After being rejected by every literary agent in the business, I decided to publish my novel through PublishAmerica, a vanity publisher that doesn't charge to make one's book available on an "as-ordered" basis, meaning they print them for people who buy them. Unfortunately, the price of a book printed this way is pretty high, $30 for a 500 page paperback.
I'm not going to torture the site-rules by posting links, but the book can be purchased online from Amazon, B&N, etc. It is also supposed to come out in EBook/Kindle format. The book has a Facebook page, with a sample chapter. Here is the back-cover teaser:
Garrick spent the first 45 years of his life fighting to repress his transsexuality, building career and marriage. But, with career disintegrating and marriage imploding, maybe there's no reason to keep fighting. Why not find out what life as a transsexual woman might be like? Ginger spent 45 years living between the cracks in Garrick's normal life, and being stuffed into nowhere for years at a time. So when she gets her chance to be in charge, she makes the most of it. She'd rather die, than go back to the prison of Garrick's life. But Ginger's finances have her stuck in Colorado Springs, a bastion of intolerance, the exact wrong place to make a transition. Can she find internal peace, maybe even happiness, to say nothing of external acceptance, friendship and love, in a world where something as small as using the bathroom can become a potentially life-threatening crisis?
My objective with the book was to cover the actual, late-in-life non-surgical transition, without alot of backstory. My focus is on the three years between living wholly as a male and as a female. It's at least as much a book for cis-gender and cis-sexual people, as for LGBT.
One of my friends wrote a nice review:
Dragonfly and the Pack of Three is a wonderful read, and I found the story to be very engrossing. This book offers a great insight into a transgendered person's psyche as they navigate the transition, while also being the story of an ordinary person traversing life's ups and downs. Gina Douglas is an engaging writer and storyteller, and I look forward to reading her next book.
