Lethe Press


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Lethe Press is an independent publishing house specializing in speculative fiction, books of gay interest, poetry, spirituality, as well as classic works of the occult & supernatural. Named after the Greek river of memory and forgetfulness, Lethe Press is devoted to ideas that are often neglected or forgotten by mainstream publishers. Founded in 2001 by author Steve Berman, Lethe Press has grown steadily in its first few years. Our books have been finalists for, and in cases won, such awards as the Andre Norton, Gaylactic Spectrum, Golden Crown Literary, and Lambda Literary Awards. Our anthologies have featured the works of many acclaimed and New York Times best-selling authors.

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The Master of Seacliff: A Novel    by Max Pierce
Price: $6.99 USD. 80570 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 16, 2012. .

A gay romance set in 1899 in a mysterious mansion by the sea.For pure gothic escapism with a decidedly masculine point of view, The Master of Seacliff is an enthralling and satisfying read.
Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction    by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Price: $8.99 USD. 90900 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 12, 2012. .

Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year. Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman have chosen stories that celebrate the spirit of the fiction of beloved author, the late Joanna Russ: stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth.
Seventy Times Seven: a novel    by Salvatore Sapienza
Price: $5.99 USD. 75890 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 19, 2011. .

An intriguing look into current-day religious life… The story of a young Catholic teaching brother realizing the true meaning of serving others and living life and living life as a gay man, Seventy Times Seven is readable and entertaining, with just the right twists and turns to keep the reader engrossed.
Eat Your Heart Out: a novella    by Dayna Ingram
Price: $5.99 USD. 50270 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 15, 2011. .

A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee’s Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden, simultaneous appearance of Renni Ramirez – hyper-competent star of the beloved Rising Evil B-movie franchise – and actual ZOMBIES.
Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living    by Daniel M Jaffe
Price: $6.99 USD. 60930 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 31, 2011. .

Daniel M. Jaffe explores various aspects of gay-Jewish life: coming out to self and family; (re)defining one’s relationship to tradition and faith; surviving child abuse and teenage sexual identity angst; experiencing the adult joys and heartbreaks of dating, of forming relationships, and of losing them; coping with HIV/AIDS; considering parenting; and dealing with old age.
Whistling in the Dark    by Tamara Allen
Price: $6.99 USD. 105320 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 26, 2011. .

New York City, 1919. His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after a scandalous affair with a teacher. Unable to face his family, Sutton heads to Manhattan with no plans and little money in his pocket but with a desire to call his life his own.
Tales from the Den: Wild and Weird Stories for Bears    by R. Jackson
Price: $9.99 USD. 83750 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 15, 2011. .

Enter the Den, where this frightfully stimulating collection of fifteen hot and hairy stories—written by and for the masculine men who call themselves bears, cubs, wolves, otters, and the critters who love them—will be sure to give you a chill up your spine and a thrill between your furry loins.
Night Chant    by Andrew Demcak
Price: $4.99 USD. 4910 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 8, 2011. .

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The terse, dark pieces in Andrew Demcak’s fourth collection of poems occur under the cover of night.  Into a richly macabre cityscape, the voices in these poems expose their secrets, from the desire of unbearable addictions to the shocking violence of hate crimes.  In their spareness, with their array of surprising images, these poems are bold in their brevity.
A Day at the Inn, a Night at the Palace and Other Stories    by Catherine Lundoff
Price: $6.99 USD. 67520 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 7, 2011. .

A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace, the short and fantastical fiction collection by two-time Golden Crown Literary Award winner Catherine Lundoff, features engaging stories about swashbuckling female pirates, opera singers and mercenaries.
Night's Kiss: Lesbian Erotica    by Catherine Lundoff
Price: $6.99 USD. 55560 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 4, 2011. .

Once more Catherine Lundoff offers readers a collection of the sensual and the supernatural. The stories in Night’s Kiss are perfect bedtime reading, as long as you keep the night-light on! Here are stories with alluring vampires and aliens, strange Elvis impersonators and pirates, as well as a few vengeful goddesses and curious tourists.
A Strong and Sudden Thaw    by R.W. Day
Price: $6.99 USD. 122130 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 3, 2011. .

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The Ice fell upon the world nearly a hundred years ago, and if civilization didn’t rightly collapse, it surely staggered and fell ill a while. In the small town of Moline, Virginia, folks struggle to survive, relying on their own faith in God and hard work. But when a mated pair of dragons starts hunting the countryside, they don’t have the weapons or the skills to fight off such predators.
Run Naked, Run Free    by Ken Smith
Price: $6.99 USD. 73040 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 1, 2011. .

Follow the further adventures of sexy Brad, the randy, frustrated, cute, lovable, playful young man. When Simon develops a crush on Brad, an elusive chase begins. In pursuit of love with the "dreamboat" sailor, Simon encounters hunky farmhand Liam and Brad engaged in some serious fun, and soon a chase begins.
The House of Wolves: A Novel    by Robert B McDiarmid
Price: $6.99 USD. 76550 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 29, 2011. .

Enveloped by the native spirits of the Pacific Northwest, Roy Wallace and David Moreau’s newfound relationship begins. David soon introduces Roy to the House of Wolves, a small intentional community of gay and bisexual men where honor, companionship, spirituality, erotic desire, and brotherhood guide their way. Having lost their visionary founder, the household has been faltering.
The Silent Hustler    by Sean Meriwether
Price: $1.99 USD. 81910 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 25, 2011. .

Best known for editing the edgy gay fiction of the Velvet Mafia website, Sean Meriwether has quietly been writing short fiction and building up a body of his own work. The Silent Hustler collects his short fiction published over the last decade.
Silver Foxes: Steamy Stories of Older Men    by C.B. Potts
Price: $6.99 USD. 49980 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 24, 2011. .

