Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Violet Quill LOS ANGELES—October 13, 2020—Widely celebrated, this literary mystery is a tour-de-force of villainous machinations, savage wit, sleight-of-hand, and an ending that surprises right up to the final line. (No peeking!) “Based on Picano’s involvement with the Violet Quill Club (which included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), this …
25th Anniversary Edition LOS ANGELES—January 28, 2020—ReQueered Tales is honored and humbled to release the 25th Anniversary Edition of Felice Picano’s Like People In History to old friends and a new generation of readers. “It’s the heroic and funny saga of the last three decades by someone who saw everything and forgot nothing.” – Edmund …
Legendary author at Glad Day Bookshop and Yorkville Library Felice Picano has been writing bestsellers since the mid-1970s. His first novel, Smart as a Devil, a horror tale, was nominated for the 1976 PEN/Hemingway Award. Since 1979, he has been writing explicitly gay-themed works – more than thirty books of novels, short stories, anthologies and …
October 31 at Yorkville Library Felice Picano is coming to Toronto late October. On the 30th, he’ll be at Glad Day Bookshop at 499 Church St in a joint event with Trebor Healey (Falling, A Horse Named Sorrow, A Perfect Scar). Details to come. The next night, Hallowe’en, Felice is doing a solo event at …
LOS ANGELES—August 30, 2019—ReQueered Tales is proud to announce it has formed a new publishing venture to re-publish older LGBTQ fiction—beginning with award-winning titles and acclaimed authors. Our seventh release, available worldwide on Amazon as a Kindle e-book, and at Kobo, Nook and Apple iBooks, is ONYX by Felice Picano. Grady Harp, a prolific …
ONYX, is set for re-release Aug 30 Felice Picano has been a force in American literature since bursting upon the scene in 1975. He’s become a living icon in his exploration of gay life and culture: memoirs extending back into the 1960s at Fire Island; his most recent novel (Justify My Sins) covering gay Hollywood …