Where and what they are, where are they available to purchase, when and where will I read from my books?
Cocktails
3 tales, 3 eras, 3 bars
This collection of novelettes is my tribute to the years I lived in Los Angeles.
Sunset Boulevard is the artery that pumps blood throughout the city of Los Angeles. Geographically, but also historically this one boulevard has tales of so many eras. I write about three of them. It started in a bar…
The reader is welcomed into the mysterious House of Cheng. Amidst the crazy days of 1970, women, immigrants and lesbians must fight for more than the right to vote. A right for a job with equal pay, to own a credit card, condoms, the pill and the right to choose for or against pregnancy. All this are on the table for women.
In The Gold Ring, the reader is whisked north to San Francisco, after the Stonewall riots, to experience the impact of pride, to celebrate and proudly show society whom we love and who we are. The looming AIDS onslaught brings a shift in society causing fear and division, yet pride and love shine.
In The Tattooed Chica, two women meet in a lesbian bar a few years after same-sex marriage was legalized on June 28, 2013. The tale unfolds amidst the binding laws of immigration with a twist on what the reader might expect.
I wrote this book to regale the eras that affected my life: the rights of women and LGBTQ+, the struggles of my generation and those who fought before us. Rights that were threatened and attacked but fought for and attained.
Currently, these rights are in jeopardy again. I fear could easily disappear forever.
It is vital to show and remember the way it was, so to inspire hope and re-establish all the rights we earned. Fight and protest.
Puertas,
One woman’s journey through to the other side
Part love letter to her home of Los Angeles, part memoir, artist Chantz Perkins’ new book, Puertas, offers the reader a very personal, unique perspective, using photographs and prose to capture glimpses of innermost thoughts on her journey as artist.
Why would a woman move from her home of Los Angeles, leaving everything behind except her paintings and move to Europe?
In her refreshingly honest memoir Puertas, artist/author Chantz Perkins leads the reader through the doorways of her life: Different cities, through financial crisis of 2007, parental death and illness, Perkins uses photography and prose to tell her innermost thoughts and observations. A nostalgic love letter to home, Puertas is heartfelt, personal reflections of a 30 year career as artist with dashes of immigrant observation in her search to find, what, really is success? An homage to the unique sort of courage it takes to follow your dream. Illustrations note: 30 color photographs.
Alex and Cleo
Alex and Cleo is about Alex, an 11 year old, who has moved with her mother and cat from her birth state of New York to Los Angeles. And with this, the fear to fit in with a whole new classroom of kids.
Meanwhile, her cat, Cleo has 8 years of life stories to help Alex look at the move not in fear, but as a journey. The story is heartfelt and funny with wide brush painting historic moments in Europe and the United States.
This book was written with author Cassie Sampson. Chantz has illustrated all the drawings for this children’s book.
Coming soon:
Oh! Johnny
the last chance road trip
A woman past her mid-life, dares herself to an adventure. To travel across the world to see a man she never met…One does not always know why an impulse insists with such urgency. Suddenly caught inside a force too strong to fight with no ability to deny the impulse. Riptide energy are the words I chose to define my scramble to see Johnny. Being swept up and whisked along, practically dragged by my bootstraps from the end of a speeding train. Not exactly terrifying, yet uncontrollable. This is no movie romance trying for a reunion love affair. I don’t swing that way, and apparently, neither does he.
So why the heck Johnny, after all this time?
~I self publish my books on IngramSparks. This enables my books to be sold at Independent bookstore and libraries all over the world. The books are then printed by local printers, giving business to the locals.
List of my books are available now or very soon for purchase at these Independent bookstores, like San-serriffe.com in the Red light district of Amsterdam, and American Book Center, online links: thriftbooks.com, abebooks.com, as well the one a-lot of people use, Amazon.
bookshop.org, a wonderful place that helps independent bookstores and libraries in the USA. Have a look at their site and choose which bookstore YOU want to order from. It is your choice.
Other links I suggest: San-serriffe.com a wonderful local bookstore in Amsterdam, that carry very out the box, books of political, protest, poetry and art. Definitely worth a stop in to browse and buy.
For more info about where I will next read from my books, see events.
Thank you for your support!
Please keep protesting, fight back and never ever give up!
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