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Dunn, NC 28334
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New LGBT Novel Offers Readers Hope

SUMMARY: Narrow Path Publishing released a new LGBT-oriented novel today in the hopes that teens will feel less isolated and ask for help if they are considering suicide.

FAYETTEVILLE, NC—December 25, 2010 — Narrow Path Publishing released Shades of Gay (ISBN 9780981645926) today, author Stephanie Silberstein said. Shades of Gay is the first-person account of a gay teenager's attempt to openly have a same-sex relationship with a bisexual neighbor. The novel, which takes place over the course of the protagonist's senior year of high school, addresses anti-LGBT bullying, homophobia among the community's adults and suicide and self-harm by LGBT youth. It features an asexual teen as the protagonist's best friend, making it one of the only pieces of literature to feature an explicitly asexual character.

Silberstein wrote the novel in response to her best friend, Hadassah Hadassah D Gavi Chayim's, past struggles with suicidal impulses related to Chayim's gender and sexual orientations. “No one should have to suffer simply because of who he or she is,” she said. “Shades of Gay honors Hadassah's struggle as well as the challenges thousands of LGBT kids face every day.” Chayim, who is openly Transgender, contributed an afterword to the book about her experiences as well as designing its cover.

Shades of Gay comes out a few months after a string of suicides brought national attention to the high suicide rate in the LGBT community. Silberstein and Chayim hope that by reading it, LGBT kids will feel less isolated and be motivated to ask for help if they feel suicidal. The pair plans to contribute 10 percent of profits to the Trevor Project, the only national suicide hotline geared specifically towards the LGBT community.

Shades of Gay is available through Narrow Path Publishing's web site for $19.99. The Kindle edition of the novel has been out for two weeks, and an audio edition is expected to follow in early 2011.

ABOUT STEPHANIE SILBERSTEIN

Stephanie Silberstein has been an advocate for LGBTQ suicide prevention since 2008. In addition to writing fiction and non-fiction for LGBTQ youth, Silberstein regularly films suicide prevention videos and runs awareness campaigns on Facebook.

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Narrow Path Publishing
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910-892-3732
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After Death, Addict's Dreams Overshadow Personal Nightmare

FAYETTEVILLE, NC—March 26, 2008—When “Edward” said that “there's enough room in the world for everybody to be successful,” nobody really paid attention. Edward, a gentle soul who believed in G-d and loved music, also struggled with drug and alcohol problems. Many who knew him viewed his idealism as part of his disease, especially as he lived in the overcrowded city of Los Angeles, where competition and stress rule people's lives.

But Narrow Path Publishing, founded by his best friend, Stephanie Silberstein, two years after Edward's death demonstrates that his idealism is anything but misplaced. Narrow Path's debut title, Winter's Silence, features cover art and design by Silberstein's friend and local artist Hadassah D Gavi Chayim.

“Everything I've read advises using professional graphic designers,” Silberstein says, “and in some ways it probably would have been easier to do so. But my friends have the talent, so why shouldn't they share in the novel's success?”

The idea of teamwork goes back to biblical times. However, involving friends in major aspects of a for-profit business goes against conventional wisdom, which suggests that business dealings are the surest way to ruin friendships. Silberstein concurs that this is a risk, but “only if you or your friends are more concerned with financial gain than with each other's well-being.” She envisions her own project as only the beginning of Narrow Path Publishing's success.

Winter's Silence came out on June 6, 2008, which would have been Edward's birthday. 10% of the novel's profits go towards Phoenix House's drug and alcohol rehabilitation efforts.

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