Description:
What happens when you combine a tongue-in-cheek spoof of murder mysteries, reality TV romance competitions, and the live-streaming gay porn industry? You get The Grand Sex Tour Murders!
Brief description: Daniel M. Jaffe is a prize-winning writer whose short stories and personal essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies, newspapers, and literary journals in over half a dozen countries. His book, "Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love," was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Books of 2020 and one of the Best Indie Short Story Collections of 2020. He is the author of the novels "Yeled Tov" (2018: Rainbow Awards Finalist and Honorable Mention) and "The Limits of Pleasure" (2001; "ForeWord Magazine" Book of the Year Award Finalist; reprinted in 2010, 2019). He also wrote the novel-in-stories, "The Genealogy of Understanding" (2014; Rainbow Awards Finalist and Honorable Mention), and the short story collection, "Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living" (2011). He authored "One-Foot Lover," the inaugural chapbook in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor's Series (2009). In addition, Daniel compiled and edited "With Signs and Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction" (2001) and translated "Here Comes the Messiah!" (2000), a Russian-Israeli best-seller by Dina Rubina. Profiled in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Daniel holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Vermont College (M.F.A.). Read more at www.DanielJaffe.com.
Review Quotes:
"[A] helluva great book...wickedly entertaining...the way the story is told is so cleverÖnot a single dull moment...the writing style made this novel a real treat...a perfect read." -Rainbow Book Reviews
"[H]ysterical and heartfelt...an intelligent, fascinating book...Jaffe has come up with yet another winner...Highly recommended!" -Out in Print
"Jaffe's written a page-turner...A kind of psychological tour de force.... At once a thriller and a comedy, this story also makes a pointed critique on not just gay life, but 21st century culture." -Trebor Healey, author of Faun and Sweet Son of Pan
"Dan Jaffe writes in so many forms and sizes and genres and areas of his expertise that it's a wonder that he can do well in all of them. And yet it's true. Sit back, unrelax, and get ready for the ride." -Felice Picano, author of Pursuit: A Victorian Entertainment