DAVID WATMOUGH CONTINUES TO break new ground. He is among the first generation of writers to anchor the gay experience in modern literature, and now some of his works are on CD. Vibrations: David Watmough Reads from his own Work (The Writer's Voice) will be released at the end of June, and the distributor hopes it will be the first in a series of CDs by Canadian authors. In addition, Watmough's tenth and "most ambitious" book of fiction involving his protagonist Davey Bryant, Thy Mother's Glass (HarperCollins) will be published this winter. Other new fiction this summer includes an epic fantasy novel set in the Orient, The Initiate Brother (Penguin $5.99), a first novel by Mountain Equipment Co-Op's training coordinator, Sean Russell. Pender Island's Michael Kenyon, author of Rack of Lamb, has published Kleinberg (Oolichan $11.95), the story of a woman's search for her origins, and of the corruption she uncovers, in a fictional prairie town. The 13th winner of Pulp Press' 3-Day Novel Contest, 0 Father (Pulp $8.95) is Bill Dodd's tale of Kevin Fitzpatrick, a single father and mystery writer who becomes entangled in a web of crooked cops, drug dealers and a murder, all while caring for his 3-year-old daughter. How's this for a plot (and biological) twist? "Aritha, a ravishing New Guinea girl (sic), is mistress to entrepreneur John Samson and his wealthy father Neil, and impregnated by both." That's how one reviewer describes the opening of this "spicy page turner" Dark Legacy (New Dawn $19.95), by retired accountant Norman Wise. This is the first book from New Dawn, a new Vancouver area publisher. With a movie version of her first novel Fieldwork still in the works, Maureen Moore's next novel, The Illumination of Alice Mallory (HarperCollins) is being released this summer.

[BCBW 1991] "Gay"