New Releases & Happy New Year!

This week we have selected titles by Jere' M. Fishback and Laney Cairo on sale for 20% off GO SEE!! http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=specials


Becoming Andy Hunsinger
by Jere' M. Fishback
283 pages / 65800 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-858-5
$5.49
Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=92
Blurb:
It's 1975, and Anita Bryant's homophobic "Save Our Children" crusade rages through Florida. When Andy Hunsinger, a closeted gay college student, joins in a demonstration protesting Bryant's appearance in Tallahassee, his straight boy image is shattered when he's "outed" by a TV news reporter. In the months following, Andy discovers just what it means to be an openly gay in a society that condemns love between two men. Can Andy's friendship with Travis, a devout Christian who's fighting his own sexual urges, develop into something deeper?


Fountain of the Worlds
by Laney Cairo
213 pages / 58800 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-857-8
$4.99
Buy Link: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=97&products_id=4341
Blurb:
Island ran away from his past and settled into a new life as a bar owner in Melbourne, Australia, with a quietly promising relationship with Faith, his manager. The past hasn't forgotten Island, however, which is obvious when Schrödinger, the talking cat, arrives at the bar. Island's allegiances to his ex-lover, Trouble, draw Island and Faith to the City and into a territorial dispute for a small corner of the universe.
Faith's willingness to trust Island and Trouble, and her innate sneakiness, are all that stand between their team and a clan of ambitious and hungry vampires.
If they survive the fighting, Faith, Island and Trouble will have to figure out what to do about their relationship. And who gets custody of the cat.

Coming Next Week:

Y'all have a safe and happy New Year!!!

January 7, 2015

Lunaside
by JL Douglas

What Moira wants: an easy summer camp job. What Moira gets: Millie.

Genre: LGBT, Romance, Edgy YA

2013 Rainbow Book Awards

We want to congratulate ALL winners and runner-ups.  However please give a special shout-out to our Torquere/Prizm winners!!!

The link for all winners is:  http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org

Best LGBT Young Adult
2. Jere' M. Fishback - Tyler Buckspan

6. Huston Piner - My Life as a Myth

7. Laura Hughes - Don't Ask


Best B/T & LGBT Debut
2. Laura Hughes - Don't Ask


Best Gay Debut
9. Huston Piner - My Life as a Myth


Best LGBT Novel
3. Laura Hughes - Don't Ask

New Release Day

Hey y'all, we're running the following coupons this week:

Ready to return to school? Use coupon code "bts2013" to get 20% off at shop.prizmbooks.com til Friday at midnight!

Summer's almost over! Use coupon code "endofsummer" to get 20% off at torquerebooks.com Thursday til Sunday at midnight!
So come enjoy some shopping!


Tyler Buckspan
By: Jere M. Fishback
182 pages / 46700 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-515-7
$5.99
Edgy Young Adult
Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=71
Blurb:
Fifteen-year-old Tyler Buckspan lives with his mom and grandmother in 1960s Cassadaga, a Florida community where spiritual “mediums” ply their trade. The mediums--Tyler’s grandmother among them--read palms and tarot cards, conduct seances and speak with the dead. Tyler’s a loner, a bookish boy with few interests, until his half-brother Devin, nineteen and a convicted arsonist, comes to live in Tyler’s home.
For years, Tyler has ignored his attraction to other boys. But with Devin in the house, Tyler can't deny his urges any longer. He falls hopelessly in love with his miscreant half-brother, and with the sport of basketball, once Devin teaches Tyler the finer points of the game. In a time when love between men was forbidden, even criminalized, can Tyler find the love he needs from another boy? And is Devin a person to be trusted? Is he truly clairvoyant, or simply a con artist playing Tyler and others for fools? What does Devin really know about a local murder? And can Tyler trust his own psychic twinges?
Coming Next Week...

The Second Mango
by Shira Glassman
It's hard to find a girlfriend when you don't know any other lesbians, so the young, nerdy Queen Shulamit hires the legendary warrior Rivka to take her around the kingdom on the back of her dragon in search of other girls like her. But the simple quest quickly turns into a rescue mission when they discover a temple full of women turned to stone by an evil sorcerer.
Genre: Edgy Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBT, Adventure, Romance

Josef Jaeger by Jere' M. Fishback

Join us tomorrow to chat with Jere' M. Fishback here on the blog!

Josef Jaeger turns thirteen when Adolf Hitler is appointed Germany’s new Chancellor. When his mother dies, Josef is sent to Munich to live with his uncle, Ernst Roehm, the openly-homosexual chief of the Nazi brown shirts. Josef thinks he’s found a father-figure in his uncle and a mentor in his uncle's lover, streetwise Rudy, and when Roehm’s political connections land Josef a role in a propaganda movie, Josef’s sure he’s found the life he’s always wanted. But while living in Berlin during the film’s production, Josef falls in love with a Jewish boy, David, and Josef begins questioning his uncle’s beliefs.

Complications arise when an old friend of his mother’s tells Josef that his mother was secretly murdered by the SS due to her political beliefs, possibly on Roehm’s order. Josef confides in his Hitler Youth leader, Max Klieg. Klieg admits he knows a few things, but he won’t share them with Josef till the boy proves himself worthy of a confidence.

Conflicting beliefs war within Josef until he must decide where his true loyalties lie, and what he really believes in.

Come get a copy today

Josef Jaeger placed first in the Young Adult category in the 2010 Rainbow Excellence Awards competition sponsored by the Rainbow Romance Writers association.

Josef Jaeger won the Rainbow Award for the Best Coming Of Age/Young Adult novel published in 2009. This is an international competition sponsored by Elisa Rolle’s website.

Josef Jaeger placed thirteenth in the Young Adult novels competition for 2009, sponsored by the Predators & Editors website. This competition included all YA novels published in 2009, not just those aimed at LGBTQ readers.