Daddy lovers rejoice! Author C.B. Potts has devoted an entire collection to that rough and hunky older man who has earned his place in the long history of gay erotica. Illustrated by Kimball Davis.
Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing    by Catherine Lundoff
Price: $5.99 USD. 62010 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 12, 2011. .

Catherine Lundoff is one of the most imaginative writers working today. Her daydreams have been published in many anthologies. The fifteen stories combine passion with the weirdness of speculative fiction.
Captain Harding's Six-Day War    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $6.99 USD. 85880 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 6, 2011. .

Assigned to baby-sit a loose-cannon colonel at remote Wheelus Air Base, Libya, handsome, hard-charging Captain Joe Harding spends his off-duty time bedding an enlisted medic and a muscular major, then begins a nurturing friendship with the American ambassador's teenage son. A romance with a gays-in-the-military backdrop.
Best Gay Stories 2011    by Peter Dube
Price: $6.99 USD. 63930 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 2, 2011. .

In the 2011 edition of Best Gay Stories, editor Peter Dubé reminds gay men that when we step up to the proverbial microphone and tell our own stories, something monumental happens. This anthology of fourteen stories is a testament to all the voices, the power of storytelling, a chorus of narrative impulses.
The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered    by Tom Cardamone
Price: $6.99 USD. 73470 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 25, 2011. .

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, edited by Lambda Literary Award finalist Tom Cardamone, includes appreciations by 28 contemporary writers on significant gay novels and short story collections that are now out of print. The Lost Library includes an essay on reprints of gay literature by librarian and activist Philip Clark.
Moontusk Book Two: Orchid of Awakening    by Bruce P. Grether
Price: $8.99 USD. 116190 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 19, 2011. .

With this second book of the intriguing and frankly erotic Moontusk Chronicles, the epic journey of the two young men, Dare and Hosis, continues. The mysterious Lady Dee acts as their sponsor as they travel south along the mighty Nasapan River. Various misadventures along the way complicate the three-way relationship.
Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal    by Jeff Mann
Price: $6.99 USD. 56290 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 18, 2011. .

Outside an isolated cabin, winter fog caresses spruce trees. Inside, two men, lovers, have enacted a plan of revenge, kidnapping the handsome son of the man who wronged one of them. Al, the accomplice, has stalked Rob for weeks, and his infatuation for the young man has grown deeper than he ever anticipated. A tale of gay erotica and BDSM by a master of the genre.
Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction    by Steve Berman
Price: $8.99 USD. 96470 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 10, 2011. .

Celebrate a decade of gay speculative fiction with Wilde Stories 2011! This expanded volume from Lethe Press brings stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an inhospitable wilderness, and fiends who hide under handsome veneers, all written by award-winning authors and fresh voices in the field.
From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction    by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Price: $9.99 USD. 79580 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 1, 2011. .

For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published. In From Macho to Mariposa, are stories from 29 gay Latino writers from around the United States. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this “era of lost signals” in which we live.
Pumpkin Teeth: Stories    by Tom Cardamone
Price: $2.99 USD. 58360 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 31, 2011. .

Tom Cardamone's his wicked universe of changelings and mysterious creatures, where a boy transforms into lightning and illuminates his emerging sexuality. Where a man accidentally receives a package meant for his neighbor, a situation complicated by the fact that he lives next door to a Sphinx. A nurse finds herself working in a retirement home for vampires… and more
Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts    by Ken Summers
Price: $6.99 USD. 47880 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 28, 2011. .

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Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts is a collection of eerie locales worldwide with a queer bent, combining historical fact and unearthly encounters from across the United States, as well as around the globe.
The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam    by Alex Jeffers
Price: $8.99 USD. 90720 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 22, 2011. .

A bilingual childhood and youth in cosmopolitan İstanbul, city of the world's desire, and the Aegean resort of Bodrum. A bewildering trip by ship and train and jet across Europe and the Atlantic to college in America, that strange and terrifying country. Friendships, passionate affairs, one-night stands—a richly dissatisfying erotic education. A wedding, a death, an act of violence.
A History of Barbed Wire    by Jeff Mann
Price: $6.99 USD. 89350 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 20, 2011. .

In intense, lyrical language, Jeff Mann’s short stories explore the sex and psychology of BDSM and of bear culture, and most are set in Mann's native Appalachia, an area often mythologized as a place where the wilderness within converges with the wilderness without. Winner of the 2006 Lambda Literary Award
The Decade of Blind Dates    by Richard Alther
Price: $6.99 USD. 102330 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 14, 2011. .

Peter Bauman, a forty-five-year-old divorced gay painter, plunges into the personal ads in his quest for the perfect partner. During a decade of sex and shenanigans, Peter, encouraged by his ex-wife, daughter, and son, examines his life and, at last, discovers his soul mate in this hilarious comedy of gay manners!
Wagers of Gold Mountain    by Steve Berman
Price: $0.99 USD. 7440 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 12, 2011. .

Set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, Ji Yuan, a Chinese youth who immigrated to America with his brother to seek his fortune but has found only disappointment. Now, his brother lays sick, dying, and Yuan must seek the help of two local spirits. But being tricksters, nothing these spirits tells the youth is ever the whole truth.
Murder on Camac: A Marco Fontana Mystery    by Joseph R. G. DeMarco
Price: $3.99 USD. 125810 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 11, 2011. .

