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C.S. Poe

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C.S. Poe is an author of gay mystery, romance, and speculative fiction. She’s a winner of the Next Generation and e-Lit book awards, as well as a finalist of the Lambda Literary award.

She resides in New York City and is a Gilded Age New York historian and board director for the Victorian Society of New York. She loves Romanticism artwork, the films of Buster Keaton, coffee in the morning and whiskey in the evening, true crime, and cats. She’s rescued two cats—Milo and Kasper do their best to distract her from work on a daily basis.

C.S. is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts.

Her debut novel, The Mystery of Nevermore, was published 2016.

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C.S. Poe Yup! I’ll be writing a spin-off series for Neil hopefully in 2024! But the clues as to his HEA have been slipped into S&W5, which if you’ve read MM al…moreYup! I’ll be writing a spin-off series for Neil hopefully in 2024! But the clues as to his HEA have been slipped into S&W5, which if you’ve read MM already, will make sense! ;)(less)
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I've started a new monthly tracker—museums—both general visits as well as specific, limited exhibits. Nonprofit museums already rely heavily on donors, but when it comes to historic homes, every single visitor is critical to their livelihood, and word-of-mouth is some of the best promotion there is. So I've decided to start leaving reviews as a small contribution to their continued success and Read more of this blog post »
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“People don’t want to know,” he whispered, not looking up.

“Know what?”

“What makes them uncomfortable,” Larkin specified. “Sometimes they don’t know what to say, don’t want to make a bad situation worse. Other times, they only pretend to not know because the empathy required is too big a burden. They pull back. They become distant. They ask how you are the same way they ask if it looks like rain or if you watched that Mets game on TV. People don’t really want to know.”
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“Have you been in love.”
“Sure.”
“How’d it end.”
There was a pause before Doyle answered, “It hasn’t started.”
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“Mr. Snow.'
'Detective Winter.'
'Do you give all of the men in your life a murder case for Christmas, or just the really special ones?”
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C.S. Poe Hadis wrote: "wow wow wow ... huh you really give me good time DEAR ^_^
I just finished The Mystery of Nevermore. Thank you so much, really great mystery novel.
I love your book honey . Very impressive novel and..."


Hello Hadis! Thank you for such a sweet message, it really made me smile! I'm so happy you enjoyed Nevermore. I promise a sequel and many other books are on the way. I hope you will enjoy them too.

C.S. xo


message 2: by Hadis (last edited Sep 11, 2016 02:40PM)

Hadis wow wow wow ... huh you really give me good time DEAR ^_^
I just finished The Mystery of Nevermore. Thank you so much, really great mystery novel.
I love your book honey . Very impressive novel and i fall in love with characters (cal x seb) . I really want read Sequel and more works from you.♥♥♥
I hope you will be great and successful author ♥


Lenore The pleasure is all mine! :) I'm looking forward to more of your work.


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