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April Featured Author: Joe Cosentino
Author Joe Cosentino Joe Cosentino is as prolific a writer as you’ll likely ever meet. His series include the Nicky and Noah Mysteries, the Jana Lane Mysteries, the Cozzi Cove Series, holiday stories, romances, and a host of audiobooks.
Joe recently released second editions of the first three Nicky and Noah mystery novels. Audiobooks for them(narrated by Michael Gilboe, Chip Hurley, and Brad Enright) are still for sale on Audible, Amazon and iTunes. He also has audiobooks available for The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland (Dreamspinner Press, Joel Leslie); A Home for the Holidays, Bobby and Paolo’s Holiday Stories Book 1(Dreamspinner Press, Joel Leslie), Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back, the first Cozzi Cove novel (NineStar Press, Chase Johnson), and Porcelain Doll, the second Jana Lane mystery (The Wild Rose Press, Derick Snow).
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LGBTSr Daily Now Provides News Roundup Every Morning
I’m a news junky. That’s required a serious adjustment at a time when so much content is empty filler. But I try to keep up on the world I’m living in, and now there’s a simple way for readers of this website to do the same: the LGBTSr Daily, on Paper.li. You can read the headlines right here in the right hand column, or surf to the paper itself, with the option to subscribe and get a news roundup every day.
We’re living in chaotic, always-changing times, with a news cycle that spins faster and faster. Weed out the nonsense, turn down the noise, and enjoy a quick, easy-to-read overview with your morning coffee and equality scone.
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Jolly Good Soda Campaign Launches
Watch closely at the ending credits: that’s me listed on the creative team as the writer. Sweet! Literally.
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Q Audiobooks: Inside Dumont, Narrated by Author Michael Craft
Q Audiobooks is a regular feature highlighting audiobooks of interest to the LGBTQ listener.Author, craftsman and master storyteller Michael Craft’s novel, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories, was recently released on audiobook, available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
Narrated by the author himself, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories uses interconnected viewpoints to tell a touching, funny, intricate narrative about lead character Marson Miles’s later-life journey toward discovery—of himself, his desires, and his place in a town called Dumont.
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LGBTSr Celebrates 7 Years with a ‘Thank You’ and A Party Hat!
Seven years ago I posted the very first item here (Survey Focuses on Treatment of Long-Term Care for LGBT Elders). I was a mere 52 years old, a kid with a vision: to create and sustain an online space for the over-50 LGBTQ audience and our friends and allies. After an extended hiatus to do some reimagining of my life (move with my husband to our house in rural New Jersey, check; trade office cubicle for a job at a grocery story, check), the site is back and better than ever.
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Gay Travelers Magazine: Philadelphia Hotspots
Photo by Steven Skelley Reprinted with permission from Gay Travelers Magazine
Philadelphia LGBT Hotspots
By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
Where could a traveler go to find unique, revolutionary, historical significance, one of the most influential, big cities of the New World, and some of the best LGBT hotspots in the USA? According to VISIT PHILADELPHIA, all this and more is available in the city of brotherly love.
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‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ Now Available In Audiobook
It’s all read and done: ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ has just released in audiobook. You can find it now on Audible, Amazon, and coming soon on iTunes. Narrated by Audible Approved narrator Fred Wolinsky, the audiobook brings to life the first book in the Marshall James series. Wolinsky’s steady, experienced narration lets the writing come through and the characters speak for themselves. Listeners will hear the tale of a world-weary man deciding now is the time to talk, to tell a story or three about some murders he was involved in back in the day, Hollywood, 1983. Are you listening? -
‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ Receives Stellar Review at The Novel Approach
Mark McNease did a terrific job writing Marshall James’s story. The murder mystery was intriguing and suspenseful and made this a page-turner for me. – Maryann
I knew it was coming, but I didn’t know if it would be negative, positive, or mixed. Imagine my delight at getting a stellar review, calling ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ a page turner. Just the shot in the arm a writer needs now and then. And listen for the audiobook arriving any day now, narrated by the fabulous Fred Wolinsky.
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Coming Soon: ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ Audiobook, Narrated by Fred Wolinsky
It’s all read and done: ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ is set to release any day now on Audible, iTunes and Amazon. Narrated by Audible Approved narrator Fred Wolinsky, the audiobook brings to life the first book in the Marshall James series. Wolinsky’s steady, experienced narration lets the writing come through and the characters speak for themselves. Listeners will hear the tale of a world-weary man deciding now is the time to talk, to tell a story or three about some murders he was involved in back in the day, Hollywood, 1983. Are you listening? -
A Wealth of Health: Let’s Talk About Dentures
By Mark McNease/EditorAs a new feature at LGBTSr, a ‘Wealth of Health’ will offer personal and professional experiences on a range of health issues, complete with resources and links. Have one you’d like to hear about? Email me at: editor @ lgbtsr.org
I think it’s important to talk openly and candidly about our aging selves: our bodies, our sex lives, our relationships, our illnesses, our health and our wealth. Teeth are part of that, and, as most of us know, a part not so easily covered by insurance. So let’s start this ‘Wealth of Health’ feature with a word about dentures, something near and dear to me.
A few years ago I had a choice: either get a permanent bridge for my front teeth that were teetering on the edge of extraction, or get a partial denture. At the time I was determined not to have teeth that sat in a jar at night, like my late mother’s, and I had the money to get the bridge.
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Web Watch: Dr. Ronni Sanlo’s ‘Today in LGBT History’ Blog
From the ‘best of the old LGBTSr’ category: Web Watch is a regular feature highlighting websites of note. This one is a fascinating and fabulous look at LGBT history each day from the indefatigable Dr. Ronni Sanlo, Ed. D.
Today in LGBT History – March 14
1860, Estonia – Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock 14 March 1860 –14 April] 1895) is born in Estonia. He was a Baltic Swedish poet and writer of macabre fantastic fiction. Virtually forgotten today, he was the aesthete who could out-aesthete the great Oscar Wilde. A writer of opium-induced poems and stories, he once hosted Wilde who dared light a cigarette in front of a bust of Shelly. The sacrilege was so horrible the count fainted.
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Author Paula Martinac’s ‘The Ada Decades’ Named a Finalist for Ferro-Grumley Literary Award
Paula Martinac’s stunning novel ‘The Ada Decades’ has been named a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Literary Award:
We’ve just announced the Ferro-Grumley finalists for 2018 (books published in 2017). In alphabetical order by author, they are:
The Heart’s Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Hogarth Press)
Outside Is The Ocean, by Matthew Lansburgh (University of Iowa Press)
The Disintegrations, by Alistair McCartney (University of Wisconsin Press)
Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado (Greywolf Press)
The Ada Decades, by Paula Martinac (Bywater Books)
Our warmest congratulations to the authors, as well as to the publishing teams that made these books possible.
Continue reading my recent interview with author Paula Martinac. – Mark/Editor
