by Kieran York
York’s fiction also includes Appointment with a Smile, published in 2012. It was a 2013 Lambda Literary Society Award Finalist in the Romance Category. Careful Flowers was released in 2013, followed by 2014 releases – Earthen Trinkets and Night Without Time. In 2015, Touring Kelly’s Poem, Loitering on the Frontier, Primrose, and Trevar’s Team: 1 were published. In 2016, thriller Astray and romance Ballad of Raindrops were published. In 2017, Trevar’s Team: 2 was published.
In 2014, York’s volume of poetry, Blushing Aspen, was published as Sappho’s Corner Solo Poets Series poetry for the year. It won the Rainbow Award Honorable Mention for Poetry, and was a finalist in the Poetry category of Golden Crown Literary Awards. In 2015, the poetry book titled Realm of Belonging was released by Scarlet Clover Publishers. In 2016, the poetry volume, Once Word – the Thought Trilogy was released. In 2017, the second in the poetry trilogy, Festival of a Moment, was released.
York has two collection of lesbian short fiction. The first was entitled Sugar With Spice, and was published in 1989. The second was released in 2015, and was called Within Our Celebration.
Previously, during the nineteen-seventies and eighties, Kieran worked as a reporter and reviewer for both newspapers, and magazines, and was a magazine publisher for three years. She also wrote and performed songs with a regional woman’s band.
She has been a guest lecturer and panel member at various events, including Rocky Mountain Book Exhibition, and Colorado Musician’s Series. She is a member of Lambda Literary Society and Sisters in Crime.
She has written for Journal of Mystery Readers International. In addition, she has given numerous campus and coffeehouse poetry readings, as well as taught poetry and creative writing workshops. She graduated from Fort Hays Kansas State University, and Attended Mexico’s University of Americas her junior year.
Kieran lives in the Rocky Mountain Foothills of Colorado with her schnauzer, Clover. She enjoys music, literature, and art. She considers her valuables to include Clover, and her other family and friends, her library, her antique typewriter collection, and her guitars.
Additional information is available on her websites: https://kieranyork.com and www.scarletcloverpublishers.com in addition you can find her work on Amazon’s Author’s Page at: www.amazon.com/author/kieranyork/
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COMING ATTRACTIONS
TREVAR’S TEAM: 3
A new intriguing mystery for the Sapphic detective trio! Beryl Trevar, Rachel Rosen, and Summer Wade are always on duty when it comes to murder cases. They are an amazing blend of savvy, intelligence, sensuality, daring, and heart.
This detective Team knows how to use each attribute, and they also know how to use their Berettas.
They live in Palm Beach, Florida aboard a yacht named The Radclyffe-Hull. Each woman has an exciting, intricate, and entangled backstory. Each has her own reason for wanting to capture the badasses of the world.
The Team has another commonality. They all have an enormous appreciation of women. They are tough, edgy, tender, gorgeous, and resilient. They are also romantic.
Also back by popular demand – they have a profane parrot named Pluma. Pluma is a favorite of the trio, and of the readers of Trevar’s Team mystery books.
In Trevar’s Team: 3 the Team returns from a vacation cruise. Just in Time! Palm Beach can again use their help in solving crime. And Pluma curses in two languages, that should be an enormous help to the women.
Trevar’s Team: 1 and Trevar’s Team: 3 are available on line in both print book and eBook.
DAMSELS OF CASTAWAY CREEK
The miniscule town of Castaway Creek was home to mostly women. Mostly Sapphic women, as it happens. Many had retired in Castaway. Jesse and Mara were approaching sixty, and they had promised they would be spending out their days living right there.
Nestled back away in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, was that dot-on-the-map community. Barely a town, the population was half a thousand at tops. Jesse Bonner and her spouse of over thirty-five years, Mara Kerr, were proprietors of the Castaway Trading Post.
Directly across the main street was the Castaway Bar and Grill. It was owned and operated by Ruthie North. Since she just turned forty, she was young enough to be Jesse’s offspring, so Jess figured she needed to direct Ruthie’s thinking. Ruthie was in love with a drifter named Con Fraser. Jesse didn’t take to Con, and she caused a bit of bother once in a while. Con was a tad secretive about her past.
Jesse and Mara had become the town’s heartbeats! The real power in Castaway Creek was its mayor. Castaway’s first and only mayor was a twelve-year old cat named Dottie. The votes had been counted, and every year it was a landslide in Dottie’s favor.
Small town living was never without humor, nor was it without problems. That’s what made Castaway Creek special, Jesse declared.
KNAPSACK OF STARS
Knapsack of Stars is the third book of poetry in the Thought Trilogy – by Kieran York. The first two, Once Word and Festival of a Moment have been released.
York refers to the books as a ‘Thought Trilogy’ because a great deal of the poetry is stream of consciousness. Her interior monologue trilogy includes early, as well as recent compositions.