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Now Available: “My Right Leg Is Tastier Than My Left” by Andrew John Rainnie, a Travelogue with a Twist!

Released June 3, 2012:

In 2011 screenwriter, filmmaker and journalist Andrew John Rainnie quit his life to follow his dream and travel the world. Relive the adventures as he charts this exciting and turbulent journey, often mixing his trademark blunt yet comedic opinions of the places he visits with deep personal insights into his past. What emerges is a poignant, poetic and often humorous insight into the lifestyle of a globetrotting aficionado, a mix between On the Road and An Idiot Abroad.

The 342 page book charts Rainnie’s adventures through South-East Asia, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, South American, North America and Canada. Each chapter opens with a photograph from the vast well collected during the author’s adventures. While many travelogues have been written, Rainnie speaks with a frank, often brutal manner, offering those who may be thinking of travelling solo a rare, unique insight into the physical and emotional difficulties faced alone on the open road, as well as the pleasures of escaping the daily rat race.

The book is available from  Amazon’s Kindle store, as well as on other eReader formats via  Smashwords for £0.77 / $0.99. The book should be available on Apple’s iBookstore in the near future.

To find out more about the author, or to contact him, please visit http://www.andrewjohnrainnie.com.

About Andrew John Rainnie

Andrew hails from the town of Renfrew, Scotland. He studied English Literature and Film & TV at the University of Glasgow, as well as a postgraduate degree in Screenwriting at Bournemouth University.

In 2006 he moved to London to pursue a career in screenwriting and filmmaking, finding work as a freelance script consultant while continuing to write short and feature film scripts. A number of his short film scripts have been produced and screened across the world. He has directed two of his own scripts; Sugar (2008) and The Collector (2012). The latter, based on a short story by American author Jonathan Lethem, will be debuting at the London East End Film Festival in July 2012.

He has recently completed his first fictional novel, “Spirits of Vengeance: The Stone of Spirits”, which he hopes to publish in the near future.

About Smashwords

Founded in 2008, Smashwords operates the world’s leading ebook publishing and distribution platform serving authors, publishers, readers and retailers. Smashwords makes it free and easy for the world’s authors and publishers to instantly publish and distribute their books as multi-format ebooks. Smashwords puts authors and publishers in full control over the pricing, sampling and distribution of their works. Authors and publishers receive up to 85 percent of the net proceeds from sales of their works.

Smashwords has distribution relationships with leading online retailers such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony and Diesel eBooks, and leading mobile e-reading apps including Aldiko, Stanza, Kobo, FBReader and Word-Player, spanning all major mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry and iPhone. Privately held Smashwords is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at http://www.smashwords.com. Visit the official Smashwords blog at http://blog.smashwords.com.

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NOW AVAILABLE for PRE-ORDER from SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS Jane Cassady’s “For the Comfort of Automated Phrases”

“TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN HEART IS DANGEROUS
AND JANE WANTS US TO KNOW THE RISKS…” 


For the Comfort of Automated Phrases
by Jane Cassady 

Author Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Featuring Cover Art by Amy Lawson
Release Date: July 17, 2012

$14.95; ISBN: 978-1937420-17-8
6 x 9 Perfect-Bound Paperback; 76 Pages 

Review Copies and Author Interviews Available
Publisher Telephone: (870) 723-6008
Publisher Email: info@siblingrivalrypress.com
Author Email: serotoninfactory@gmail.com 

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

For the Comfort of Automated Phrases is a bottle of wine on a blanket in the park. It’s a night on the couch with your girlfriend, your boyfriend … or both of them. It’s making soup for a friend with a sick child. It’s the beautiful unpretentious. At its heart, this is a book of love poems written starry-eyed to board games and geography, to pop culture and pop music, to nephews and cats and cities and singers. Cassady’s full-length debut is the poetic equivalent of a mix tape – one you’ll keep rewinding and replaying – one that could easily be the soundtrack to your life.

ADVANCE PRAISE:

“In this dance, I’m running toward you.”  For the Comfort of Automated Phrases contains some of the best cautionary poetry since Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. To live with an open heart is dangerous and she wants us to know the risks.”–Brendan Constantine, author of Birthday Girl with Possum

“Jane Cassady is the voice of the details that make life ducky, scary, and curious. For the Comfort of Automated Phrases fine tunes moments and fears to the point that they are at once deeply personal and completely universal. It’s a map of places so specifically everywhere, of people that everyone knows, of those deep worries of every heart. These poems read you like an open book.”–Shanny Jean Maney, author of I Love Science!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jane Cassady probably wants to hug you. She writes “Poetic License Horoscopes” for Sibling Rivalry Press, The Legendary, and Critical Mass, the Philadelphia City Paper’s arts and culture blog. Her poems “In 1992,” “Almost Immediately,” “It Got Better” and “For the Comfort of Automated Phrases” can be heard on Indiefeed: Performance Poetry. She has been featured in decomP, The Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Lavender Review, and other journals. She has performed at such venues as LouderArts in New York City, Valley Contemporary Poets in Los Angeles, and The Encyclopedia Show in Chicago. She also writes a blog about happiness, love, and pop-culture called  The Serotonin Factory.

