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Here's a snippet from No Irish Need Apply:

Encouraged by the darkness and the dearth of traffic, and even more by the true feelings that Jack Daniels inflamed, they held hands, their fingers interlocked in a ten-digit embrace that only those in love can know. Twice they broke this stance. Once they heard a noise around a sumac encrusted fence. The source turned out to be a cat, which, if the moon shone they would have seen as a rather fierce tawny, whose arched back would have made them run for cover. But it was a moonless night, so they just reclasped in their ignorance and strode further down the road toward the highway beacons. The second time caused more anxiety. They unlatched. Four young men approached and, by the looks of them, they were far a-field of their own neighborhood. They bopped along listening to ipods, cigarette embers marking their places. These were African Americans - bro's from the Oranges, no doubt - never a good sign this late at night among the more affluent. But as it turned out, the men bopped by in peace, nary a wink or a nod at the two whitebread Irish Americans that worried whether they had escaped a pummeling from their more stupid cousins only to be trounced by an enemy from across the border. When the men passed without issue, Louis grasped Kevin's hand again. He felt ashamed that such anxious thoughts enflamed his mind, but he guessed he was his mother's son after all, and if he wasn't as he was, he might indeed hate himself more than he had for just the lessons taught from the cradle - lessons of No Irish Need Apply.



Edward C. Patterson

I guess that this is the best place to put a report on my recent reading event for No Irish Need Apply at Booz Allen Hamilton. Here's what I posted to the Gay and Lesbian Writers Readers group about the event and it's significance:

"Hi all, just a note that I returned from McClean Va and the halls of Booz Allen Hamilton, where I was the guest speaker for their Diversity Reader Group on Monday, June 15th. They have quite an active Diversity program there. It was teleconferenced to 30 offices around the country.

I read from No Irish Need Apply, my little book that could, about two teens, who come out of the closet by going to their high-school prom together, and the reaction from their two widowed mothers. The work is dedicated to PFLAG and was selected as June Pride Selection of the Month. I then lead a discussion group on the book's themes and on Divesity in the gay community, which fortunately I am trained to do (I was the former Pink Czar of Diversity for Dun & Bradstreet, their Gay Poster Boy and the President of GLISN - The Gay & Lesbian Information Network).

The event was well received and I made that little history element by being the first American Author (gay or otherwise) to do a book reading from the Kindle DX (a fact which Amazon knows about, and they gave me some technical support). The event was recorded and I should have a CD in my hands shortly to which some author colleagues have already volunteered to get on line, at which time I'll plague everyone with a link.

Edward C. Patterson
www.dancaster.com"

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Edward C. Patterson

Thank you Leslie:

In fact, the three novellas that make up this pack, No Irish Need Apply, Cutting the Cheese and Bobby's Trace will be republished, perhaps next year under one cover under a Triptych title. I mean to do some heavy polishing of some elements for that release. One thing all authors learn - a work is never finished. You publish it at "some point" when you feel it will have impact and is of high quality. The problem is, as you write, you mature and your style evolves, and you learn many things. When you look back at earlier works, you sometimes say: "Gee, I could have . . . what if . . . Wow, I missed the boat there." Fortunately in the eBook, Kindle and POD world we are in now - changes are cost free and reissues can be made with revisions with hrdly a ripple in the logistics. These little cluster of books (The three) and especially No Irish Need Apply (which I nicknamed the little book that could, because it is the engine that has pulled all the other works), will move to greatness once I pull them into a single volume and might even add a fourth tale to make a second purchase more worthwhile.

Thanks
Ed Patterson