NYC Release: A Little Queermas Carol

Haven’t you always wanted a christmas book by and for leather queers? Join Sassafras Lowrey for the release of hir anticipated Queer/Leather Christmas Novella: A Little Queermas Carol! Come to help decorate a Christmas tree, and hear selections from the novella along with other queerly festive stories! Sassafras will be joined by Laura Antoniou and Ashley Young About “A Little Queermas Carol”: Marley was dead. Unable to cope, Ebe wields their politics as a excuse to deny their desire for a Leather family. Trauma and imagination come to life through visions of drag queens and dolls, while Leather Daddies bake holiday cookies in this tender queer reimagined Christmas tale Reader Bios: Sassafras Lowrey is a straight-edge queer punk who grew up to become the 2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award. Hir books—Kicked Out, Roving Pack, and Leather Ever After—have been honored by organizations ranging from the National Leather Association to the American Library Association. Sassafras' latest novel Lost Boi a queer retelling of Peter Pan was released from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2015 and was a Lammy Finalist for Transgender Fiction. Sassafraslives and writes in Brooklyn with hir partner and five furry beasts. Learn more at www.SassafrasLowrey.com Laura Antoniou is best known for her Marketplace series of BDSM erotica, the first of which was published over 20 years ago. She has also lectured, ranted, read and presented on kinky sex at over 100 events worldwide. Hernovel, The Killer Wore Leather, a comedy murder mystery set within the leather/BDSM world, won the 2013 Rainbow Award for Best LGBT Mystery; her stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies. Her website is LAntoniou.com; friend/follow her on FB, Fetlife & Twitter Ashley Young is a Black, Queer Feminist poet, author, teacher and community organizer. Her work has been published in three anthologies, Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press) and Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (Portland Studio). She is a 2010 Voices of Our Nation's Foundation Poetry Fellow and a Lambda Literary Foundation Nonfiction Fellow. She works as a freelance writer and interns from the Women of Color Writer’s Community at Imani House in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and prose entitled Chronicles of Bipolar Living and is completing her first novel, a biomythography entitled The Liberation of the Black Unicorn. Ashley lives in New York City with her wife, four wild cats and her sweet service dog.