When, in the fall of 2009, Steve Berman of Lethe Press agreed to reprint Safe as Houses, he also agreed to let me adapt the design I’d created for the briefly available self-published edition. The following spring, he wrote to ask whether I might be able to design a slim volume of verse for Lethe as the regular designer was overbooked. Things progressed. Comprehensively and rather fast.

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Safe as Houses, a novel by Alex Jeffers

Inheritance, poems by Steven Reigns

Tales My Body Told Me, a novel by Wayne Courtois

The Unborn Spouse Situation, a novel by Matt Rauscher

Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories by Andrew Ramer

Sodomy!, stories by Simon Sheppard

Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History, and René Crevel by Peter Dubé

Seven Sweet Things: A Novella with Recipes by Shaun Levin

Spring of the Stag God, erotica by J.C. Herneson

Disturbed by Her Song, stories by Tanith Lee

Hot off the Presses, a novel by Elliott Mackle

Bitter Language, poems by Elka Cloke

Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from under the Big Top, edited by Jerry L. Wheeler

La Di Da Di Bloody Da! A Novel of Some Extremes, by Robin Anderson

My Name Is Rand, a novel by Wayne Courtois

A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men, by William Holden

The German, a novel by Lee Thomas

The Mariposa Club, a novel by Rigoberto González

Do You Remember Tulum?, novella in the form of a love letter by Alex Jeffers

Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, by Livia Llewellyn

Wonder, a novel by Dan Boyle

Crossing and Other Plays, by C.E. Gatchalian

Blame It on the Raging Hormones, a novel by Nathan Goh

The March, a novel by Walter Holland

Prodigal: Variations, poems by Ed Madden

Mere Mortals, a novel by Erastes

Promises, Promises, by L-J Baker

Dirty Poole: a sensual memoir, by Wakefield Poole

When the de la Cruz Family Danced, a novel by Donna Miscolta

Hellebore & Rue, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft & Catherine Lundoff

Slant, a novel by Timothy Wang

A Study in Lavender, edited by Joseph R.G. DeMarco

Bear Like Me, a novel by Jonathan Cohen

A History of Barbed Wire, erotica by Jeff Mann

From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction,
edited by Charles Rice-González & Charlie Vázquez

The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam by Alex Jeffers

Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction edited by Steve Berman