New Releases, Sales & Pre-Orders

This week's specials 20% off select titles by Voss Foster. Come check them out!  http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=specials&zenid=b628b220436d0224bb29f7cc6357c332

New Releases 12/2/15

Go Ask Alice
by Anne Key
Pages: 130 / Words: 35000
ISBN: 978-1-61040-997-1
Genre: LGBT, Urban Fantasy
$3.99

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=109

Blurb:

Big trouble. Her girlfriend, Cat, is dead, Alice just got out of the hospital, and everything is falling apart. The girls bought a bag of pills from a dealer and took them to Cat’s house to LARP their game, Underneath. The plan is to take one pill after another until the vampires come for them.

Problem is, the vampires didn’t come, the ambulance did.

As soon as she gets home, Alice runs away to attend Cat’s funeral and meets Leveret, Cat’s cousin, and that’s when she falls down the rabbit hole.

From shrinking and growing, from a monster in a hospital to a haunted toy store, from a nightclub filled with vampires to a Ren Faire with the most unnerving Mad Hatter and a game where ninja ballerinas beat people to death with sticks – Alice’s trip follows the heart of the Alice in Wonderland story, if not the letter.

On the way Alice has to make a number of decisions – is she sane? Is she dead? Is she willing to sacrifice everything for someone else or does she exercise self-preservation even if that means losing the girl she loves?

A Fool's War
by Voss Foster
Pages: 170 / Words: 51000
ISBN: 978-1-944449-04-9
Genre: LGBT, Urban Fantasy
$4.99

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=110

Blurb:

Marley is alive, and back with Toby and the rest of Zirkua Fantastic. But King Jester, the spirit of discord, still roams free, and his most fearsome creations, the Princes, have been loosed from their prisons. Now, human and immortal alike are disappearing, no sign of a body or a struggle to be found. More and more of them each day.

Now, it’s the duty of the last remnants of resistance to stand strong against the impossible, battle back the chaos before it ravages Earth. And all the while, a single question remains unanswered: can life ever return to normal after this?

Available for Pre-Order NOW

Your preordered books will be emailed to you directly on Tuesday evening before the release. Take advantage of getting your books first.

Coming 12/9/15

Before the New Moon Rises
by Cathy Hird

Non-GLBT

When Poseidon's ambition is thwarted (as told in Moon of the Goddess), Princess Thalassai expects to enjoy the luxury of peace in the valley of Ephyra. Instead, the Earthshaker's revenge strikes like forked lightning. He recruits Aphoron, disgraced prince of Ephyra, to set off an attack on her home city. The god then releases a monster shark to shut down trade and lays a sleeping spell on the four kings who hold sway in the lands claimed by the ancient goddess Eurynome.

With the king under Poseidon's spell, Thalassai struggles to maintain order in the city. Her fiancé Brizo sets sail to defeat the monster shark, but in the first encounter, the shark destroys the ship's rudder and oars. Her brother Melanion chases after Aphoron and uncovers the prince's plan to attack their city. As other Olympian gods who are angry with Poseidon are drawn into the fray, conflict threatens to engulf the lands of Greece. Will it spread to the mountain of the gods? Will the young leaders find a way to defeat the Earthshaker's plans and restore peace?

Releasing 12/9/15 - Available Pre-Order:

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Coming soon available for Pre-Order NOW

Coming 12/2/15

Go Ask Alice
by Anne Key

Alice is in trouble.

Big trouble. Her girlfriend, Cat, is dead, Alice just got out of the hospital, and everything is falling apart. The girls bought a bag of pills from a dealer and took them to Cat’s house to LARP their game, Underneath. The plan is to take one pill after another until the vampires come for them.

Problem is, the vampires didn’t come, the ambulance did.

As soon as she gets home, Alice runs away to attend Cat’s funeral and meets Leveret, Cat’s cousin, and that’s when she falls down the rabbit hole.

From shrinking and growing, from a monster in a hospital to a haunted toy store, from a nightclub filled with vampires to a Ren Faire with the most unnerving Mad Hatter and a game where ninja ballerinas beat people to death with sticks – Alice’s trip follows the heart of the Alice in Wonderland story, if not the letter.

On the way Alice has to make a number of decisions – is she sane? Is she dead? Is she willing to sacrifice everything for someone else or does she exercise self-preservation even if that means losing the girl she loves?

