Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2019

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2019
Author: Tracy Cunningham
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635554489

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2019 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2021

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2021
Author: Paul Willis
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636790607

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2021 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.

Survivor's Guilt and Other Stories

Survivor's Guilt and Other Stories
Author: Greg Herren
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635554144

A Katrina survivor waits for rescue on his roof in the brutal heat, reflecting on the life choices that brought him to this moment. A young woman discovers there’s more to her perfect man than she thought. A gay journalist travels to Italy to interview his teen idol, only to discover a darkness in the Tuscan hills. A gay man cleans his home, reflecting on his sociopathic criminal mother. Chanse MacLeod returns to his hometown to help his younger brother, accused of murder. A daughter keeps her father’s legacy alive while hiding his darkest secrets. Including five new stories written for this collection (along with the first-ever Chanse MacLeod short story), Greg Herren’s tales of murder, crime, and the darkness that lives inside all of us are evocative of the proud Southern Gothic tradition of writers and are now available, for the first time, in a single collection.

In Case You Forgot

In Case You Forgot
Author: Frederick Smith
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635554942

Two newly single, Black, queer, and socially aware men have packed up to start again—in love, career, and life—in the West Hollywood neighborhood of LA. Zaire James, on the cusp of 30, has decided marriage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Despite friends, family, and coworkers loving Zaire’s “perfect” partner, divorce is a necessary step for finding himself and being free. If only it were that easy. Kenny Kane has made a career of deferring dreams, lowering expectations, and chasing partners not on his level in hopes of finding a love to call his own. However, on the verge of the big 4-0, he realizes the clock is ticking on all his dreams. As Zaire and Kenny undo the significant relationships of their pasts, they hope new opportunities, energy, mindsets, and connections will reinvigorate what is missing in their lives—drama and all.

Accidental Prophet

Accidental Prophet
Author: Bud Gundy
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635554535

Intelligent, handsome, and struggling to make his rent, thirty-year-old Drew Morten loses his only meaningful relationship when his grandmother dies. A famous television anchor, Claudia Trenton, leaves Drew the legacy of her secret memoir. From the fate of a vanished medieval prince to a top-secret NASA study about a mystifying space object, her unreported discoveries hum with wonder. But history merges with the present and upends Drew’s life when he has a terrifying revelation. Teaming up with a brilliant woman who receives the same vision and a handsome man whose arrival is either fortuitous or sinister, Drew follows the clues in his grandmother’s memoir and races against time to save the world from an apocalyptic nightmare about to be unleashed in downtown San Francisco. As catastrophe looms, so does the question: Who, or what, is the real enemy?

Death Takes a Bow

Death Takes a Bow
Author: David S. Pederson
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 163555473X

Alan Keyes takes a break from his police duties to scratch his acting itch in a local stage production. But when the leading man is murdered during the opening night performance, his partner Detective Heath Barrington is thrust into the limelight to find the killer. Alan soon learns the theater has a deadly past and ghostly forebodings, including a telegram that seems to have come from the beyond. Among the large cast of suspects is Oliver Crane, the director whose finances depend on the success of this play, Jazz Monroe, Milwaukee’s sweetheart with a secret, and the handsome actor Henry Hawthorne, who has designs on Alan. When Alan seems to return Henry’s attentions, Heath must put his jealousy and insecurities aside to determine what’s real, what’s illusion, and who’s acting and who’s telling the truth before death takes a bow. A Detective Heath Barrington Mystery

Everyday People

Everyday People
Author: Louis Barr
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 163555697X

Film star Diana Danning hires private eye Clint Steele to find her son, Shane, after he vanishes like smoke in the night. LAPD Captain Hal Flynn suspects Shane disappeared by choice; until Clint and Diana receive a late-night call from Jud Tucker, the most under-the-radar serial killer since Patrick Bateman. Tucker demands five million dollars within twenty-four hours, or nobody will ever find Shane's body. With no time to lose, Clint turns to his former West Point barracks mate and best friend, Mars Hauser, to lend his cyber espionage and digital black ops skills to the case. As Clint, Mars, and Captain Flynn race against time to rescue Shane and bring Jud Tucker to justice, their greatest threat may be much closer than they know.

Quake City

Quake City
Author: St John Karp
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635557240

Andre met his best friend Amy on a night like tonight. The way Amy tells it she had to stop him from climbing over the bar at Aunty Bob’s to punch the bartender, though if you ask Andre he’ll say, “What? That never happened. I don’t even know what you’re saying to me right now.” Now Amy is worryingly missing in action, and Andre goes to Aunty Bob’s on a quest to find her. No sooner does he walk in with his depressingly heterosexual date than his best hat is spirited away by a lesbian in the throes of breaking up with her girlfriend. She in turn has it stolen from her when she starts a fight with two twinks at the bar. The hat makes its way around Aunty Bob’s from one head to another, giving glimpses into the dozens of stories playing out at the same time, unaware of each other but colliding in catastrophic ways. Can Andre find Amy before this party devolves into a nightmare of broken hearts, malevolent drag queens, and spontaneous human combustion? Or has it always happened this way, every night, at Aunty Bob’s Quake City Club?

Royal Street Reveillon

Royal Street Reveillon
Author: Greg Herren
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635555469

Someone is killing the Grande Dames of New Orleans! It’s Christmas time, but the last thing in the world Scotty Bradley wants under his tree is a murder case that strikes close to home. The premiere party for a new reality show sets the stage for a murder, and Scotty’s sort-of nephew is the prime suspect. As more and more cast members fall victim to a cold-blooded killer, Scotty and the boys must figure out what is real and what is scripted, and have to exhume some long-buried secrets in order to bring the killer to justice. A Scotty Bradley mystery.