ABOUT THE PRESS

Located just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, Sibling Rivalry Press develops, publishes, and promotes outlaw artistic talent. Our aim is to cultivate literary and poetic rock stars. We are also home to Assaracus, one of Library Journal‘s Best New Magazines.

SRP NEWS

Also from Sibling Rivalry Press: Tyler Gillespie’s Dirty Socks and Pine Needles: An SRP eBook Single. Says Franki Elliot, author of Piano Rats, “Gillespie elegantly uses his storytelling to weave his strange, off-kilter childhood memories into a collection of melancholic beauty. Gillespie’s stories are brave, honest, and seamlessly told with an innocence that has the ability to unlock the dark memories most have buried in their consciousness. There is no better talent than turning heartache into beauty.” Available from Amazon’s Kindle Store or in all eBook formats directly from Sibling Rivalry Press.

Sibling Rivalry Press welcomes a new Associate Editor, Seth Pennington, to the family. Seth is a rising senior at the University of Arkansas Little Rock where he majors in Creative Writing. We’re also excited to announce we’ll be the publishing home of two names familiar to Assaracus readers, Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek, who will each publish a full-length book of poetry with SRP in 2013.

New Release May 10, 2012: “Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World” Edited by Red Haircrow

From Flying With Red Haircrow:

Description: “This is an imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved, he loved with all his heart and soul.

A former sex worker and later a husband, he was an amateur activist and philosopher, a startlingly intelligent, passionate individual able to intensely appreciate even the small wonders of the world and the people for whom he cared.

Part diary, part dialogue, part rhetoric, “Silence Is Multi-colored in My World” is based on actual experiences and is a literary portrait of a man with nothing to hide and everything to reveal. It is a slice into the willing veins of a mental and emotional free bleeder.”

Genre: Biography, Memoir, GLBTIIQ

Publishing: May 10, 2012

Publisher: Flying With Red Haircrow

ISBN: 9781476164861

Availability: Smashwords, OmniLit, Rainbow Ebooks,  and other online distributors.

Introduction:

Who am I?

I am G.Y.S., a profoundly deaf man. I have blue eyes and red hair, which I wear long. I am gay and Russian, and was born in 1978 in the Ukraine, but I moved myself to Germany when I was fourteen. You’ll learn how and why later.

My words are a mélange of impressions, memories and observations for I love many things and am distressed by many things. I have wandered to a number of countries and enjoy meeting people and getting to know new ideas and perspectives. I find the world both a fascinating and terrible place.

Photography, Nature, Overcoming Disabilities, Inter-societal Understanding, and Love are some of the topics that interest, concern and keep my attention. In writing about me I wish I could have said something clever, unique or witty, but this is simply me: sometimes I’m silly, sometimes I’m angry, sometimes you may find me annoying or overly sad but I’m always honest and sincere.

Flash bits about me? I have a beautiful pink “Grecian” style nightgown I love to wear. I once blew up a vacuum cleaner (not on purpose!). I prefer to sleep during the day but I’m not a vampire. Sometimes I hate being bothered to eat because chewing is usually necessary but can be so very boring.

Other works from Flying With Red Haircrow:

Night Shift

Katrdeshtr’s Redemption

The House of Doom, Dreams and Desire

The Coat: Secrets of a Hatcheck Boy

The Angel of Berlin

Enigma,Enigma Book 1

Fighting The Man, Enigma Book 2 (Released May 9th)

Non-fiction:

Songs of the Universal Vagabond

CORE: A Poetry Collection (Upcoming release)

About Red Haircrow:

“Red Haircrow is a writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, private chef, reviewer and former law enforcement officer of Native American (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) descent who lives in Berlin. Red is also completing a degree in Psychology, and operates the indie publishing label “Flying With Red Haircrow”, which opened on 31 October 2010.

Both traditionally and independently published, Red chooses to inject realism into their fictional work and happily ever after is not always in the mix though love and strong characters always are. Like life, there’s a bittersweet mixture of laughter and tears, and Red imbues their writing with the power, passion and range of emotions they’ve experienced.

Non-fiction articles are direct, willing to ask the hard questions yet considering of open-minded discussion. You can view Red’s non-fiction memories and articles at their website and others. Among other things, Red loves photography, traveling, learning languages, and spending time with friends. The two-spirit author is active in Native American affairs, and can also be found playing RPGs, browsing 2nd hand shops and savoring the meditative Zen of archery with the medieval Longbow.”

