title: Saints + Sinners 2010: New Fiction from the Festival
author: Amie M. Evans
description: No other city is like New Orleans, and no other writers conference is like Saints & Sinners. Where else can you bring beignets and chicory coffee from Cafe Du Monde to your morning panel on creating realistic murder scenes? Where else are you going to have crawfish touffee while exchanging ideas with half a dozen other writers from all around the country over lunch between sessions? Where else can you take a vampire tour after the day's events are over? The magic of New Orleans enlivens everything about the conference, resulting in an atmosphere that recharges the creative batteries and reminds us why we love to write. I've been going to conferences for more than 20 years, and never have I enjoyed them as much as I do when I'm at Saints & Sinners. The conversations with other writers outside of the sessions are just as informative and inspiring as the panel discussions and workshops, and the opportunity to spend time with writers from so many different genres makes this a completely unique experience you won't get from any other conference. When I come home from Saints and Sinners I'm always more excited about my work and about the work of my fellow writers than when I left, and I immediately start counting down the days to next year's conference. --Michael Thomas Ford, Jane Bites Back<br /><br />Any con that tugs a frost-covered Minnesotan away from her Swedish meatballs and plunks her in the middle of the best jazz, the most decadent cuisine, and the finest writing the LGBT community has to offer, and at the same time allows her to rub shoulders with publishers, reviewers, writers, and passionate, articulate readers, is a con to embrace. Saints & Sinners is, hands down, my favorite convention of the year. Want to know more? Read this anthology. You'll get a sense of what's in store for you in New Orleans. --Ellen Hart, Five-time winner of the Lambda Literary Ward for Best Lesbian Mystery<br /><br />For eight years, the Saints and Sinners Festival has offered a welcome oasis for gay and lesbian writers from the often grueling literary world, a rare convergence of both community and creativity. Here is the proof of the success of that formula: inspiring and enriching new fiction from some of the festival's best writers, whose words dare us to think, encourage us to laugh, and recommit us to the pursuit of excellence. --William J. Mann, author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
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  By Cynthia Eden
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real people, places, or
  events are not intentional and are purely the result of coincidence. The
  characters, places, and events in this story are fictional.
  
  
  Copyright ©2018 by Cindy Roussos
  
  
  All rights reserved. This publication may not be reproduced, distributed, or
  transmitted in any form without the express written consent of the author
  except for the use of small quotes or excerpts used in book reviews.
  
  
  Copy-editing by: JRT Editing
  
  
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  ## Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Title Page](part0000_split_000.html#title)
  
  
  * [Copyright Page](part0000_split_001.html#copyright)
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Saint Or Sinner
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Prologue](part0001_split_000.html#start)
  
  
  * [Chapter One](part0001_split_001.html#chapter1)
  
  
  * [Chapter Two](part0001_split_002.html#chapter2)
  
  
  * [Chapter Three](part0001_split_003.html#chapter3)
  
  
  * [Chapter Four](part0001_split_004.html#chapter4)
  
  
  * [Chapter Five](part0001_sp