tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41195062012-02-15T22:48:25.023-08:00Acorn PRPress releases related to author Duane Simolke and/or to Writers Uniting Against Cancer.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-26235584199363131242010-11-08T17:44:00.000-08:002010-11-08T17:45:52.072-08:00Revisiting Diversity in Science Fiction. Now that I’ve completed a draft to the sequel of Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, I still find myself surprised by the slow but steadily growing audience Degranon finds. It’s been almost ten years since the first edition appeared. I rewrote the book two years after its publication, following an earlier idea of making some of the major characters Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-6592895395414939502010-10-01T10:38:00.000-07:002010-10-01T10:39:43.557-07:00Bitsy Bling's Book Review: featured author Duane Simolke.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-9420483107702035502010-09-27T16:27:00.000-07:002010-09-27T16:30:55.667-07:00Attention Xena fans! Visit AuthorIsland Giveaway for details about winning a paperback copy of The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure. AuthorIsland must receive entries before October 1, 2010. TROI is a campy novel with gay and lesbian characters and an accidental heroine.Keywords: science fiction, fantasy, sword & sorcery, gay and lesbian, novels, novel, fiction, contests, drawing, giveawayDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-83326265069503153952010-04-05T10:50:00.001-07:002010-04-05T10:50:58.078-07:00Gather: Best short story book!Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-87965262634561391512010-03-08T05:53:00.000-08:002010-03-08T05:55:25.023-08:00 Duane Simolke is currently writing a sequel to Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-77319404778295265662010-03-07T05:41:00.000-08:002010-03-07T05:43:48.729-08:00Visit the official website at http://ebookweek.com for details about Read an E-Book Week, March 7-13. Many of the participating sites will offer free and/or discounted eBooks. New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio and many other titles are already free, but Smashwords and other publishers will offer discount coupons for many other eBooks.During that week, use the code RAE50 at checkout, to save half Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-89330209912326235282010-01-21T13:22:00.000-08:002010-01-21T13:23:03.097-08:00Free eBook Provides Close Examination of Classic Winesburg, Ohio.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-78656844522099303072010-01-19T16:05:00.001-08:002010-01-19T16:05:52.494-08:00West Texas Tales Still Treasured. The West Texas fiction collection The Acorn Stories continues to receive positive reviews and new readers. Now the top customer reviewer at Amazon.Com has recommended it.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-16358525575115412532008-10-15T08:18:00.000-07:002008-10-15T08:19:21.480-07:00Proposition 8?Read about gay marriage and bigotry-inspired constitutional amendments in Duane Simolke’s award-winning novel Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-2360647799394704282008-10-04T06:57:00.001-07:002008-10-04T06:57:31.121-07:00Lubbock, Texas: Tuesday, October 14, 4:30-6:30 PM. I’ll sign copies of The Acorn Gathering at Barnes & Noble (6707 Slide Road). From a scandal-rocked town in West Texas to the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana, these short stories take readers to surprising places in America and the human heart!The Acorn Gathering is a fiction anthology that raises money for the fight against cancer. I Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-8941926463626563592008-09-08T08:44:00.001-07:002008-09-08T08:44:40.783-07:00Rainbow Reviews has posted a review of my gay-themed novel Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure. Read the review.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-15340394080665465482008-02-21T11:06:00.000-08:002008-02-21T13:50:10.957-08:00New Book Trailer.Innocence Returns, in Video Form: The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy AdventureDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-28823724239958025642008-01-05T08:17:00.001-08:002008-01-05T08:17:22.571-08:00The trailer for The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer: Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-67996103976049176582007-11-19T12:10:00.000-08:002007-11-19T12:11:07.900-08:00Gay Pride VideoDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-26184757798814681832007-08-29T13:39:00.001-07:002007-08-29T13:40:42.880-07:00Texas Fiction: The Acorn Stories Book TrailerDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-9003737472533354042007-08-01T07:22:00.001-07:002010-08-10T10:17:01.301-07:00Kirkus Discovers Texas Fiction CollectionDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-58654952044998154632007-07-19T07:43:00.000-07:002007-07-19T07:45:11.676-07:00My Space TV:Gay Love PoemGay Science FictionDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-52818054717768327272007-06-22T13:57:00.000-07:002007-06-29T08:16:04.272-07:00Gay Pride, InternationalDann Hazel used Reactions to Homophobia, an essay in Holding Me Together, as one of the resources for his book Witness: Gay and Lesbian Clergy Report from the Front. In Australia, Kris Coonan, UQ Union, University of Queensland, used it as a resource for his article Sexual Prejudice: Understanding Homophobia and Heterosexism, Biphobia and Transphobia. The Queensland Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-41048658409050481692007-06-18T14:14:00.000-07:002007-06-18T14:17:13.118-07:00Duane Simolke's Texas Fiction Book ReviewedDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-89466145117233280932007-04-06T15:02:00.000-07:002007-04-06T15:03:15.903-07:00StoneWall Society reviews The Return of InnocenceDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-32378918740391053952007-03-16T14:54:00.001-07:002007-03-16T14:55:27.817-07:00From