Releasing 12/2/15 - Available Pre-Order:

http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_27&products_id=109&zenid=41c7dbb08c0386696b81f7192becf2e7

A Fool's War
by Voss Foster

Marley is alive, and back with Toby and the rest of Zirkua Fantastic. But King Jester, the spirit of discord, still roams free, and his most fearsome creations, the Princes, have been loosed from their prisons. Now, human and immortal alike are disappearing, no sign of a body or a struggle to be found. More and more of them each day.

Now, it’s the duty of the last remnants of resistance to stand strong against the impossible, battle back the chaos before it ravages Earth. And all the while, a single question remains unanswered: can life ever return to normal after this?

Releasing 12/2/15 - Available Pre-Order:

http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=110

Coming 12/9/15

Before the New Moon Rises
by Cathy Hird

When Poseidon's ambition is thwarted (as told in  Moon of the Goddess), Princess Thalassai expects to enjoy the luxury of peace in the valley of Ephyra. Instead, the Earthshaker's revenge strikes like forked lightning. He recruits Aphoron, disgraced prince of Ephyra, to set off an attack on her home city. The god then releases a monster shark to shut down trade and lays a sleeping spell on the four kings who hold sway in the lands claimed by the ancient goddess Eurynome.

With the king under Poseidon's spell, Thalassai struggles to maintain order in the city. Her fiancé Brizo sets sail to defeat the monster shark, but in the first encounter, the shark destroys the ship's rudder and oars. Her brother Melanion chases after Aphoron and uncovers the prince's plan to attack their city. As other Olympian gods who are angry with Poseidon are drawn into the fray, conflict threatens to engulf the lands of Greece. Will it spread to the mountain of the gods? Will the young leaders find a way to defeat the Earthshaker's plans and restore peace?

Releasing 12/9/15 - Available Pre-Order:

http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=111

Available for Pre-Order

Go Ask Alice
by Anne Key
Alice is in trouble.
Big trouble. Her girlfriend, Cat, is dead, Alice just got out of the hospital, and everything is falling apart. The girls bought a bag of pills from a dealer and took them to Cat’s house to LARP their game, Underneath. The plan is to take one pill after another until the vampires come for them.
Problem is, the vampires didn’t come, the ambulance did.
As soon as she gets home, Alice runs away to attend Cat’s funeral and meets Leveret, Cat’s cousin, and that’s when she falls down the rabbit hole.
From shrinking and growing, from a monster in a hospital to a haunted toy store, from a nightclub filled with vampires to a Ren Faire with the most unnerving Mad Hatter and a game where ninja ballerinas beat people to death with sticks – Alice’s trip follows the heart of the Alice in Wonderland story, if not the letter.
On the way Alice has to make a number of decisions – is she sane? Is she dead? Is she willing to sacrifice everything for someone else or does she exercise self-preservation even if that means losing the girl she loves?
Releasing 12/2/15 - Available Pre-Order:
http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=4553


A Fool's War
by Voss Foster
Marley is alive, and back with Toby and the rest of Zirkua Fantastic. But King Jester, the spirit of discord, still roams free, and his most fearsome creations, the Princes, have been loosed from their prisons. Now, human and immortal alike are disappearing, no sign of a body or a struggle to be found. More and more of them each day.
Now, it’s the duty of the last remnants of resistance to stand strong against the impossible, battle back the chaos before it ravages Earth. And all the while, a single question remains unanswered: can life ever return to normal after this?
Releasing 12/2/15 - Available Pre-Order:
http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=4554

New Release from Amanda Clay

Tearing Us Apart
by Amanda Clay
168 pages / 50000 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-988-9
$4.99
Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=108&zenid=d59b573799569d5773bfba29db3d1ca0

Blurb:

Julian Pham is surviving high school. Openly gay, flamboyantly goth, and Vietnamese-American, he’s just about as different as his Oklahoma City high school can tolerate. He has good friends and a supportive family, which helps, but lately his family is changing and his friends have troubles of their own. Julian is afraid he’s being left behind.

Then he meets Duncan. The star of the school basketball team, Duncan has never crossed Julian’s social path. A fateful encounter one cold night brings the two young men together, igniting a romance that neither of them expected, and that both can scarcely believe.

But Julian and Duncan are in different places. Julian is happily out, unconcerned with others’ opinions. And Duncan, while he knows who he is, isn’t ready to face the challenges of living out loud. Even as the two grow closer together, Julian begins to question whether he can live with Duncan’s desire for secrecy. And even if he can, does that mean he should?

When the crisis of their romance leads to a shocking betrayal, Julian must decide if he will fix this love or tear it apart.

Coming soon...

