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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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Best intentions, blah, blah, blah....

In my defense, I had a rough start to the year with all the back-and-forth illnesses with my cats. But here I finally am, with not one, but two reviews actually written. It's been legitimately exciting to get back into the groove of reading and reviewing!

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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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“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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'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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