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| Name: | Kiernan Kelly |
| E-mail address: | KiernanKelly@KiernanKelly.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.KiernanKelly.com |
| Editor or Department: | Ida Vega Landow |
| Subject: | review of Seti's Heart |
| Comments: | Ida,
Thank you so much for the lovely review! I'm very glad you enjoyed the book, and particularly tickled that you think it'd make a good movie. :) Kiernan |
| Name: | Kiernan Kelly |
| E-mail address: | KiernanKelly@KiernanKelly.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.KiernanKelly.com |
| Editor or Department: | Ida Vega Landow |
| Subject: | review of Seti's Heart |
| Comments: | Ida,
Thank you so much for the lovely review! I'm very glad you enjoyed the book, and particularly tickled that you think it'd make a good movie. :) Kiernan |
| Name: | Silapa Jarun |
| E-mail address: | tnamwong@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.silapajarun.com |
| Editor or Department: | Yaoi reviewer named Kris |
| Subject: | Would like to have yaoi reader review... |
| Comments: | Dear LHLS,
I've asked many, many people if they would like to review the e-book copy of my yaoi novella, KATANA DUET: Samurai's Forbidden Love, so if you have already received this email and declined then I apologize. If you would like to read not only dark yaoi, but also historical fiction then Katana Duet may interest you. Please reply if you would like a free e-book copy (^_^). Blurb: "The Matsumoto twins, or "mirror samurai," are bound together by a horrible crime committed during the civil war. Eager for a new beginning, the brothers travel to America where they are befriended by the Lennartsson brother and sister, Konrad and Klara. Akeno becomes attracted to the seemingly innocent young Klara, while Aki allies himself with, Konrad, who is desperately trying to find a cure for his sister's mysterious illness. The bond of brotherhood between the samurai grows into a forbidden relationship as they realize "Katana Duet" is not the only stage show they must perform for money but they must also play out an elaborate act to free themselves from a deadly game in a household full of secrets." Reviews: FALLEN ANGEL REVIEWS ~ 5/5 Angels! http://tinyurl.com/5dowxz DARK ANGEL REVIEWS ~ 4 Pixies http://tinyurl.com/6bd7fa Book video (rated G) ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nG_1YTJBjk Thanks for your time. Again, I apologize if you don't accept review requests. Sincerely, Silapa Jarun |
| Name: | Perry Brass |
| E-mail address: | belhuepress@earthlink.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://perrybrass.com |
| Subject: | Carnal Sacraments |
| Comments: | I was very pleased to see a picture of my friend Robert W. Cabell and me at the Brooklyn Book Fair. I gave Linda Yau a copy of my book Carnal Sacraments for review in the LHLS, and I hope that you will find the time to review it. Here are some recent reviews of the book. I think that with our present economic environment, the book is a lot of more futurist fiction: it's now.
5 Great Reviews of Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future, the new book by Perry Brass from Belhue Press, ISBN 078-1-892149-05-3 Paper $16.95 Some things are too good to keep to yourself. So we want to share these recent reviews of Carnal Sacraments with you. “a book that captures the imagination and will not let it go until the last page,” from Out In Jersey, Oct. 07 issue. Review by Toby Grace. In his latest book, Perry Brass takes us on a trip into the not-too-distant future. It is a world we already know but with present cultural trends carried to the tenth power. The System provides those who succeed with every luxury imaginable and more—with almost eternal youth, but you have to stay on the cutting edge. You must continually prove your value or risk being politely, regretfully, but firmly eased out of the glittering world where everyone is young, beautiful and rich. The rest of the planet is a very different sort of place. Jeffrey Cooper, a brilliantly successful gay man is his 80s but whose evident age is early 40s thanks to the expensive and secret processes known only to the hyper-productive elite, discovers his eternal youth has a very high price – it may kill him. Salvation may come through the mysterious younger man Jeffrey falls for – or will it be his destruction? Exotic locations, high-powered wheeling and dealing and excursions into this new world’s dark underside – as well as sex – make this a book that captures the imagination and will not let it go until the last page. “a page-turning thriller that takes the reader on one helluva roller coaster ride, and oh, the places you’ll go!” from White Crane Journal, Fall Issue, review by Steven LaVigne The only rides I like are literary ones, and with Carnal Sacraments, his new “historical novel of the future,” Perry Brass has created a page-turning thriller that takes the reader on one helluva roller coaster ride, and oh, the places you’ll go! Paying homage to the works of Orwell, Bradbury and Paddy Chayefsky’s economic ideal from the film Network, Carnal Sacraments is set in a Germany that’s not far removed from the world of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Big Brother is now a global economy referred to as “the System.” Jeffrey Cooper, a transplanted American, is high up in the system, working as a powerful design executive. Something of an experiment, Cooper is actually 78 years old, but thanks to injections, looks forty years younger. Activities of the denizens, including the undesirables, are closely monitored, but when Cooper is physically attacked in a train station, this sends him to his therapist, Dr. Rosenputter. He’s advised to put the event behind him, so his physical and psychic levels won’t become affected. At first, he confides in old friends, including a pair of old foppish queens, but when Cooper follows John, his assailant into a secluded woods, he realizes that the assault was intended to knock some sense into him, even though it could bring about his downfall. The system has a method for eliminating those who