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Diane & Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Diane Anderson-Minshall is the
executive editor of Curve magazine, the country's best-selling lesbian
magazine. The co-founder & former executive editor of Girlfriends
magazine and the co-founder & former editor/publisher of Alice
magazine, Anderson-Minshall's writing-which focuses primarily on
lesbian life, popular culture, travel, entertainment and
celebrities-has appeared in dozens of magazines including Passport,
Film Threat, Utne Reader, Wine X, India Currents, Teenage, Bitch,
Seventeen, American Forests, Femme Fatale, Diva, The Advocate, Fabula,
Bust, Natural Health, Venus, and numerous newspapers.
Her essays have also appeared in several
anthologies including Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary
Television; Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages
of Bitch Magazine; Body Outlaws; Closer to Home: Bisexuality and
Feminism; Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership; 50
Ways to Support Gay & Lesbian Equality; and Tough Girls. Anderson-Minshall
is the co-editor of the anthology Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Race
and Sexuality and co-author of the upcoming Blind Eye mystery series.
Diane was recently named one of PowerUp's 2006 Top Ten Amazing Women in
Showbiz, for her work with lesbian filmmakers.
As a park ranger, Jacob Anderson-Minshall,
completed the National Park Service's law enforcement Ranger Academy
and patrolled forested lands above Silicon Valley, bay and ocean-side
parks and rolling hills north of San Francisco. When a disabling
injury ended his ranger career, Jacob returned to his first
love—writing. He co-founded Girlfriends magazine and served as the
publication's first director of circulation. Now the transgender
writer's weekly syndicated column, TransNation runs in LGBT
publications from San
Francisco to Boston; and he is a frequent contributor to the feminist
publication, Bitch. Jacob's interest in criminal investigation was
amplified by the 2000 murder of his brother-in-law, Tom Sherwood in
Pocatello, Idaho. To date, that case remains unsolved.
Originally from
Idaho, Jacob and Diane have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 14
years-and continue to do so in the company of three spoiled dogs.
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Coming In 2008...
Blind Faith (December 2008)
In the detective business, the ordinary can quickly become deadly.
When private investigator Yoshi Yakamota and the Blind Eye
Detective Agency are hired to find a woman’s missing sister, the
assignment seems fairly mundane. Then two teens fall to their death
from a rocky oceanside cliff in what appears to be a tragic
accident. Although the events seem unrelated, they have one thing
in common: the controversial Pioneer Institute, a residential
ex-gay youth program. Will sending a Blind Eye team member
undercover reveal what's behind the school's terrible safety
record, or will it just put the spy in harm’s way?
Third in the Blind Eye Mysteries.
Current Releases...
Blind Eye Mystery Series:
Blind Curves
The murdered body of lesbian publisher Rosemary Finney is found on
a remote hiking path south of San Francisco. Local police of the
wealthy Woodside enclave quickly focus on a prime suspect:
investigative reporter Velvet Erickson. Velvet appeals to her
friend and former lover, private eye Yoshi Yakamota, whose detective
skills more than make up for her failing eyesight, for help.
Yoshi
dedicates the resources of her firm, Blind Eye Detective Agency, to
proving her friend's
innocence. But every time the investigators rule out one
suspect, another takes their place. What has Rosemary Finney
done to make so many enemies? And which one did it?
Blind Leap
The
camera doesn't lie, but sometimes it captures a story worth killing
for.
When Jeff Conant, the new executive
director of San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival, takes a header
off the
Golden Gate Bridge, he is
considered just another statistic—one of the thousands who've
leapt from the landmark to commit suicide. But Jeff was also a
childhood friend of reporter Velvet Erickson, who refuses to accept
the coroner’s ruling. Although unconvinced, Yoshi Yakamota reluctantly
agrees to investigate Jeff’s death. Diving into the victim’s life,
the Blind Eye Detective Agency uncovers potential suspects, but no
real indications of murder.
What did happen on the
Golden Gate Bridge that night? Did an independent filmmaker
inadvertently capture the event on camera? When a Blind Eye team
member is attacked, it becomes painfully clear that someone has a secret worth
killing for—and with Yoshi dangerously close to exposing it, they
may strike again.
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