Will the solution uncover a decades old plot to kill a pope or will gay detective Marco Fontana find that jealous rage or academic rivalry caused the victim’s death? The only thing Fontana can be certain of is his enemies have killed once and won't hesitate to murder a private eye who gets too close to the truth.
A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes    by Joseph R. G. DeMarco
Price: $9.99 USD. 96220 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 3, 2011. .

In A Study in Lavender, the Holmes universe is queered and eleven authors have devised stories in which Holmes and Watson are lovers, or investigate mysteries of inverts hidden from the laws and cultures of the Victorian era; even the indomitable Lestrade has his turn at love; and famous actors who helped put Holmes on the silver screen face trysts they never dared to film.
Slant: A Novel    by Timothy Wang
Price: $7.99 USD. 62420 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 2, 2011. .

James, an Asian boy who likes video games and romantic comedies, realizes he’s gay while attending college in Boston. He begins a whirlwind exploration of the gay world, negotiating its many pitfalls, including the first kiss, his first love and the first drugs. At the same time, he has to manage his insecurities and the constant pressure from his tiger mom.
Bears in the Wild: Hot & Hairy Fiction    by R. Jackson
Price: $6.99 USD. 56030 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 29, 2011. .

Editor R. Jackson presents sixteen fresh, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors such as Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Dale Chase, Jay Neal, and Jay Starre, as well as new voices.
Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories    by Simon Sheppard
Price: $4.99 USD. 73710 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 29, 2011. .

Winner of the Erotic Authors Association Award for Best Collection of the Year, Hotter than Hell & Other Stories offers readers some of the most imaginative and sinful stories by San Francisco’s “Erotica King” Simon Sheppard.
Bear Like Me: A Novel    by Jonathan Cohen
Price: $7.99 USD. 65870 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 23, 2011. .

Fired from his job at Phag Magazine, Peter Mallory has to find a way to make a living…and get revenge! When his best friend suggests writing a book about the bear community—and using his new ursine look to go undercover at Phag—Peter is soon letting his body hair grow and practicing the fine art of flannel couture. A humorous and insightful book about gay bear culture.
Tricky Serum: An Elixir of Poems    by Dan Stone
Price: $4.99 USD. 9110 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 2, 2011. .

These poems address the tricky prospect of elixirs—the quest for the substance of our dreams, the magic potion for fulfilling what we hold to be our fondest and often most elusive desires.
Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories    by Catherine Lundoff
Price: $3.99 USD. 77030 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 26, 2011. .

Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades offers readers seventeen original lesbian ghost stories that stories that range from eerie tales of lost love to the darker side of romantic commitments, relationships that linger longer than the grave.
Queeroes: Save the Gay … Save the World    by Steven Bereznai
Price: $7.99 USD. 55960 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 6, 2011. .

Queeroes is a clever and humorous look at high school outcasts that suddenly gain superpowers after drinking contaminated water. There are classic good guys and bad guys as each teen tries to figure out how to deal with their newfound powers.
Bi Guys: The Deliciousness of His Sex    by R. Jackson
Price: $4.99 USD. 67720 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 6, 2011. .

A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Bi Guys returns to print. This groundbreaking fiction anthology presents a unique collection of outstanding sensual writing about the bi male sexual experience. With twenty-three stories from renowned queer authors, this is bisexual-themed erotica with a decidedly masculine viewpoint.
Bearotica: Hot & Hairy Fiction    by R. Jackson
Price: $6.99 USD. 67720 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 5, 2011. .

This first volume in the Hot and Hairy series of outstanding erotic short fiction draws readers deep into the thickest forest of masculine desire to reveal at a hidden bonfire a long-hidden clan of gay, bi, and queer men from the Bear cult. Edited by R. Jackson, Bearotica presents seventeen strong, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors.
The Phoenix    by Ruth Sims
Price: $6.99 USD. 125730 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 2, 2011. .

A compelling Victorian saga of two men whose love for each other transcends time and distance—and the society that considers it an abomination. Set in the last twenty years of the 19th century, The Phoenix is a multi-layered historical novel that illuminates poverty and child abuse, as well as theatre history in America and England.
Wedding Season    by Mark Abramson
Price: $7.99 USD. 77180 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 29, 2011. .

Book 5 in the Beach Reading Series.When San Francisco's cattiest television personality Rosa Rivera sponsors a gay wedding contest, Tim Snow's boyfriend begins pressuring him to get hitched. Life for his friends in the Castro becomes comic and chaotic as the lavish ceremony is promised to be held at the restaurant where Tim works. Meanwhile, his beloved Aunt Ruth has been harboring a homeless woma
Amar a Alguien Gay    by Don Clark, PhD
Price: $4.99 USD. 102080 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 28, 2011. .

Por más de tres décadas, el psicólogo clínico, Don Clark, ha estado hablando a los corazones y mentes de la gente gay, sus familias, amigos, maestros, y ayudantes en las múltiples ediciones de Loving Someone Gay (Amar A Alguien Gay).Con ésta más reciente edición actualizada de su famoso libro, Don Clark ilumina una luz clara a nuestro futuro en el siglo veintiuno.
Dirty Poole: A Sensual Memoir    by Wakefield Poole
Price: $7.99 USD. 103320 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 23, 2011. .

Poole created Boys in the Sand, the film that would revolutionize pornography and gay film, start the "porno chic" trend of the 1970s, and serve as the ruler by which adult entertainment is measured. The new edition of Poole’s memoir is an honest and entertaining look at life in the worlds of theater and gay porn.
Japanese Dreams: Fantasies, Fictions & Fairytales    by Sean Wallace
Price: $2.99 USD. 48140 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 16, 2011. .

