LOS ANGELES—August 15, 2019—ReQueered Tales is proud to announce it has formed a new publishing venture to re-publish older LGBTQ fiction—with an immediate focus on mystery, horror and suspense genres. Our sixth release, available worldwide on Amazon as a Kindle e-book and Kobo, and, making our e-book debut on Apple iBooks and Nook, is THE BLACK MARBLE POOL by Stan Leventhal.
“Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun.” So said Stan Leventhal, a prolific author, editor and publisher who made a major impact on gay writing in the 1980s and until his death from AIDS in 1995. He was nominated for three Lambda Literary Awards, one for each of his first three novels. He wrote many reviews, started a gay publishing house, encouraged writers and readers to celebrate queer stories. In time for the 25th anniversary of his death, ReQueered Tales is honored to be launching a new edition of his works.
Some of his writing is in a lighter vein, especially The Black Marble Pool, a murder mystery set in Key West. A music critic is handed an assignment to do a travel piece for his New York editor and sent to the gay vacation hot spot. Settling in to a cosy guest house the first evening, a body turns up, quite dead, in the bottom of an empty pool. Our hero quickly becomes sleuth, and various quirky characters make as appearance, most not quite what they appear to be. And then there is the hunky closeted beat cop….
Michele Karlsberg, a close friend and business partner, writes: “He was a literary activist who always gave to, built and endorsed literary writers.” That term, “literary activist”, comes through in a video with a gay cable TV show from 1991 in which the soft-spoken, seriously handsome 40 y/o was interviewed about this book.
Sarah Schulman, another New York friend, mourned his passing in an emotional essay “Through the Looking Glass.” She recalled: “Stan was a great friend. He liked to have a Jack Daniels and a cigarette; he took AZT with bourbon sometimes. A tall skinny guy, clean shaven with short brown hair, he was kind of a hippie, wore a jean jacket, T-shirt and had a backpack. Stan read everything and was one of the first men I’d met who actually read lesbian fiction and loved it.”
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1991, this edition includes a new 2019 foreword by renowned LGBTQ publicist and friend of Stan Leventhal, Michele Karlsberg. The Black Marble Pool is being reissued for the first time as an e-book. It’s available as a Kindle e-book at Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Nook and Apple iBook for direct purchase.
Available worldwide from:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/33EYCc1
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2L4BJqj
Nook: https://bit.ly/2Z7Pnhf
iBooks: https://apple.co/2OZO8AU
