For real. I’m not kidding. No matter what happens today, I’m leaving the country. I’m going to a place where people are liberal and nice and have a sense of human decency.
You think I’m kidding?
Well, I’m not!
I am honestly going to the Naked Heart Literary Festival in Toronto, Ontario this weekend.
All election-day stress aside, I am really excited to spend my weekend in a beautiful city surrounded by literary queers. I can’t wait to meet some new readers and writers, and the program looks amazingly diverse in ways we don’t often see in the states.
I am doing a reading on Saturday with the Sneak Peeks and Previews group from 2:00-3:15 at Glad Day Bookshop. Then on Sunday I will be part of the Too Queer or Not Queer Enough: Publisher Pressure and Reader Expectations panel from 10:30 – 11:45 at Buddies in Bad Times. If you want more information, you can check out the website here https://nakedheart.ca but all in all it looks like a great event with some fascinating topics and awesome writers. Plus it’s sponsored by Glad Day Book Shop, which is the world’s oldest LGBT bookstore. How cool is that?
If you are in the Toronto area or looking for a Canadian road trip, I sure hope you’ll join us!
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Rachel Spangler never set out to be an award winning author. She was just so poor and so easily bored during her college years that she had to come up with creative ways to entertain herself, and her first novel, Learning Curve, was born out of one such attempt. She was sincerely surprised when it was accepted for publication and even more shocked when it won the Golden Crown Literary Award for Debut Author. Since writing was turning out to be a real blast, Rachel decided to combine it with another passion and set her next romance on the ski slopes, and was absolutely stunned when her second novel, Trails Merge, won a Goldie in the category of Contemporary Romance. However, no amount of book signing or award winning can really change a Midwestern boi, and her third novel, the Goldie finalist The Long Way Home is just that, a return to the themes and settings that mean the most in Rachel’s life and writing. Her forthcoming novels include LoveLife (April 2011) and Spanish Heart (October 2011), both from Bold Strokes Books.
Rachel and her partner, Susan, are raising their young son in small-town western New York, where during the winter they all make the most of the lake effect snow on local ski slopes, and in summer they love to travel and watch their beloved St. Louis Cardinals.
Regardless of the season, Rachel always makes time for a good romance, whether she’s reading it, writing it, or living it.
Rachel can be found online at www.RachelSpangler.com as well as on Facebook.
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Rachel Spangler 
Don’t blame you at all. If the election results truly go south, my wife and I are thinking very hard about retiring again, and leaving my Government job of 17 years, to move to New Zealand. The only current plus, is I live in a state where the Governor elect is bi-sexual (she says). Safe travels to just across the border, I wish I go, but I live too far away.