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Maria Ciletti
Maria V. Ciletti
is a registered nurse working as a medical administrator. She has written
several medical practice management articles published in Ohio State Medical
Association’s Practice Essentials, Medical Economics Magazine and Family
Practice Management Magazine
Her fiction credits include: Three short stories that were published in
anthologies by Alyson: “Summer the First Time, 1985,”
“Unexpected Pleasures”, and “The
Things You Do For Love.”
Another
short story, “Jane Doe”, was published in Bella Books anthology,
Call of the Dark.
Her short story, “Don’t Sing:
Growing up Lesbian in Catholic School,” was just recently accepted by
Haworth (Taylor & Francis) and is set to be published in their Queer and
Catholic anthology, due out in July 2008.
Her first novel, The Choice, a
2007 Lambda Literary nominee for debut fiction,
was published by Haworth Press and made its debut in May 2007.
Clinical
Distance, the sequel to The
Choice is slated to be published in 2009 by Intaglio Publications.
She is currently working on a new novel entitled,
Collide, about two young widows,
one gay, one straight and what happens when their lives collide.
Maria is a member of GCLS.
She lives in
Niles, Ohio
with her partner Rose. She can be contacted through her website
www.mariaciletti.com.
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Clinical Distance
by Maria Ciletti
ISBN:
978-1-935216-03-2
Price:
$16.95
Release
Date: May 2009
In the sequel to
The Choice, Clinical
Distance begins six years later with Mina Thomas, who has
finished medical school. After divorcing her husband, Sean, and
losing Regan Martin, the love of her life, Mina sets out on a
quest to make her way in the world and to find the love she
lost. Mina dates—a lot—but after many meaningless rendezvous
with nameless women, Mina decides to give up on finding love and
devotes her time solely to her career as chief resident at City
Hospital.
However, one night after having
dinner with her best friend and confidant, police Sergeant
Rosemary Rosetti, Mina discovers that the love she was searching
for might possibly have been right under her nose all along.
That’s when Regan steps back into Mina’s life.
Will Mina sacrifice her heart for another chance at love, or
will she keep a clinical distance?
Collide
by Maria V.
Ciletti
ISBN:
978-1-935216-14-8
Price $16.95
Release Date:
April 2010
Sometimes you have to shed the identity of who
you think you should be to live your true life.
Sometimes that identity gets ripped right out from under
you.
Renee Cardone and Anna Maria Castrovinci had
been best friends since kindergarten at St. Vincent’s School,
but when they were fifteen, their friendship turned into
something more. Even though their attraction felt genuine and pure, guilt hovered over
them. Although Renee loved Annie, she was afraid about the
unnatural relationship, according to her Catholic upbringing,
that she and Annie had fallen into.
Annie,
intent on living a life acceptable to society, began to date Tom
Del Fino, which broke Annie’s heart. Renee tried to explain that
what they had together was nice, but it wasn’t real. She knew
Tom could give her what she needed.
Renee and Tom married and built a respectable life together. They had a
good marriage and two beautiful daughters. Then fate slapped
them in the face and flipped Renee’s life upside down.
That’s when she met Dana Renato.
Dana had it all. A lucrative career as a writer, a home she loved and a
partner she adored. Then all of it came crashing down around
her. She loses her partner to breast cancer, and the home they
shared is threatened by her partner’s estranged family. The only
thing she has left is her writing, which takes her away from
home and puts her in a small town in
Northeast Ohio. There she meets Renee and their
lives collide.
The Choice
Ebook
by Maria
Ciletti
Price $9.99
Release date: June
2010
What if you had to
risk losing the people you love to become your true self?
What if you had to
make the choice between losing everything or being true to
yourself? The Choice
explores the difficult struggle Mina Thomas, a nurse with a
loving husband and a successful career, endures after meeting
Regan Martin, an attractive nurse she is assigned to mentor.
Long-buried desires are awakened within Mina, pushing her toward
the need to make the choice that, in one way or another, will
forever change her world.
Mina’s life is
comfortable and successful, though unfulfilling. She and her
loving husband contemplate having a child to help build a happy
family. Regan enters her life, beautiful, intelligent—and
incredibly desirable. Mina must somehow work through her own
feelings to discover who she is inside, and the choice she finds
herself faced with threatens all she knows and has worked for.
The Choice is a novel
of love and loss—and surviving the tough journey one must take
to be true to herself.
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Entangled
by Maria
V. Ciletti
Price
$16.95
Release
Date September 2011
Hayden Crissman is a very responsible girl and has done
all the right things to get accepted into a prestigious university in Erie,
Pennsylvania, with the help of her English teacher Abbey Spencer, whom she
idolizes.
When their paths cross again after graduation, Hayden
sees another side of her favorite teacher and witnesses a deeply personal,
more vulnerable woman.
What ensues will test both women’s sense of propriety,
logic, and love.
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