ADVISORY–BOOK EVENT: K. Murry Johnson
DETAILS: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7-8:30 p.m. at Mixx
Brushstrokes has announced that K. Murry Johnson, author of “Image of Emeralds and Chocolate,” will be its next author reading-signing event.
The event will be held at Mixx, a smoke-free gay bar and event space in Ansley Square across the parking lot from the two Brushstrokes stores.
“Image of Emeralds and Chocolate” is the first black gay vampire coming-of-age love story.
In his breakout novel, Johnson combines two never-before paired genres – black gay and vampires.
Set in Louisiana, “Image of Emeralds and Chocolate” masterfully explores the past and the present. The novel speaks to all who have ever been in love or dreamed of finding romance and captures the national obsession with vampires.
The story follows Eric Peterson, a talented high school senior enrolled in a creative writing course at Loyola University. Insecure and inexperienced, he often daydreams about finding love. His fantasies quickly become reality when the strikingly attractive new student, Marquis LeBlanc, is assigned as his writing partner.
But the man of Eric’s dreams is hiding something. Marquis has been severely depressed for a very long time. His therapeutic motive for enrolling in a writing class is abruptly derailed when he unexpectedly falls in love for the second time in his life. If Marquis reveals his secret, will Eric accept him … or even believe him?
Brushstrokes (www.brushstrokesatlanta.com), one of the three largest gay-owned and gay-operated retail businesses in the nation, stocks more than 40,000 items including T-shirts, books and magazine, greeting cards, underwear, dance music, DVDs, collectibles and gifts in two Atlanta stores. Brushstrokes Pleasures, its adult store, sells and rents DVDs and sells other adult merchandise. The stores have a large web-based delivery-by-post site.
Mixx (www.mixxatlanta.com), as the name suggests, welcomes a "mix" of people to come and have fun in a clean, safe, warm and smoke-free environment. It serves great food and drink, has high-energy music and videos plus a dance floor that doubles as an event space, with a friendly team to serve its guests.
Mixx Atlanta - Atlanta Upscale Video / Event Lounge. Primetime Lounge Late night Party! http://www.mixxatlanta.com