Coming 10/21/15


Tearing Us Apart
by Amanda Clay

Julian Pham is surviving high school. Openly gay, flamboyantly goth, and Vietnamese-American, he’s just about as different as his Oklahoma City high school can tolerate. He has good friends and a supportive family, which helps, but lately his family is changing and his friends have troubles of their own. Julian is afraid he’s being left behind.

Then he meets Duncan. The star of the school basketball team, Duncan has never crossed Julian’s social path. A fateful encounter one cold night brings the two young men together, igniting a romance that neither of them expected, and that both can scarcely believe.

But Julian and Duncan are in different places. Julian is happily out, unconcerned with others’ opinions. And Duncan, while he knows who he is, isn’t ready to face the challenges of living out loud. Even as the two grow closer together, Julian begins to question whether he can live with Duncan’s desire for secrecy. And even if he can, does that mean he should?

When the crisis of their romance leads to a shocking betrayal, Julian must decide if he will fix this love or tear it apart.

Releasing 10/21/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=4515

Tearing Us Apart by Amanda Clay

Julian Pham is surviving high school. Openly gay, flamboyantly goth, and Vietnamese-American, he’s just about as different as his Oklahoma City high school can tolerate. He has good friends and a supportive family, which helps, but lately his family is changing and his friends have troubles of their own. Julian is afraid he’s being left behind.

Then he meets Duncan. The star of the school basketball team, Duncan has never crossed Julian’s social path. A fateful encounter one cold night brings the two young men together, igniting a romance that neither of them expected, and that both can scarcely believe.

But Julian and Duncan are in different places.  Julian is happily out, unconcerned with others’ opinions. And Duncan, while he knows who he is, isn’t ready to face the challenges of living out loud. Even as the two grow closer together, Julian begins to question whether he can live with Duncan’s desire for secrecy. And even if he can, does that mean he should? 

When the crisis of their romance leads to a shocking betrayal, Julian must decide if he will fix this love or tear it apart.

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Coming soon....

Available for Pre-Order NOW

Coming 9/30/15

The Dybbuk's Revenge
by Alisse Lee Goldenberg

The Dybbuk's Revenge follows the continuing adventures of Carrie and her friends. In the time since the events of The Strings of the Violin and The Dybbuk's Mirror, Asmodeus has been growing his army and is determined to get his vengeance for all that his daughter Emilia and her friend Carrie have done to stop him. Hampered by the fact that he is now confined in a mortal body, Asmodeus fights to keep his power, and hide his limitations. Meanwhile, Carrie, Lindsay, Rebecca and Emilia are all determined to live their lives in peace, ignoring the threat looming over all of them and those they love.

Releasing 9/30/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=107

New Release & Pre-Order Available

Fiery
by Alyssa Astra
Pages: 257 / Words: 70000
ISBN:978-1-61040-976-6
$5.99

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=106

Blurb:

Aiden Adams, a transgender teen, begins writing in a journal when he moves to a new town named Ashmore and begins “passing." He is counting on everyone to believe that he is the every bit the male he appears to be. Writing in his journal helps him unclog his brain as he writes about the daily struggles he faces as a transgender teenager, his painful past that he is trying to forget, the new friends he is making, and the beautiful girl named Abby whom he has fallen in love with. Aiden has already come out to his open-minded mother, but will Abby be just as understanding?

When Aiden loses his journal, he worries that the secret he is trying so desperately to keep will come out. And if it does, how will everyone react? Will Abby be able to cope with everyone knowing that he is transgender? Will his new friends accept Aiden for who he really is—a boy—or will everything fall apart?

Available for Pre-Order NOW

Coming 9/30/15

The Dybbuk's Revenge
by Alisse Lee Goldenberg

The Dybbuk's Revenge follows the continuing adventures of Carrie and her friends. In the time since the events of The Strings of the Violin and The Dybbuk's Mirror, Asmodeus has been growing his army and is determined to get his vengeance for all that his daughter Emilia and her friend Carrie have done to stop him. Hampered by the fact that he is now confined in a mortal body, Asmodeus fights to keep his power, and hide his limitations. Meanwhile, Carrie, Lindsay, Rebecca and Emilia are all determined to live their lives in peace, ignoring the threat looming over all of them and those they love.

Releasing 9/30/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=107

Coming soon...

Available for Pre-Order NOW

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Coming 9/23/15

Fiery
by Alyssa Astra

Aiden Adams, a transgender teen, begins writing in a journal when he moves to a new town named Ashmore and begins “passing." He is counting on everyone to believe that he is the every bit the male he appears to be. Writing in his journal helps him unclog his brain as he writes about the daily struggles he faces as a transgender teenager, his painful past that he is trying to forget, the new friends he is making, and the beautiful girl named Abby whom he has fallen in love with. Aiden has already come out to his open-minded mother, but will Abby be just as understanding?

