New in April: Susie Bright & Susan Sontag

April 4, 2011 7 min read

April is National Poetry Month

Susie Bright (LLA winner) has a new memoir out this month. Arthur Levine, Lesléa Newman and Malinda Lo all have new Children’s/YA books out. Meanwhile one’s children’s book is also an iPhone app.

In celebration of poetry C. Dale Young and Kazim Ali have new books out. And Bella Books is re-releasing Katherine V. Forrest’s classic, Curious Wine while Intaglio’s Kate Sweeney has a new e-book out.

Biography & Memoir	Big Sex Little Death A Memoir by Susie Bright Seal Press April 1, 2011	I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual A Memoir of Nazi Terror [Paperback] by Pierre Seel, Joachim Neugroschel Basic Books April 27, 2011
If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter Sarabande Books April 1, 2011	Sempre Susan A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez Atlas & Co April 1, 2011	Lammy Award Finalist She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother A Memoir [Paperback] by Bryan Batt Three Rivers Press April 5, 2011
Smiling in Slow Motion by Derek Jarman University Of Minnesota Press April 1, 2011	The Jack Bank A Memoir of A South African Childhood by Glen Retief St. Martin’s Press April 12, 2011	Times Two Two Women in Love, Their Side-by-Side Pregnancies, and the Happy Family They Made by Kristen Henderson and Sarah Ellis Free Press April 5, 2011
Children’s & Young Adult	Bill Sanders by Connie van Gils Illustrated by Roel Seidell App by Michel Boezerooij Self March 25, 2011	Donovan’s Big Day by Leslea Newman Illustrated by Mike Dutton Tricycle Press April 26, 2011
Huntress by Malinda Lo LBBYR April 5, 2011	One Day is Monday by Arthur A. Levine Illustrated by Julian Hector Scholastic Press April 1, 2011	Vampire Maker [Paperback] by Michael Schiefelbein St. Martin’s Griffin April 26, 2011
Who I Am by M.L. Rice Bold Strokes Books April 18, 2011
Fiction	Robin and Ruby [Paperback] by K.M. Soehnlein Kensington March 29, 2011	The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert Unbridled Books April 19, 2011
The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington Orbit April 11, 2011	What You See In The Dark by Manuel Muñoz Algonquin March 29, 2011	From Here to Eternity The Restored Edition (ebook only) by James Jones Open Road May 10, 2011
Mystery & Thriller	Devil Red (Hap and Leonard) by Joe R. Lansdale Knopf March 15, 2011	Drag and Drop by Etienne Dreamspinner Press April 1, 2011
Flesh & Blood by Ethan Stone Dreamspinner Press April 1, 2011	A Body on Pine by Joseph R. G. DeMarco Lethe Press April 5, 2011	Ditched by Josie Gordon Bella Books April 14, 2011
Nonfiction	A Thousand Times More Fair What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice by Kenji Yoshino Ecco April 12, 2011	Fasting for Ramadan Essays by Kazim Ali Tupelo Press April 15, 2011
GAYBIGAYGAY Portraits of a Backyard Gaytopia by Ben Aqua and Amber Rademacher Monofonus Press April 1, 2011	Jubilee Six Film Scripts by Derek Jarman Introduction by Michael O’Pray University of Minnesota Press April 1, 2011	Radical Love An Introduction to Queer Theology by Patrick S. Cheng Seabury Books March 29, 2011
Sex Panic and the Punitive State by Roger N. Lancaster University of California Press March 15, 2011	COVER TK Play, Creativity, and Social Movements If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution by Benjamin Shepard Routledge April 15, 2011
Poetry	TORN by C. Dale Young Four Way Books April 1, 2011 Interview	Double Shadow Poems By Carl Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux March 15, 2011
Spark Before Dark by Laura Hershey Finishing Line Press April 12, 2011
Romance	Broken Wings by Bethany Brown and Ashlyn Kan Dreamspinner Press Contemporary April 1, 2011	Call Me Softly by D. Jackson Leigh Bold Strokes Books April 18, 2011
Crimson Vengeance by Sheri Lewis Wohl Bold Strokes Books Fantasy/Paranormal April 18, 2011	Curious Wine [Reissue] by Katherine V. Forrest Bella Books April 14, 2011	Ghosts of Winter by Rebecca S. Buck Bold Strokes Books April 18, 2011
Insight of the Seer by Linda Andersson & Sara Marx Bella Books Speculative April 14, 2011	Jane Doe by Lisa Girolami Bold Strokes Books April 18, 2011	Julia’s Song [Reissue] by Ann O’Leary Bella Books April 14, 2011
Overdrive by Ariel Tachna Dreamspinner Press Contemporary April 1, 2011	Pale as a Ghost by Stephen Osborne Dreamspinner Press Fantasy/Paranormal April 1, 2011	Paradise (e-book only) by Kate Sweeney Intaglio Publications April 1, 2011
Seven Days by Andrew Grey Dreamspinner Press Contemporary April 1, 2011	Shying Away by Kate Sherwood Dreamspinner Press Contemporary April 1, 2011	Split by Mel Bossa Bold Strokes Books April 18, 2011
Taste by Mickie B. Ashling Dreamspinner Press Contemporary April 1, 2011	The Locker Room by Amy Lane Dreamspinner Press Contemporary April 1, 2011	The Vamp in the Silver Mask by Wynn Wagner Dreamspinner Press Fantasy/Paranormal April 1, 2011
True Confessions by PJ Trebelhorn Bold Strokes Books April 19, 2011	Uniform Appeal by Anne Regan Dreamspinner Press Anthology April 1, 2011