UK Meet Acquisitions Team on Lashings of Sauce

Guest post by UK Meet Acquisitions Team ...

Sauce.

It's what we Brits love. Maybe it's tomato on our chips, or HP on our sausages. It could be strawberry or chocolate on ice cream. Best of all, it's caramel or custard on our sticky toffee pudding.

We love other sorts of sauce, though. The sort you get on seaside postcards, some of them now recognised as classic art, like the works of Donald McGill. There's a distinct difference between sauce and smut, for example fans of the Carry On films would say the earlier films are saucy, the later smutty. Sauce is never explicit or gratuitous, relying instead on double entendre and innuendo(which isn't and Italian suppository).

Some might say that this sort of humour is all in the mind. When the fat man on that postcard says he can't see his little Willy, he's clearly looking for the little boy who's playing in the sand. It's only your dirty mind which reads it as anything else. Isn't it?

But then English -- or British English, should we say -- is a funny old language. Like the Inuit have many different words for snow, we Brits seem to have loads of terms for types of rain (naturally) and many for humour. Sauce, smut, blue, schoolboy, adult, post-modern, etc. Maybe it's because we're a race who appreciate a good laugh, often at our own expense. Self deprecating - there's another one!

It's the same with the word "lashings". You might look at it and think "whips!" but we Brits think of generous quantities, full to overflowing. Lashings of ginger beer, what?

So Lashings of Sauce means loads of fun. Why not indulge yourself, while it's free?

You can download it for FREE for today only: Lashings of Sauce.

Charlie Cochrane for the UK Meet Acquisitions Team
ukglbtfictionmeet.co.uk

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Best Gay Contemporary General Fiction:
Honorable Mention ~ Lashings of Sauce edited by UK MAT

From marriages to reunions, via practical jokes and football matches, to weresloths and possibly the oddest Tarts and Vicars party in the world, join us as we celebrate the UK Meet in the best way we know: telling the story. As a follow-up to the critically acclaimed British Flash and Tea and Crumpet anthologies, our talented writers bring you sixteen stories about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and genderqueer characters enjoying what Britain and mainland Europe have to offer, with their wonderfully diverse range of cultures and landscapes and some incredibly colourful and quirky people.

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Best Lesbian Historical:
Third Place ~ The View from 16 Podwale Street by Paul Alan Fahey

April 1939. Warsaw, Poland. Within 16 Podwale, the walls hold secrets that could destroy the lives of its inhabitants as they witness the city's ever-mounting tide of Nazism. Elwira Malinowska is content to watch the world pass by her home until Raz Zielinsky comes to work as a housemaid for her father. The two women become lovers. Elwira believes Pope Pius XII will intervene to save Poland from the rumblings of a maniac and an imminent invasion. But when the Pope fails to mediate peace and the political situation worsens, Elwira and Raz plan their escape to freedom. Will they succeed? Or is it already too late?

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Best Bisexual/Transgender Fiction
Third Place ~ A Cowboy's Heart by J.M. Snyder

Ranch hand Tommy Prout meets Lila, an enterprising saloon girl who takes a liking to him. She isn't like the others, and when she discovers Tommy is more scared of her than attracted to her feminine charms, she lets him in on a little secret. Her real name is Stephen Marsh. He lives as a woman, moving from saloon to saloon, pleasing men for money. He loves men and enjoys his work, and what others don't know about what's under his skirt doesn't bother him. In all his years on the prairie, he's never met someone quite like Tommy. When he discovers Tommy is sweet on his ranch boss, he suggests teaching the cowboy just how to please a man. He doesn't mean to lose his heart to Tommy in the process.

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Best LGBT Young Adult/Coming of Age:
First Place ~ Renfred's Masquerade by Hayden Thorne

Best Gay Novel/Book:
Honorable Mention ~ Renfred's Masquerade by Hayden Thorne

Tragedy strikes when young Nicola Gregori turns sixteen. Gustav Renfred, a friend of his father, whisks Nicola away to an isolated islet filled with empty mansions and bordered by a bluebell forest. There Nicola learns about the tragic story that weaves together the fates of his father, Gustav Renfred, and Gustav's sister, Constanza. Magic, impossible dreams, and unrequited love come together in the Renfreds' mansion, where Nicola is caught in a world of haunting portraits, a ghostly housekeeper, and the mysterious disappearance of Davide, Constanza's adopted son. When Nicola's invited to one of Renfred's magical masquerades, he discovers the answers to riddles as well as the mounting danger the Renfred family faces with every passing hour.

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One Perfect Score:
Bergdorf Boys by Scott Alexander Hess

When Neal Tate, a just-out-of-rehab NYC party columnist falls for Dewalt, a Harlem drug dealer he meets at a gay bathhouse, he discovers that navigating an honest relationship is a lot more difficult that chasing down the perfect pair of skinny jeans. Neal finds support from his fashion-loving friends: Rowdy, a blond boy-toy married to the owner of Pop magazine where Neal works; Nick, "It-boy" Style writer for the New York Times; and Annie, straight-girl Art Director who gives Neal's life balance. The success of Neal's Bergdorf Boy column, and his growing love for Dewalt, lead him to question his capacity for intimacy, his obsessive commitment to both the latest trend and anonymous sex, and to wonder if a monogamous gay marriage could be in the cards.

How the UK Meet began ...

Once upon a time, there were three little girls ...

Okay. Actually there were about a dozen of them. And they weren’t exactly girls. Or, you know, all that little. Apart from Charlie, maybe. She’s tiny. (So small, in fact, that many people didn’t even notice she was there, that first year.) But anyway ... there we all were, gathered together one hot July day in 2010 in a library in Ely, to re-enact the feeding of the five thousand. What’s that you say? Oh, right. The food mountain was just a bonus side effect. No, we were actually there to get together and celebrate UK GLBTQ fiction. And that was the first UK Meet, and jolly good fun it was too.

