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Writing My First Novel (or how I rediscovered my first love)
You never forget your first.
The year was 1993. I had just graduated from college, and I was determined to be a hot, young literary sensation. I spent every evening writing my opus, a 65,000 word masterpiece about friendship and living in the AIDS crisis. When I finished it, I spent my evenings submitting it to every English-language publisher in the world. They all rejected it. I traveled the world. I lost that manuscript and wrote others. I became a bestselling author of lesbian fiction. I thought I had moved on.
Then I reconnected with an old friend. He said he had my manuscript, a photocopy that he’d kept shrink wrapped all these years. The manuscript that I’d thought was lost to time, that I thought meant nothing, was so important to this person because he had a several paragraph cameo.
He gave me back my first love.
I rewrote it with the gift of hindsight. I was a good writer then. I’m better now. I strengthened the plot and removed irrelevant, and occasionally offensive, details. The AIDS crisis, filled with death and few options, had morphed into an ongoing epidemic with expensive treatment and prevention available to those who could afford it. I told the same story with different eyes. In 1993, I wrote about my present. Now, I wrote about my past. Life must be lived forward but can only be understood backwards.
Publishing Tested: Sex, love, and friendship in the shadow of HIV in 2016 was the best thing to ever happen to my 23-year-old self. Every time I sell a copy, every time someone tells me how much the book means to them, my 23-year-old self heals a deep wound I didn’t know was there. This book tells a story that I needed to tell.
So that’s the story of my first novel. It wasn’t the first I published, but it was the first I wrote. It was the first love that wouldn’t stay lost. I thought I had moved on, but no one ever truly moves on from their first love.
Elizabeth Andre is the bestselling, award-winning author of the Lesbian Light Reads series. Sign up for her email newsletter and get a free copy of Love’s Perfect Vintage, Lesbian Light Reads 1.
Skating on Air free today!
Skating on Air (Lesbian Light Reads 8) is free today! I hope this brightens your January! #lesfic #ff
Gigi Darnell, a beautiful African-American physician, has reached her early 40s with a fabulous job, a beautiful home and a bevy of nieces and nephews who love her. But being the best daughter, sister and aunt doesn’t make her life complete. She wants a special woman to love who will love her back. Then she meets Lyndsey Falk, a much younger skateboarding instructor with pale white skin and eyes the color of amber. The attraction the two women feel for each other is immediate and strong. Gigi falls hard for Lyndsey, but she fears being cut off from her nieces and nephews if she makes it clear to her family that, yes, she is indeed a lesbian and not just the reliable spinster aunt, sister and daughter her family has come to expect. Lyndsey has an ex-girlfriend following her around who threatens to interfere. Together, Gigi and Lyndsey learn that skating on air and being in love will require them to be more honest with those around them than they have ever been before.
Skating on Air is the eighth book in the Lesbian Light Reads series, but each book can stand alone. This lesbian contemporary love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.
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Landing Love is on sale at Smashwords!
Landing Love, Lesbian Light Reads 6, is now available on Smashwords. It’s usually $2.99, but to celebrate it’s on sale for 99 cents for the first ten people who purchase it.
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More about Landing Love: All Lila wants to do this winter is skate. The beautiful 20-something recreational figure skater is done with dating until mini-skirt season, at least that’s what she tells her friends when she invites them to join her to visit every ice rink in Chicago.
Then one crisp morning while skating at a new rink, Lila meets Ashley. Not only is Ashley stunningly good-looking with long ash blond hair, she can land an Axel, an advanced jump that has eluded Lila. Ashley agrees to coach Lila the following weekend. When Ashley doesn’t show, Lila realizes that she wasn’t that serious about taking a break from dating, and she doesn’t care if she ever lands an Axel. She does care about kissing Ashley, but doesn’t know how she will find her again.
Landing Love is the sixth book in the Lesbian Light Reads series, but each book can stand alone. This lesbian contemporary love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.
Someone Like Her is here!
Someone Like Her, Lesbian Light Reads 9, is here! This is my first all-black lesbian romance since Bodies in Motion, Lesbian Light Reads 4. It was so much fun to write. It’s a wonderful romance. It’s all about love, but we all know love is never simple. I hope you enjoy it.
Bodies in Motion free today!
It’s my birthday! To celebrate I’m giving away Bodies in Motion, lesbian erotic romance, for free all day today!
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How often does a woman get to rewrite her past and stake a claim to her future in one fell swoop?
Gorgeous Shondra Frazier gets that chance. It all starts at the “40 Under 40” reception for high achievers under the age of 40. Even though she really doesn’t want the attention, she is honored because she is the first African-American woman to be named manager of one of the city’s top tourist attractions.
At the reception she unexpectedly reunites with her still beautiful college ex-girlfriend who broke Shondra’s heart many years ago. Lynette Johnson is a former cheerleader who can still make male and female heads turn. As Lynette walks away promising to be in touch soon, Shondra spots Denyse Gabriel, one of the few African-American female PhD physicists in the world and a fellow “40 Under 40” honoree. Shondra realizes attention from Denyse, with her long black hair and high collar tweed jacket, is what she wants. This beautiful scientist, however, is heading to a months-long project in Antarctica, but Lynette is sticking around and is more than willing to keep Shondra company. Shondra has to decide whether she will stay safe and start up again with her long lost college love or if she will wait for Denyse to return. Shondra can’t stop thinking about Denyse, but Shondra isn’t even that sure, after only one night of passion, whether the sexy physicist will want to see her when she comes back from the ice.
Bodies in Motion is the fourth book in the Lesbian Light Reads series, but each book can stand alone. This lesbian contemporary love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.
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Tested!
I’m so stunned Tested is available for pre-order. I wrote this novel over 20 years ago when I was a wee babydyke. I thought the novel was lost to time. When I reconnected with an old friend on Facebook, he revealed that he had been saving a copy of the manuscript all these years because he was convinced that I was going to be a famous writer. He’s still convinced of that. He wouldn’t give me the manuscript back, but he would give me a copy. I took that copy and turned it into something so much better. I hope you like it. 
Chance to win a copy of Lesbian With Dog Seeks Same!
My last giveaway was so much fun. I’m hosting another.
Click the link for a chance to win a copy of Lesbian With Dog Seeks Same (Lesbian Light Reads Book 3) (Kindle Edition). You’ll automatically follow my Amazon author page and be able to download a free sample. I hope you win a full copy! That would be so wonderful!
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#lesfic I hope you win!
Elizabeth Andre 