Featured Author

  

 

A Featured Author
for February 2010

Kelly Sinclair


Lesser Prophets

       

We were the despised, the unloved, the fitfully tolerated, the novelty acts, and in some fortunate places, the embraced and even cherished.

In those safe harbors, we celebrated each stage of our growing emancipation even though others of our tribe were faced with hangman’s gallows or less deadly alternatives and dared not show their true faces. We passed as “normal” when possible, and we were penalized when we could not pass. We only had freedom when they said we could be free. That was

  
our world. We knew none other.

But then God, or Fate, or the Omniscient Divine—or merely happenstance— negated all the rules, and our status was forever changed.

This is how our new world began. We were the Lesser Prophets, and this is our story.



Accidental Rebels

       

It’s the summer of 1989, and in the small Texas town of Tantona, to be openly gay is to be notorious. But three closeted women are about to shake things up.

Mandy, a young reporter, is hung up on God and women. Librarian Tina is eager to ditch old personal dramas, and rocker Cat is struggling to get her band off the ground.

Unanticipated connections bring the women together... and then there’s Sherron, a reckless blonde who becomes the talk of the town.


When secrets come doused in Texas barbecue sauce, all the ingredients are present for a surprising and spicy mix.



Kelly Sinclair's Biography

Born on the Texas South Plains, Kelly Sinclair currently lives in Temple, Texas. Between her beginnings and her current whereabouts lies the story of a musical family, led by her restless father through a series of rural towns.

Once mislabeled as being mentally challenged, Kelly overcame that obstacle, as well as a hearing impairment, to graduate from the University of Texas-Permian Basin with a degree in journalism.

She worked as a beat reporter before becoming a librarian—but music still forms the backbeat of her life.

Her eclectic approach to music has allowed her to experience writing and/or performing in the soul, rock, fusion, jazz, folk, and country genres. Her songs have been recorded by several Texas acts, including, most notably, the Maines Brothers.

The Texas Observer published a poem by Sinclair several years ago, and she continues to explore various literary forms.