Japanese Dreams takes the reader to the islands of fire and smoke - where shape-shifters, demons and lovers all populate a landscape blossoming with story. Imaginative contributions by such well-known writers of fantasy as Steve Berman, Eugie Foster, Jay Lake, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert Joseph Levy, Lisa Mantchev, Richard Parks, Ekaterina Sedia, Erzebet YellowBoy, and more.
A Ride to Remember and Other Erotic Tales    by Sacchi Green
Price: $6.99 USD. 57000 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 13, 2011. .

A Ride to Remember takes you on a journey through the sensual imagination of Sacchi Green, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Erotica. These thirteen stories offer an ever-changing panorama of encounters between women who know what they want and grasp it with fierce intensity.
Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelliing    by Toby Johnson
Price: $1.99 USD. 113300 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 11, 2011. .

Storytelling can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have drawn a long straw in this life. Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men.
A Body on Pine    by Joseph R. G. DeMarco
Price: $8.99 USD. 116920 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 5, 2011. .

When Marco Fontana enters his friend's spa on Pine Street in Philadelphia, he doesn't find the peaceful retreat he expected. Brad, the masseur, is missing. The spa is splattered with blood and a dead client lies sprawled on the floor. After a thorough search turns up more questions than answers, Marco calls the police. A thriller with a gay detective!
Promises, Promises: a romp with plenty of dykes, a unicorn, an ogre, an oracle, a quest, a princess, and true love with a happily ever after    by LJ Baker
Price: $6.99 USD. 66750 words. Published by Lethe Press  on April 4, 2011. .

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Sandy Blunt, witch, has big dreams but C-average magic skills. Her only noteworthy talent is for paying extravagant compliments to women. Trouble is, when she uses that gift, she unwittingly foretells the future for a pretty princess. The punishment for prophesying about one of royal blood is death.
Prodigal: Variations    by Ed Madden
Price: $4.99 USD. 7100 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 28, 2011. .

The poems in Ed Madden's second book, Prodigal: Variations, explore relations between men — fathers, sons, brothers, lovers — as well as questions of home and exile, memory and longing, and the promises and compromises of any return.
Mere Mortals - a novel    by Erastes 
Price: $6.99 USD. 80110 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 24, 2011. .

Orphaned Crispin Thorne has been taken as ward by Philip Smallwood, a man he’s never met, and is transplanted from his private school to Smallwood’s house on an island on the beautiful but coldly remote Horsey Mere in Norfolk. Upon his arrival, he finds that he’s not the only young man given a fresh start.
If the Spirit Moves You: Ghostly Gay Erotica    by Dale Chase
Price: $2.99 USD. 51430 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 24, 2011. .

If the Spirit Moves You offers readers a collection of stories featuring spirits who cannot deny their attraction to mortals; these ghosts seek out warm flesh, not to harm but to hold. And seduce.
Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction    by Steve Berman
Price: $2.99 USD. 65590 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 19, 2011. .

The 2009 edition of Wilde Stories, edited by Steve Berman, promises readers a range of imaginative gay-themed fiction culled from the prior year. These are tales that range from the horrorific (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers).
The German    by Lee Thomas
Price: $8.99 USD. 86830 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 7, 2011. .

At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his men are baffled and the community he serves is terrified of the monster lurking their streets. The only clues the killer leaves behind are painted snuffboxes containing notes written in German.
Two Flutes Playing    by Andrew Ramer
Price: $6.99 USD. 61880 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 5, 2011. .

A classic of gay mythopoesis. Michael Bails writing an unsolicited review on the amazon.com site says: "I was recommended this book after having taken a Body Electric workshop a few weeks before. From the first page I began to re-live the entire bonding rituals that we had experienced over that weekend. How to connect, how to communicate, and how to intimately bond on a higher plane!"
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors    by Livia Llewellyn
Price: $8.99 USD. 84830 words. Published by Lethe Press  on March 3, 2011. .

Death and pleasure—Freud's Todestrieb: "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards… The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn.
Gay Spirit: Myth & Meaning    by Mark Thompson
Price: $6.99 USD. 110610 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 28, 2011. .

Arguably the book that started the Gay Spirituality Movement. Publishers Weekly wrote: Cultural editor of the Advocate, Thompson here collects previously published articles and book excerpts from the magazine, each an attempt to define the status of gay men. The text discusses the gay's role in politics, religion, culture, identity.
Moontusk: Rendezvous in a Ruined City    by Bruce P. Grether
Price: $6.99 USD. 115110 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 22, 2011. .

At the heart of the Kemnoan Empire, in the imperial capital Ulan, handsome Prince Dare is the heir to the throne. But this restless young man flees from his duty on a journey of self-discovery. Dare sets off on foot for the mountainous kingdom of Loonapoore, where sacred mammoths are revered. The young man really seeks the truth of the feelings and passions in his maturing body.
Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories    by Connie Wilkins
Price: $5.99 USD. 71420 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 17, 2011. .

For as long as there’s been such a thing as sex, alternate sexual identities have been a fact of life. So why have we been so nearly invisible in recorded history and historical fiction? Now editor Connie Wilkins, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, has assembled fourteen stories that span the centuries—from ancient times to the Renaissance to the modern era—and explore alternate pasts.
Spicy Slipstream Stories    by Nick Mamatas
Price: $2.99 USD. 77010 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 15, 2011. .

Slipstream stories are that weird combination of eloquent fancy and conventional literary form. Intended to make the reader feel out of sorts within the confines of their imagination, such fiction became the darling of small press venues. And so, maybe, found its way into the hands of a few readers.  But add a dash of the risque and the result is Spicy Slipstream Stories.
A Carnal Cruise    by Hank Edwards
Price: $4.99 USD. 66880 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 12, 2011. .

