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27 December – Dari & Rob continues their story in “Gigi’s Surprise” from JMS Books!

Coming 27 December from JMS Books, the Gigi duo of Dari & Rob continuing planning for their future together:

LONG BLURB:
After years apart and a joyful reunion, Special Agent Rob and Forensic Psychology student Dari are finally together and working out the details of their future. Yet during an in-home “get-away” weekend, Rob gifts Dari with a surprise they’ve craved all their life but also reveals a decision contradicting everything his partner has known about him. Their love is strong, their relationship committed, but how will such major changes affect their survival as a couple in a climate of political upheaval?

SHORT BLURB:
After years apart, Special Agent Rob and forensic psychology student Dari are finally a couple, but an in-home “get-away” weekend brings both joyful surprises and anxiety causing revelations about the future.

SOCIAL MEDIA BLURB:
Some surprises and revelations can give even happy couples anxiety!


Here’s Dari and Rob’s first story, “Gigi!” where you learn how they met and fell in love at a little convenience store in Deep South Alabama. If you read the genre, and would like a copy, let me know!

Description: “Too effeminate, too soft, too brown, Darren was a disappointment to his ex-military father almost since birth, but growing up in a small-town Alabama middle-class family, he lived a comfortable if lonely life … until coming out. Soon homeless with little more than the clothes on his back, he found work in a convenience store, living in the moment, shell-shocked and quietly hurting.

Rob barely survived the foster care system and set himself the goal of becoming a special agent, keeping others safe and protecting those in need. A job at the gas station is a means to that end, paying for his college courses while he hones his body and mind. Focused, driven, and disciplined … until he meets Darren. Will he risk his future to teach the vulnerable young man survival skills of the heart and body, or is there no chance for them to have a happy ending?”

https://www.jms-books.com/red-haircrow-c-224_598/gigi-p-5265.html

Book trailer on YouTube https://youtu.be/KXQkEWb_1XU?si=lPQwFS1nqf5c_xNm

Red Haircrow included the Forthcoming collection: “IndigePop: A Companion” Edited by Seibel & Dlaske

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IndigePop: A Companion

by Svetlana Seibel (Volume editor)Kati Dlaske (Volume editor)
©2024Edited CollectionVIII, 304 Pages
The Arts

Series: Genre Fiction and Film Companions, Volume 16
Forthcoming!

Summary:

“Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining momentum since the turn of the twenty-first century. This edited collection brings together contributions by scholars, artists and practitioners who work with and in the field of Indigenous popular culture in various capacities, from different standpoints and in a range of geopolitical contexts. This approach aims at promoting a dialogue between diverse sites of knowledge production of and on the Indigenous popular at the same time as it reflects the multivocal, multimedial and multisited landscape of contemporary Indigenous popular culture. The contributions in the volume engage both the poetics and the politics of IndigePop, showcasing the creative and celebratory energies of Indigenous popular culture and Indigenerdity as well as their societal significance vis-à-vis Indigenous resistance, resurgence and political struggles.”

Details
Pages, 304
Publication Year 2024
ISBN (PDF): 9781803743097
ISBN (ePUB): 9781803743103
ISBN (Softcover): 9781803743080
DOI: 10.3726/b21220
Language: English

Keywords:
IndigePop, Indigenerdity, Indigenous popular culture, contemporary popular culture, Indigenous popular art, Indigenous literature and media, Indigenous Comic Con, IndigiPopX

Published: Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2024.

Book Launch on 31 March – “Varied Spirits – An Anthology” on Transgender Day of Visibility

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Varied Spirits – An Anthology – Volume 1
edited by Manuel Ricardo Garcia and Red Haircrow

Arriving 31 March 2023, and will be available in print & ebook, which is already open for pre-order.

Contributors include Ana Oihan Ametsa, Vyacheslav Konoval, Hexe Fey, Dana Ravyn, Kat, C.S.W. Henry, Rachel Andeen, Lara Holy, Folami Bayode and Fierce Grandmother.


Dedication: To all our transgender, non-binary, genderfluid, Two-Spirit relatives known and unknown, who have been natural, vital parts of families, communities and societies since the beginning of time, and who continue to support, nurture, build bridges, heal and love human beings.

Description: “We live in societies designed to crush our bodies and spirits, that seek to compartmentalize and confine us in every way, especially into heteronormative roles and bodies although gender, sexuality, even intelligence are naturally on a spectrum.

Variance, the state of being varied, is often seen as negative. Yet skills such as adaptability and variability helped our ancestors survive, and today are essential in gaining and maintaining balance, well-being and mindfulness. Being trans and/or also part of other minoritized or marginalized groups adds extra challenges for being accepted as who you are, of just living your life, of feeling safe in society, in your home, in your body.

This is the first volume of “Varied Spirits”, an anthology and collection of thoughts, expressions and stories gathering and celebrating the dignity, the sacrifice, and the beauty of our lives, loves and living. Of our spirits.”

Cover art by Folami Bayode, cover design by Red Haircrow.

Coming September 23rd-A Short Story & Novella Collection by Red Haircrow

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From the author of “The Agony of Joy”, winner of the Global Ebook Awards 2013 in Best LGBT Fiction, Variance is a collection of ten short stories and novellas by Red Haircrow ranging from contemporary to fantasy, the surreal and thought-provoking to the innocently poignant.

Although some see “variance” as suggestive of disharmony, it can be the reality of achieving, understanding, expressing and conveying a variety of emotions, schools of thought, relationships, personalities, and more, without limitation, exhibiting the ranges possible within one’s being.

As a story collection, Variance displays the range of a multi-talented poet and author who has been described as having a “magnificent command of language” and “a gift for descriptive prose.”

  • Publishing first at Smashwords
  • Words: 66,334 (approximate)
  • Language: American English
  • ISBN: 9781301063123
  • Price: $5.99

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contemporary Fiction

Night Shift

The Caravaggio & The Swan

The Coat: Secrets of a Hatcheck Boy

Convenience Store Romance

Fantasy

The Angel of Berlin (Urban)

A Lieutenant’s Love (Historical)

Katrdeshtr’s Redemption (Dark/Vampire)

Surrealism

We, The Dead (Visionary)

Children of Light (Ancient)

The House of Doom, Dreams and Desire (Sensual/Horror)