David Alan Morrison

Two things flashed through my mind when I opened the door to the sex shop to find my mother standing in front of the display case talking to a tall salesman wearing a leather harness, jock strap and a dog collar. The first was, "Oh, crap " The second was, "I hate it when Dad's right." Thus begins David Alan Morrison's hilarious memoir about the evolution of family dynamics. Following the sudden death of his father, a single, middle-aged gay guy struggles with his own mortality by reminiscing about the travels with his gregarious mother. TRAVELS WITH PENNY is a look at the transformation of the baffling, complex relationship between children and their parents.

WINNER: 2nd place - Bridgid's Fire Books "Debut Novel"San Francisco, 2005: A drunk driver takes the lives of two strangers: Dane and Victoria.They don't stay dead.San Francisco, 2006: Dane suffers from chronic insomnia, relieved by short bursts of fitful sleep, filled with bloody dreams of a red headed woman who he has never met. He barely remembers the night he died, much less any specific detail of the accident.Victoria suffers no such ailment. She, unlike Dane, remembers quite clearly what happened to them after they died that night. She remembers what happened to them long before that night; spanning back through the years to the past lives they have shared. Their destinies collide when mystic and friend Mrs. Jeremy leads Dane on a quest to discover what happened to him and Victoria after they died one year ago. Now Dane must race against time to prevent the mysterious Victoria from killing his life partner, Jake, whose actions in his past lives come back to haunt him.

"When One Is Immortal, One Should Keep a Low Profile"The Guild of Immortal Women are a powerful Immortal Witches who guard a mystical Tapestry. The Tapestry functions not only as a depository for the Immortals fondest memories, allowing them to take respite within their past, but it is also a prison for Immortals who defy the rules.When the Male Immortals, led by the outlaw Robert de Baudricourt, betrays the race by arranging the murder of Joan of Arc, a tear appears in the fabric of time and space. The magics holding the barrier between the dimensions has been deteriorating ever since.The Guild must now race against time to restore the Tapestry before time and space bleed into each other. But Robert and his men have their own plan; for them, the reign of Women is over.

When Dell finds himself attacked by alien shape shifters, befriended by giant, telepathic crows and talking to a stranger who creates force fields, Dell discovers that his grandfather's medallion is a key to Awen, a planet at the center of several galaxies. And Awen is sentient. Awen tells him she is dying - mutilated by a group of criminals out to steal the minerals lying under the planet's crust. The ailing planet bestows Dell with the power to control Her Air, Fire, Water and Soil to rescue Her from certain destruction. But even with the aid of the telepathic planet and a fast-talking squirrel, Dell may not be able to save himself, much less Awen.