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Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939) is a Canadian-born American writer, best known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. Her books have won and been finalists for Lambda Literary Award twelve times, as well as other awards. She has been referred to by some "a founding mother of lesbian fiction writing."
"I came from nothing," Forrest said. "I came from a father who made no money. He was a playwright and then a writer, and even though he published a lot of books, I was a complete scholarship student all the way through." [1] [2] Forrest attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a private school in Wallingford, Connecticut, on a scholarship, graduating in ...
Spinsters Ink was founded by Brady and McDaniel and moved to San Francisco in 1982, where it was purchased by Sherry Thomas. [2]In 1980, Spinsters Ink released a call to readers and bookstores in Feminist Bookstores Newsletter seeking donations to fund the release of the press's next two titles, The Cancer Journals by Audre Lourde and Lynn Strongin's first novel Bones & Kim. [3]
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Renunciate series; Jane Fletcher's Celaeno series; Katherine V. Forrest's Daughters of a Coral Dawn, Daughters of an Amber Noon, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk, and Dreams and Swords, an anthology with the novella O Captain, My Captain; Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, Don't Explain; Nicola Griffith's Ammonite and Slow River
Katherine V. Forrest won the Scifi/Fantasy/Horror award for Daughters of an Emerald Dusk in 2005 and the Pioneer Award in 2013 in addition to her five Lesbian Mystery awards. Dorothy Allison received both the Lesbian Small Press and Lesbian Fiction awards for Trash: Short Stories in 1989 , and the Lesbian Studies award for Skin in 1995 , as ...
In book one, a 76-mile (122 km)-long asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, which will kill the vast majority of all living things.Eighty people – mostly top scientists and their families – have been chosen to make a desperate escape in the Mayflower, a converted space ship which will use solar sails and experimental suspended animation.
FMR is a luxury art magazine that was initially created by Franco Maria Ricci, an Italian publisher and polymath. It was published from 1982 to 2009, and is planned for restart in 2022. It was published from 1982 to 2009, and is planned for restart in 2022.
The series follows the adventures of Septimus Heap who, as a seventh son of a seventh son, has extraordinary magical powers. After he becomes an apprentice to the ("ExtraOrdinary") wizard of the series, Marcia Overstrand, he must study for seven years and a day until his apprenticeship ends. In the first book, he is known as Young Army ...