Lubbock Online Entertainment Briefs: 3/13/07: Dean, Simolke will autograph new booksPhast Times The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy AdventureDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-42096334853329012007-02-28T06:23:00.000-08:002007-02-28T06:24:12.555-08:00Texas Author Signing Books in LubbockDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-33111033873962157272007-01-20T15:21:00.000-08:002007-01-20T15:23:38.113-08:00 The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy AdventureWinner of a 2007 Allbooks Reviewer’s Choice AwardThis Week In Texas: Gay author wins another award for his workBelmont University: '89 Alum Wins Book AwardPressbox.Co.UK: Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award winners announcedFreePressRelease: Allbooks Review announces winners of Editor's Choice and Reviewer's Choice Awards for 200724-7pressrelease: Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-68861873270552267392007-01-12T13:58:00.001-08:002007-01-12T13:58:43.389-08:00The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure received a 2007 Allbooks Reviewer’s Choice Award!Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-29428870599195040112006-12-26T13:32:00.001-08:002006-12-26T13:32:26.188-08:00Author and critic Glen Dromgoole wrote about The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure in his Texas authors column, which appears in The Abilene Reporter News, The Bryan-College Station Eagle, The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, and many other newspapers across the lone star state. That installment of Dromgoole’s column also covers works from Elmer Kelton, James A. Mangum, Mike Kearby, Pete Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-90959266474434981632006-12-08T06:13:00.001-08:002006-12-08T06:26:52.257-08:00The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: 12/8/06: Simolke's fantasy novel up for awardDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-59707606297853983652006-12-03T07:49:00.001-08:002006-12-03T07:49:52.891-08:00Finalists announced for Allbooks Reviews Editor's Choice 2007!The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure is the AllBooks Reviews Feature Fantasy Title of the Month for December 2006.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1163705857620601862006-11-16T11:37:00.000-08:002006-11-16T11:37:37.630-08:00Duane Simolke on Gay Internet RadioDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1162822153099589382006-11-06T06:09:00.000-08:002006-11-06T06:09:13.116-08:00Listen for my interview with the founder of StoneWall Society on the internet radio station Rainbow World Radio. StoneWall Society promotes music, books, artwork, and other media that feature positive images of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. I previously received three two 2002 Pride in the Arts Awards and a 2003 Pride in the Arts Award.Nominations will begin on November 8 for Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1158789055435440142006-09-20T14:50:00.000-07:002006-09-20T14:50:55.456-07:00Mark Kendrick, author of Stealing Some Time and Into This World We’re Thrown, wrote the following review of The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure, at Amazon.Com.In 'The Return of Innocence', Duane Simolke once again proves his writing mastery. Populated by at least two dozen characters, the story focuses on Sasha, a young female swordswoman, and her quest to destroy the evil Tay-lii. With Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1153749748761996052006-07-24T07:02:00.000-07:002006-07-24T07:02:28.776-07:00Cancer Fund-Raiser Preface.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1152284229531469162006-07-07T07:56:00.000-07:002006-07-07T07:57:09.543-07:00Review Site Embraces Swashbuckling AdventureDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1148223928755247292006-05-21T08:05:00.000-07:002006-05-25T10:40:05.720-07:00Gay Pride EventWalton, West Virginia, June 16-18. The first StoneWall Society Pride in the Arts Festival will include spoken word artists reading passages from my books The Acorn Stories and Holding Me Together. This gay pride event will take place at Longfork Campgrounds and Resort. I won’t be able to attend, but I’m honored by the inclusion of my works, and I hope some of my readers can go. TheDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1147097705013202002006-05-08T07:14:00.000-07:002006-05-08T07:15:05.013-07:00Read about The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure at the gay Web site This Week In Texas.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1146161274482669892006-04-27T11:07:00.000-07:002006-05-21T08:08:30.266-07:00Press release.Lubbock, Texas: Saturday, June 3, 2-4 PM. Duane Simolke will sign copies of The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure, at Barnes & Noble (6707 Slide Road). He will also sign his West Texas fiction collection The Acorn Stories. The Return of Innocence blends humor and romance with exciting fantasy action. Visit Theln, a planet of magic, dragons, nobility, and heroes. Sasha Varov Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1139845417828465382006-02-13T07:43:00.000-08:002006-02-14T16:17:35.070-08:00Echo Magazine, a weekly publication for gays in Arizona, reviewed my book Holding Me Together on their Web site and in issue 428. The following page will change, but the review was posted online here: Echo: Between the Covers. Or see Page 55 of the following PDF file: Echo Magazine Issue 428.