When Aiden loses his journal, he worries that the secret he is trying so desperately to keep will come out. And if it does, how will everyone react? Will Abby be able to cope with everyone knowing that he is transgender? Will his new friends accept Aiden for who he really is—a boy—or will everything fall apart? 

Releasing 9/23/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=106&zenid=3da8eb66bc0b72ef5e1dc1b70818f268

Coming 9/30/15

The Dybbuk's Revenge
by Alisse Lee Goldenberg

The Dybbuk's Revenge follows the continuing adventures of Carrie and her friends. In the time since the events of The Strings of the Violin and The Dybbuk's Mirror, Asmodeus has been growing his army and is determined to get his vengeance for all that his daughter Emilia and her friend Carrie have done to stop him. Hampered by the fact that he is now confined in a mortal body, Asmodeus fights to keep his power, and hide his limitations. Meanwhile, Carrie, Lindsay, Rebecca and Emilia are all determined to live their lives in peace, ignoring the threat looming over all of them and those they love.

Releasing 9/30/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=107&zenid=3da8eb66bc0b72ef5e1dc1b70818f268

Coming soon - Available for Pre-Order

Available for Pre-Order NOW

To view all of our current pre-orders: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=200

Coming 9/23/15

Fiery
by Alyssa Astra

Aiden Adams, a transgender teen, begins writing in a journal when he moves to a new town named Ashmore and begins “passing." He is counting on everyone to believe that he is the every bit the male he appears to be. Writing in his journal helps him unclog his brain as he writes about the daily struggles he faces as a transgender teenager, his painful past that he is trying to forget, the new friends he is making, and the beautiful girl named Abby whom he has fallen in love with. Aiden has already come out to his open-minded mother, but will Abby be just as understanding?

When Aiden loses his journal, he worries that the secret he is trying so desperately to keep will come out. And if it does, how will everyone react? Will Abby be able to cope with everyone knowing that he is transgender? Will his new friends accept Aiden for who he really is—a boy—or will everything fall apart? 

Releasing 9/23/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=106

New Paranormal Release & Upcoming Contemporary

New Releases 9/9/15

Wolf Creek
by Nikko Lee
Pages: 296 / Words: 87700
ISBN: 978-1-61040-968-1
$6.99

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=105

Blurb:

Being the Silverbane pack's omega is killing Josh. His plans to escape are foiled when he is blackmailed into finding a new alpha capable of controlling the largest pack in New England before the Amazons cull it. Josh has no clue how he is going to accomplish this task, let alone stay out of the sights of his power-hungry cousin, Bryce, who is convinced he is the pack’s next alpha.

Josh befriends Andrea, an erratic Amazon trainee, who talks to the ghost of her dead mother and has her own agenda when it comes to the wolf pack. When he is rescued by Gavin, a handsome park ranger driven to live in the furthest reaches of civilization, Josh feels a pull toward him that is more than just physical attraction. The three develop a bond that is stronger than friendship and tested at every turn.

With the help of his new family, Josh must find the strength within him to save the Silverbane pack and defeat the evil that threatens to turn them into killers. Only then can he finally be free.

Available for Pre-Order NOW

To view all of our current pre-orders: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=200

Coming 9/23/15

Fiery
by Alyssa Astra

Aiden Adams, a transgender teen, begins writing in a journal when he moves to a new town named Ashmore and begins “passing." He is counting on everyone to believe that he is the every bit the male he appears to be. Writing in his journal helps him unclog his brain as he writes about the daily struggles he faces as a transgender teenager, his painful past that he is trying to forget, the new friends he is making, and the beautiful girl named Abby whom he has fallen in love with. Aiden has already come out to his open-minded mother, but will Abby be just as understanding?

When Aiden loses his journal, he worries that the secret he is trying so desperately to keep will come out. And if it does, how will everyone react? Will Abby be able to cope with everyone knowing that he is transgender? Will his new friends accept Aiden for who he really is—a boy—or will everything fall apart? 

Releasing 9/23/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=106

Coming soon now available for pre-order

Wolf Creek
by Nikko Lee

Being the Silverbane pack's omega is killing Josh. His plans to escape are foiled when he is blackmailed into finding a new alpha capable of controlling the largest pack in New England before the Amazons cull it. Josh has no clue how he is going to accomplish this task, let alone stay out of the sights of his power-hungry cousin, Bryce, who is convinced he is the pack’s next alpha.

