Her Last Secret
Renée Bess
eBook: ISBN 978-1-61929-569-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61929-568-1
Hardback ISBN: 978-61929-570-4

It's the 1930's and Vera Clay learns her racial identity outweighs her excellent writing skills as she struggles to find a job with a U.S. newspaper. Discouraged, she accepts her Aunt Vangie's invitation to come visit her in Paris. Ex-pat Vangie harbors secrets she's willing to share with her niece, except for the one final secret she must keep to herself.

BY THE AUTHOR OF: LEAVE OF ABSENCE, BREAKING JAIE, RE:BUILDING SASHA, THE BUTTERFLY MOMENTS, THE RULES, and BETWEEN A ROCK AND A SOFT PLACE.

Between a Rock and a Soft Place
Renée Bess
978-1-949096-34-7 Paperback
978-1-949096-35-4 ebook
978-1-949096-36-1 Hardback

Between a Rock and a Soft Place is a collection of short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.

"The stories are historical and contemporary, and occasionally startling. The poems are self-affirming, sassy, and slyly humorous. The expository writing is clear-eyed, factual, and challenging. What an unusual book! It is to be savored." Penny Mickelbury, 2020

The early hours of June 12, 2016 brought spirit-numbing news from Orlando, Florida's Pulse Nightclub. The cries of grief, anger, and fear echoed across the globe as the victims' loved ones as well as every LGBT person who ever patronized a gay bar/club struggled to deal with the tragic reminder of our vulnerability.

Some of us in the writers' community drifted to a place of introspection.

In time many of us emerged from our silence. We returned with our hearts, minds, and fists filled with poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

In this book we offer you our words as well as an invitation to spend a few happy hours communing with us in our gay bars.

[In the spirit of giving forward, all royalties from the sales of this anthology will be donated to The Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia and the Ali Forney Organization in New York City.]

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY SOCIETY'S
2018 BEST ANTHOLOGY AWARD