The following year ... Well. Apparently word had spread about all the yummy food on offer. Although possibly the reports of fun, comradeship, helpful hints for writers and, heh, insider gossip attracted a few people as well. The 2011 UK Meet drew over forty GLBTQ fiction writers, readers and fans from around Britain -- and we had our first delegates from Europe, too. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back around January of that year, the very lovely, talented and wackily hair-accessorised Josephine Myles sent out an email to a few of us involved in the organisation, and it went something like this:

“Hey, I just met you, And this is crazy, But here's a prompt, So let’s do an anthology, maybe?”

Well, you have to humour people like that. Otherwise, they might creep up on you in the night and stab you with their pointy hair implements of doom. So we went along with it, put out a call to people, and what do you know? We ended up with a truly fabulous collection of stories, all donated by their authors to raise funds for the UK Meet.

And you can download it for FREE for today only: Tea & Crumpet.

Raise your rainbow umbrellas high and celebrate!

Enjoy this enchanting, entertaining and thought-provoking collection, a heartfelt expression of what it means to be queer in Britain, past and present. All these stories reflect the iconic sights and national character of the British Isles: a taste of our idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, but also an unashamed representation of the love, loyalty and laughter of our people.

The 2013 UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet will take place on the weekend of 12th-14th July 2013 in the Macdonald Hotel, Manchester, UK. We’ll be offering a wide range of panels, networking opportunities and social events, with plenty of things to appeal to readers, authors (established, fledging or aspiring), and fans alike!

If you’d like to be kept informed about details of the meet, please visit our website and sign up for our newsletter. You’ll also find pictures and reports from the fabulous 2012 Meet in Brighton, which drew over sixty delegates from across the globe, including our keynote speaker, genre pioneer & Psycop author Jordan Castillo Price.

UK Meet Acquisitions Team
http://ukglbtfictionmeet.co.uk

Lashings of Sauce edited by UK Meet Acquisitions Team

TITLE: Lashings of Sauce
AUTHOR: UK Meet Acquisitions Team

GENRE: Anthology • Contemporary • Erotic Romance • Fiction • Gay • Historical • Lesbian • Transgender
LENGTH: 77,891 words
PRICE: $6.99

Read an excerpt or buy your copy today!

We Brits love our sauce, whether it's what we lash on our food, read on our seaside postcards, or write in our stories. Come and enjoy a buffet of tasty LGBTQ treats!

From marriages to reunions, via practical jokes and football matches, to weresloths and possibly the oddest Tarts and Vicars party in the world, join us as we celebrate the UK Meet in the best way we know: telling the story.

As a follow-up to the critically acclaimed British Flash and Tea and Crumpet anthologies, our talented writers bring you sixteen stories about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and genderqueer characters enjoying what Britain and mainland Europe have to offer, with their wonderfully diverse range of cultures and landscapes and some incredibly colourful and quirky people.

Contributors include: Tam Ames, Becky Black, Anne Brooke, Charlie Cochrane, Rebecca Cohen, Lillian Francis, Elin Gregory, Clare London, Sandra Lindsey, JL Merrow, Emily Moreton, Josephine Myles, Zahra Owens, Jordan Castillo Price, Elyan Smith and Robbie Whyte. Edited by: UK MAT (UK Meet Acquisitions Team: Alex Beecroft, Charlie Cochrane, Clare London, JL Merrow and Josephine Myles).

Tea and Crumpet by UK Meet Acquisitions Team

Now Available from JMS Books LLC!

Tea and Crumpet
by UK Meet Acquisitions Team (UK MAT)

GENRE: Anthology • Contemporary & Historical • Gay & Lesbian Fiction • Erotica • Romance
LENGTH: 63,287 words

Read an excerpt or buy your copy today!

BLURB:
Raise your rainbow umbrellas high and celebrate!

Enjoy this enchanting, entertaining and thought-provoking collection, a heartfelt expression of what it means to be queer in Britain, past and present. All these stories reflect the iconic sights and national character of the British Isles: a taste of our idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, but also an unashamed representation of the love, loyalty and laughter of our people.

Including a wide range of style and subject, this is the perfect way to sample different authors and to find both existing and new favourites. Follow the British way of life from historic villages to modern cities, from the countryside to the sea, through history and with a fantasy twist, in gardens, churches, campus and the familiar, much-loved local pub.

The stories cover universal themes of romance, desire, remembrance and reconciliation. The authors range from multi-published to up-and-coming, and they all share a passion for their characters, whether through great drama, erotic excitement, humour -- or a combination of all three!

Contributors include: Alex Beecroft, Jennie Caldwell, Stevie Carroll, Charlie Cochrane, Lucy Felthouse, Elin Gregory, Mara Ismine, Clare London, Anna Marie May, JL Merrow, Josephine Myles, Zahra Owens, Jay Rookwood, Chris Smith, Stevie Woods, Lisa Worrall, and Serena Yates. Edited by: UK MAT (UK Meet Acquisitions Team).

This anthology is a souvenir of the 2011 UK Meet, an occasion for GLBTQ supporters to get together in a relaxed setting to celebrate and chat about the fiction community they love. Funds from the sale of this anthology will go towards future UK Meets, to which all are welcome. Please visit the website for details, or contact UK MAT through the publisher.

Read an excerpt or buy your copy today!

OR ... Comment on this blog post by midnight to win a free copy tomorrow!