Josh befriends Andrea, an erratic Amazon trainee, who talks to the ghost of her dead mother and has her own agenda when it comes to the wolf pack. When he is rescued by Gavin, a handsome park ranger driven to live in the furthest reaches of civilization, Josh feels a pull toward him that is more than just physical attraction. The three develop a bond that is stronger than friendship and tested at every turn.

With the help of his new family, Josh must find the strength within him to save the Silverbane pack and defeat the evil that threatens to turn them into killers. Only then can he finally be free.

Releasing 9/9/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=105&zenid=e1864ee9ac541743d9b46c086154ac2a

New Release "Hot Pink in the City"

Hot Pink in the City
by Medeia Sharif
Pages: 190 / Words: 54000
ISBN:978-1-61040-955-1
$4.99

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=104&zenid=f3f741cb0cdaf8a5516938bdde199d01

Blurb:

Non GLBT

Asma Bashir wants two things: a summer fling and her favorite '80s songs. During a trip to New York City to stay with relatives, she messes up in her pursuit of both. She loses track of the hunk she met on her airplane ride, and she does the most terrible thing she could possibly do to her strict uncle... ruin his most prized possession, a rare cassette tape.

A wild goose chase around Manhattan and Brooklyn to find a replacement tape yields many adventures -- blackmail, theft, a chance to be a TV star, and so much more. Amid all this turmoil, Asma just might be able to find her crush in the busiest, most exciting city in the world.

Coming soon...

Available for Pre-Order NOW

Coming 8/19/15

Hot Pink in the City
by Medeia Sharif 

Non GLBT

Asma Bashir wants two things: a summer fling and her favorite '80s songs. During a trip to New York City to stay with relatives, she messes up in her pursuit of both. She loses track of the hunk she met on her airplane ride, and she does the most terrible thing she could possibly do to her strict uncle... ruin his most prized possession, a rare cassette tape.

A wild goose chase around Manhattan and Brooklyn to find a replacement tape yields many adventures -- blackmail, theft, a chance to be a TV star, and so much more. Amid all this turmoil, Asma just might be able to find her crush in the busiest, most exciting city in the world.

Releasing 8/19/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=104

New Release & Pre-Orders Available

This week, we have selected titles on sale for 20% off. Check 'em out: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=specials

New Releases 8/5/15

The Camp
by Victoria Zagar
95 pages / 27600 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-930-8
$3.49

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=103

Blurb:

Jesse Harvan comes home from school one day to find his parents have discovered the gay pornographic magazine hidden under his bed. Disgusted, they decide to send Jesse to Camp Grady, a summer camp which prides itself on converting people’s sexuality.

Once at the camp, Jesse meets the other inmates: Charlie, a disabled African-American gay teenager, Natalie, a transgender girl, her sister Lita, Japanese lesbian Sakura, and last of all, Minister Grady’s son Jacob, who works for the camp under duress. These teens must learn to bridge their differences and get along if they’re to beat their common enemy and keep their identities–and sanity–intact.

Available for Pre-Order NOW

Coming 8/19/15

Hot Pink in the City
by Medeia Sharif 

Non GLBT

Asma Bashir wants two things: a summer fling and her favorite '80s songs. During a trip to New York City to stay with relatives, she messes up in her pursuit of both. She loses track of the hunk she met on her airplane ride, and she does the most terrible thing she could possibly do to her strict uncle... ruin his most prized possession, a rare cassette tape.

A wild goose chase around Manhattan and Brooklyn to find a replacement tape yields many adventures -- blackmail, theft, a chance to be a TV star, and so much more. Amid all this turmoil, Asma just might be able to find her crush in the busiest, most exciting city in the world.

Releasing 8/19/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=104

New Release & Preorder Available NOW

Caron High News
by Annabelle Jay
100 pages / 26900 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-945-2
$3.49

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=102&zenid=e92e3362232ddd9f2470b92499879071

Blurb:

Caron High News begins on the day of the first GSA, or Gay-Straight Alliance, meeting at Nissa Falenbach’s school. The club was started by Principal Perry to give Nissa a community after the school’s first hate crime that past summer, but unfortunately, no one shows up. As Nissa leaves the school she sees Bethany, her former best friend and now popular girl, crying in the middle of the quad because she was just dumped by her boyfriend, Lenny, for not being sexually adventurous. The two agree on mutually advantageous terms: they will pretend to date until Lenny wants Bethany back, and in return, Bethany will draw ten new GSA members into their group. The novel is a split narrative between Nissa and Audrey, the school gossip newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief, who creates scandals that both help Nissa’s cause and, in the end, reveal her true motives. But neither Nissa nor Audrey could have predicted what happens at the Holiday Assembly after Audrey plays a recording of Nissa and Bethany’s bathroom confession.

