Patchwork

Patchwork

A debut novel

Dan Loughry

“Patchwork is an emotionally riveting, powerful and true-to-heart novel of two men whoserelationship unravels in the initial AIDS crisis. It’s also a telling tale offamily dynamics, picking up the pieces of shattered dreams and finding thestrength and courage to move forward. …a novel that brilliantly captures a truly devastating time period by tellingthe story of just one couple.”

— Edge Magazine

As it moves from Chicago in the late 80’s to Los Angeles on the cusp of a new millennium, Patchwork encompasses a mercurial decade in the lives of its characters. This debut novel – told with candor, insight, and a humor both gentle and scathing – sets the story of gay lovers in transition, and a family in the midst of personal upheaval, as they struggle to redefine themselves in the shadow of AIDS.

More Praise for Patchwork

“With the 30th anniversary of AIDS on many people’s minds, the arrival of Dan Loughry’s debut novel Patchwork (Harvard Square Editions) couldn’t come at a more crucial time.”

— Bay Area Reporter 

“Congratulations to Charles, Dan, and Susan for collaborating on such a wonderful project!”

—UCLA News
 

“By turns courageously comic and heart-wrenchingly historical, this is a compelling reminder of the way things were.”

—Price Source

“A deeply moving story of human relationships, yours and mine, in elegant prose that tackles tragedy and hope, loss and grief, with refreshing honestly and humor. Loughry’s brilliant voice and haunting story will follow you long after you’ve turned the last page.”

— Dora Levy Mossanen, author of HAREM and COURTESAN

“Dan Loughry is a maestro of memory and observation. In Patchwork, he achieves the impressive feat of telling a story that feels archetypal in its outlines – as it follows its protagonist through three eventful decades, from the beginning of the age of AIDS to the era of bemused long-term survivors – but ultimately wins us over through its masterful recording and layering of the specific human details and discoveries that make up a particular journey, and a particular life.”

— Dave Awl, editor of 200 NEO-FUTURIST PLAYS

A Weapon to End War

A Weapon to End War

What if the foremost scientist in the field of nanotechnology and microrobotics decided to use his inventions to take our world leaders hostage and enact his own political agenda? Dr. J. Maurice Carpenter has worked for decades at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on a top-secret government project to develop a terrifying new breed of weaponry. Launching an attempt to take over the world, Carpenter implants microscopic robots in the bodies of the President of United States and his family members. The only hope for stopping Carpenter is a Los Angeles-based FBI agent named Bill Maddox, who is more accustomed to working simple narcotics cases than handling crises of such magnitude. In far over his head but determined to prove his worth, Maddox plunges into a labyrinth of danger, matching wits against an intellect far superior to his own. In doing so, he confronts a femme fatale and a technology potentially more deadly than any the world has ever witnessed. More frightening still, it is a technology that actually exists today.

“Ross is a powerful new voice on the thriller scene. He takes the best of Le Carre, Clancy and Ludlum and winds it up with a timely, riveting commentary on the sociopolitical threats that lie beneath the surface of the nightly news. You won’t be able to put this book down.”

—RIP GERBER, author of the best-selling thrillers PHARMA and KILLER VIRUS

Pride & Prejudice

Jane Austen’s classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
lives in this beautiful, illustrated edition
abounding in courtship drama,
treachery, and romance.

“Indeed, since their chief alternatives to marriage were remaining spinsters or becoming governesses, [a woman’s] decision about marriage might be the most important one she would make.”

—Leroy Smith, Jane Austen and the Drama of Women

Excerpt:

Elizabeth’s father: “I mean, that no man in his senses would marry Lydia on so slight a temptation as one hundred a year during my life, and fifty after I am gone.”

“That is very true,” said Elizabeth