Author Extra: A Harvest of Ripe Figs from Shira Glassman

Here is a great little video for A Harvest of Ripe Figs from Shira Glassman:


https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=619135578231570&set=vb.245842025560929&type=2&theater

A Harvest of Ripe Figs out NOW

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

You can also use coupon code "winter2015" on Torquere or Prizm to get an additional 15% off the entire cart!!


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.

Available NOWr: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=4345

Coming Next Week from Shira Gassman

You can also use coupon code "winter2015" on Torquere or Prizm to get an additional 15% off the entire cart!!

Coming Next Week Available for Pre-Order NOW:

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.

Available Pre-Order: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=4345

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.

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

Vitamins and Death - Edgy Young Adult new release

Vitamins and Death

by Medeia Sharif
172 pages / 51100 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-843-1

$4.99

Buy Link:  http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=91

Blurb:

Deidra Battle wants nothing more than to be invisible. After her mother, a public school teacher, engages in an embarrassing teacher-student affair at Lincoln High, they relocate to a different neighborhood and school. Being her mother's briefcase, Deidra joins her mother at her new workplace, Hodge High. Since her mother has reverted to her maiden name and changed her appearance, she thinks no one will figure out they're the Battles from recent news and that they're safe. Neither of them is. Hodge brings a fresh set of bullies who discover details about the scandal that changed Deidra's life. Feeling trapped at home with an emotionally abusive, pill-addicted mother and at school with hostile classmates who attempt to assault and blackmail her, Deidra yearns for freedom, even if she has to act out of character and hurt others in the process. Freedom comes at a price.

New Release - Murder in Torbaydos

Murder in Torbaydos
by Ian Krender

351 pages / 97600 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-832-5
$6.99

Buy Link:  http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=90

Blurb:

Old houses hide secrets, sometimes dark ones.

In the 1970s, London based family Marjorie, Stanley, and their theatrically bent son fall in love with a dilapidated Victorian seaside villa. Dreaming of a better life, they transform the property into a luxury guesthouse, ignorant of the tragic events that occurred there at the beginning of the century. They discover that their guests are not the only other occupants in the building.

The souls trapped within the house offer the temptation of wealth and power, but all come with a deadly price. Stanley, supported by his ambitious wife, enters political office. Marjorie will stop at nothing to achieve her goals for her husband, no matter who gets in the way.

Thirty years later, an affluent gay couple, Jez and Graham, purchase the hotel, which now unoccupied has once again fallen into disrepair. They are blissfully unaware of the building's grisly past. Jez falls under the influence of the spirits within the house, rapidly achieving fame, fortune, and a life beyond his wildest imagination, but the price is ultimately the corruption of his very soul.

Bound by a common destiny, both Marjorie and Jez's fates lie inextricably intertwined across time, connected to the house. Their gruesome realization is that death is not necessarily a release.

Warning: Occasional scenes of graphic violence