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Lambda Literary and Goldie Award-winning author Ann Aptaker releases the latest in her acclaimed Cantor Gold crime series, GOLD FOR THE DEAD, with a reading and book signing, and featuring a conversation with best selling-selling award-winning author Felice Cohen. Join us for an evening of lively, edgy Queer crime fiction and discussion celebrating the Queer women who write it.
To reserve a copy of Gold for the Dead (Bywater Books, October 14, 2025, paperback, $18.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Gold for the Dead for October 15 event” in the subject line.
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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
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Ann Aptaker’s Cantor Gold Crime series has been the recipient of Lambda Literary and Golden Crown Literary Society’s Goldie Awards. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies Fedora, Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir, Private Dicks & Disco Balls, Scattered Smothered Covered & Chunked, Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices from the Gay Bars, Switchblade Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, the Guns & Tacos novella series, and the online zine Punk Soul Poet. Her short story, “Neon Women,” was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology.
Felice Cohen is the author of the 2023 Goldie Winner Half In: A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Forbidden Love (about a secret age-gap affair she had at 23 with her 57-year-old female boss), 90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 Square Feet (…or More) (inspired by the viral YouTube video of her tiny NYC studio) and What Papa Told Me (about her grandfather’s life before, during and after the Holocaust). Felice has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC, NPR, Time, Globe & Mail and more. Felice splits her time between NYC and Cape Cod, MA.