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A new story in a cracking anthology - and my paperbacks in two bricks-and-mortar bookshops!
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Catching up on all the news...

September 2019

Welcome to my fourteenth newsletter!

Thank you in particular to those of you joining us via QueeRomance Ink. My Homosapien was one of four novels available free as part of their May giveaway pack, in return for you kindly agreeing to subscribe to the authors' newsletters. You are, naturally, free to unsubscribe at any time - though I hope you'll stay.

I'm beyond proud to announce that I have a story in the second Heroines anthology, published by the Neo Perennial Press of Illawarra. 

The French translation of my novel The Thousand Smiles of Nicholas Goring (third in the Butterfly Hunter trilogy) has been released by MxM Bookmark, in both eBook and paperback formats.

I have new distributors online and (excitingly!) in bricks-and-mortar bookshops.

And I have recently created a Facebook group for my friends, readers and other fellow travellers. I'd love to see you there!

Please have a browse through the newsletter for more details, wrapping up with reading recommendations.

Release of "The Thousand Smiles of Nicholas Goring" in French!

The third and final volume in my Butterfly Hunter trilogy has been translated into French, and is now available in eBook and paperback formats from MxM Bookmark as Les mille sourires de Nicholas Goring.

You can find it on Amazon FR (eBook) and Amazon FR (paperback), or direct from the publisher

Blurb: Dave et Nicolas, mariés depuis sept ans, vivent heureux, ensemble. Mais comme un Premier ministre australien a déclaré une fois : « La vie n’est pas faite pour être facile ». Une menace inattendue plane sur leur point d’eau bien-aimé et oblige Dave à essayer d’imposer sa tutelle non officielle sur le site de Temps du rêve.

New distributors!

I am delighted that digital copies of all my LIBRAtiger titles are now available online through Sea to Sky Books. Their aim is "to bring the best of fiction by self published authors to the reading public", so you'll find a terrific range of novels and stories on the site.

You can find all of my books listed here: seatoskybooks.com/julie-bozza/

This includes three free short stories, so you can give my writing a try before deciding whether to buy.

I am absolutely stoked that my favourite bookstore is now stocking paperback copies of my books! The Bookshop Darlinghurst in Sydney has been supplying queer books and other fabulous goodies for decades. Their mail-order catalogue was a life saver for me back in the day, and their online shop is still my go-to place when I'm looking for more.

They are currently stocking three of my titles: Butterfly Hunter, my most popular romance, set in the Queensland Outback; A Threefold Cord, a romance between three actors in London, and what my Mum calls my naughtiest book; and Mitch Rebecki Gets a Life, in which a New York journalist is exiled to Sydney for his own safety, though his investigations continue to get him into trouble.

You can find these three titles here: thebookshop.com.au/brands/Julie-Bozza.html

If you are after any of my other titles under the LIBRAtiger imprint, Graeme and Noel will be able to order them for you without too much trouble.

And for those of you here on the beautiful NSW South Coast, I am thrilled that my paperbacks are available at the Harbour Bookshop Ulladulla. They are lovely people, sharing their passion for words and their love of books with the Milton-Mollymook-Ulladulla area.

They currently stock all three volumes of my Butterfly Hunter trilogy, along with: Mitch Rebecki Gets a Life; A Night with the Knight of the Burning Pestle, in which we follow actors Dale and Topher backstage during a production of the hilarious Francis Beaumont play; and The Fine Point of His Soul, in which poet John Keats finds himself in a Gothic adventure during the four months he spent in Rome.

If you are looking for any of my other LIBRAtiger titles, Michelle and her staff will be able to order them in for you.

"Chooser of the Slain"

I was very impressed by the quality of the stories in the first Heroines anthology, published last year. (I was impressed by the poetry, too, but I'm a fairly prose-minded reader, so you might want to seek reviews of the poetry elsewhere.) Hence, I girded my loins and wrote a short piece to submit to the second volume - and I was astounded to receive the email telling me it had been accepted!

Heroines: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry (Volume 2) was launched on Sunday at the Heroines Festival in Thirroul, by well-known Australian author Kate Forsyth.

I haven't read the rest of the contributions yet, but based on the first volume I can guarantee you that my own Chooser of the Slain is in excellent company!

The inspiration for my story began with the ballad written by John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci". These anthologies focus on re-imagining history and stories from women's perspectives, so I wanted to turn the ballad around. Instead of only hearing from the knight, what tales does La Belle Dame herself have to tell…?

If you're interested, I wrote more about the story and its genesis on my LIBRAtiger website here. (For those familiar with my "usual" output, I should add that this story is neither a romance nor LGBTQ.)

The anthologies are available only in paperback (I'm sorry, I know that won't suit everyone), direct from the publisher, Neo Perennial Press. You can find the details and buy links on the Neo Perennial Press site here.

My new Facebook group!

I have created a Facebook group for my friends, readers and fellow travellers, called Life, Libraries, Love and Knitting. We are a small group of BFFs so far, with a fairly low-key dynamic - while I want to keep the atmosphere relaxed and informal, I would love for more of you to join us!

As you'll gather from the group's name, I don't intend this to be all about me and my writing, but instead about anything in life that we love, whether that's knitting or not! 

Please do click the link and ask to join. As required by Facebook, there are rules to agree to and questions to answer - but seeing as that's part of their efforts to keep interactions civil, I hope you won't find it too onerous.

We'd love to see you there!

Reading recommendations

So... this series is my "reading for fun" recommendation, and I suspect I'm rather slower than many of you to have found it!

I enjoyed reading the two current Killing Eve books - Codename Villanelle and No Tomorrow - by Luke Jennings. The stories are cracking good fun for those of us who enjoy spies and assassins, and the secret service on their tails. This has the bonus of two women as the leads, one of whom is a lesbian, and some crackling sexual tension along the way.

The third book in the trilogy is due out in March next year. In the meantime, I haven't yet caught up with the TV series, but am itching to do so!

Blurb: Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.

Eve Polastri (not a codename) is a former MI6 operative hired by the national security services for a singular task: to find and capture or kill the assassin responsible, and those who have aided her. Eve, whose quiet and otherwise unextraordinary life belies her quick wit and keen intellect, accepts the mission.

The ensuing chase will lead them on a trail around the world, intersecting with corrupt governments and powerful criminal organizations, all leading towards a final confrontation from which neither will emerge unscathed. Codename Villanelle is a sleek, fast-paced international thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction.

Amazon US and Goodreads links:

And this is my serious recommendation! Queer Bloomsbury, edited by Brenda Helt and Madelyn Detloff. Unfortunately it seems mostly available at academic prices, but you may be able to find it via your library or university. 

I bought my copy from the Charleston gift shop, and promptly devoured it. I loved it! If you want to find out about economics with a queer aesthetic, or the intimacy between T.E. Lawrence and E.M. Forster (dibs on writing the romance novel!), or what's queer about Leonard Woolf, then this is your tome. 

I was soon happily reminded of all the best qualities of the Bloomsburys: their emphasis on friendship above all; their reticence (in terms of gossip and dirty laundry) born of respect for those friends; their striving towards equality for genders and sexualities; and (a vital aspect of the previous point) their support for "the feminine man", especially when war increased the external demand for hetero-normative masculinity.

Highly recommended!

Blurb: This anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural achievements. As a whole, Queer Bloomsbury stands alone as a wide-ranging and critical resource that traces the cultural, ideological, and aesthetic facets of Bloomsbury's development as a queer intellectual and aesthetic subculture.

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