Someday soon, when you go to the movies to see Stilettos and Steel starring Dakota Fanning, you might want to remember that the dyke who wrote the book it was based on, read and reviewed Rose’s Will. Just sayin’. Rose’s Will by Denise DeSio is a stunningly well-crafted novel. Ms. DeSio delivers literary strikes, rarely […]
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Stilettos and Steel
Jeri Estes has made it no secret that Jesse, the protagonist, in her novel, Stilettos and Steel, is closely modeled after her own life. So let’s hope that all of Estes’ former Catholic school teachers are dead or demented, lest they run across her book. Not that a Catholic school girl turned lesbian runaway is […]
Continue readingMy First Live Interview
I did my first telephone author interview for an article in the February issue of ECHO. Fellow insomniac, Cait Brennan, called me at 10:30 at night to begin the interview. If you’ve never heard of Cait, she’s a rock vocalist, novelist, screenwriter, actress, producer and director with her own Wikipedia page. If you want to […]
Continue readingRose’s Will Reviewed by Celebrated Lesbian Author, JE Knowles!
Rose’s Will is a very good debut novel. I read most of it in one sitting, despite having to do so on my laptop (it’s e-book only, and I don’t have an e-book reader). Denise DeSio manages to tell a compelling story through the viewpoints of three very different characters. Set mostly in New York, […]
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