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I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Albuquerque in October (http://gayromlit.com/authors.php) a personal favor, a special Ebook Giveaway: every 2 days I will post 1 book from each author, and among those who will leave a comment, I will draw a winner. Very easy and very fast ;-) I will send a PM to the winner, so remember to not leave anonymous comments!

Today author is Eric Arvin (http://daventryblue.blogspot.com/)

Woke Up in a Strange Place by Eric Arvin
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (February 25, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1615817956
ISBN-13: 978-1615817955
Amazon: Woke Up in a Strange Place
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Joe wakes up in a barley field with no clothes, no memories, and no idea how he got there. Before he knows it, he's off on the last great journey of his life. With his soul guide Baker and a charge to have courage from a mysterious, alluring, and somehow familiar Stranger, Joe sets off through a fantastical changing landscape to confront his past. The quest is not without challenges. Joe's past is not always an easy thing to relive, but if he wants to find peace-and reunite with the Stranger he is so strongly drawn to-he must continue on until the end, no matter how tempted he is to stop along the way.

 Nifty jewelry.

Donald Jess "Don" Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. He resides in Santa Monica, California. (Picture: Bachardy at 19 – Photo by Carl van Vechten (January 1954))

Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood, whom he met on Valentine's Day 1953, when he was 18 and Isherwood was 48. They remained together until Isherwood's death in 1986. A number of paperback editions of Isherwood's novels feature Bachardy's pencil portraits of the author. A film about their relationship, titled Chris & Don: A Love Story, was released in 2008. (Picture: Christopher Isherwood)

Bachardy studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. His first one-man exhibition was held in October 1961 at the Redfern Gallery in London.

Since that time he has had many one-man exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and New York. More recently, he exhibited at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, in 2004–2005.



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...Such a stupid schmoopy teenager. *shakes head* :)

Title The Sanders.
Author bluegerl
Posting to sons_of_gondor
Archive rugbytackle
Chapters 9 completed.
Category RPS AU. Brendan Behan(Sean Bean) and Evan Hitcherson(Viggo Mortensen). Roman(Jake Gyllenhaal), and Carew(Karl Urban).
Rating NC l7.
Disclaimer. Just the pictures of these men 'sanding' the floors of an old house.. aren't they just beautiful? And I intend no offence to the above mentioned gentlemen. This has been read, but not Beta'd, as I am far too prolific and would wear any Beta out... so forgive the mistakes and if there are obvious errors, by all means, do tell. I hope you enjoy my tale of The Sanders.
Note:  The Brendan Behan in this story has no relation to the famous poet, now deceased.  This Brendan is fictitional.

The Sanders.  Chapters 7 and 8 combined 

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I'm in D.C. for the Nebula Awards weekend. The hotel got overbooked--apparently an enormous tour group decided to stay an extra day, and once people have rooms you can't kick them out--so a bunch of us were shunted off to a very posh hotel several miles away for tonight. This is a bit puzzling, as the original hotel is surrounded by other hotels and presumably they could have just sent us across the street, but whatever. Alas, the very posh hotel put all its money into building an enormous atrium with house-sized shops and restaurants inside of it, leaving none for soft beds.

This entire place--not just the apocalyptically empty and echoing hotel but the surrounding extruded-plastic "walkable downtown" with meticulously kept-up lawns and a complete sucking absence of soul--feels grotesquely fake. I could believe that it was once a movie set built from a demented megalomaniac's dim, warped recollections of childhood vacation fantasies. Now the (undoubtedly dystopian) movie is done and the set has been abandoned, to be intermittently occupied by confused, wealthy squatters. The bars outside the hotel, where we went in a futile search for non–room service food, were packed full of the most desperately intoxicated people I have ever seen in my life. There is no dirt anywhere. There is no sense that anyone who had a hand in designing this place put the slightest thought into human comfort and enjoyment; it all exists simply to make an impression. It's the architectural equivalent of someone who has undergone so much plastic surgery that none of their original face is left. It's the suburbia that Information Society wrote "On the Outside 2.1" about, the sort that recalls the man with red eyes and the regimented children from A Wrinkle in Time. It is profoundly discomfiting and I will be glad to leave.

The one redeeming feature is that I ended up with Dr. Danielle as my last-minute roommate, which is lovely. If I were in a room all by myself I'd be missing Josh and Xtina a whole lot. I'm still missing them, of course, but it's tempered by slumber party fun.

There's hardly anything on the program that interests me (no slight to the organizers; I have this problem at all non-Readercon conventions), so once I get back to the conference hotel, I plan to spend the next three days alternating between hot tub and bar*, using my phone to record interviews, with a break to put on my pinstripe suit and liveblog the Nebulas. I love my job, even when it sends me to strange, disturbing, non-real places.

* Because it's where people congregate, not because I'll be drinking. I don't drink when I'm working.


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"Taraday is The Third Day. Tara is both a Hindu Goddess and Buddhist Saint. The Hindu Tara is an Aspect of Kali. The Buddhist Tara reincarnates only as a woman. She is chosen because She symbolizes 'the End that is not the End'."

Addendum D [Calendar for A New Matriarchy]

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Alcatraz (Fox)
Allen Gregory (Fox)
Are You There, Chelsea? (NBC)
Awake (NBC)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Cartoon Network)
Bent (NBC)
Best Friends Forever (NBC)
Blue Mountain State (Spike)
Bored to Death (HBO)
Breaking In (Fox)
Charlie's Angels (ABC)
Chuck (NBC)
The Closer (TNT) (ends in August)
CSI Miami (CBS)
Desperate Housewives (ABC)
Eureka (Syfy) (ends in July)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
The Finder (Fox)
The Firm (NBC) (ends in June)
Free Agents (NBC)
GCB (ABC)
A Gifted Man (CBS)
Harry's Law (NBC)
H8R (CW)
House, M.D. (Fox)
How to Be a Gentleman (CBS)
How to Make It in America (HBO)
Hung (HBO)
I Hate My Teenage Daughter (Fox)
I'm in the Band (Disney XD)
In Plain Sight (USA)
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (IFC)
Luck (HBO)
Man Up! (ABC)
Meet the Browns (TBS)
Missing (ABC)
Napoleon Dynamite (Fox)
NYC 22 (CBS) (ends in July)
One Tree Hill (CW)
Pan Am (ABC)
The Playboy Club (NBC)
Prime Suspect (NBC)
Ringer (CW)
The River (ABC)
Rob (CBS)
The Secret Circle (CW)
Terra Nova (Fox)
Unforgettable (CBS)
Wizards of Waverly Place (Disney)
Work It (ABC)
Zeke & Luther (Disney XD)