Sarah Palin used her Down Syndrome child as a political prop, long before John McCain attempted to ride his POW experience into the White House, long before Idaho Senator Larry Craig got caught cruising an airport men's room, and long before the religious right stormed Washington to protest George Bush's successor, John Myers brought to life a vivid tale that eerily foresaw the dark rumbling forces that threaten to destroy the social fabric of this nation.
