It's the summer of 1990 and Crystal Beach has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community that Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be to be the least of Starla's troubles. A mysterious and salacious force begins ...

Award-winning novelist and memoirist Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a collection of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets such as Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich. By doing so, Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.Amber Dawn is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa and the memo...

Amber Dawn's latest poetry collection flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine powerAs a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In Buzzkill Clamshell, her third poetry collection, Amber Dawn circumvents the expectations of so-called confessional poetry, offering twisted mythmaking, extreme hyperbole, and lyrical gutter-mouthing that explore themes o...

Justin Ducharme was born and raised in the small Metis community of St. Ambroise, Manitoba. He is a graduate of Vancouver Film School and the writer/director of three short films, most recently the 2018 drama Positions, which tells the story of a queer, Indigenous, male sex worker in Vancouver. Justin has been a Metis dancer since the age of ten and is passionate about dance, radicalizing Indigenous “Canadian” Cinema, and writing poetry about the people who broke his heart and the...

Amber Dawn is a poet, memoirist and novelist. She is the author of the novels Sub Rosa (Lambda Literary Award winner) and Sodom Road Exit, the Vancouver Book award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life, and the BC Book Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins. She is also the editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies, including Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poems. She teaches creative writing at Douglas Colle...

Amber Dawn: Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist. She is the editor of Fist of the Spider Woman and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

City of Vancouver Book Award winnerLambda Award winner Amber Dawn’s sophomore book reveals a poignant and personal landscape-the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir told in prose and poetry offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author’s experience, from hustling the streets of Vancouver in the mid-90s to her present life as an outspoken feminist storyteller.This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements an...

The first woman Navy SEAL has just been assigned to the team—and her training isn't her only mission.Kaytlin soon finds herself drawn to her squad leader, Vincent DeMarco. His commanding presence, powerful build, and hypnotic eyes make him impossible to ignore. But in a world where respect must be earned and emotions are a liability, Kaytlin faces an impossible choice: guard her heart or risk everything by letting him in.As she fights to prove herself among these rough, bat...

Amber Dawn, a Vancouver-based writer, performance artist, and radical sex/gender activist.

The Valkyries of legend are known as the choosers of the slain, fierce maidens of Odin who ride the storm-torn skies and carry the souls of fallen warriors to the golden halls of Valhalla. Their purpose is sacred and unchanging: to witness death in battle and escort the worthy beyond the mortal world. They are not saviors. They do not interfere. They do not spare lives.But what if a Valkyrie did?For every Viking born, the dream is the same—to die with sword in hand, breath ...

Emotions is a collection of poetry and stories that explore the highs and lows of relationships. Each piece is arranged chronologically, and some are marked with a letter before the date to help readers follow which writings are about or inspired by a particular man in my life. At times, the words may bring tears; at others, they may make you smile and feel the passion woven through every page.

Most women, at some point in their teenage years, had a celebrity crush—and for many, those fantasies linger into adulthood. This book is a collection of short stories that invites you into the imagined love lives of celebrities, where romance, desire, and thrilling passion come to life.