Links:

Website/Blog: Songs of the Universal Vagabond

Flying With Red Haircrow Review/Interview site

Red Haircrow on Twitter

Facebook Fanpage: The Redhaired Crow

LinkedIn Profile for Red Haircrow

Goodreads Author’s Profile Page

Amazon Author’s Page

Redhaired Crow’s YouTube Channel

Interviews with Red Haircrow:

By Lisa At Top 2 Bottom Reviews

At The Indie SpotlightAuthor Spotlight

At 1PlaceForRomance

By Sally Sapphire, At Bibrary Book Lust

By Sarah Black, At Romance on the Lunatic Fringe

New Release May 9, 2012: “Fighting The Man” by Nephylim, Book 2 in the Enigma Series

Now available at Flying With Red Haircrow:

Fighting the Man, Book #2 of Enigma

ISBN: 9781476469577

Available at Smashwords, All Romance Ebooks,

and soon other online distributors

Description:

“Silver has been freed from sexual slavery and settled down with River, his lover and former patient, yet cracks begin to form when it becomes increasingly obvious that the stress of constantly having to care for Silver, begin to tell on River. When River’s parents die, leaving him to care for his 12 year old brother it, at first, seems that the introduction of the lively twelve year old into the mix was going to do them all the world of good. However, when spiteful relatives involve Social Services, the previous flaws nearly rip them all apart.

Faced with the dilemma of keeping either Ben or Silver at home and sending the other to stay with Sam, a personal friend, River chooses responsibility for his brother over his love and concern for Silver. Things come to a head when a series of misunderstandings lead Silver to believe River doesn’t love him anymore and that everyone is secretly ashamed of him because of his past. After running away, Silver reasons the only place he can fit in is with his own kind and he sets out to search of a new “home.”

At the Theatre de la vie he meets Tony, a club owner with big ideas, who ‘looks after’ a group of young men who dance and “entertain” patrons of the club. There, among others, Silver finds Ariel, an ephemeral little minx with a knack for getting into trouble, Alex, the big hearted mountain of muscle, and Asher. With Asher, a former sex slave like himself, Silver finds a kindred spirit and soon finds himself falling for the beautiful, broken boy.

Together, Ariel and Asher show Silver a whole new way of looking at the world, a transformation echoing the sleeping chrysalis of his soul, and soon his inner self emerges as the beautiful butterfly he was always meant to be. Yet as happy as he is with his new friends, Silver eventually realises he truly misses River and intends to return to his side, but a dark figure from his abusive past returns to threaten both a possible reunion and the very ones who would protect Silver.”

About the Author

Born into a poor but loving mining family in the United Kingdom, Nephylim grew up in the beautiful and history rich South Wales Valleys, becoming the first in her family to attend university. As a lawyer practicing Family Law for several years, the profession allowed Nephylim to learn more about human nature at its worst and best moments, and develop empathy and a view of life not limited by social standing or background.

Tapping into the heritage of her people that throughout Earth’s ages welcomed the wandering bard into the hearts of their villages as keepers of lore, Nephylim trained as a Druid and brings the richness of her Celtic past and spiritual training to enrich and elevate her writing.  Since a child Nephylim has been fascinated with other worlds, which exist within and alongside her own and has reveled in creating worlds and characters for others to enjoy.

Despite lack of family support, Nephylim continued writing privately and eventually found the Gay Authors website. With the positive response and a warm welcome received, she found the confidence to pursue her passion to a greater degree. Feeling gay fiction was a woefully neglected corner of the market where readers were all too often presented with what amounted to erotica, Nephylim strives to write quality gay fiction where sex and sexuality is not the central premise. Instead, concentration is given to character and narrative development through storytelling that goes beyond the physical.

Nephylim still resides in Wales, UK, and enjoys writing, reading, art, and taking part in medieval reenactments.

Links/Contact

http://shadowofthefallen.co.uk/

http://www.gayauthors.org/nephylim/index.html

http://nephylim-author.blogspot.com/

On Goodreads.com.

Book #1 in the Enigma Series:

Description: Troubled residents come and go at the Care House where River Caulfield is a caregiver, working towards fulfilling his dream of becoming a nurse. When Silver arrives, a patient found on a roadside near death after suffering terrible abuse, River finds his previous personal detachment is compromised. Seeking to help the mysterious and enigmatic young man locked inside his own mind and memories, River finds his professionalism slipping as Silver begins to open up and live again.

But as their relationship begins to blossom, the roots of Silver’s past abuse and the abuser who forced him into such a mental state sends forth new shoots of darkness enveloping them in dangers threatening not only Silver’s sanity, but their very lives. With River’s devotion and help, will Silver finally be able to break away from his past? The answer lies in the words of a priest, a painting and a long walk through a churchyard harbouring the secrets of the enigma that is Silver.

Title: Enigma, Book 1 in the Enigma Series

By: Nephylim

Published by: Flying With Red Haircrow

Publication Date: 3 December 2011

ISBN: # 9781465837509

Genre: Gay Suspense, Contemporary Fiction, Romantic Drama

Available at Smashwords, All Romance Ebooks, and other online distributors.

Interviews With Nephylim

At Dawn’s Reading Spot

Michael Offutt’s Blog

Rising Up From the Ashes by Phoenix

Upcoming Events:

  • Look forward to free giveaways and contests upcoming on Nephylim’s website and while she participates in the blog hop in May, “Hop Against Homophobia!”
  • On May 10, 2012, Nephylim will be a part of the “Meet the Author” on Love Romances Café, so be sure to join up and drop by from 12pm-6pm Eastern Time Zone, at this Yahoo web group.