Charlie Heggensford, the Idaho farm boy turned L.A. fluffer for hire, is back, and this time, Charlie and the rest of the gang from Fluffers, Inc. are hitting the high seas. Hired to provide fluffing service on a cruise ship filled with gay porn stars, Charlie soon discovers he is no less clumsy on sea than dry land as he continues to over stimulate his clients in this funny and sexy novel.
Fluffers, Inc    by Hank Edwards
Price: $4.99 USD. 60980 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 11, 2011. .

Young Charlie Heggensford is fresh off a farm in Idaho when he stumbles (literally) into the office of Fluffers, Inc., where his natural talents are quickly put to use getting male porn stars in the “mood” to perform. Now if only Charlie can spare a breath for some seriously hilarious and sexy misadventures...
Blame It on the Raging Hormones    by Nathan Goh
Price: $7.99 USD. 36520 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 10, 2011. .

This coming-of-age memoir of an ordinary gay boy living in Singapore, in the form of an online journal, is brutally honest, endearing, poignant and raw.
Bear Lust: Hot and Hairy Fiction    by R. Jackson
Price: $7.99 USD. 78760 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 10, 2011. .

Bear Lust presents powerful stories of raw, hairy, beefy male love by authors Jeff Mann, Dale Chase, Daniel M. Jaffe, Simon Sheppard, Jay Neal, R.E. Neu, Jay Starre, Karl von Uhl, Thom Wolf, Furr, and other top homomasculine writers. Edited by R. Jackson, the sometimes amusing but always arousing fiction in Bear Lust reveals that the clan of the Bear cult has never been so hot!
Crossing and Other Plays    by C.E. Gatchalian
Price: $2.99 USD. 14010 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 7, 2011. .

Crossing explores the tormented, sexually charged relationship between a mother and her teenage son, bound together by guilt and fear over a horrific incident that occurred ten years prior. Diamond is an elliptical, metatheatrical dissection of one woman’s intimate story. Ticks is the frantic, metronome-accompanied monologue of a self-appointed messiah, eager to bring a plague upon the city.
Don't Tell    by K.A. Kron
Price: $6.99 USD. 103280 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 5, 2011. .

Basic Training: Given the perfect setting for romance, with drill sergeants, other recruits, no privacy, wrinkled uniforms and days without showers, what could possibly go wrong? K. A. Kron knows first hand about the faceless veterans who were trapped in a glass closet while serving their country.
The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries: 1975-2010    by Mark Thompson
Price: $9.99 USD. 106730 words. Published by Lethe Press  on February 2, 2011. .

The Fire in Moonlight is a series of  personal reflections on who the Radical Faeries are, where they’ve been and where they are going: Radical Faeries in their own words. It is about how a movement has changed lives—and how Radical Faeries contribute to healing a fractured Earth.
Wonder: a Novel    by Dan Boyle
Price: $6.99 USD. 87580 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 26, 2011. .

Have a gay Caltech professor and his dying mother uncovered the secrets of the mind…and the universe? Tom Flaherty's mother is suffering from a strange form of dementia that causes her to journey back in time; her travels might be the evidence Tom needs as a Caltech physicist to develop a unified theory of space, time, and place—String Theory.
The First Risk: Poems    by Charles Jensen
Price: $4.99 USD. 9630 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 23, 2011. .

In four extended sequences, The First Risk confronts the murder of Matthew Shepard and the myth of Venus and Adonis through the eyes of Italian Renaissance painter Luca Cambiaso; the eccentric women of Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother and their search for authenticity; the nature of love and obsession in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the pain and confusion of loss; and more…
Do You Remember Tulum? novella in the form of a love letter    by Alex Jeffers
Price: $2.99 USD. 46740 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 21, 2011. .

Do You Remember Tulum? is a story about memory, about learning to love and be loved, set among the exotic Maya ruins of Tulum and Palenque in southern Mexico. A young man returns to Mexico, where landscape, art, and memory compel him to confront the events that shaped him a decade before. A dizzying travelogue, this short novel maps the geographies of the deep roots of love.
The Unborn Spouse Situation    by Matt Rauscher
Price: $6.99 USD. 113190 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 7, 2011. .

This darkly comic novel of sex, betrayal, and cultural clashes follows a twenty-two y.o. aspiring filmmaker's search for love: from the cornfields of Illinois, to the gay beach and underground clubs of Chicago, and finally to the ecstasy-fueled nightlife of London.
Spring of the Stag God    by JC Herneson
Price: $7.99 USD. 52490 words. Published by Lethe Press  on January 5, 2011. .

Prepare your loins for tales of erotic adventure in the world of Khernia, in this first release of the Stag God Chronicles. Here are three intense novellas of gay sexuality told in the imagery of Norse and Teutonic myth.
Alleys & Doorways: Stories of Queer Urban Fantasy    by Meredith Schwartz
Price: $3.99 USD. 56210 words. Published by Lethe Press  on December 22, 2010. .

Editor Meredith Schwartz has brought together stories of the odd and mysterious ways that queer life happens in the city. Covering a wide range of styles, moods and emotions, from the poignant and erotic to the whimsical, these tales from a roster of acclaimed authors strive to create new legends for gay urbanites.
The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero    by Ron J. Suresha
Price: $8.99 USD. 75020 words. Published by Lethe Press  on December 19, 2010. .

