Don't Ask by Laura Hughes

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Don't Ask

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Cat and Mike have been best friends forever, but freshman year of high school finds them growing apart. Cat proudly flies her freak flag; Mike tries to fade into the background. Cat checks out the gay pride group; Mike joins the military club. It’s fall 2010, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is still in effect. Mike likes that -- he doesn’t want to ask or tell.

While Mike falls in love with the military club’s values of strength, honor, and courage, Cat falls in love with Calliope, an impossibly sophisticated sophomore girl. Her world is a roller coaster of grand gestures, romantic declarations, and messy, public drama. Mike is quieter with his feelings, but he’s finding it harder and harder to deny them -- especially his crush on the guitar-playing new boy. The safety of DADT is beginning to feel more like a burden. Mike believes in courage, but who is the brave one? Can these two best friends, more alike than they know, find their way back together?

by Laura Hughes
Pages: 200 / Words: 55500
ISBN: 978-1-61040-461-7
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT
Age Rating: Edgy Young Adult

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The Easter Bunny by Charlie Purcell

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The Easter Bunny

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Jeff has always found comfort in the sense of community he gets from his church. He grew up with these people, and they know everything about him… except that he’s gay. When a cute, new boy shows up as a volunteer Easter Bunny, Jeff decides to finally make a move, but the choices he makes on this Easter Sunday could completely change the life he’s always known.

by Charlie Purcell
Pages: 13 / Words: 3400
Genre: Prizm Pinch, Contemporary
Age Rating: Young Adult

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The Shroud Eaters by Alyx J. Shaw

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The Shroud Eaters

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In this day of modern health and sanitation, few consider vampires more than a charming myth, a sexy little fantasy for when we are home and safe, and the street lamps and house lights keep away the night.  But what happens when the lights fail, and old horrors rise from the grave to show they are no myth?

Deirdre has been a vampire since the 1600s, has seen a lot of history and knows quite a bit about her own species as well. She knows that there are many more types of vampires than the ones seen in movies and on TV. The modern version of the vampire is not an accurate one, and she also knows that being a vampire herself doesn't keep her safe from her own kind. A whisper in a graveyard, a shuffling footstep outside the door, the low, steady droning moan of the mindless undead are all warnings. For centuries she has managed to stay safe, but when she chances to meet a vampire of her own century, she is unaware that a monster is on his trail.

And now that monster is seeking her as well…

by Alyx J Shaw
Pages: 240 / Words: 71000
ISBN: 978-1-61040-440-2
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal/Horror
Age Rating: Young Adult
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Author Extra: Human Aspect by Elizabeth L. Brooks

Human Aspect by Elizabeth L. Brooks

Non GLBT

Dauch has never doubted his clan's wisdom: Humans are fit only as prey and
slaves to the shapechanging lochmari. Nor has he ever doubted his place in
his clan: As the Warleader's son and heir, his only true rival is his
despised cousin, Afel. But when, on the very cusp of manhood, he spies human
lovers in the lochmari forest, he is suddenly faced with questions he had
never thought to ask -- and a dangerous new infatuation. Dauch hopes to find
a way to embarrass his rival and gain the woman he wants, but his anger and
obsession will only pave the path to his doom unless he can learn something
no lochmar has ever known before: how to love.

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Author Extra:

I love the idea of watching the world through the eyes of a "bad guy". I
love diving into their heads and figuring out what makes them tick.

Are they seeking revenge? Wounded and simply lashing out indiscriminately?
Do they have a mental disorder such as sociopathy or psychopathy that makes
them incapable of empathy for their victims?

Or maybe it's a matter of culture.

In "Human Aspect", the lochmari are indisputably the bad guys of the world.
These warrior shapeshifters raid human villages, stealing supplies and
taking prisoners for slaves, and they have absolutely no remorse about it.
To the lochmari, humans are merely another species of animal. Not only that,
but the very survival of the lochmari depends on those slaves they take.

My main character, Dauch, is a product of this culture. He's a warrior's
warrior, highly competent, indifferent to pain, (mostly) obedient to the
chain of command, contemptuous of those who don't share his values. By all
rights, he should be thoroughly unlikeable as a character...

And here's another question I love to explore, when I'm writing: how do you
reform a bad guy? How do you make an unlikeable character sympathetic to the
reader so that they forgive him for his failures? How do you make him
overcome those failures and strive to become a better person?

Sometimes, all it takes is love -- and sometimes, it takes the crushing
weight of a curse. 

Human Aspect by Elizabeth L. Brooks

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Human Aspect

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Dauch has never doubted his clan's wisdom: Humans are fit only as prey and slaves to the shapechanging lochmari. Nor has he ever doubted his place in his clan: As the Warleader's son and heir, his only true rival is his despised cousin, Afel. But when, on the very cusp of manhood, he spies human lovers in the lochmari forest, he is suddenly faced with questions he had never thought to ask -- and a dangerous new infatuation. Dauch hopes to find a way to embarrass his rival and gain the woman he wants, but his anger and obsession will only pave the path to his doom unless he can learn something no lochmar has ever known before: how to love.

by Elizabeth L. Brooks
Pages: 44 / Words: 11800
ISBN: 978-1-61040-497-7
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Age Rating: New Adult

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Echo by Amanda Clay

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Echo

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On the surface Emily Porter, aka Echo, has it all: plenty of money, a close-knit group of friends, permissive parents, a job in fashion. But what she really wants is less. Much less. Less food, less flesh, less fat, less of the body she sees as her captor and her cage. A chance to model in an upcoming Gothic fashion show is the perfect deadline, and Echo takes this opportunity as a challenge to achieve less -- a chance to reduce herself to nothing.

At first the transformation is effortless. Echo loses weight, meets a new boy, hosts the social event of the holiday season. But soon there are problems: weakness, temptation, blackouts, freak-outs, trouble with family and friends. What begins as diet and exercise soon turns into blood, pain, obsession, and as Echo’s mind and body begin to change so does her view of herself. She cannot see the woman in the mirror, nor the danger she is facing. Can she stop herself, see herself, before it’s too late?

by Amanda Clay
Pages: 204 / Words: 55000
ISBN: 978-1-61040-437-2
Genre: Contemporary
Age Rating: Edgy Young Adult
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New Release & Coming Soon!

New This Week from Prizm Books...

Human Aspect
By: Elizabeth L. Brooks
44 pages / 11800 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-497-7
$2.49
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Blurb:
Dauch has never doubted his clan's wisdom: Humans are fit only as prey and slaves to the shapechanging lochmari. Nor has he ever doubted his place in his clan: As the Warleader's son and heir, his only true rival is his despised cousin, Afel. But when, on the very cusp of manhood, he spies human lovers in the lochmari forest, he is suddenly faced with questions he had never thought to ask -- and a dangerous new infatuation. Dauch hopes to find a way to embarrass his rival and gain the woman he wants, but his anger and obsession will only pave the path to his doom unless he can learn something no lochmar has ever known before: how to love.
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The Strings of the Violin by Alisse Lee Goldenberg