Alyssa Linn Palmer

Kitty Kerr is a high-flying lawyer when her career plans are derailed by the luscious blackberries from Lucy Shen's Country Mouse Farms. Kitty can't get enough of the fruit, or of Lucy. Suddenly, she's wanting things she never dared to want--Lucy, and the life on the farm. But how will being an artisan cook/farmer fit with her legal ambitions and city habits?Between her beautiful farm and her sculpture, Lucy's life is set. Falling for a big city lawyer is not part of the plan. Even as Kitty helps make her dreams of spotlighting her farm's produce in restaurants a reality, Lucy's terrified that she and the farm aren't enough to keep Kitty interested in love and the simpler things in life.Pulled in two different directions, will the city kitty and country mouse be able to make it work?

As gay as a Western rodeo? You bet. A Queer Summer Night in Cowtown riffs off the urban Stampede YYC plays host to every July, and features 10 hot and cold queer shorts for the 10 days of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. This fourth collaborative project by YYC Queer Writers features: On the Floor by Alyssa Linn Palmer, Voyeur by Dirk Van Dyk, On the Range by Dallas Barnes, Coming by PW Zellie, The Steward of the Treaty 7 Sodium Forest by Beatrice Aucoin, Hawk's Eye by Karen O., After Care by T, First Rodeo by Lotis Cervantes, You, and the Herds by Callan Field, and Dhakira by M. Jane Colette. All profits from the anthology's sales go to benefit Alberta's Camp Fyrefly. Camp fYrefly is a summer camp and leadership retreat designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified, two-spirited, intersexed, queer, and questioning youth, (LGBTQ2S+) and planned in part by a committee of the same youth it seeks to serve. Camp fYrefly is designed to help youth develop the leadership skills and personal resiliency necessary for them to become agents for positive change in their schools, families, and communities. In other words, it helps keep queer kids alive.Although we are fundraising for a youth program, the content of our anthology contains mature themes, explores themes of sex and sexuality, sometimes explicitly, and is intended for an adult audience.

Land poor, Elly leaves the family farm and heads to the big city to become something better than a waitress in a small-town diner. Though she's succumbed to economic necessity and the siren song of her one-time lover, Alex, she can't bear to give up the farm that has been in her family for generations. As much as she wants to, she can't have everything she desires, and she'll have to decide what is more important: the past or the future. Alex has always been a daredevil, up for anything, never tying herself down to anyone. When she falls head over heels for quiet Elly, everyone's surprised, no one more than her best friend and occasional lover, Will. As things heat up between them, Elly must choose between her past and her future, and Alex is faced with a decision that will shake her to the core of all she holds dear.

When Le Chat Rouge's pianist, Beno t Grenier, meets the club's new singer, his world is turned upside down. He'd given up ever finding someone to love, and his hopes and dreams of a life beyond the club are revived. Daniel Marceau has come from Marseille, looking to escape bad decisions and worse memories. He never expected to fall in love, and when his past catches up with him it could ruin the only thing he's ever found worth living for. His reluctance to ask Beno t for help could cost them everything... "Gritty and romantic, Moonlight and Love Songs will steal your heart, sell it for drugs, and leave you with a song. It's dark and sexy, an unflinching portrayal of two soul mates discovering in each other the foundation upon which all love depends-hope." - Miranda Baker, author of the Come Again series "They call Paris "The City of Light", but Alyssa Linn Palmer reveals its darker side in Moonlight & Love Songs. She pulls no punches in this noir romance. Damaged people meet and fall in love, but some cravings are too powerful to resist, and sometimes love alone isn't enough to quell them. Classic jazz tunes and French chansons provide the soundtrack to a story that hits you in the gut and in the heart. You'll never see Paris the same way again." -- Cathy Pegau, author of Rulebreaker and Caught In Amber

"The Paris Game is a sexy noir romance--a gritty, thrilling peek between dangerous Parisian sheets." -Tiffany Reisz, Award-Winning and International Bestselling Author of The Original Sinners series (Mira Books) On the darker side of Paris, it's dangerous to not pay your debts... A singer in a jazz club past its prime, Sera Durand must come up with thousands of euros to pay back her boss, a ruthless gangster. A confrontation with her ex, an art dealer profiting on the wrong side of the law, leads her into a questionable wager, but one that could solve her problems. Marc Perron knows a winning proposition when he sees one. Seducing a shy young woman of Sera's acquaintance will be the easiest thing in the world, and the prize, to have Sera in his bed once again, is worth the chance of losing a sizable sum. What he didn't expect was the depth of Sera's desperation. When one of his deals goes awry, Marc's solution could cost them more than money... More praise for 'The Paris Game' "Characters who grab you. A plot that takes hold and won't let go. Sexy and seductive, 'The Paris Game' is modern noir at its best." -Cathy Pegau, author of Rulebreaker and Caught in Amber "Dark, mysterious, sexy. Noir at its best." -Roxy Boroughs, author of A Stranger's Touch