3) What's your current project you'd like your readers to know about?

Bold Strokes: We have expanded our range of publications from solely lesbian focused books to a broader range of general fiction and genre fiction encompassing gay, bisexual, and transgendered themes in our new Liberty Editions line. In addition, we have begun an E-book line (BSB Eclipse books) in order to bring more titles to our readers in a timely fashion.

Circlet: We finally got the book Best Fantastic Erotica into print, after a two-year uphill financial struggle! It's a collection of the winners of our first Best Fantastic Erotica contest. Meanwhile, there's lots of new content appearing on our blog at www.circlet.com.

Intaglio: My partner, Becky, and I took over ownership of Intaglio Publications Inc. in January 2007. We’re still laying a firm foundation for our business. We’ve spent the last year working out the kinks that come with all new businesses, so that has been, and continues to be, our “current project.” Keep an eye on us, though. We have a new release coming out each month and a few things in the planning stages that I think fans of lesbian fiction will enjoy.

Lethe: Hmm, we're involved with several cool projects. We reprinted Vintage: A Ghost Story is a gay novel that has recently been nominated for 4 awards, including best young adult by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. We are in negotiations to reprint several scholarly works that will be an asset in college courses on gay history. And in June in time for Malcolm Boyd's 80th birthday, White Crane Books will be releasing A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader. Rev. Canon Boyd is one of the more important gay religious figures alive. He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.

P.D.: We are constantly receiving manuscript submissions and are publishing as quickly as our small group of editors can work. They are a great bunch, along with our staff of cover artists - we want them all to maintain high quality and not feel time pressures. It's hard to even consider increasing our editorial staff, since each are like family to us. One "project" to note that is different: PD is working on a horror anthology of flash fiction.  We don't know how the readers or the authors will accept that sort of mini-short story.

RedBone: The brand-new, hot-off-the-press RedBone Press book is Blood Beats: Vol. 2 / the bootleg joints, by Ernest Hardy. It's a collection of Hardy's film and music criticism, interviews and essays from 2001-2007. Hardy is a PEN Award-winning writer, a Sundance film fellow, and a journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, the L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Source, Vibe, Rolling Stone and Flaunt, among others. Next up for RedBone Press is the long-awaited reprint of the first black gay men's anthology, In the Life edited by Joseph Beam.

Spinifex: is a leader in eBooks. Since 2006 we have been slowly converting our titles and they are now available in four formats: Mobipocket (aka Kindle), Adobe Reader, DX Reader, and Microsoft Reader. This means that our international lesbian list is available to readers in countries around the world. To access our eBooks go to the Spinifex website at http://www.spinifexpress.com.au click on eBookstore and follow the prompts. Some great titles to check out are: All That False Instruction, The Butterfly Effect, Moebius Trip, Love Upon the Chopping Board, Zest for Life, The C-Word, Women's Circus, The Falling Woman and many many others. You can look at the first 10 pages for free and if you prefer, you can then purchase a print copy. You can also subscribe to books, so that you can read them for a lower cost online.

STARbooks: We are continuing the Eric Summers anthologies with “Don’t Ask Don’t Tie Me Up – Military BDSM Fantasies” coming out in a month. “Ride Me Cowboy – Erotic Tales of the West” will be released in the spring, and in 2009, “Service with a Smile – Fun with Contractors, Plumbers and Couriers.” In addition, I am going to get started on a sequel to “Unmasked – Erotic Tales of Gay Superheroes,” due to popular request. I will actually be contacting those authors who contributed to write continuations of their original stories. Also, we have managed to grab hold of Mickey Erlach, an author who is well-known by his birth-name (and don’t ask me what his birth name is), who is now picking up where John Patrick left off with anthologies of the kind that made STARbooks famous. The first is “Boys Will Be Boys – Their First Time,” released in the fall, and in 2009, “Boys Caught in the Act.” Mickey works with established anthology contributors as well as new discoveries for these anthologies.

Wildcat: In spite of the challenge of these times, I keep writing.  I have a new novel in the works, WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS that I think is one of my best. Also part II of my nonfiction bestseller on LGBT sports history, THE LAVENDER LOCKER ROOM. 

Wildcat Press has also been working to develop movie deals for some of my titles, notably THE FRONT RUNNER. The film industry isn't doing all that great either, especially after the writers' strike!  But getting a couple of film rights sold, or indie productions launched, would certainly brighten the financial picture for ANY LGBT publisher!  We see diversification into the film business as the best way for a LGBT publisher to survive these difficult times.  Especially documentary films like the Oscar-winning "Freeheld," which are getting a lot of interest right now.