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Articles by Celia Laskey
Win A Copy Of The Book 'The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness' By Tim MacMahon
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Grand Central. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4bHn1Bb From ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, follow the extraordinary career of the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic, and the pressure of building an NBA team around a prodigy. In 2018, the Dallas Mavericks landed the most hyped prospect in basketball history—teenaged Luka Doncic.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Lucky Night: A Novel' By Eliza Kennedy
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Crown. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4iuNdla Two people, one hotel room, and all the choices and complications that make up a life. After six years of a stolen hour here, another there, tonight is going to be different for Nick Holloway and Jenny Parrish. They’ve booked a room in a new luxury hotel in Manhattan, where they’ll spend the entire night together for the first time.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Cover Story: A Novel' By Celia Laskey
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Grand Central. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4kHYxf8 From the author of Under the Rainbow, a hilarious, emotional love story about an anxious publicist who’s tasked with keeping an extremely gay starlet in the closet—but ends up falling for her instead. It’s 2005, and Ali is a publicist for Hollywood’s biggest stars. Part of her job entails keeping gay celebrities in the closet—which is pretty ironic, since she’s a lesbian.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Cellar Rat: My Life In The Restaurant Underbelly' By Hannah Selinger
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Little Brown. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3FsgPRO What happens when a career you love doesn’t love you back? As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'I Would Die For You: A Novel' By Sandie Jones
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Minotaur. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4bqeyCr From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip comes an electrifying next novel. California, 2011: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in the small seaside town of Coronado with her husband and daughter.
Phoenix: Win Passes To An Advance Screening Of 'Death Of A Unicorn' Thursday
DEATH OF A UNICORN this Thursday, March 20th at Harkins Tempe Marketplace, 7pm. RSVP below. https://forms.gle/jH1debz2iwKBaHPV6 A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties. Cast: Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani, Jessica Hynes, with Téa Leoni and Richard E.
Detroit: Win Passes To An Advance Screening Of 'Holland'
Screening Information: Monday, March 24 at 7pm Emagine Royal Oak 200 N Main Street, Royal Oak Click on the link for passes. http://amazonscreenings.com/HOLLANDRCC In this wildly unpredictable thriller, Nicole Kidman is the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot, a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband (Matthew Macfadyen) and son (Jude Hill) in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale.
Book Review: 'I Would Die For You: A Novel' By Sandie Jones
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Minotaur. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4hwjfMk The year is 2011 in California and for Nicole Forbes, it’s a quiet life with her husband and daughter, Hannah. Her world is about to be blown up. A writer arrives wanting to interview her about her relationship with a member of the band Secret Oktober, who were big in the 80’s. She knows things about the band, but does not want to talk about it.
Book Review: ‘The Gatsby Gambit: A Novel’ By Claire Anderson Wheeler
The book is in stores on Tuesday, April 1st from Viking. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/43Kg3JO Jay Gatsby and his sister Greta grew up poor and lost their parents at an early age. Jay went on to become rich, bought an estate on Long Island and put his sister through the best schools. Now she’s done with school and has arrived home for the summer, with a houseful of people. Tom Buchanan, who is rich and his wife Daisy, his brother Edgar, Nick, a lawyer.
Book Review: 'A Proposal To Die For: A Novel' By Molly Harper
The book is in stores on Tuesday, April 8th from Berkley. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3ZUkw9n Jess Bricker has her own business helping people plan their marriage proposals, so they go off without a hitch. Diana is an old high school classmate, they weren’t really friends, she was proposed to by Trenton, who comes from a rich family, and it didn’t go the way she wanted it to. She gets Trenton to hire Jess, for a lot of money, to help craft a great proposal.
Book Review: 'Cover Story: A Novel' By Celia Laskey
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 25th from Grand Central. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/41uR0aX The year is 2005 and Ali is a publicist to some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including gay ones who are still in the closet and want to stay there, Ali is gay herself and has lost her partner recently. She gets a new client, Cara Bissett, who is gay and has a new romantic comedy coming out, she must protect her secret.
