Desert Palm Press Authors Celebrated at the 2024 Lesfic Bard Awards

Jun 19

Written By Desert Palm Press

We’re thrilled to announce that two of our authors have been honored at this year’s Lesfic Bard Awards:

Jane Alden’s The Queen’s Eye won the Mystery category lesficbardawards.com.

The Queen's Eye by Jane Alden

$7.50

Archeologist Dr. Cassandra Stillwell and her young assistant Ari Morgan first appeared in The Crystal's Curse as they searched for the story of Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Cass and Ari return to the Valley of the Kings in search of the missing eye from Nefertiti's three-thousand-year-old bust. Cass is determined to restore the queen's perfection and return the bust from Berlin to the Egyptian people. Leftover Hitler Youth and cutthroat antiquity thieves pursue the two from Germany to Egypt to New York City. Did the eye ever really exist? Can Cass persuade Germany to return the queen to Egypt? Will Cass and Ari's relationship deepen? Join the two antiquities sleuths in their quest for answers.

Barbara Lynn Murphy’s A String of Days was named Runner‑Up in the Fiction category lesficbardawards.com.

A String of Days by Barbara Lynn Murphy

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A String of Days by Barbara Lynn Murphy (2023 Lesfic Bard Award winner in Fiction for When It's True). When her research-seeking niece asks Debra Jordan to help her with insight into the romantic life of a lesbian, Debra shares her journey, from the passion of first love to the heartbreak of loss, sparing no details as she recounts the highs and lows of a life well-lived. Debra weaves through the stories of the women she’s loved and sometimes lost. Along the way, she learns that giving up on love is not an option because happily ever after isn’t just reserved for fairy tales.

Desert Palm Press

Founded in 2014 by R. Lee Fitzsimmons the mission of Desert Palm Press has been and continues to be the publishing of stories that accurately and respectfully reflect the diverse lives of the Lesbian and LGBTQ+ community. We strive to make silenced voices heard. Our publication list reflects lesbian fiction of many fiction genres and in the future will include, we trust, non-fiction.

Our books are a collaboration of our authors, editors, graphic designers, and proofreaders. We strive to give you, the reader, an experience that embraces and reflects our diverse lives.

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