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The Wives of Marty Winters
Gay rights activist Selena Winters is shot in the head while giving a speech at the Seattle Pride celebration.

She’s rushed to the hospital where a blood clot is removed from her brain. She slips into a coma. Her extended family gathers to wait and see if she is going to recover.

Her husband, Marty, and their  friend Chloe think they know who shot her. They’re sure it’s the same Neo-Nazi who beat up their son fifteen years earlier.

Will Selena ever come out of the coma? Will the shooter ever be caught? And why did the woman with the red cape try to take the bullet for Selena? To answer these questions, we have to go back to 1960 and live through this entertaining family saga of Marty Winters and his wives. 

 

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Imprudent Zeal
Five characters who come of age at different times and in different parts of the country are thrown together through happenstance. They are:

Scully McDonald, a failed seminarian and recovering alcoholic who is obsessed with the need to reconcile the loving God of his church with the vengeful God who has wrecked his life.
Becca McDonald, a street walker in New York befriended by Scully. Her cross-country odyssey brings her to the Pacific Northwest.
McKenzie McDonald, Becca's daughter who escapes her mother's world of drug addiction and prostitution to become a successful gallery owner in Seattle.
Lane Felts, the Southerner jilted by his lover who goes to New York in the hope of becoming a famous artist, only to abandon that dream in order to serve the poor.
And finally...
Palmer Jackson, the selfish and self-destructive artist who is lover of both Lane and McKenzie, and who uses them both.

"This book is the great circus train wreck that was America from the 1950s to the 1990s.
 ... A tour de force of autobiographical fiction."
- Lew Hamburg, The Olympian

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Until the Dawn
Red Warner, an artist from a small town in Mississippi, makes it big in New York and then vanishes following a wild party in his SoHo loft. A childhood friend goes in search of the missing artist, a search that carries him back to his Mississippi home and a secluded fishing camp on the coastal bayous. Along the way we learn how a small town football player became a leading artist of his time and about the shameful secret that has haunted him since he left the South.

"Blooming bodily desires, racism, and rock and roll take their turns enlivening the plot, yet the writer's primary concern is to focus on the growth of an artistic imagination in such fertile ground." - Larry Johnson, Southern Quarterly

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As If Art Matters  
A look at the essential elements that lift the best of fine visual art above the mundane, including reviews ranging from Vincent van Gogh to the New York School to contemporary video and film artists such as Bill Viola and Sandy Skoglund, plus reviews of many artists in the Pacific Northwest who are recognized regionally but who do not enjoy the wider acclaim they richly deserve.

"Alec Clayton communicates about art in a thoughtful, personal manner. ...His interpretation reveals a breadth of knowledge that he generously shares without pretension ... an honest and clear voice." - Amy McBride, Public Art Administrator

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