are unwanted. After he’s seduced by John, Cooper experiences a profound awakening. Both empathy and human nature overpower his senses. Ignoring warning, his point of view toward the system changes. Cooper realizes he may or may not be in danger, but it’s his passion that will lead him toward his ultimate destiny. Like much of his other work, Brass includes little inside jokes within his writing, most specifically in this novel, references (whether intended or not) to James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. For example, Robert Conway is the hero of that novel, and is a character here; Cooper himself is a male version of Maria, the young lady who ages after she leaves Shangri-La. Still, he includes hot sex, greedy clergy, randy Indian men, vicious neo-Nazi punks and stylish gay men among his characters, taking the reader into the tried and true world of the thriller, where red herrings lead the reader on detours throughout this satisfying roller coaster of a novel that’s sure to please even those who aren’t big on futuristic novels. Take a chance and let your mind be controlled by the system created here by Perry Brass! Layered with philosophical elements, fascinating descriptions, and a clear focus on character overall, Brass' latest work is one of the most unusual novels I've read in years, from Bay Area Reporter, 23 August, 2007, review by Jim Provanzano. Set at the end of this century, Perry Brass' Carnal Sacraments tells the story of Jeffrey Cooper, a design executive who's reached the pinnacle of his career, which involves supervising global marketing campaigns for superfluous luxury products. Few know how long it took Cooper to climb his way to the top. As with many other elites in this dystopian world, while appearing to be a dashing 30something, Cooper is actually in his 70s. A regimen of injections, surgeries and other processes keeps his youthful appearance. Underneath the facade, however, Cooper is about to suffer a nervous breakdown, particularly when a lumbering stranger punches him on the subway. His later coincidental meeting with his assailant, a Dutchman named John van der Meer, leads to a strange and passionate affair that may ruin his precarious status as a tastemaker for the world. Set mostly in Berlin, where the Alabama-born Cooper works, the book's conversations and nicknames are sprinkled with German terms. (A glossary is provided, but mostly unnecessary, with the phrases understandable in context.) Unlike most other science fiction novels, despite some teleconferences and the expected Orwellian government surveillance, Brass dispenses with futuristic jargon, gadgets and machinery in his novel. He instead focuses on the inner paranoia of an upscale executive fearing his inevitable downfall. Although set in a future where the government has become a corporate voyeur of every aspect of middle- to high-income citizens, leaving the lower classes to barely documented yet surveilled status, Brass' novel, like most good "futuristic" fiction, actually comments on contemporary society. Cooper's wealthy gay friends, up-ended by illness, are forced into a government-controlled frozen status. John, Cooper's love interest, is relegated to poverty, living in a shack in a forest outside of Berlin. Cooper gushes with neurotic emotion and pent-up frustration with his "system-assigned" therapist, who warns him of the potential dangers of his romance with John. Then, in an impulsive gesture, Cooper accepts an invitation from a scheming yet supercilious younger executive in India. Cooper and new mysterious lover embark on a mystical yet conflict-laden vacation. More dark secrets are revealed, and Cooper's limits and capacity for love versus his grasp on his career are tested. Layered with philosophical elements, fascinating descriptions, and a clear focus on character overall, Brass' latest work is one of the most unusual novels I've read in years. “A fast and fascinating read.” Mark Peikert in HX Magazine, the most read gay magazine in New York, reaching 100,000 readers weekly. Carnal Sacraments was picked to head up HX’s “Autumn Leaves” round up of fall queer reading. Issue 845, Nov. 16, 2007. Time stands still for Jeffrey Cooper, a successful businessman in 2075 who remains ageless as long as he continues bringing in money to the company. But stress is beginning to tell on him, and men are flitting in and out of his orderly life, disrupting it and him. Part sci-fi, part erotica, this is a fast and fascinating read. “Perry Brass has been a pioneer and now a mainstay in the gay futuristic genre,” Jerry Rosco, in Mandate Magazine, March, 2008 issue, Manstuff Column. Perry Brass has been a pioneer and now a mainstay in the gay futuristic genre, with novels like The Harvest, Warlock, and Angel Lust. His new book, Carnal Sacraments: A Historical Novel of the Future, reveals itself in its subtitle. It is about the future, in fact the last quarter of the twenty-first century, but we recognize the connections to the world around us. Global economic power, profitable war, privileges for the rich, government surveillance of everybody—all familiar, but several leaps ahead of today’s realities. Jeffrey Cooper is an American business executive stationed in Berlin, apparently 30-something but actually 70-something. He’s near a breakdown, dealing with his high-pressure career, the lives of his gay friends, and his own fears and love interests. All of it is unusual and unpredictable, and gives Brass a clever way of commenting on today’s world. Carnal Sacraments is available to the trade through Bookazine, Ingram, Baker and Taylor, Bull Dog Books, Tech Materials International, Alamo Square Wholesale; and retail from fine community and other bookstores throughout the world. For more information: Belhue Press 2501 Palisade Avenue, Suite A1 Bronx, NY 10463 phone/fax: 718 884-6606 belhuepress@earthlink.net www.perrybrass.com |
| Name: | Aubrey Levitt |
| E-mail address: | aubrey.levitt@gmail.com |
| Editor or Department: | Jane Seaton |
| Subject: | Submission |
| Comments: | Do you accept outside submissions for this journal? If so, where do I send them.
