Hansen Publishing Group: New and forthcoming books

The Understudy, a novel

by Ellen Tovatt Leary,
paperback, $16.00 ISBN 978-1-60182-344-1; ebook, $5.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-345-8

Actress Nina Landau tries hard to make it on Broadway in 1970s New York. Experience her Broadway audition nerves and rejections to her eventual success on Broadway. Nina experiences thrilling triumphs as well as crushing setbacks and has a passionate love affair with her leading man.

by J.v.L. Bell,
paperback, $17.00 ISBN 978-1-60182-340-3; ebook, $5.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-341-0

Territory of Colorado, 1864. Millie and Dom Drouillard return with more murder, mayhem, and misadventures in J.v.L. Bell’s latest novel, Denver City Justice.

The newlyweds are barely settled into wedded bliss when their neighbor the Widow Ferris is found dead with an icicle piercing her cold heart. Suspects abound—Widow Ferris has been blackmailing most of the upstanding citizens of Idaho Springs, including its sheriff. Millie’s new husband Dom soon becomes the main suspect and is hauled off to jail for a taste of Denver City justice.

by Kathryn Bihr,
paperback, $16.00 ISBN 978-1-60182-338-0
ebook, $5.99 ISBN 978-1-60182-339-7

The widowed Doctor Dante Rivera is forced to leave his home in Pamplona, Spain when he is thrown into a politically charged circumstance that threatens his life and those of his two small children. A timely request for a doctor from a clinic in Napa Valley, California seems a godsend. Dr. Rivera and his children emigrate to the Napa Valley to start a new life. There he meets the love of his life, the young Juanita Delgado. Their meeting begins the saga of these two Californian families and their multigenerational struggle spanning from 1855 to 1967. Cultural restraints, heartbreaking circumstances, prejudice, war, and reversal of fortune keep lovers apart while the mystery of their love lives on.

by John DiLeo,
paperback, $29.95 ISBN 978-60182-652-7
ebook, $9.99 ISBN 978-1-60182-653-4

From the advent of the talkies to the emergence of the ratings system, Ten Movies at a Time covers four decades of American movies, notably the glory days of the studio system, or, as it is more glamorously tagged, the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Through reviews of 350 representative films, author John DiLeo tells an alternative, idiosyncratic history of the movies, focusing on the trends, the sub-genres, the cultural and historical shifts, offering, in the process, the parallel story of America itself.

The Lucky Hat Mine, a novel

by J.v.L. Bell,
paperback, $16.00 ISBN 978-1-60182-334-2; ebook, $7.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-335-9

What’s a Southern Belle to do? Wife-wanted ads are always risky business, but Millie Virginia never imagined she’d survive the perilous trip across the Great Plains to find her intended husband in a pine box. Was he killed in an accident? Or murdered for his gold mine? Stuck in the mining town of Idaho Springs without friends or means, Millie is beleaguered by undesirable suitors and threatened by an unknown assailant. Her troubles escalate when the brother of her dead fiancé, Dominic Drouillard, unexpectedly turns up.

by James Franco,
paperback, $12.00 ISBN 978-60182-262-8; ebook, $4.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-263-5

Straight James / Gay James, actor James Franco’s new chapbook of poems, explores the facets of his public and private personas. Straight James / Gay James is a poetic bildungsroman—raw, candid, and uninhibited.James Franco writes about life as an actor, sexuality, questions of identity, gender, family, Gucci, Lana Del Rey, James Dean, and Hollywood. His poetic style varies from the imagistic to the prosaic. The chapbook also contains an interview of “Gay James” conducted by “Straight James.” Yes, Straight James asks the question: “Let’s get substantial: are you f*****g gay or what?”

by Gregg Barrios,
paperback, $12.00 ISBN 978-60182-327-4; ebook, $4.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-328-1

I-DJ is a story of Warren Peace aka Amado Guerrero Paz, a gay Mexican American youth who finds his calling as a DJ. He spins the soundtrack of his life on the dance floor by night and by day in a gay send-up of Shakesqueer’s Ham-a-lot set to a dub-step beat of ecstasy, tainted love, Rollerena and Herb Alpert. When a younger DJ challenges him to a musical standoff, their stories and their music collide. Only one will emerge triumphant.