This entertaining and insightful retelling of more than 350 Mullah stories brings the famed Persian legend into the 21st Century. Storytellers, folklorists, Sufis, comedians, wisdom seekers, and everyone who loves to laugh will be enriched and enlightened by the timeless wit, inscrutable wisdom, and uncommon sense of humor of Mullah Nasruddin.
Sleeping Beauty, Indeed & Other Lesbian Fairytales    by JoSelle Vanderhooft
Price: $6.99 USD. 43530 words. Published by Lethe Press  on December 17, 2010. .

Fairy tales have long intrigued readers. They’re the first stories we remember, and they resonate within us as adults. In Sleeping Beauty, Indeed, editor JoSelle Vanderhooft offers us a new take on an ancient theme: fairy tales from a lesbian perspective. The tales run from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty, from original myths by talented authors to classics retold with a deft hand.
The Boy Can't Help It: Sensual Stories of young bottoms    by Gavin Atlas
Price: $7.99 USD. 63450 words. Published by Lethe Press  on December 10, 2010. .

At some point, hasn’t every bottom yearned to be ravished by a powerful, inescapable top? What dominant hasn’t fantasized about a gorgeous young sub with an incredible ass, so horny he could never say no? the boy can’t help it offers over a dozen such stories of beautiful young men: a gymnast, a diver, a surfer, a marine and an assortment of college boys, etc., etc.
Shadow Man    by Melissa Scott
Price: $7.99 USD. 108320 words. Published by Lethe Press  on December 10, 2010. .

In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner traditions and the realities of life, only male and female genders are legal, and the "odd-bodied" population are forced to pass as one or the other.
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction    by Steve Berman
Price: $6.99 USD. 122140 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 29, 2010. .

Lambda Award-nominated editor Steve Berman brings together acclaimed fantasy writers with some of the brightest names in speculative and LGBT fiction to create tales that are moving and magical. These stories of romance and grief, adolescence and identity, struggle and hope will enchant readers who long for a fantastic escape—and a wonderful twist!
Second Thoughts: More Queer and Weird Stories    by Steve Berman
Price: $1.99 USD. 57610 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 28, 2010. .

In his second collection of stories and essays, author Steve Berman once more guides readers through the dark paths of his imagination with such tales as a nursery rhyme tempting a young lover, the scent of loneliness enticing children to eat away a caretaker’s historic house, and a pair of Victorian-era burglars seeking their fortune in a fey-filled London.
Binding the God: Usine Essays from the Mountain South    by Jeff Mann
Price: $7.99 USD. 79600 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 22, 2010. .

A much lauded essayist and poet, Jeff Mann writes of the passion and pain of being a Southern gentleman who happens to be invested in many worlds:  the hungers of gay Bear culture; the propensities of leather and bondage; the frustrations of academia; and the perspectives of an Appalachian who has traveled the world. Binding the God is his second collection of essays.
Best Gay Stories 2010    by Steve Berman
Price: $2.99 USD. 82080 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 15, 2010. .

In the newest edition of Best Gay Stories, editor Steve Berman has selected confessions and stories that range in scope from “S”—sensational—to “XL”—extra-liberating: a personal remembrance of the Stonewall Riots; a tale of awkward first love; the allure of Tadzio for not only Gustav von Aschenbach but every reader of Thomas Mann; the wisdom of Auntie Mame. 21 stories in all.
The Limits of Pleasure    by Daniel M Jaffe
Price: $5.99 USD. 61870 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 7, 2010. .

With great humor and sensitivity, writer Daniel M. Jaffe’s novel The Limits of Pleasure follows Dave Miller, a forty-year-old bearish gay man, living in Boston in an escalating skirmish to reconcile his Jewish and gay identities.
The Mariposa Club    by Rigoberto Gonzalez
Price: $3.99 USD. 58780 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 5, 2010. .

As they embark on their final year of high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Liberace—decide to do something big, something that will memorialize their friendships for when they all begin their new “adult” lives: start a GLBTQ club. They are accustomed to the hardships that come with being openly gay in high school (not to mention in their homes).
My Name Is Rand    by Wayne Courtois
Price: $2.99 USD. 70890 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 2, 2010. .

Since its first publication in 2004, My Name Is Rand has been embraced by ticklephiles around the world. No other novel is so devoted to exploring, celebrating, and even mythologizing the BDSM aspects of male-on-male tickling.
Vancouver Nights    by Hank Edwards
Price: $6.99 USD. 84540 words. Published by Lethe Press  on November 1, 2010. .

Charlie Heggensford, the Idaho farm boy turned LA fluffer for hire, is back for another crazy/sexy adventure. With Rock Harding on tour in The Netherlands, Charlie is forced to find ways to occupy himself: on his knees, on his back. And in trouble.
Cowboys Can Fly    by Ken Smith
Price: $6.99 USD. 59530 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 12, 2010. .

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Young Toby spends his days exploring the backwoods surrounding his UK country home. His imagination not only supplies adventure but also the exciting promise of lustful embraces and kisses with the handsome field hand. When Toby's mother, a nurse, brings home a sickly yet handsome youth, Cymon, to recuperate, Toby finds himself drawn to the older boy. Their friendship, awkward at first, blossoms.
A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men    by William Holden
Price: $6.99 USD. 41040 words. Published by Lethe Press  on October 9, 2010. .

The stories that delighted us as boys, now told with a sensual edge for us as men! The Glass Coffin. The Elves. Fitcher's Bird. Old fairy tales that might provoke a wistful grin at their magical storytelling. Author William Holden has breathed new life into such stories in A Twist of Grimm--his retellings strike true, like Eros's arrow: below the belt.
Out of the Ashes    by R.W. Day
Price: $9.99 USD. 129140 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 27, 2010. .