Available for Pre-Order NOW

Coming 8/5/15

The Camp
by Victoria Zagar

Jesse Harvan comes home from school one day to find his parents have discovered the gay pornographic magazine hidden under his bed. Disgusted, they decide to send Jesse to Camp Grady, a summer camp which prides itself on converting people’s sexuality.

Once at the camp, Jesse meets the other inmates: Charlie, a disabled African-American gay teenager, Natalie, a transgender girl, her sister Lita, Japanese lesbian Sakura, and last of all, Minister Grady’s son Jacob, who works for the camp under duress. These teens must learn to bridge their differences and get along if they’re to beat their common enemy and keep their identities–and sanity–intact.

Releasing 8/5/15 - Available Pre-Order: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=103

New Releases & Pre-Order Available

New Releases 7/8/15

Destroying Angel
by Missy Wilkinson
Pages: 216 / Words: 62000
ISBN:978-1-61040-937-7
PRINT ISBN: 978-1-61040-938-4
$5.49

Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=101

Blurb:

Gates McFarland’s mother has just been proclaimed brain dead by a neurologist. But fifteen-year-old Gates doesn’t believe it’s true, because she hears her mother’s voice in her head. The command is simple: Find my heart. It’s the last thing Gates hears from her mother before the neurologist pulls the plug.

After contacting the Organ Procurement Agency, Gates learns there is no record of her mother’s organ donation. She meets Dr. Ascuitto, her mother’s neurologist. A menacing figure, he threatens to institutionalize Gates if she continues her inquiries.

Determined to find the truth, Gates gets help from John Ed, a street-smart, sixteen-year-old recovering addict. Together, they navigate an underworld of body theft, interstellar drug trafficking and doctors who double as dealers. She finds herself attracted to John Ed’s musical talents and emotional strength even as she is drawn ever-deeper into an alien world accessible only by use of a hallucinogenic spore. Hostile and governed by a sinister waif named Penny, the world holds secrets about Gates’ mother’s death…and the key to Gates’ survival.

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Caron High News
by Annabelle Jay

Caron High News begins on the day of the first GSA, or Gay-Straight Alliance, meeting at Nissa Falenbach’s school. The club was started by Principal Perry to give Nissa a community after the school’s first hate crime that past summer, but unfortunately, no one shows up. As Nissa leaves the school she sees Bethany, her former best friend and now popular girl, crying in the middle of the quad because she was just dumped by her boyfriend, Lenny, for not being sexually adventurous. The two agree on mutually advantageous terms: they will pretend to date until Lenny wants Bethany back, and in return, Bethany will draw ten new GSA members into their group. The novel is a split narrative between Nissa and Audrey, the school gossip newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief, who creates scandals that both help Nissa’s cause and, in the end, reveal her true motives. But neither Nissa nor Audrey could have predicted what happens at the Holiday Assembly after Audrey plays a recording of Nissa and Bethany’s bathroom confession.

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Different kinds of research behind "Blood and Ink"

When writing "Blood and Ink", I went down two paths for research. The first path, involved more expected research tools, like memoirs and historical records. The second resource I used, much less removed and scholarly, was my mother's memories of her own childhood of poverty and displacement.

Stories of displacement and itinerant populations are already part of the post-settlement history of Western Australia. I read some of the transcribed oral histories of women affected by social upheaval and loss recorded in Nothing to Spare, all contributed by women who were born from 1890 onwards (Carter ix). Their stories of hardship and endurance, of the children they raised and then lost in the Great War, are personal stories, fragments of a larger past. The Stockrider's Daughter in Nothing to Spare describes being forcibly moved from Carrolup settlement to Moore River settlement. She says, "They had kerosene buckets with tea in it and they'd brought boxes of bread" (cited in Carter 1981, 25).

My mother was born in the Great Depression and lived through World War Two in England. Her childhood was one of poverty and upheaval. Her stories of ingenuity and compromise influenced how I wrote Annie and her family in "Blood and Ink". My mother was always very fond of mashed banana sandwiches (a British delicacy that possibly no other country has adapted). When she was a child, there were no bananas, due to food rationing, so "mashed banana" sandwiches were made by boiling and finely mashing parsnips, then adding sugar and yellow colouring. My mother assured me the sandwiches were delicious, particularly at birthday parties. This story from her gave me a window into Annie's world.

