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Harmony Ink Press Young Adult Title
In his junior year
at a public high school, sweet, bright Casey Minton’s biggest worry isn’t being
gay. Keeping from being too badly bullied by his so-called friends, a group of
girls called the Queen Bees, is more pressing. Nate De Marco has no friends, his
tough home life having taken its toll on his reputation, but he’s determined to
get through high school. Zander Zane’s story is different: he’s popular, a
jock. Zander knows he’s gay, but fellow students don’t, and he’d like to keep
it that way.
No one expects much when these three are
grouped together for a class project, yet in the process the boys discover each
other’s talents and traits, and a new bond forms. But what if Nate, Zander, and
Casey fall in love—each with the other and all three together? Not only gay but
also a threesome, for them high school becomes infinitely more complicated and
maybe even dangerous. To survive and keep their love alive, they must find
their individual strengths and courage and stand together, honest and united.
If they can do that, they might prevail against the Queen Bees and a student
body frightened into silence—and even against their own crippling fears.
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Danny-
Two
e-mails, two nights in a row—this is a fucking record for me, huh? Well, I’ve
got some shit weighing on my mind. Need an objective viewpoint. Seriously, I
can’t go to my buds at school. They only see things one way. And it’s not
necessarily my way.
Remember
Mrs. Phelps from the French department? Well, she teaches Survey of French, and
overall, she’s pretty cool, but she doesn’t take any crap from her students. So
today she put us into groups for our French project, which makes up like a full
third of our grades so it’s nothing to sneeze at, you know? Somehow I got stuck
with this giant oaf of a kid named Nate DeMarco, who basically never says “boo”
but just glares at everybody, so I have no idea if he’s going to contribute at
all or just shove us up against a wall and tell us to get the job done for him,
or else. And you know how I told you about that superbrain, Casey Minton, the
kid who all the girls rag on? I got stuck in a group with him, too, which is
good for the letter grade but sucks for… for about every other reason.
Those
girls, Liz Trainer, Elly Warren, and Marcy Lewis (yeah, from the “Fighting
Lewis Brothers”—she’s their baby sister) wanted Casey in their group because
he’d carry their weight in the project so they could goof off for the next few
weeks, but Mrs. Phelps had her own ideas. She stuck each of the girls into
separate groups, and put Casey with Nate and me. So the girls were pissed; they
could see that their big Survey of French class party was over before it had
even begun. And shit, they tore the kid a new one, never stopping for the next
thirty minutes, as if he’d been the one to divide the class into groups. They
loud-whispered stuff like, “You better cover your ass, Zander, if you want to
keep it dry, because Casey’s gonna be drooling all over it,” and “If Casey
suggests a sleepover to work on the project, you better wear your ass-chastity
belt,” and “Since it is a French project, if you sit too close to him, the
little homo might try to French kiss you and call it part of the project.” You
get the picture. It was ugly. And yours truly got caught in the cross fire.
Yeah,
wah, wah, poor me.
I’m
pretty sure the kid wanted to keel over and die. After about half the class was
over, he turned kinda red, raised his hand, and then asked if he could go to
the nurse. Which left Nate DeMarco and me sitting there, gawking at each other,
with absolutely nada to say about our topic, French cooking. And we need to
have a proposal all laid out for Mrs. Phelps by Friday. Just shit, right?
Casey
Minton had better get his ass to school tomorrow or I’m up Shit creek, no
paddle in sight.
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Mia Kerick is the
mother of four exceptional children—all named after saints—and five
nonpedigreed cats—all named after the next best thing to saints, Boston Red Sox
players. Her husband of twenty years has been told by many that he has the
patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia about that, as it is a sensitive subject.
Mia focuses her
stories on the emotional growth of troubled men and their relationships, and
she believes that sex has a place in a love story, but not until it is firmly
established as a love story. As a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound notebooks with
romantic tales of tortured heroes (most of whom happened to strongly resemble
lead vocalists of 1980s big-hair bands) and stuffed them under her mattress for
safekeeping. She is thankful to Dreamspinner Press for providing her with an
alternate place to stash her stories.
Mia is proud of her
involvement with the Human Rights Campaign and cheers for each and every
victory made in the name of marital equality. Her only major regret: never
having taken typing or computer class in school, destining her to a life
consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of
Technology.
My themes I always write about:
Sweetness. Unconventional love, tortured/damaged heroes- only love can save
them.
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Great post! Thanks Mia Kerick and JC!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good read! Thanks for the info JC!!
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