“Duane Simolke's Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems 1983-2005 (iUniverse, $17.95, pap.) is an update Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1139845284985978062006-02-13T07:40:00.000-08:002006-02-13T07:41:24.996-08:00HomoMojo Reviewer Praises DegranonDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1138991264670858902006-02-03T10:27:00.000-08:002006-02-07T11:23:40.930-08:00February 3 Press Release: for immediate distributionLubbock, Texas: Brokeback Mountain EventThe Lubbock Film Society and Lubbock Interfaith Fellowship for Equality invite the public to attend “The View from Brokeback Mountain,” an evening of discussion about this important new film. The event will be held on Saturday, February 18, at 7:00 p.m. at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the ArtsDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1133809020470175642005-12-05T10:56:00.000-08:002005-12-05T11:39:43.836-08:00Gay Book Receives Rave ReviewIn a review appearing both at QMediaReviews.com and in the November 25, 2005 issue of EXP Magazine, SouthWest Edition, critic Shawn Revelle calls the revised, second edition of my book Holding Me Together “an inspiring and timely collection of works.” Revelle goes on to share details about the book, which he also refers to as “a worthwhile and life-affirming read.”Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1124726009827845882005-08-22T08:53:00.000-07:002005-08-22T08:53:29.833-07:00Holding Me Together Revised version of award-winning gay book!Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1120054907840789752005-06-29T07:21:00.000-07:002005-06-29T07:21:47.846-07:00Lubbock, Texas: Saturday, July 9, 2 PM, at Barnes & Noble (6707 Slide Road).Local author Stephen Chamberlain will sign his debut science fiction book Broken Angel. Jeff “Corky” Copp, a former Lubbockite, will sign his teen mystery The Haunting of Briston Manor. I’ll sign copies of my West Texas fiction collection The Acorn Stories.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1100282623902282442004-11-12T10:03:00.000-08:002004-11-12T10:03:43.903-08:00Press release: Scifi novel joins gay marriage debate.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1088599900383361572004-06-30T05:51:00.000-07:002004-06-30T05:51:40.383-07:00Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure
GayLinkNews.Com: Degranon Rewritten for Gay Audience That Embraced It
Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1076594997442814822004-02-12T06:09:00.000-08:002004-02-12T07:32:56.263-08:00Lubbock, Texas, Book Signing
Lubbock, Texas: Saturday, March 20, 2-3 PM. Local author Duane Simolke will sign copies of The Acorn Stories, The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer, and Degranon at Hastings, 5005 50th Street. The Acorn Stories is already in stock there, in the Local Authors section. Most other local or online bookstores can order Simolke’s books.
Simolke remained in Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1068041947164342062003-11-05T06:19:00.000-08:002003-11-05T06:19:24.250-08:00iUniverse Authors Win Literary AwardsDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1066743438753441012003-10-21T06:37:00.000-07:002003-10-27T16:19:47.310-08:00Acorns in Austin!
Austin, Texas, November 8. Watch for The Acorn Stories: Second Edition in the iUniverse display, at the Texas Book Festival.
Lubbock, Texas, author Duane Simolke will appear at the 2003 Texas Book Festival (http://www.texasbookfestival.org/) in Austin, Texas. Exhibitors will have booths in a book fair southwest of the Capitol; there is no admission charge for that part of theDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1064581034559650552003-09-26T05:57:00.000-07:002003-09-26T05:57:13.920-07:00Secrets and Scandals in West Texas
Part 1
Lawsuit seeks to let gay student club meet
Bruce Garrett Cartoon
Superintendent Who Blocked Gay Group Was Having Affair on School Property
E-mails doomed Lubbock superintendent
Secrets and Scandals in West Texas
Part 2
House OKs release of Tulia drug-bust prisoners
Constables face probe into possible illegal use of funds
Former Market Lubbock Inc.Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1063376335585747822003-09-12T07:18:00.000-07:002003-09-12T07:18:55.573-07:00Out in Writing
(Lubbock, Texas) Using resources from
StoneWall Society and The Human Rights Campaign Foundation's National Coming Out Project, Duane Simolke will lead a discussion on lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) books and writers.
This event will occur in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday, November 18, 7 PM, as part of a PFLAG-Lubbock meeting. PFLAG-Lubbock meets at St. John's Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1059402685474149322003-07-28T07:31:00.000-07:002007-02-28T11:49:29.449-08:00Simolke Wins Another Pride in the Arts Award Texas-based author Duane Simolke has received his third Pride in the Arts literary award from StoneWall Society (http://www.stonewallsociety.com/), a resource for gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered artists. Simolke received the 2003 Imagination Award as author of the science fiction thriller Degranon. Simolke was also honored recently by the LGBT Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-1058474439997198592003-07-17T13:40:00.000-07:002007-02-28T11:43:22.726-08:00Fund-raiser Captures America’s Racial RichnessBy Duane Simolke The Acorn Gathering gathers America’s people for a time of hope!My fiction collection The Acorn Stories captured America’s racial diversity within a West Texas setting. My science fiction novel Degranon strictly used people of color for its characters. The Acorn Gathering, a spin-off from The Acorn Stories, is a fund-raiser for cancerDuanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119506.post-908815922003-03-17T14:43:00.000-08:002007-02-28T11:46:04.328-08:00Press release: Science Fiction Novel Relates to Real LifeEven while science fiction fans enjoy the latest Star Trek and Star Wars projects, some of them are looking for a work of science fiction that more closely reflects their internal discord over the realities of modern life on Earth.Many websites have started adding information about just such a work: Duane Simolke’s novel, Degranon. While Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16149436027119552764noreply@blogger.com