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Catherine Friend
Catherine Friend
and her partner of over twenty-five years raise sheep, ducks, and goats on
their southeastern Minnesota farm. Her memoir, Hit by a Farm: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn, was an Insightout
Bookclub bestseller and chronicles what happened to her relationship
and her writing career when she agreed to help her partner start the
farm. (It has a happy ending.) Hit by a Farm won a 2007 GCLS
award and was a finalist for a 2006 Lambda Literary Award.
Catherine has also written six books for
children and was awarded a 2007 Loft/McKnight Fellowship in Children's
Literature.
Catherine's
interests range from writing, to reading about writing, to talking
about writing, all the way to worrying about not writing. She was an
economist, a project manager for a technical writing firm, taught
writing for ten years, edited novels, and has taken some very odd jobs
to avoid returning to the corporate world. In her spare time she plays
the piano, paints, and hangs out with her partner, who makes her laugh
every day.
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A Pirate's Heart
Excerpt
Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one "thief
of hearts" share a destiny beyond time.
To foil a map thief, librarian Emma Boyd
searches for a pirate's long-lost treasure map. She's aided in her search by
investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is
beautiful.
The treasure map Emma and Randi seeks belonged to Thomasina Farris, a pirate
who disappeared from the Caribbean in 1715. Did Captain Tommy steal an
entire treasure from a Spanish galleon and escape? Was she convicted of
piracy and hanged by her neck? Did she die of a broken heart when she
lost the woman she loved?
In her race to find the map, Emma learns that pirates not
only steal treasure, but they also steal hearts. When Emma discovers Captain
Tommy's fate, she must decide her own as well, choosing between romance...or
revenge.
2008 Lesbian Romance Lambda Award Finalist
2008 Popular Fiction Benjamin Franklin Award Winner
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The Spanish Pearl.
When Kate Vincent and her partner Anna travel to
Spain, Kate is accidentally transported back in time...to 1085. What does
Kate do in a world of no antibiotics, no feminism, no Diet Coke?
She denies it as long as possible, then sets her mind to getting
home.
Things don't go well. Kate is captured by a band of mercenary
soldiers and becomes an unwitting pawn in the violent conflict
between the Catholic kings and the Islamic Moors. In her struggle
to stay alive, Kate must flee exotic
harems, filthy dungeons, and treacherous Moorish courts. But when a
sword-brandishing champion with an astonishing secret sweeps into
her life, Kate is suddenly torn between two women—and between
two centuries.
The
Spanish Pearl is an
epic adventure spiced with humor, lust, and danger—a story with
surprising twists that will capture your imagination just as Kate's dilemma captures your heart.
2008
Lesbian
Dramatic Fiction
GCLS
Award Winner |
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The Crown of Valencia.
It's tempting
to describe the action in The
Crown of Valencia, but
then we'd reveal spoilers from
The Spanish
Pearl.
Just know that
once again, Kate Vincent finds herself in a mess, both romantically
and time travel-wise. Romance, betrayal, intrigue, disobedient
children, and religious fanaticism pack this tense conclusion to
the epic adventure begun in
The Spanish
Pearl.
*2008
Lesbian
Speculative Fiction
GCLS
Award Winner |
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