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
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

