We’ve some truly wonderful reads to open the year with: Trebor Healey and Richard Hall join our authors. Richard Stevenson, John Morgan Wilson and Lauren Wright Douglas series sleuths return. And a new Stan Leventhal novel!
Two New Authors for ReQueered Tales for 2023
Trebor HEALEY
Recipient of The James Duggins Lambda Literary Award for Mid-Career Novelists, Trebor Healey also received the Violet Quill award for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, and the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction for both A Horse Named Sorrow and Through It Came Bright Colors. In addition, he has penned the speculative fiction novel, Faun, and a homoerotic poetry collection, Sweet Son of Pan, along with three collections of stories – A Perfect Scar & Other Stories, Eros & Dust and Falling. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, and co-edited (with Amie Evans) Queer & Catholic.
Through It Came Bright Colors: Trebor Healey’s multi-layered, lyrical prose illuminates a unique, intimate look at a young man’s struggle to live openly and honestly, to love and to be loved, free from shame and guilt. It’s a compelling family saga of rare emotional, spiritual, and poetic depth. Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Novel in 2003, this new edition includes a foreword by Felice Picano (Like People in History).
Print 300 pgs • 978-1-951092-87-0
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Richard HALL
Richard Hall was a novelist, an acclaimed short-story writer, and a widely produced playwright. He was book editor of The Advocate from 1976 to 1982 and the first openly gay critic to be elected to the National Book Critics Circle. His landmark essay, “Gay Fiction Comes Home,” was the front-page article in The New York Times Book Review in June 1988, and his reviews have also appeared in The New Republic, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Village Voice. His final two books, Family Fictions: A Novel and a collection of short stories, Fidelities, were published by Penguin. Richard Hall died of AIDS-related complications in October 1992.
Fidelities is a stunning collection of stories that explores the varieties of gay experience – love stories, both passionate and compassionate; tales of suspense; narratives on the theme of AIDS; even a ghost story. Among the most adept and technically accomplished writers of his generation, Hall’s third and last collection of short stories is an eloquent work of immense power.
Print 312 pgs • 978-1-951092-89-4
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Recurring Mystery Series, Highly Anticipated Releases
Lauren Wright DOUGLAS: Caitlin Reece
The Daughters of Artemis is the third in Douglas’s Lambda Literary Award winning series starring Caitlin Reece, Victoria, BC Canada private investigator.
It’s not enough that the so-called Full Moon Rapist is prowling the streets of Victoria, BC. Sean Macklin has just been paroled. This particular man, the personification of everything Caitlin holds evil, is the reason she left the Crown Prosecutor’s office years ago to ply her lonely and demanding profession. The release of Macklin, who has sworn vengeance on his victim and on Caitlin herself, coincides with Caitlin’s newest case: to find Jess, heir to a trust fund, who has secreted herself within a women’s commune. Led to the commune by magnetic Diana McNeil, Caitlin discovers the Daughters of Artemis – women bonded together with an agenda that presents a profound moral dilemma for Caitlin …
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John Morgan WILSON: Benjamin Justice
Revision of Justice is the second in Wilson’s Edgar Award winning series starring Benjamin Justice, LA journalist in search of redemption.
There’s a Hollywood one never gets to see on Oscar night; the Hollywood of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres. It is this hidden Hollywood that Benjamin Justice finds when he accompanies Alexandra Templeton – the go-getting young journalist – to an open house at the home of the well-known teacher of screenwriting, Gordon Cantwell. Templeton is on assignment, but the body she finds in Cantwell’s garden isn’t part of her story, and Justice suspects that the death isn’t natural, either. The dead man is Raymond Farr, born Reza JaFari, and as it turns out, almost anyone at the party might have wanted him dead. The quintessential Hollywood deal maker, Farr’s credentials were as phony as his name, and his scruples were as nonexistent as his credits. Justice – ever the investigative journalist, however reluctant – begins to nose around.
Print 280 pgs • 978-1-951092-93-1
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New Release in the Stan Leventhal Edition
FAULTLINES
Faultlines, Stan Leventhal’s second novel, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. In this madcap, verging on surreal, adventure, Stan Leventhal spares no stereotype of comic treatment, while always employing a velvet, soft hand: you know goodness rules, even when Sam is on the loose. As in caper-style fast-paced stories, unlikely coincidences twist the action, sometimes like a whiplash: the reader has no choice but to chuckle and succumb. And following a plethora of other characters – a cocaine addled preacher’s wife, an acolyte who bleeds literally for Jesus, an investigative journalist wearing brown polyester suits two sizes too big, two dykes as fire marshalls and Paula Bluefeather who … well, it’s a faerie-tale, after all, and the fun is how it all works out.
Print 220 pgs • 978-1-951092-91-7
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THE BLACK MARBLE POOL
The Black Marble Pool, Stan Leventhal’s third novel, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. There’s a dead body at the bottom of a pool in the backyard of a guest house in Key West. Who is he? And what caused his untimely demise? Maybe it’s suicide. Or an accident. But more likely – murder! And who’s responsible? One of the guests, the people who run the guest house or one of those mysterious women in town? Stan’s close friend and colleague Michele Karlsberg provides a foreword. Previously available in e-book only, a handsome new print edition is now released.
Print 192 pgs • 978-1-951092-92-4
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Richard Stevenson’s DON STRACHEY in 3 new releases
SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
In Book 5, Shock to the System, Donald Strachey is asked to investigate the suspicious death of Paul Haig by three different people-Haig’s homophobic mother, his ex-lover, and the psychiatrist hired to “cure” him of his homosexuality. Just as he gets started, however, all three remove him from the case, leaving Strachey with a brutal murderer that now everyone wants left alone. Written over a period of three decades, the Donald Strachey series authentically chronicles gay life as it unfolded in upstate New York. Shock to the System was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Mystery. An author’s note is included.
Print 228 pgs • 978-1-951092-84-9
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CHAIN OF FOOLS
In Chain of Fools, Private Investigator Donald Strachey is asked to look into the events surrounding the months-old murder of Eric Osborne. His death, originally believed to be a random attack, takes on new significance when Janet Osborne, Eric’s sister, survives an attempt on her life. Skeeter, Eric’s lover, believed both attacks were meant to silence them before the sale of their family’s newspaper. Drawn into a complex family feud, Strachey must unravel the secret behind the attacks before the killer tries again. An author’s note is included.
Print 236 pgs • 978-1-951092-85-6
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CHASING REMBRANDT
Book 17! Richard Stevenson had one more Don Strachey adventure up his sleeve: he completed and approved the final edits to Chasing Rembrandt in February, 2022. ReQueered Tales is honored to publish this final tale in print and ebook in April 2023. More details coming soon!
