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Gina has hidden in plain sight since she and her brother witnessed Sal Balsarano murder their mother. Unexpectedly, Balsarano shows up, forcing a pregnant Gina to run to her new life, and away from the man she loves, Gray Dunning. Almost a year later, Gray finds her and his eight-month-old son, Matty, in Louisville, Colorado. […]
Former Cañon City resident Ann Simas (nee Strunk) announces the release of her latest book, Torched to Die, book nine in her Grace Gabbiano Mysteries, which are set in Coburg, Oregon. Other titles in the series are Dressed to Die, Sliced to Die, Buried to Die, Quilted to Die, Taken to Die, Praying to Die, […]
The early ’90s might not seem that long ago to some of us, but it’s been thirty years since America launched the Hubble telescope,
Terminator 2 topped the box office, and C&C Music Factory was insisting it was “Gonna Make You Sweat,” much to the delight of every cardio class since. And it was in this fertile ground that the seeds for the Colorado Book Awards were planted.
In the years since, Coloradans have been invited to partake in an annual celebration of local literature, whether that means a book set in our state or one written by a writer who calls Colorado home.
Thirty years ago, journalist and novelist Martin J. Smith was at a family reunion with dozens of relatives at the YMCA in Estes Park. His cousin, whom the family knew as a man, came downstairs to breakfast one morning wearing a single earring. The next day, the cousin wore a pair. On the fourth day, the cousin explained to the family that she was a woman in the process of transitioning.
“This was 1991. There wasn’t a lot of that going on publicly,” Smith remembers, and not all of his relatives responded with open arms. “There was wailing and gnashing of teeth among the family, and intolerance and all that stuff. I thought, Well, that was interesting. That was brave. I put that in a lockbox in my head for a few years.”