New in December: Kevin Killian, Mark Griffin, Neil Tennant, and M.K. England

Author: Edit Team

December 6, 2018

It’s December, and we’ve got some new LGBTQ books to help you wrap up the year!

This month, we’re looking forward to Semiotext(e)’s release of Kevin Killian’s Fascination: Memoirs, edited by Andrew Durbin, which combines Killian’s 1989 memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows, with two other unpublished works: Bachelors Get Lonely and Triangles in the Sand. Together, they paint

a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon’s resignation intersected with David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years.

Also out this month is Mark Griffin’s new biography of Rock Hudson, All That Heaven Allows (Harper), which the publisher is describing as the “definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age.” A movie is also apparently already in the works.

The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant also has a book coming out this month: One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem (Faber & Faber Social). But it’s more than just a collection of lyrics, according to the publisher; they’re each “contextualised by a personal commentary […] and an introduction by the author which gives a fascinating insight into the process and genesis of writing.”

This month also brings The Disasters (HarperTeen), a queer YA space opera from debut author M.K. England that’s been described as The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy:

Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours. But Nax’s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy.

Nax and three other washouts escape—barely—but they’re also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats.

And if you’re looking for some new erotica to keep you warm on those cold winter nights, this month brings two end-of-year anthologies: Best Gay Erotica of the Year, Volume 4, edited by Rob Rosen, and Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3, edited by Sacchi Green (both from Cleis Press).

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

 

Fiction

• Beauty Marks by David James Parr, Self-published
• Santa is a Vampire by Damian Serbu, NineStar Press

 

Nonfiction

• The Dark Eclipse: Reflections on Suicide and Absence by A.W. Barnes, Bucknell University Press
• One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil Tennant, Faber & Faber Social
• Transgender in the Workplace: The Complete Guide to the New Authenticity for Employers and Gender-Diverse Professionals by Vanessa Sheridan, Praeger
• The Ultimate Guide to Bondage: Creating Intimacy Through the Art of Restraint by Mistress Couple, Cleis Press

 

LGBT Studies

• Countersexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado, trans. by Kevin Gerry Dunn, Columbia University Press
• Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence by Darius Bost, University of Chicago Press
• LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media, edited by Rory Magrath, Palgrave Macmillan
• Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies by Damon R. Young, Duke University Press
• One-Dimensional Queer by Roderick Ferguson, Polity
• The Sour Fruit: Lord Byron, Love & Sex by Vincenzo Patanè, trans. by John Francis Phillimore, John Cabot University Press

 

Young Adult and Children’s Literature

• The Curses by Laure Eve, Amulet Books
• The Disasters by M.K. England, HarperTeen
• Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks by ‘Nathan Burgoine, Bold Strokes Books
• Fortress of Gold by David Harten Watson, Pen-L Publishing
• Showers, Flowers, and Fangs by Aidan Wayne, Harmony Ink Press

 

Romance

• A Wish Upon a Star by Jeannie Levig, Bold Strokes Books
• Breaking Down Her Walls by Erin Zak, Bold Strokes Books
• Friends Without Benefits by Dena Blake, Bold Strokes Books
• I’m Gonna Make You Love Me by Tracey Richardson, Bella Books
• New Tricks by Andrew Grey, Dreamspinner Press
• Pursuit of Happiness by Carsen Taite, Bold Strokes Books
• Rough Trade by Sidney Bell, Carina Press
• Seascape by Karis Walsh, Bold Strokes Books
• Second in Command by VK Powell, Bold Strokes Books
• Taking Chances by Erin McKenzie, Bold Strokes Books
• Unexpected Partners by Michelle Larkin, Bold Strokes Books
• Where There’s a Will by Virginia Hale, Bella Books

 

Graphic Novels/Illustrated Books

• Hi Jax & Hi Jinx: Life’s a Pitch – and Then You Live Forever by Dame Darcy, Feral House
• Merry Men by Robert Rodi, Jackie Lewis, & Marissa Louise, Oni Press
• October Faction Volume 5: Supernatural Dreams by Steve Niles & Damien Worm, IDW Publishing

 

Mystery/Thriller

• Answering the Call by Ali Vali, Bold Strokes Books
• Invalid Evidence by Stevie Mikayne, Bold Strokes Books
• Sandman by Tammy Bird, Flashpoint Publications
• Zero Sum Game by Stefani Deoul, Bywater Books

 

Bio/Memoir

• All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark Griffin, Harper
• Fascination: Memoirs by Kevin Killian, ed. by Andrew Durbin, Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
• Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler by Peter Shinkle, Steerforth

 

Poetry

• Glass is Glass Water is Water by Rae Gouirand, Spork Press
• If Any Gods Lived: Poems by Michael J Wilson, Stalking Horse Press
• Milk Teeth by Rae White, University of Queensland Press
• The Switch by Shiv Kotecha, Wonder

 

Erotica

• Best Gay Erotica of the Year, Volume 4, edited by Rob Rosen, Cleis Press
• Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 3, edited by Sacchi Green, Cleis Press
• A Study in Velvet and Leather by K Caine, Improbable Press Limited