Duane Simolke is currently writing a sequel to Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure.

Visit 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 off
The Acorn Stories, Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure (gay-themed scifi), The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure, Holding Me Together, and many other Smashwords eBooks.

Free eBook Provides Close Examination of Classic Winesburg, Ohio.

West 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.

Proposition 8?

Read about gay marriage and bigotry-inspired constitutional amendments in Duane Simolke’s award-winning novel Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure.

Lubbock, 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 edited that book and wrote four of its stories.

Read the reviews.

Rainbow Reviews has posted a review of my gay-themed novel Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure. Read the review.

New Book Trailer.

Innocence Returns, in Video Form:



The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure

The trailer for The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer:

Gay Pride Video

Texas Fiction: The Acorn Stories Book Trailer

Kirkus Discovers Texas Fiction Collection

My Space TV:

Gay Love Poem

Gay Science Fiction

Gay Pride, International

Dann 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 Government's Community Benefit Fund and PFLAG Brisbane used it as a resource for the booklet Assisting Those Who Come Into Regular Contact with Lesbian and Gay Youth.

“By killing yourself, intentionally or through unsafe sex, you call yourself worthless and expendable. How can you think of a human being that way? Quit punishing yourself for the bigotry in society. Refuse to help the cause of homophobia. Take care of yourself. Learn to love yourself and protect yourself. See yourself and your partner as worth protecting. Treat safer sex as an act of defiance and gay pride, a statement about your love for yourself, a statement about the value of your life. Treat living each day as a tear in the fabric of bigotry.”

That quote comes from Not Worth Dying Over, another essay in Holding Me Together. Paul Harris quotes that passage in the book From Our Own Lips: The Book of GLBT Quotations. Minnie Van PileUp (the pseudonym of a writer who lives in Boston) quotes the same passage in The Quotable Queer: Fabulous Wit and Wisdom from the Gays, the Straight, and Everybody In-Between.

Mountman, a reviewer for StoneWall Society, has created animated versions of two poems from Holding. Visit MS Agent Pages for the software and links. (Note: the poems are earlier versions, and slightly different from how they appear in Holding’s 2nd Edition.)

Artist Roger Beauchamp created Team Leviticus, artwork based on Reactions to Homophobia.

Watch for news about how the 2007 Pride in the Arts Festival will involve my books.

Duane Simolke's Texas Fiction Book Reviewed

StoneWall Society reviews The Return of Innocence

From Lubbock Online Entertainment Briefs: 3/13/07: Dean, Simolke will autograph new books

Phast Times

The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure

Texas Author Signing Books in Lubbock

The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure

Winner of a 2007 Allbooks Reviewer’s Choice Award

• This Week In Texas: Gay author wins another award for his work
  
• Belmont University: '89 Alum Wins Book Award
  
• Pressbox.Co.UK: Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award winners announced
  
• FreePressRelease: Allbooks Review announces winners of Editor's Choice and Reviewer's Choice Awards for 2007
  
• 24-7pressrelease: Allbooks Review announces Editor's Choice and Reviewer's Choice Award
  
• American Chronicle: Allbooks announce winners of Editor's and Reviewer's Choice Award
  
• American Chronicle: ALLBOOKS REVIEWS EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD FOR 2007 announces the finalists
  
• The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: 12/8/06: Simolke's fantasy novel up for award

The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure received a 2007 Allbooks Reviewer’s Choice Award!