Newtown Literary has posted great photos from last Thursday’s Issue #2 launch event at the monthly REZ Reading series.
It was standing room only at Odradek’s Coffee House. That included me, my partner and two of our friends, even though we arrived a few minutes early. But the authors and the crowd’s positive energy made standing scarcely a hardship.
You can check out photos from the event here.
Continuing my release month/LGBT Pride Month promotion, you can enter a drawing for a free copy of Werecat: The Rearing at The Romance Reviews from June 7th – June 15th.
For a chance at the drawing, just click here.
Good luck. May the feline gods favor you. 🙂
My e-novelette Werecat: The Rearing is available for purchase at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble and very soon Vagabondage Press.
To celebrate, from May 28th – June 28th, early purchasers will receive a little swag: bookmarks and an autographed Werecat postcard, while supplies last. Just e-mail me proof of purchase (purchase confirmation from a retailer) with your address, and I will mail the items to you. My e-mail address is ajpeters [at] andrewjpeterswrites [dot] com.
Here’s the book’s back cover blurb:
For Jacks Dowd, a gay college senior who feels ungrounded from his family and life in general, an alcohol and sex-infused weekend in Montréal sounds like a pretty good escape. His Spring Break binge takes a detour when he meets Benoit, an admiring drifter with startling green eyes. A hook-up turns into a day, two days, and then a full week in Benoit’s hostel, making love and scarfing down take-out food. But at the end of the week, Benoit demands that Jacks make an impossible choice: stay with him forever or never see him again.
The night before Jacks is supposed to return to college, he  meets Benoit in Mont Royal Park to try to work things out. Benoit springs on Jacks an unfathomable secret: he’s a werecat. He traps Jacks in an abandoned cabin and performs an occult rite so they will be mated forever.
With his dual nature, Jacks can shape-shift at will, and he has amazing new senses and physical abilities. But how will he live as an unfathomable hybrid creature? When Benoit shows Jacks the violence he’s capable of, Jacks may need to find a way to destroy the one person who can help him survive.
Werecat: The Rearing is book one in a series. Sequels will be released in 2014.
My short story “The Trouble with Finklesteins” was picked up for publication by Newtown Literary. Now the issue is out and available for purchase here for a mere ten bucks.
Set in my very own neighborhood of Kew Gardens, NY, “The Trouble with Finklesteins” is about a monthly get-together of two longtime friends and flight attendants that exposes hidden jealousies and a terrible secret. A contemporary, realistic story from me? Yes it happens every now and then. I wrote the story some years back during a J.D. Salinger-esque streak.
From their website: “Newtown Literary is dedicated to writers from and writing about Queens, NY and allocates half the journal to these writers and their work.” For more about the journal, visit them here.
I’m so excited to see this project come to life.
The first installment of my paranormal romance series will be coming out from Vagabondage Press on May 28th. The cover art was just finalized.
Werecat: The Rearing is the story of a college senior named Jacks who goes to Montreal for Spring Break, hooks up with a handsome drifter and takes a free fall into the world of feline shapeshifters. The e-novelette will be available for purchase at all the major on-line booksellers (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.) and the publisher’s website.
So here it is…the big reveal. Let me know what you think.