Catapult | Alarm | Celia Laskey
We were all in the ocean, screeching against the onslaught of the waves, when our Prevenir wristwatch alarms went off, the sound like a flock of robotic seagulls. We swam in to where we could touch our feet to the sandy bottom and pressed the button that simultaneously stopped the alarm and released a single pill from the compartment that contained our daily allotment of forty-eight. One pill, every fifteen minutes, for twelve hours of each day.
“I Do.” ”I Don’t.” 8 Wedding Novels for All the Lovers and the Haters Out There
Wedding season is upon us, and whether you choose chicken or fish, you’re either a wedding lover who gets teary-eyed at every ceremony and hits the dance floor hard at the reception, or a wedding hater who begrudgingly buys plane tickets, bristling at the disturbing sameness of most weddings. My own wedding novel, So Happy for You, could probably be classified as a chugging-haterade wedding novel.
So Happy For You
Publisher Description Bridesmaids meets Black Mirror in the most twisted and entertaining thriller of 2022. ‘A firecracker of a book’ Micah Nemerever, author of These Violent Delights ‘Ridiculously addictive to read. Wildly creative and wickedly funny’ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here Robin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood. They’ve been through everything together, from Robin coming out to the death of Ellie’s dad.
8 Queer Novels That’ll Keep You Up at Night - Electric Literature
Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of June. We’re almost there! Please give what you can today.
A Young Woman's Formative Queer Affair With a Married Lover - Electric Literature
Skip to content conversations In Michelle Hart's debut novel, "We Do What We Do In The Dark," secrets and loneliness are shared, but the fallout is suffered alone Many of us know Michelle Hart from her wonderful work highlighting queer writers when she was the assistant books editor at O, the Oprah Magazine.
So Happy For You
Bridesmaids meets Black Mirror in the most twisted and entertaining thriller of 2022. ‘A firecracker of a book’ Micah Nemerever, author of These Violent Delights ‘Ridiculously addictive to read. Wildly creative and wickedly funny’ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here Robin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood. They’ve been through everything together, from Robin coming out to the death of Ellie’s dad.
Under the Rainbow
‘Laskey is a talented, sharp writer and her debut novel has its fingers on the pulse of the human condition’ Kristen Arnett, author of The New York Times-bestseller Mostly Dead Things 'Under the Rainbow is essential reading – both heartbreaking and hopeful. A novel that will stay with you’ Laura Kay, author of The Split Welcome to Big Burr, population 10,024. Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone – or so they think.
10 Books to Celebrate Pride Month
Feature Image Credit: @giulia_and_books June is Pride Month, and we are here for it! There is so much to celebrate about the LGBTQ+ community, and we are over the rainbow with excitement to share these books with you. Whether you are looking to read something funny, indulge in a racy romance, or immerse yourself in facts and history, we are confident that there is something on this list for you.
I Wrote the Super Queer Novel My Younger Self Needed
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Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels
The Shortlist March 3, 2020 THIS TOWN SLEEPS By Dennis Staples 211 pp. Counterpoint. $26. At one point in Staples’s “This Town Sleeps,” the 20-something narrator, Marion Lafournier, recalls: “When I was in middle school Ojibwe class, I first learned the concept of having an Indian name. Or spirit name. The phrase we had to use for our English name actually translates to ‘pretend to be called.’ Marion Lafournier indizhinikaaz.
Celia Laskey, in conversation with Amy Spalding, discusses and signs Under the Rainbow
Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr "the most homophobic town in the US" and sends in a task force of queer volunteers as an experiment-they'll live and work in the community for two years in an attempt to broaden hearts and minds-no one is truly prepared for what will ensue.
Under the Rainbow: A Novel
Under the Rainbow (Hardcover) A Novel By Celia Laskey Riverhead Books, 9780525536161, 288pp. Publication Date: March 3, 2020 List Price: 27.00* * Individual store prices may vary. Description When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel. Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves.
The Details Will Be Ours
Illustration: Ansellia Kulikku. “We do artificial insemination here,” says Neal, the rancher whose cow-calf operation I’m visiting for the day. Cow-calf operations are what they sound like: a rancher keeps a herd of mostly heifers whose only job is to crank out calves. My company, King Beef Packing Co., buys these calves when they’re ready for slaughter. I’m here to make sure everything is up to code and to see if we can create any efficiencies, my boss’s favorite phrase.
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