that next giveaway! that new book!
Hello friends!
For life reasons (had to attend a last-minute wedding in another state!) the giveaway of three paperback copies of Saeed Jones’ memoir How We Fight for Our Lives has been pushed back to next week. This book won the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award in 2020; Jones is a poet, and you can really hear it in the beauty of his prose. From Amazon’s description:
Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence—into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another—and to one another—as we fight to become ourselves.
If you’d like to be entered in the drawing, please fill out the form here. (Basically confirming that you are a real person and that you understand I can’t ship internationally at this time.)
It has been two weeks since my first historical romance, A Bloomy Head came out! I have been really delighted with the response so far. You can read Lev Mirov’s wonderful bluesky thread reviewing it here.
And now, as a little bonus, here are the process photos from me painting the cover.
I hope you are taking care of yourselves as we brace for 2025 and all that it will bring.
Sharon