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Now available – Cockeyed – Richard Stevenson

by mlrnet on Aug.31, 2010, under New Releases

Title Cockeyed
Donald Strachey Mystery series #11
Author Richard Stevenson
ISBN# 978-1-60820-096-2 (print) $14.99
ISBN# 978-1-60820-097-9 (ebook) $7.99
Release Date August 2010
Cover Artist Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback: 228 pages
   
Available At: MlrBooks [ebook]
Amazon [paperback]
   

When Hunny ‘You go, girl!’ Van Horn, Albany’s flaming-est working-class flamer, wins the state lottery’s first billion-dollar payout, his chaotic life gets even messier. It’s PI Don Strachey who’s brought in to deal with the skeletons tumbling out of Hunny’s non-closet, some violent. The eleventh Strachey novel is part mystery, part screwball comedy, and entirely serious in its exploration of the multiple ways of being gay in America.

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MLR Press’ newest author – William Neale’s HOME

by mlrnet on Aug.17, 2010, under Announcements, New Releases

MLR Press welcomes William Neale and his first book HOME is now available.

Title Home
Author William Neale
ISBN# 978-1-60820-212-6 (print) $14.99
ISBN# 978-1-60820-213-3 (ebook) $6.99
Release Date August 2010
Cover Artist Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback: 211 pages
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Laura Baumbach – Winner Takes All

by mlrnet on Aug.03, 2010, under New Releases

Title Winner Takes All
Author Laura Baumbach
ISBN# 978-1-60820-181-5 (ebook) $3.99
Release Date August 2010
Cover Artist Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback: 57 pages – Short Story
   
Available At: MlrBooks (ebook)
   

Two vampires face off in a deadly bet that has the winner claiming everything the loser owns—including the loser’s innocent, unaware human offspring.

This short story is part of the Blood Claim print anthology.

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Anthology – Because of the Brave

by mlrnet on Aug.03, 2010, under New Releases

Title Because of the Brave
Author Laura Baumbach, Josh Lanyon, Z.A. Maxfield
ISBN# 978-1-60820-107-5 (print) $14.99
Release Date August 2010
Cover Artist Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback: 176 pages
   
Available At: MlrBooks (ebook)
   

This collection honors the men who’ve served in the military and labored with the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

In Laura Baumbach’s Designated Target a soldier returns to his commander’s hometown to tell his brother the truth about what happened in the field.

Josh Lanyon’s Until We Meet Once More pits a Naval Academy graduate against the Taliban and his own repressed past.

Finally in Z.A. Maxfield’s Jumping Off Places a soldier returns home to be with his dying mother and finds more than he bargained for in the place he’s hoped to never see again.

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Stevie Woods – West of El Pilar

by mlrnet on Jul.24, 2010, under New Releases

Title West of El Pilar
#3 in the Tomcat series
Author Various
  978-1-60820-178-5 (ebook) $3.99
Release Date July 2010
Cover Artist Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback: 106 pages
   
Available At: MlrBooks (ebook)
   
Tracking another of Uncle Roger’s more outrageous theories concerning a special crystal skull, Ian takes Mac back to Central America where together they search for a hidden temple near the huge archaeological site of El Pilar which straddles the border of Belize and Guatemala. After searching for weeks, Ian knows he is close. He has found the plaza and the causeway and now the palace, the temple has to be here! Whatever Ian hoped for it most certainly was not an attack by two determined thieves who will stop at nothing to get their way.

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Illustrated Men Anthology

by mlrnet on Jul.24, 2010, under New Releases

Title Illustrated Men
Author Various
ISBN# 978-1-60820-148-8 (print) $64.99
  978-1-60820-149-5 (ebook) $16.99
Release Date July 2010
Cover Artist Michael Breyette
Paperback: 164 pages
   
Available At: MlrBooks (ebook)
   
A thousand words, a single picture…

Since artists are often called up to turn prose into a visual for such things as book covers, I wondered, would writers be able to pick up the creative torch and run in the opposite direction? I had little doubts they could and it got me excited wondering what they would come up with for my own pastel paintings.

So with that in mind I thought it would be fun to launch a contest and invite friends, fans of my art, amateur scribes, professional writers, really anyone who wanted, to pick a painting from my body of work and build a short story around it.

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. I wanted to find out if that was true.

Art-inspired short story contributors for this collection include: L. John Williams, Todd Schoonover, Veronica, Aleksandr Voinov, Marquesate, Linda Schnelle, John Stewart, George Seaton, Gabriel Morgan, Alan Bennett Ilagan, Todd Peissig, Harold Dixon, Justin Shepherd, Clare London, and artist Michael Breyette.

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S.J. Frost – Keys to Love

by mlrnet on Jul.19, 2010, under New Releases

Title Keys to Love
#3 in the Conquest series
Author S.J. Frost
ISBN# 978-1-60820-158-7 (print) $14.99
  978-1-60820-159-4 (ebook) $6.99
Release Date July 2010
Cover Artist Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback: 278 pages
   
Available At: MlrBooks (ebook)
   
For two years, Julian Forrester’s been playing keyboards and piano for Conquest. Having left behind a classical career, he’s reached a level of fame like he’s never dreamed. But fame and fortune can’t bring him the one thing he wants most; love.

Morgan Chandler spent years teaching students to love music until budget cuts forced him out of a job. With family debts rising, Morgan accepts a job as a roadie for Conquest. He thinks he’ll hate it with one exception—he’ll be close to Julian.

Can the two find the right music together that will lead them to the Keys to Love?

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