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Duane’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Duane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Duane Simolke
카지노싸이트 Author
Born
in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States
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Maybe We Run
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The Acorn Stories
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1999
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Degranon: A 카지노싸이트 Fiction Adventure
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2002
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7 editions
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Sons of Taldra
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Now That We’re Grown
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Taldra: 카지노싸이트 Fiction Adventures
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Fat Diary
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2012
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The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure
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2006
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Holding Me Together
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1999
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4 editions
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Stein, Gender, Isolation, and Industrialism: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio
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1999
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The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer
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Duane’s Recent Updates
"A child/teen actress from Hollywood met a young boy at a pond one day. They grew up, attended Vanderbilt, and forged a relationship. But their happily ever after was not easy to achieve."
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Duane Simolke
liked
Mickie B. Ashling's
blog post:
New Release Blog Tour: Office of the Lost by J. Scott Coatsworth & Kim Fielding (Excerpt + Giveaway)
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J. Scott Coatsworth & Kim Fielding have a new MM fantasy romance out, Chaos and Order book 1: Office of the Lost. And there's a giveaway!
When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks Fly
Crispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, c..."
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Duane Simolke
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liked
Rebecca Crunden's
blog post:
Book Review: The Big Snowdown (2025)
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The Big Snowdown by Katy Hudson
Not only was this book beautifully illustrated – I’m more than a little obsessed with illustrations and animated settings set in the snow and wintertime as they’re just SO COSY AND CUTE – but it also offered ..."
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| The Whisper that Replaced God (A Silent Duology Book 1) works as an entertaining fantasy, but the first-person narration adds some much-needed levity. Mute remains aware of readers, not wanting to bore, insult, or trouble them with superfluous or unp ...more | |
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Author Peter Schutes introduces two tales of clones and gay male desire. Schutes offers an introduction that shows a love for science fiction and concerns about oppression. That introduction also explains the unlikely genesis of this unique collectio ...more |
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| Gay 카지노싸이트 Fiction: * * 500 Celebration Program of Activities - wrapping up * | 11 | 77 | Aug 28, 2012 08:04AM | |
| Indie Book Collec...: What Makes You Want To Read More About A Character | 12 | 71 | Jan 04, 2013 07:05PM | |
| Queereaders: May 2013 - What are you reading? | 25 | 55 | Jun 28, 2013 03:28PM | |
| Queereaders: Hello from Lubbock, Texas | 9 | 23 | Jun 29, 2013 11:40AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: Hyperion Discussion | 8 | 116 | Jun 29, 2013 09:40PM | |
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“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
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The members of The Backlot (formerly AfterElton) love to chat about the latest in gay books. With the site changing, we're moving the discussion here. ...more
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Thanks! My readers at GoodReads seem interested in Degranon, with 60 of them adding it to their To Read list.http://www.africa-eu.com/book/show/33...
Now one of them might win a copy!
Hi Duane!! Just wanted to let you know that your sci fi adventure DEGRANON is the Book of the Day today!!
Thanks for offering up a copy to one of our lucky readers today!
Now available: THE ACORN STORIES - Duane Simolke's award-winning tales transform a fictional West Texas town into a tapestry of human experiences - check it out at
Readers! Last day to get your name in the hat for Duane Simolke's sci fi adventure DEGRANON - check it out !
Happy Monday Duane!!Thanks so much for being our special guest blogger this week - and thanks for offering up a copy of DEGRANON for one of our lucky readers this week!
This week at , we welcome author Duane Simolke to the Tiki Hut to talk about his science fiction novel DEGRANON: A 카지노싸이트 Fiction Adventure.
Majoring in English, Duane Simolke received degrees from Belmont University (B.A., 1989), Hardin-Simmons University (M.A., 1991), and Texas Tech University (Ph.D., 1996). His doctoral dissertation was on Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. StoneWall Society gave Pride in the Arts literary awards to The Acorn Stories, Degranon, and Holding Me Together. AllBooks Reviews gave The Return of Innocence a Reviewers Choice Award.
Simolke also edited and co-wrote a fundraiser, The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer.
Learn more at
WIN - Leave Duane a comment or question this week at the Authorisland Tiki Hut and your name goes in the hat for a free ebook of DEGRANON.
Hi Duane!!AuthorIsland.com is celebrating your anthlogy - THE ACORN GATHERING today - what a great cause!
Thank you for putting this together.
Anthology Edited By Duane Simolke Benefits American Cancer Society
The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer.
Author and editor Duane Simolke presents an unusual fiction collection. 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!
Join the fight against cancer by purchasing this fundraiser by authors Jan Chandler, Huda Orfali, Duane Simolke, Timothy Morris Taylor, Shawna R. Van Arum, and Bill Wetzel. All author and editor royalties go to the American Cancer Society!
These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke's collection The Acorn Stories, this new anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph. Edited by Duane Simolke.
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Oye! Duane, thanks for the add. Take care...Leaundra
Hi Duane!!!Welcome to AuthorIsland.com - so glad to have you with us and to celebrate we're throwing you a Cyber Launch Party today for your fantasy adventure THE RETURN OF INNOCENCE over at !
Best of luck with the book and thanks so much for offering up a copy of it as a prize today!
Duane,