The Stockrider's Daughter's story of forced migration is is generations old now. My mother's story is not. Writing Annie and her family, and the world of "Blood and Ink", was based in part on these stories, of making do and being hungry.

Reference:

Carter, Jan. 1981. Nothing to Spare: Recollections of Australian Pioneering Women. Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia Ltd.

Annie's grandmother knows old secrets, and Annie is strong and smart. Together, they keep the family safe through the drought. Then bigger trouble comes to their city, and Annie will need more than quick thinking if they are going to survive. Can Annie learn Grandma's secrets in time?

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New Release from Jack Bridges

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New Releases 6/24/15

Blood and Ink
by Jack Bridges
63 pages / 16100 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-933-9
$2.99
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Annie's grandmother knows old secrets, and Annie is strong and smart. Together, they keep the family safe through the drought. Then bigger trouble comes to their city, and Annie will need more than quick thinking if they are going to survive. Can Annie learn Grandma's secrets in time?

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Destroying Angel
by Missy Wilkinson
NON-GLBT
Gates McFarland’s mother has just been proclaimed brain dead by a neurologist. But fifteen-year-old Gates doesn’t believe it’s true, because she hears her mother’s voice in her head. The command is simple: Find my heart. It’s the last thing Gates hears from her mother before the neurologist pulls the plug.
After contacting the Organ Procurement Agency, Gates learns there is no record of her mother’s organ donation. She meets Dr. Ascuitto, her mother’s neurologist. A menacing figure, he threatens to institutionalize Gates if she continues her inquiries.
Determined to find the truth, Gates gets help from John Ed, a street-smart, sixteen-year-old recovering addict. Together, they navigate an underworld of body theft, interstellar drug trafficking and doctors who double as dealers. She finds herself attracted to John Ed’s musical talents and emotional strength even as she is drawn ever-deeper into an alien world accessible only by use of a hallucinogenic spore. Hostile and governed by a sinister waif named Penny, the world holds secrets about Gates’ mother’s death…and the key to Gates’ survival.
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New Release from Shira Glassman

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Tales from Outer Lands
by Shira Glassman
Pages: 54 / Words: 14300
ISBN: 978-1-61040-878-3
Genre: LGBT, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Mystery
Age Rating: New Adult
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Rivka in Port Saltspray: Trapped in a seedy port town because an innkeeper is holding her shapeshifting dragon-horse hostage until she can pay all the charges he invented, nomadic warrior Rivka finally has a chance at some decent money when a wealthy but weak man hires her to rescue his fiancée. But she has to think on her feet when she learns there may be more at stake.
Aviva and the Aliens: On the night before the royal Passover seder, Aviva has to outsmart the aliens who abducted her to cook for them because they had grown sick of their spaceship's food replicators. Will she get home before Queen Shulamit wakes up and panics from her absence?

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Conjoined at the Soul
by Huston Piner
Sixteen-year-old Randy Clark just looked in the mirror and discovered he’s gay. Now all he needs is to find a boyfriend. The trouble is he’s got a knack for being attracted to the wrong kind of guys – straight ones! He would ask his best friend for help, but even though Blake knows all the gossip, he’s too busy dreaming about Marilyn Romer and trying to convince Randy to join the drama club to be any help. So instead, Randy turns to Jeremy Smith and the outrageous Annie Brock, but between their constant bickering and Annie’s obsession to put Mike Kowalski down every chance she gets, Randy’s not exactly feeling confident about their advice. Mix in a bigoted father, the world’s most irritating little brother, and the wannabe bullies in P. E. and Randy’s tenth grade year is shaping up to be one to remember!
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Tales from Outer Lands
by Shira Glassman
Rivka in Port Saltspray: Trapped in a seedy port town because an innkeeper is holding her shapeshifting dragon-horse hostage until she can pay all the charges he invented, nomadic warrior Rivka finally has a chance at some decent money when a wealthy but weak man hires her to rescue his fiancée. But she has to think on her feet when she learns there may be more at stake.
Aviva and the Aliens: On the night before the royal Passover seder, Aviva has to outsmart the aliens who abducted her to cook for them because they had grown sick of their spaceship's food replicators. Will she get home before Queen Shulamit wakes up and panics from her absence?
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Conjoined at the Soul
by Huston Piner
Sixteen-year-old Randy Clark just looked in the mirror and discovered he’s gay. Now all he needs is to find a boyfriend. The trouble is he’s got a knack for being attracted to the wrong kind of guys – straight ones! He would ask his best friend for help, but even though Blake knows all the gossip, he’s too busy dreaming about Marilyn Romer and trying to convince Randy to join the drama club to be any help. So instead, Randy turns to Jeremy Smith and the outrageous Annie Brock, but between their constant bickering and Annie’s obsession to put Mike Kowalski down every chance she gets, Randy’s not exactly feeling confident about their advice. Mix in a bigoted father, the world’s most irritating little brother, and the wannabe bullies in P. E. and Randy’s tenth grade year is shaping up to be one to remember!
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Author Extra: A Harvest of Ripe Figs from Shira Glassman

