Within Our Celebration

This book of short fiction is about lesbian events, considerations, and lives. There is a variety of serious topics, humor, and stories about women in all walks of life. They are twenty heart-warming, heart-breaking, and intriguing glimpses of comedy and drama inside our lives. It is life in Lesbos, frontier women's lives - lesbians in various aspects of our modern life. It is about women of different ages, different groups, at different times in their lives. It is about women who love women. These are our stories about traveling this globe within our celebration!
About the Author: Kieran York has authored both Sapphic fiction and poetry. Her lesbian mystery series Timber City Masks and Crystal Mountain Veils, featuring Royce Madison were originally written and published in the mid-1990s. A second edition of them was recently released. Shinney Forest Cloaks is the third in the series. In addition to Within Our Celebration, Kieran also wrote a collection of lesbian short fiction entitled Sugar With Spice that was published in 1989. In 2012, York's book, Appointment with a Smile, was published and was a 2013 Lambda Literary Society Award Finalist in the category of Romance. Her next novel, Careful Flowers, was released in 2013, followed by two releases in 2014 - Earthen Trinkets and Night Without Time, published by Scarlet Clover Publishers. In 2015, Touring Kelly's Poem, and Loitering on the Frontier were released. Also planned in 2015 is a new mystery series titled Trevar's Team: 1. In 2014, her volume of poetry, Blushing Aspen, was published as the Sappho's Corner Solo Poets book of poetry. It won The Rainbow Award Honorable Mention for poetry, and was a Finalist in the poetry category of Golden Crown Literary Awards. In 2015 the poetry book titled Realm of Belonging was published by Scarlet Clover Publishers. York was also a contributor in Sappho's Corner Poetry Series - Wet Violets, Volume 2; Roses Read, Volume 3; and Delectable Daisies, Volume 4.This series is edited by Beth Mitchum. Previously, during the seventies and eighties, Kieran worked as a reporter and reviewer for both newspapers and magazines, and was a newspaper publisher for three years. She also wrote and performed songs with a regional woman's band. She has been guest lecturer and panel member at various events, including Rocky Mountain Book Exhibition, Colorado Musicians Series, Sisters in Crime Mystery Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Inc. She is a member of Lambda Literary Society and Golden Crown Literary Society. She has written for Journal of Mystery Readers International. In addition, she has given numerous campus and coffeehouse poetry readings, as well as taught poetry and creative writing workshops. Kieran lives in the Rocky Mountain Foothills of Colorado with her schnauzer, Clover. She enjoys music, literature, and art. Additional information is available on her website: http: //kieranyork.com, the Scarlet Clover Publishers website: http: //www.scarletcloverpublishers.com and also on her Amazon Authors Page: www.amazon.com/author/kieranyork/