Ann McMan: Coming Out

Ann McMan: Coming Out

When it comes to questions about my tenure in psychotherapy, I like to tell people that I was on the five-year plan. Don’t laugh—I’m not really kidding. I didn’t think my “issues” were all that complicated. Not at first, anyway. I thought I was breezing in there with...
Fay Jacobs: Coming Out

Fay Jacobs: Coming Out

I married a male accordion player (please judge). What was I thinking? About the marriage? I wasn’t. About the accordion? I was instantly sorry. You haven’t suffered until you’ve heard “Jerimiah was a Bullfrog” on the accordion. And while the musician played his night...
Bonnie Morris: Coming Out

Bonnie Morris: Coming Out

To come out in Washington, D.C. in 1980—to stand with the closet door flung open on the very threshold of Ronald Reagan’s arrival in the White House and the decade of the AIDS epidemic—was my queer generation’s personal dare, our collective challenge to...
Ellen Hart: Coming Out

Ellen Hart: Coming Out

All my life I’ve been drawn to mystery in one form or another. My mother, and my relationship with her, will always remain the most profound mystery of my life. When I was in my twenties, all I could see were the difference between my mother and me. To be sure, we are...
New Bywater Books Author Signings

New Bywater Books Author Signings

Bywater Books welcomes two new authors to our publishing family.   CATHY PEGAU grew up in New York reading horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels, and playing RPGs. Writing seemed like a natural progression, adding a touch of romance to her favorite types of...
New Amble Press Author Signings

New Amble Press Author Signings

Amble Press welcomes a host of new authors to our publishing family. MATTHEW CLARK DAVISON is a writer and educator living in San Francisco. He is the creator and teacher of The Lab: Writing Classes with MCD, a non-academic school started in 2007 in a friend’s living...