So my dear friend and mentor Mary Logue clued me in to this wonderful honor. Some angel named Amy picked my book as a Staff Pick at the Ridgedale Barnes & Noble. Who doesn’t notice the Staff Recommends section??? Plus, there’s also a copy in the LGBT section.
Amy, whoever you are, bless your sweet pea-pickin heart!
Last night I read at Kieran’s Irish Pub, here in Minneapolis for the Raking Through Books Happy Hour Book Club. It’s co-sponsored by The Loft and Secrets of the City and I can’t be more pleased with how it all went.
My friends and plenty of strangers showed up. The reps from The Loft and Secrets were amazing. I also managed to read a lot and answer questions without too much awkwardness (by no means polished, but I’m getting the hang of this thing).
Mother Glory now has a life of her own and even if I wanted to stop what is about to transpire there’s just no going back for either of us.
Okay, here’s where we’re at with the jacket copy:
The Children of Mother Glory
by
C. M. Harris
In the turn-of-the-century Midwest, young Glory Potter’s lot in life is to serve her father’s ministry. When Glory grows into a dominant matriarchal figure—transcending her father in the creation of the Potterite faith and an industry that supports the town of Gulliver—she finds herself fighting “demons from hell” that irresistibly draw her to the woman she craves with all her being.
Sebastian, reviled in Gulliver as a conscientious objector for obeying the pacifist dictates of the sect, ends up sequestered in a camp where he too is wracked by the fierce war between his faith and his desire for a fellow CO.
Danielle, fifteen years old, already wrenching herself from her implacably judgmental family, defying her faith to preserve her lesbian self, begins a journey unpredictable in its twists and turns, and its costs.
Jacob, working for the industry that Glory created, uncovers a number of dark secrets about the Potterite sect. The arrival of sales rep Diana, a transgendered woman, further upends his every concept of himself.
Like signposts across a century, these four intersecting lives reveal that mysterious inheritance known as human desire and its power to outpace ideology. This powerful, beautifully crafted and inclusive LGBT novel is a story for our times.
I have been offered a contract on my second novel! The Children of Mother Glory is a historical saga set in a rural pacifist sect. It follows the struggles of four queer characters over the course of 100 years. If I accept the publisher’s terms, the projected release date would be late 2009/early 2010.
More to follow …
My cringe-worthy short, The Girl with the Most Potential is in SALiT Magazine. This story is sure to remind anyone gay or straight about the agony and ecstasy that is High School.
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