Category: Announcements

Congratulations to indie author Gabriella West on the 5 star review of her novel The Leaving.

At 15, Cathy Quinn is an intelligent misfit living in 1980s Dublin. Over her last two years of school, Cathy struggles with her dysfunctional family, coming to terms with her powerful attraction to her best friend Jeanette, and leaving Ireland. The Leaving is a realistic, yet lyrical, look at adolescence and first love.

Above all, the novel explores the intersecting lives of two emotionally close siblings growing up in the hostile and homophobic Dublin of the 1980s, when homosexuality was still taboo, and being different was not tolerated.

Author/reviewer Shannon Yarbrough says, “And I cannot imagine my life now without having experienced this beautiful novel. Despite the plea in all of us to grow up, wishing our young lives away unbeknownst to what awaits us, I promise you will not want the journey The Leaving takes you on to ever end.”

Read the whole review here.

Cindy will be at a book signing and author chat:

November 5, 2011 @ 1:00 pm

Hi De Ho Comics & Bookstore

1431 Lincoln Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA 90401

310- 394-2820

Her book, “NETTIE PARKER’S BACKYARD,” is a historical-fiction WWII mystery for ages 9-13, promoting the timely and very important themes of anti-bullying and tolerance for all.

Check out more about the author, a synopsis, and reviews at Cindy’s website!

Read it with a special child in your life!

Congratulations to friend and author Brenda Ballard. Her book, “The Boy From Granite Falls” (book one) took the Silver Award in its category in the 2011 Reader’s Favorite Contest.

Brenda says, “I will be receiving my award next year in Miami instead of this year in Vegas; we were given the choice and I chose being featured at the largest book fair in the US. I cannot wait!”

The Boy From Granite Falls (book two) will be in print within the month—watch for it at Xlibris.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and other online bookstores.

The Boy From Granite Falls (book three) will be in print sometime in the spring of 2012. Brenda is simultaneously writing another book, “Billy’s Buffalo Lake Adventures,” which will be out in the spring of 2012 and also for sale at the Colville Indian Pow Wow in July, Colville, Washington.

Nov 5: Giovanni’s Room · 5 South 12th Street · Philadelphia PA 5:30-7:00 pm Author Gregory G. Allen will be reading from his book, “Well With My Soul”  and signing books in the country’s oldest gay bookstore. (Well With My Soul is a story of brothers: one straight/one gay)