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A Harvest of Ripe Figs
by Shira Glassman
LGBT/Romance/Fantasy/Mystery
Age Range: 17 and up
167 pages / 46400 words
Available file types - html,mobi, ePub, pdf
ISBN:  978-1-61040-867-7

$4.49

Esther of the Singing Hands is Perach's Sweetheart, a young and beautiful musician with a Girl Next Door image. When her violin is stolen after a concert in the capital city, she doesn't expect the queen herself to show up, intent upon solving the mystery.

But Queen Shulamit -- lesbian, intellectual, and mother of the six-month-old crown princess -- loves to play detective. With the help of her legendary bodyguard Rivka and her dragon, and with the support of her partner Aviva the Chef, Shulamit turns her mind toward the solution -- which she quickly begins to suspect involves the use of illegal magic that could threaten the safety of her citizens.

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A Harvest of Ripe Figs
by Shira Glassman

Esther of the Singing Hands is Perach's Sweetheart, a young and beautiful musician with a Girl Next Door image. When her violin is stolen after a concert in the capital city, she doesn't expect the queen herself to show up, intent upon solving the mystery.
But Queen Shulamit -- lesbian, intellectual, and mother of the six-month-old crown princess -- loves to play detective. With the help of her legendary bodyguard Rivka and her dragon, and with the support of her partner Aviva the Chef, Shulamit turns her mind toward the solution -- which she quickly begins to suspect involves the use of illegal magic that could threaten the safety of her citizens.

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Author Extra: Lunaside by J.L. Douglas

[Moira and Andrea are together at the beginning of Lunaside, and in the story they face all kinds of challenges as a couple. However, every romance has a beginning -- regardless of how humble and awkward it might be.]

The first time I met Andrea I was standing in a strawberry field in a sundress with strawberries on it holding a box of strawberries while my gourmet-chef father talked about how to make strawberry marinade. And yet, I somehow wasn't the only one who ended up embarrassed in that situation.

I didn't notice that Andrea had been standing in the field with us during that whole on-location filming of Taste of Trundle Island, dad's cooking show. If I had been worried about more than how horribly precious I looked in my strawberry ensemble, she might have stood out. I imagine it's not every day that some girl dressed like an old retired guy wanders into a strawberry field, seemingly from nowhere.

Not exactly conspicuous, but it wasn't until my director cut filming and yelled "Can someone please tell me who this kid is? Security?" that I saw her there.

I should clarify: saw her there staring directly at me.

I suppose I should have found that a bit creepy, but as it turned out she was the producer's daughter and she'd come down to see Dad and me in action.

Well, what she literally said to our director was, "I asked my mom for permission to visit. I'm kind of Moira's biggest fan," but my brain just could not process that.

At the words "producer's daughter," our director's expression melted from stern frown into schmooze-grin. Shortly after, he suggested that we've been working too hard and maybe it was time for a break.

My father, who has been much more openly accepting of my sexuality than I would probably have liked, immediately elbowed me with a wink.

"She's pretty cute though," he commented, before sauntering off to join the camera crew at the snack table.

Maybe he was right. Maybe she looked adorable just standing there, looking a bit lost in her sweater vest and few-sizes-too-big khakis, her very short, very black hair disheveled by cowlicks.

However, here in the real world my heart wasn't allowed to leap to think that this cute girl had come to see me of all people. Although everyone in my life knew that I liked girls, actually dating someone was just something that seemed so hilariously unreasonable that I couldn't even comprehend it.

But then as I got closer, she caught my eye in a non-creepy-staring way.

"Hey," she said, "I'm Andrea."

"Uh, I'm Moira," I replied, my nervous hand basically vibrating out to shake hers.

"I know," she answered.

When, after a second or so of silence, we both broke down and laughed at that, I started letting myself wonder if maybe this girl was thinking what I was thinking.

I started hoping she was, anyway.