In this sequel to A Strong & Sudden Thaw, the world after the Ice remains a dangerous place. Callan and David have survived the dragons but rebuilding lives is no easy task. The army comes to enforce an evacuation with claims of tainted groundwater and radiation. The Brethren, a crazed religious order, seeks to control the new world through preaching intolerance and forced conversion.
La Di Da Di Bloody Da!: A Novel of Some Extremes    by Robin Anderson
Price: $2.99 USD. 121160 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 1, 2010. .

Divided loyalties and lingering lusts turn would-be assassins and victims into brothers in arms in Robin Anderson’s sophisticated fantasy of “courtly” love with a special twist.
Subtle Bodies A Fantasia on Voice, History and René Crevel    by Peter Dube
Price: $2.99 USD. 30720 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 1, 2010. .

Paris, 1935. The poet René Crevel dwells on past events that changed his life and ended the peace among the Surrealists. Years earlier, Crevel enacted seances for André Breton and his guests. Soon Crevel found himself overcome with lapses in memory and time. While in a trance, Crevel felt his sense of self expand to new levels, subtle bodies of consciousness.
Disturbed by Her Song    by Tanith Lee
Price: $8.99 USD. 63120 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 30, 2010. .

Disturbed By Her Song collects the work of Esther Garber & her half-brother Judas Garbah, the mysterious family of writers that Tanith Lee has been channeling for the past few years. Possibly autobiographical, frequently erotic and darkly surreal, their fiction takes place in a variety of eras and places, from Egypt in the 1940s, to England in the grip of the Pre-Raphaelites, to gaslit Paris.
Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from under the Big Top    by Jerry Wheeler
Price: $7.99 USD. 71100 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 27, 2010. .

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and read stories both salacious and miraculous! Only a few dollars for the Grand Tour of Tented! That’s just a few fins to meet the Great Masturbator! A couple o' Lincolns to explore a post-apocalyptic future where every clown has his very own catamite! Yes, my friends, these stories are guaranteed to amaze, beguile, and captivate. That’s the ABC’s.
Sodomy!    by Simon Sheppard
Price: $7.99 USD. 60340 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 20, 2010. .

Award-winning author Simon Sheppard serves up his third collection of erotic stories, tales that are smart, edgy, and very, very hot. From wrestlers to writers, fratboys to buccaneers, the men in Sheppard’s stories lust, love, and link up with erect abandon. No one else writes about queer sex quite like Simon Sheppard. Dive into Sodomy! and see.
Hot off the Presses: A Novel    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $5.99 USD. 92920 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 17, 2010. .

What happens to a crusading journalist when he finds himself falling for a closeted gymnast favored to win gold medals at the upcoming Olympics? When CNN and Sports Illustrated hound him in their never-ending demand for sensationalism that threatens careers? Henry must fi nd the answer to moral dilemmas: integrity versus propriety; passion versus restraint.
Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval and Modern Jewish Stories    by Andrew Ramer
Price: $7.99 USD. 47060 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 31, 2010. .

Andrew Ramer’s new book, Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories, grapples with traditional midrashim, plays with homoerotic love poems from medieval Spain, and envisions alternate versions of the present. Inspired by the pioneering work of Jewish feminists, working with the narrative tools of the rabbis of old, Ramer has crafted stories that anchor LGBT lives.
Silence and the Word    by MaryAnne Mohanraj
Price: $4.99 USD. 78080 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 14, 2010. .

A new collection drawing from the many areas of Mary Anne Mohanraj's work, Silence and the Word includes everything from enticing erotica to Sri Lankan-​American immigrant tales, from romantic poetry to provocative essays, like “Esthely Blue” (a magical-​realist semi-​autobiographical story of sex, work, and disappearing body parts)
Vintage: A Ghost Story    by Steve Berman
Price: $3.99 USD. 55210 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 13, 2010. .

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In a small New Jersey town, a lonely teen walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face youthful dreams and childish fears. With a cast of offbeat friends, antiques, and Ouija boards, Vintage offers readers a memorable blend of dark humor, chills and love.
Loving Someone Gay (Rev. 5th Edition)    by Don Clark, PhD
Price: $6.99 USD. 16910 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 2, 2010. .

For more than three decades, clinical psychologist, Don Clark, has been speaking to the hearts and minds of gay people, their families, friends, teachers and helpers in the many editions of Loving Someone Gay. With compassion he has promoted communication across generations as well as revealing a path of understanding and reconciliation for parents, siblings, husbands and wives and more.
Sea Swallow Me and Other Stories    by Craig L. Gidney
Price: $0.99 USD. 61170 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 30, 2010. .

A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award! Magic and myth mingle in dark and dazzling ways in Craig Laurance Gidney's debut collection. A tourist meets an African sea god... A 12th century Japanese monk attracts the attention of a mischievous shapeshifter... The Earl King lives in a briar patch on an antebellum plantation... Spirits of the past haunt a young boy on a Southern coastal island...
Russian River Rat    by Mark Abramson
Price: $7.99 USD. 74320 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 29, 2010. .

In Book Three of Mark Abramson's bestselling Beach Reading series, the lively and fun mysteries in the Castro continue: Tim starts having troubling dreams; a drowned body haunts his boyfriend, who may be less than perfect; and there are men from both their pasts who might be deadly. Set in romantic San Francisco, with a taste of adventure, a touch of magic and lots of San Francisciana.
Cold Serial Murder    by Mark Abramson
Price: $6.99 USD. 64460 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 24, 2010. .

