Seven gayly retold stories from around the world.
What really happened when Theseus met the Minotaur? How did demon-slaying Momotarō come to be raised by two daddies? Will Scheherazade’s hapless Ma’aruf ever find love and prosperity after his freeloading boyfriend kicks him out on the street? Classic lore gets a bold remodeling with stories from light-hearted and absurd, earnestly romantic, daring and adventurous, to darkly surreal.
The collection includes: Theseus and the Minotaur, Károly, Who Kept a Secret, The Peach Boy, The Vain Prince, The Jaguar of the Backward Glance, Ma’aruf the Street Vendor, and A Rabbit Grows in Brooklyn.
Award-winning fantasy author Andrew J. Peters (The City of Seven Gods) takes on classical mythology, Hungarian folklore, Japanese legend, The Arabian Nights, and more, in a collection of gayly subverted stories from around the world.
PRAISE FOR SLASHED AND MASHED
“From a love affair with a minotaur to a heavenly orphan bestowed on a gay Japanese couple to a unique mashup of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with the Uncle Remus mythos, Peters’ multicultural extravaganza of tales crosses boundaries as well as borders, mixing and matching from a variety of source material to come up with singularly “Petersian” stories as queer as the day is long and twice as exotic.”
Jerry L. Wheeler, Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews
“In this necessary collection, Andrew J. Peters not only refashions tales both famous or nearly forgotten, but in doing so he adds to the mosaic of myth, expanding the power of stories to reflect the reader’s desires and emerging truths.”
Tom Cardamone, Lambda award-winning editor, Night Sweats: Tales of Homosexual Wonder & Woe
What if the gods created a man so beautiful, no one could resist falling in love with him?
Brendan thinks he’s won at life when he hooks a guy so gorgeous he parts crowds walking down the street. But he and Cal will have to overcome a jealous BFF, Romanian mobsters, hermit widowers, and a dictatorship on the brink of revolution. Their dream wedding in the Greek isles turns to madcap odyssey in this modern gay salute to Chariton’s Callirhoe, the oldest extant romance novel in the world.
PRAISE FOR IRRESISTIBLE
“Absolutely over-the-top! I loved how the author created both MCs…But it was Cal who was easily my favourite. Cal is everybody’s favourite! Male, female, straight, gay, nine or ninety – everybody falls in love with Callisthenes Panagopoulos. He’s like a Disney princess with a trail of devoted animals trailing her, but in Cal’s case he has a trail of obsessed stalkers.” ~ Love Bytes
“Honestly, this book was everything I was hoping for and then some. A fun, entertaining, sweet story!” ~ Kirstin, NetGalley Reviewer
“I couldn’t help smiling and even laughing out loud a few times. Poor, beautiful Cal– a magnetic for all that cast their eyes on him and apparently for disaster as well. You won’t believe the adventure Peters takes you on until you experience it for yourself.” ~ Jeff, NetGalley Reviewer
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“A fresh twist on an old sea myth, complete with magic, intrigue and plenty of old school adventures.” Kirkus Reviews
From the shore of a frozen steppe, an outcast hunter embarks for the otherworld to ask his ancestors how to bring the mammoth back to the fields of sedge. In a shining, island kingdom of wonders, the daughter of a high priest fights for her claim to wealth and power after her father is assassinated by the king. Together they will build an empire recalled as an ancient legend and a cautionary tale. But how did he become a god while she became a mere footnote in history?
From the publisher: Poseidon and Cleito is the engrossing first book of a fantasy trilogy of myth and legend exploring the rise of the lost civilization of Atlantis. In the best traditions of an epic journey, one man’s struggle to discover his place in the world takes him across perilous seas into the epicenter of political strife in a foreign land. But a legend is not made of deeds alone. Fans of Guy Gavriel Kay’s historical fantasy and David Gemmell’s Troy series will enjoy this fantasy novel as it sets out to reimagine the inception of a Greek myth.
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PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
“Poseidon is a mighty barbarian leader, and Cleito’s a commendably strong woman with a ruthless streak. Alternating between Poseidon’s and Cleito’s points of view also gives the story a wonderful counterpoint while illuminating two very separate cultures…. A fresh twist on an old sea myth, complete with magic, intrigue, and plenty of old-school adventures.” ~ Kirkus Reviews
“The story is well written and the cast interesting. The complexity of the political relationships are quite well drawn.” – Margaret McGaffey Fisk (author of Shafter)
“I enjoy hearing the “other side” of classic stories and found it interesting to hear more about a character I knew next to nothing about.” ~ Suzanne Blaney (author of So The River Flows)
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