Radclyffe has some great plot ideas, and this one is no different. Romantic fiction is not generally my genre of choice, but given that Radclyffe is a popular lesbian fiction writer, I thought it was necessary to give this a try. She is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBT publishing companies. Readers' award Winner, and a finalist for the Benjamin Franklin award, the ForeWord Review Book of the Year award, and the 2010 Heart of Excellence Readers' Choice award. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also a 2010 RWA/FF&P Prism Award Winner for Secrets in the Stone, an Independent Publisher's award winner (IPPY), an Alice B. She is a seven time Lambda Literary Award finalist in romance, mystery and erotica-winning in both romance (Distant Shores, Silent Thunder) and erotica (Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments edited with Stacia Seaman and In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip written with Karin Kallmaker). Raand, has authored a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters. Radclyffe, a retired surgeon and full time author-publisher, has published over thirty-five novels as well as dozens of short stories, has edited numerous anthologies, and, writing as L.
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In the early 1940s, he transferred his faith from religion to literature. At age 14, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem. He was the eldest of nine children his stepfather was a minister. James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. He later befriended the alien Mott, from the planet Hoople. He shot himself out of a cannon and an onlooker in the crowd shouted, "He's a Madman!" He was given the name "Madman" when chasing the evil Mr. He and his scientist friends get into many adventures but Frank prefers to spend time with his girlfriend Joe (short for Josephine). Modeling himself after his hero, Frank likes to try to get in the way when bad things happen to good people. 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