Any Summer Sunday at Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe: Drag, Songs, Friends, Laughs, Lies, Danger & Redemption

by Steve Schatz

Overview

Boys in the Band meets La Cage in an Indiana gay bar. A joyous dance of song, drag queens, laughs, lies, friends and a touch of tawdry, grabs you, shakes...stirs, then sets you down with a smile and a kiss. A kaleidoscope of weird jobs, loves, hopes, dreams, rage, loss, music and more. It's a book for anyone who has ever felt different.

Every Sunday evening, TiaRa del Fuego’s Parade of Gowns drag show presents the best entertainment in our little, Indiana college town in Hoosier Daddy, the only gay bar around. Between sets, we gather for drinks and nachos at Nacho Mama’s Patio Cafe. Trading lies, jokes, adventures, celebrations and sorrows, our merry band celebrates the life of the small town gay, safe in the bosom of long-time friends.

However, one evening, TiaRa announced she had found “true” love - yet again and was leaving to be with her latest amour. Disaster loomed. We had to face the question: How far will you go to save a friend from her own desires?

Over the course of the evening, the Entrepreneur, the Lush, the Boys, the Spy, the Southern Belle, the Fixer and the Storyteller struggle to help TiaRa find joy and avoid train wrecks because that is what friends do for friends.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163253982
Publisher:	Steven Schatz
Publication date:	06/21/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	431 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steve’s Life has been anything but dull.

Clown, theatrical lighting designer, tour guide, college professor, television producer, organizational consultant, conference lecturer, focus group supervisor and comedy traffic safety instructor.

He holds degrees in Government, Instructional Design and a PhD in Education. His wrote, directed and starred in a public access children’s educational television program that ran for 5 years in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. He has worked with educators and students across the US on writing across the curriculum has been on the faculties of University of Hartford and University of Massachusetts. His latest adventure is as founder of AnySummerSunday.com, publisher of print, e and audio books.

Through it all, he has been a writer. His writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, but his love has always been fiction. His stories and poems have appeared in national and regional magazines. Adima Rising and Adima Returning, YA fantasy/adventures, have been published by Absolute Love Publishing. Any Summer Sunday books has published Ghost Girl: A Mystery, a MG ghost story and Any Summer Sunday at Nacho Mama’s Patio Cafe, an LGBT character driven novel. His stories convey a message of the power of friendship and the inner strength that each person has the power to change the world through intentional creative action. A sense of humor and fun courses through all his work.

He spends his time writing, traveling to work with students, teachers and readers, and enjoying this amazing world. He lives in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana with his husband of many years and two cats who allow him to pet them if he is good.

Editorial Reviews

My highest praise for a book- I could not put it down but I wanted to do so because I did not want the book to end- especially without a sequel to curb my wish for more. The characters were fascinating with the sort of witty dialogue I love from the older 1940's movies- Nick and Nora reincarnated in some mid west anomaly of a town. Sure hope this is made into a movie.

I just finished reading this book and I think I'll read it again soon. It was fun and tawdry and the way the author will take a familiar expression and twist it just a little so you're surprised by where it went reminded me of Steve Aylett, another author who makes every word count. One of the chapters is a tale of a secret cabal which should exist, and probably doesn't, but just the possibility that it might will lift my spirits for a long time.

I love this book. It's funny, delightful, well-written, a great story, insightful, and an all around laugh out loud great read.

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