Thank you. Aubrey Levitt Aubrey.levitt@gmail.com |
| Name: | Alvi |
| E-mail address: | alvi_jr@hotmail.com |
| Editor or Department: | Attn: Ginger Mayerson |
| Subject: | Cold Sleep: Sequal |
| Comments: | I felt the same way too! I thought there should be a sequel! I love the novel myself, but was so disappointed/sad when it came to an end.
So I read the "Afterword", right at the end of the novel and the author does say that this story is actually 2-3 novels long! Except....I don't know when the next one is coming out...if ever >_< |
| Name: | Guy Fraser-Sampson |
| E-mail address: | guyfs@yahoo.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=627 |
| Editor or Department: | Editor |
| Subject: | Mapp and Lucia |
| Comments: | I know you have carried items on this in the past and I wanted to make you aware that I have written the first new Mapp and Lucia book for twenty years, with the blessing of E.F.Benson's estate.
Please let me know if you would be interested in featuring this and I will gladly send you more details. |
| Name: | Michael Perry |
| E-mail address: | m-perry@aurora-publishing.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.deux-press.com |
| Editor or Department: | Sales & Marketing |
| Subject: | Re: Yaoi review: Yakuza in Love (volume 2) |
| Comments: | Actually, in Japan, it was originally three volumes, until they re-released it and condensed it into two... so if you got the original Japanese one, you'd still be biting your nails wanting to know what happens... (^_^)
Michael Perry Deux Press |
| Name: | Kiernan Kelly |
| E-mail address: | KiernanKelly@KiernanKelly.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.KiernanKelly.com |
| Editor or Department: | Linda Yau |
| Subject: | Review of Satyr-Day Night Fever |
| Comments: | I wanted to extend my thanks to Linda Yau for taking the time to read and review Satyr-Day Night Fever. One of the things I appreciate about LHLS reviews, is that they're always frank and honest, and as a writer, I greatly appreciate reading what a reviewer disliked as much as what they liked about a given story.
Thank you, Ms. Yau, not only for an honest review, but for being willing to overlook certain aspects of the plot that didn't appeal to you, and still enjoy the story. Kiernan Kelly |
| Name: | Kiernan Kelly |
| E-mail address: | KiernanKelly@KiernanKelly.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.KiernanKelly.com |
| Editor or Department: | Ida Vega-Landow |
| Subject: | Review for Dancing on the Head of a Pin |
| Comments: | I wanted to drop Ms. Vega-Landow a line to say thank you for the very nice review! I'm so glad she enjoyed Dancing on the Head of a Pin, and am grateful for her taking the time and effort to read and review it.
Thank you again! Kiernan Kelly |
| Name: | Margo Candela |
| E-mail address: | margo_candela_contact@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.margocandela.com |
| Subject: | Local Author |
| Comments: | Hello Editors,
My third novel, MORE THAN THIS, will be out this August from Touchstone Books. I'd love to be included on LHLS. I grew up in Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park (where my parents still live). You can find out more about me, my two other books and more at my site, www.margocandela.com. Below I've included specifics about MORE THAN THIS. Thank You for your time and consideration. Margo Title: More Than This Author: Margo Candela Publisher: Touchstone (August 12, 2008) ISBN-10: 1416571345 ISBN-13: 978-1416571346 About: Sometimes what we have is not enough...She doesn’t know his name and he doesn’t know hers, but they do know they’re perfect for each other. For Alexander Velazquez and Evelyn Sinclair it’s love at first sight but they are too caught up in proving themselves at work and to their families to take a chance on the stranger they happened to lock eyes with through a train window. Alexander, an ambitious lawyer from a working-class neighborhood, and Evelyn Sinclair, a daughter of privilege trying to make it on her own, want to find meaning in their lives while looking in wrong directions. A series of missed connections bring them tantalizingly close meeting, but something or someone always seems to get in the way. As they watch each other through their office windows, all they can do is wonder about what might happen if they took a chance on the stranger across the street. |