New from Audacity Books

Spring Tales

Welcome to SPRING TALES, Book Four of my Four Seasons Series of short story collections. Readers revisit the seven sets of charming characters we first met last summer as they strive to build better lives and stronger relationships during the magical season of rebirth and renewal.

Winter Tales

In Book Three of my Four Seasons Series of short story collections, readers revisit the seven sets of handsome couples they first met in summer and grew to love even more deeply in autumn. Seven sets of narrators and the people who love them as they navigate their lives in the winter wonderland that is New York City.

Autumn Tales

Book Two in the Four Seasons Series of short stories. Follow all seven of the handsome couples from Summer Tales as they strive to build their lives and loves under the harvest moon.

Summer Tales

Book One in my new Four Seasons Series of short stories. You’ll discover a handsome collection of New Yorkers and the people who love them, all striving to build satisfying lives in the Big City while the summer sun blesses them.

Giving Thanks

GIVING THANKS is the fourth and final book in the Holiday Novella Series. Narrator Tim Hart dares to overcome loss and heartbreak by finding a new love. With the help of all the delicious characters from the previous Holiday Novellas, he and Seth learn to heal from the past as they build a loving future.

Independence Daze

INDEPENDENCE DAZE is the third in Bruce K Beck’s Holiday Novella Series. Narrator Jerry Darnley has been nursing a broken heart for years, so he is slow to consider a new romance. Slow until he meets a very cute, very energized young guy named Seth Greenly, who upends all of Jerry’s polite notions of dating and sex.

My Easter Miracle

MY EASTER MIRACLE welcomes back the cast of characters from A BUCKSKIN CHRISTMAS. So if you fell in love with Dan and Caleb, Dan’s parents Elaine and Richard, and the colorful cast of GLITZ Magazine, you’ll be delighted to watch them help Ken and Matt along on their journey. First-time readers will love meeting the whole crew as they navigate their way through life and relationships, career and commitment.

A Buckskin Christmas

When editor Daniel Blackwell invites writer Caleb Bromley to stay in his back bedroom, Dan already anticipates that his heart will be in danger. When Caleb turns out to be even handsomer than his photo suggested, and when he exhibits quiet charm and good nature, Dan is head-over-heels

Such a Good Man

Narrator Paul Cornell thinks he is sailing smoothly toward his fortieth birthday when the sudden appearance of an old flame rocks his boat. Paul knows he has never forgotten George, but he is still unprepared for the rush of emotions and the waves of disruption that follow their chance meeting.

It's Their Way

The narrator, Chef Justin Alexander, is very good at running a kitchen, but less successful at love. When he meets Cole, the man of his dreams, he finally seems ready to shed the darkness of his childhood and move forward into the light.

This is God's Country

Volume I of the Tolerance Trilogy, set in New York City and a small Southern city where tolerance is never guaranteed. Available now!

Love Obsessed

If the narrator, Oliver Hartmann, hadn’t been walking through Central Park one glorious October afternoon, he’d never have caught the ball. Nor would he have caught the heart of the man whose young son lobbed the long-distance pass.

Opera Obsessed

Volume 2 of the Obsession Trilogy.. When the narrator, on his way to the Met Opera, is knocked down by a taxi in front of Lincoln Center, he finds a whole series of delicious events set in motion.

Ink Obsessed

Volume I of the Obsession Trilogy. A beautiful tattoo starts the obsession, but can Clem find wholeness that is more than skin deep?

And Love Endures

Volume III of the Love Trilogy, set mostly in New York City in the early 1990s. Available now at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold!

Love and the Epidemic

Volume II of the Love Trilogy, set in New York City in 1986.
available now at Amazon.com

You're Sure to Fall in Love

Volume I of the Love Trilogy, set in Provincetown, MA in the summer of 1976, available worldwide

You're Sure to Fall in Love -The Cookbook

You'll fall in love all over again with this slim volume with recipes and technique for all the dishes included in the novel.

                   

Audacity Books is a small independent press founded in 2017 by the author Bruce K Beck.  It prints and distributes his books, including his debut novel, YOU’RE SURE TO FALL IN LOVE, which is the first volume in his Love Trilogy.   Volume II, called LOVE AND THE EPIDEMIC, is set in New York City in the mid-1980s.  The third, the finale, is set in the early 1990’s and titled AND LOVE ENDURES.  Two new trilogies are in the works, including Volume I of the Tolerance Trilogy – THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY – and Volume I of the Obsession Trilogy, INK OBSESSED.
Bruce K. Beck has more books in mind for the future, and will also publish the works of other authors who share his progressive values.  Expect Audacity Books to bring you texts that espouse LGBTQ rights, racial equality, and social consciousness.  And expect—first and foremost—books that make an exceptionally good read.

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Meet the Author

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Bruce K Beck

Bruce K Beck

Bruce K Beck is both a writer and an accomplished chef. Before turning to fiction, he wrote PRODUCE: A FRUIT AND VEGETABLE LOVERS’ GUIDE, which was called “gorgeous” by The New York Times, “a dazzler” by Bon Appetit, and “the most spectacular food book of the year” by The Boston Globe. His next book was THE OFFICIAL FULTON FISH MARKET COOKBOOK, which was called “invaluable” by Jacques Pépin, and “a treasure” by Irene Sax of Newsday. And Rex Reed said, “. . .you’ll love this book. It’s like a movie!”

Praise for Volumes I & II

James Gavin

(author of Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, and Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horn)

“Bruce K Beck’s debut novel brings us a naturally gifted and richly imaginative storyteller whose characters leap off the page. YOU'RE SURE TO FALL IN LOVE sweeps us back into a Summer of Love that is sure to remind readers of how it feels to be young and starry-eyed. I didn’t want this book to end!”

Philip F Clark

(Author of The Carnival of Affection)

"Bruce K Beck's LOVE AND THE EPIDEMIC is a beautiful, clear-eyed memory of friends lost to AIDS. Without sentiment, and with deep respect, the narrator remembers their lives vividly and joyfully. Beck brings us to the edge of grief, but at last he helps us see not just loss, but rather the great love and friendship that marked one of our darkest times. The second volume in his trilogy, it can be read on its own, but you will be compelled to read the complete work. If memory is a solace, Beck's stories are a compelling and human response to what memory allows that is valuable and urgent in history."

Blog

Pride and Prejudice

June always fills my heart with joy and wonder because of the very real achievements of LGBTQIA activists and the rest of us who simply live our lives as out gay people.  I’m celebrating hard-won Read more…

Independence?

Dear Friends, The Fourth of July—following closely on Pride Month—always reminds me how fragile our liberties are.  And never have I had a keener sense of our fragilities then I do today.  But it seems Read more…

Pride with Purpose

Dear Friends, You haven’t heard from me lately because in mid-April, when I was rushing across Eighth Avenue to meet a cousin for an early supper after her matinee, I took a spill and managed Read more…

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