Member Since: Aug. 17, 2010

Elliott Mackle


Biography

Elliott Mackle covered the 1996 Olympic Games for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. An AJC staff writer, he served as the newspaper’s dining critic for a decade, also reporting on military affairs, travel and the national restaurant scene. His first novel, It Takes Two, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He lives in Atlanta with his partner of nearly forty years.

Where to find Elliott Mackle online

Website: http://lethepressbooks.com

Where to buy in print

http://lethepressbooks.com

Books

Only Make Believe: A Novel    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $6.99 USD. 72990 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 16, 2012. Fiction.
It’s amateur night at the ultra-private, members-only Caloosa Club on the Fort Myers, Florida, riverfront. Trouble begins when the fat lady sings. Her triumph is sweet. But, only hours later, the diva lies near death in a hotel room upstairs, the victim of a vicious beating. Hotel manager Dan Ewing and his sidekick, Lee County Detective Bud Wright, soon discover that this was no lady.
It Takes Two: A Novel    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $6.99 USD. 82770 words. Published by Lethe Press  on June 2, 2012. Fiction.
February, 1949. Fort Myers, Florida. It started out to be such a nice day. But early morning gunfire at the Royal Plaza Motor Hotel changed all that. One white man is dead. One black man is dead. The white man’s widow has just crashed the investigation and is waving a gun around. Former journalist Elliott Mackle takes this wonderfully realized "why-done-it” to fascinating levels.
Captain Harding and His Men    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $6.99 USD. 61760 words. Published by Lethe Press  on May 16, 2012. Fiction.
Continuing the adventures and misadventures begun in Elliott Mackle’s award-winning “Captain Harding’s Six-Day War,” Joe and his fellow officers and airmen contend with a highly decorated but sexually abusive wing commander, a closeted Pentagon official fighting to save his career, a CIA agent who may be an imposter, and shipments of British weapons that fall into the wrong hands
Captain Harding's Six-Day War    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $6.99 USD. 85880 words. Published by Lethe Press  on September 6, 2011. Fiction.
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.
Hot off the Presses: A Novel    by Elliott Mackle
Price: $5.99 USD. 92920 words. Published by Lethe Press  on August 17, 2010. Fiction.
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.

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