A killer is on the loose in the Castro district.Cold Serial Murder, the second book in Mark Abramson’s Beach Reading series, continues the story of one of the Castro’s most adorable characters. Can Tim and his aunt uncover who the killer is before it’s too late? Romantic novels, set in romantic San Francisco, all with a taste of adventure, a touch of magic and lots of San Francisciana.
Beach Reading    by Mark Abramson
Price: $4.99 USD. 54770 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 24, 2010. .

The first title in Mark Abramson’s exciting new series of romantic novels, set in romantic San Francisco, all with a taste of adventure, a touch of magic and lots of San Francisciana. Gay tourists are arriving by the planeload for the “party of the decade,” a tribute to the late disco star Sylvester. On the same night, an evangelist is launching his anti-gay campaign nearby.
Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo    by Walter L. Williams
Price: $7.99 USD. 124340 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 20, 2010. .

A work of historical fiction striking in its evocation of Navajo philosophy and spirituality. Set in the Civil War era of the 1860s, this is the story of a young Virginian who finds himself captivated by a Navajo Two-Spirit male. The book illuminates the truth of what the United States did to the largest indigenous people of this nation. A novel full of suspense, plot twists, and romance
Gay Perspective: Things our [homo]sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe    by Toby Johnson
Price: $7.99 USD. 80760 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 7, 2010. .

A provocative and bold —world-changing— vision of what spirituality and religion could and should be in the modern world. A new way of thinking about what it means to be gay! The mystical/visionary experience of homosexuality by a gay student of comparative religion scholar Joseph Campbell
Freedom, Glorious Freedom    by John McNeill
Price: $4.99 USD. 77210 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 7, 2010. .

Freedom, Glorious Freedom is the third volume in John McNeill's landmark trilogy on gay and lesbian spirituality. It deals with the presence of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of love in our daily experiences, and how to arrive at the glorious freedom of the children of God. McNeill shows how lesbian and gay Christians can achieve full spiritual maturity and self-acceptance.
Sex As God Intended    by John McNeill
Price: $8.99 USD. 64920 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 7, 2010. .

In Sex As God Intended, Catholic priest & Biblical scholar John McNeill presents a simple and straightforward answer to the question: What did God invent sex for? The answer, derived from an incisive investigation of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, is that God intended sex as a source of pleasure, joy and love. This book also contains a Festschrift, celebrating the life & wisdom of Fr. McNeill.
Wilde Stories 2010: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction    by Steve Berman
Price: $2.99 USD. 72290 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 6, 2010. .

This 2010 edition of Wilde Stories offers the finest tales of fantastical and weird happenings befalling gay men from both acclaimed authors (award-winners Laird Barron, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Richard Bowes, & Joel Lane) and fresh voices (Tom Cardamone &, Georgina Li) in the field. Here are stories of hungry wolves walking on two legs and ghosts of departed lovers hesitant to leave.
Ask the Fire    by Dennis Paddie
Price: $5.99 USD. 130440 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 6, 2010. .

“I had a friend who was a spy.” So begins a story of espionage, set just before 9/11. It features a brilliant, almost enlightened, but emotionally jaded and politically cynical secret agent, an unabashed and surprisingly open gay man who has seduced secrets out of Araby for decades for U.S. Intelligence and now struggles on his own to prevent the start of the Terrorist Wars.
Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Consciousness    by Toby Johnson
Price: $7.99 USD. 86050 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 5, 2010. .

GAY SPIRITUALITY: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Consciousness offers a sensible, modern and enlightened understanding of spiritual consciousness for gay men who are so often faced with misunderstanding and conflict dealing with traditional religion. Acclaimed author Toby Johnson presents a bold perspective: being the outsider and consciousness scout allows cutting edge insight.
Pyromancer    by Amanda Young
Price: $5.99 USD. 52610 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 2, 2010. .

One desperate night, a rent boy hot enough to scorch the motel sheets, meets a man doomed to burn for love. Christian Ryder is a lonely man because of his strange abilities; pyromancy, a curse that causes the temperature to dangerously rise whenever Christian grows excited. He has accidentally hurt lovers in the past and has sworn off personal attachments. Tanner O'Bannon is broke and desperate.
Secret Matter    by Toby Johnson
Price: $5.99 USD. 95750 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 2, 2010. .

A delightfully quirky spin on what it means to be gay. When aliens arrived from space, Kevin Anderson had no idea the Visitors’ real reason for coming to Earth would ever affect him. He was, after all, just a young architect fresh out of college working on the reconstruction of San Francisco after the Great Earthquake. But one summer afternoon, Kevin met a golden-skinned Visitor…
Getting Life in Perspective    by Toby Johnson
Price: $6.99 USD. 105990 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 31, 2010. .

Sweet, sexy, wise and thoroughly entertaining, this mytho-historical novel, featuring two lovable apparitions from late 1800s America, interweaves a heart-warming story of youthful romance and adventure with an ageless life-affirming and gay-positive spiritual message along with just a touch of magic.
Snowman    by Mark Abramson
Price: $6.99 USD. 67210 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 26, 2010. .

In the fourth release in the San Francisco Chronicle's best-selling Beach Reading series of mysteries by author Mark Abramson, not all is well in the City by the Bay. Tim Snow, recently recovered from a debilitating accident, finds himself aimless and troubled over waning feelings for his boyfriend. And just when he wants to escape all the troubles in his life, new complications arise.
Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories    by Sandra McDonald
Price: $7.99 USD. 68360 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 20, 2010. .

A writer of whimsy and passion, Sandra McDonald has collected her most evocative short fiction to offer readers in Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories. A beautiful adventuress from the ancient city of New Dalli sets off to reclaim her missing lover. What secrets does she hide beneath her silk skirts? A gay cowboy flees the Great War in search of true love and an elusive undead poet...


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