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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Love Is Sweeter: Stories by HC Hsu 
A Romantic Mann, poems by Jeff Mann 
Kelland, a novel by Paul G. Bens, Jr. 
Minions of the Moon, a novel by Richard Bowes
Before and Afterlives: Stories by Christopher Barzak 
Injustice, a novel by K.A. Kron & Brenda L. Leffler
My Dear Watson, a novel by L.A. Fields
Deprivation; or, Benedetto furioso: an oneiromancy, a novel by Alex Jeffers
In Search Of, and Others, stories by Will Ludwigsen
Night Duty, and Other Stories, erotica by Nicolas Mann 
Hustler Rave XXX, poems by David Caleb Acevedo & Charlie Vázquez
How to Greet Strangers, a mystery by Joyce Thompson
Standish, a novel by Erastes
The Flight of the Black Swan: A Bawdy Novella, by Jean Roberta
In the Time of Solution 9, a novel by Wayne Courtois
Fatal Women: The Esther Garber Novellas by Tanith Lee
Don’t Tell, a novel by K.A. Kron
The Grigori, a novella by Joshua Skye
Beautiful Sorrows, stories by Mercedes M. Yardley
The Survivors, a novel by Sean Eads
Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction,
edited by Connie Wilkins & Steve Berman
Faun, a novel by Trebor Healey
Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth, a memoir by Scott Terry
The Sin Warriors, a novel by Julian E. Farris
Mariposa Gown, a novel by Rigoberto González
Point of Dreams: A Novel of Astreiant by Melissa Scott and Lisa A Barnett
Helluva Luxe, a novel by Natalie Essary
Waking Up Bear and Other Stories by Jay Neal
Desire and Devour: Stories of Blood and Sweat by Jeff Mann
Green Thumb, a novella by Tom Cardamone
H, prose poems by Jim Elledge
Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology, edited by Charles Tan
Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction,
edited by Steve Berman
You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: wonder stories by Alex Jeffers
Point of Knives: A Novella of Astreiant by Melissa Scott
The Sand Bar, a novel by Owen Keehnen
The Touch of the Sea, edited by Steve Berman
Silver Moon, a novel by Catherine Lundoff
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction,
edited by Brit Mandelo
The Dirty Boys’ Club: The Soap Opera Murders, a novel by Simon Sheppard
Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann
Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman
The Master of Seacliff, a novel by Max Pierce
Eat Your Heart Out, a novella by Dayna Ingram
Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living by Daniel M. Jaffe
Tales from the Den: Wild and Weird Stories for Bears, edited by R. Jackson
The House of Wolves, a novel by Robert B. McDiarmid
Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal by Jeff Mann
Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction edited by Steve Berman
The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam by Alex Jeffers
From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction,
edited by Charles Rice-González & Charlie Vázquez
A History of Barbed Wire, erotica by Jeff Mann
Bear Like Me, a novel by Jonathan Cohen
A Study in Lavender, edited by Joseph R.G. DeMarco
Slant, a novel by Timothy Wang
Hellebore & Rue, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft & Catherine Lundoff
When the de la Cruz Family Danced, a novel by Donna Miscolta
Dirty Poole: a sensual memoir, by Wakefield Poole
Promises, Promises, by L-J Baker
Mere Mortals, a novel by Erastes
Prodigal: Variations, poems by Ed Madden
The March, a novel by Walter Holland
Blame It on the Raging Hormones, a novel by Nathan Goh
Crossing and Other Plays, by C.E. Gatchalian
Wonder, a novel by Dan Boyle
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, by Livia Llewellyn
Do You Remember Tulum?, novella in the form of a love letter by Alex Jeffers
The Mariposa Club, a novel by Rigoberto González
The German, a novel by Lee Thomas
A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men, by William Holden
My Name Is Rand, a novel by Wayne Courtois
La Di Da Di Bloody Da! A Novel of Some Extremes, by Robin Anderson
Tented: Gay Erotic Tales from under the Big Top, edited by Jerry L. Wheeler
Bitter Language, poems by Elka Cloke
Hot off the Presses, a novel by Elliott Mackle
Disturbed by Her Song, stories by Tanith Lee
Spring of the Stag God, erotica by J.C. Herneson
Seven Sweet Things: A Novella with Recipes by Shaun Levin
Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History, and René Crevel by Peter Dubé
Sodomy!, stories by Simon Sheppard
Queering the Text: Biblical, Medieval, and Modern Jewish Stories by Andrew Ramer
The Unborn Spouse Situation, a novel by Matt Rauscher
Tales My Body Told Me, a novel by Wayne Courtois
Safe as Houses, a novel by Alex Jeffers