In the sequel to A Time Before Me, Mason Hamilton starts his thirties off in what he considers a great place in life; a successful photography career in San Francisco, close friends, and a cute live-in boyfriend. Just when he thinks things can't get any better everything rapidly falls apart when his old high school friend and crush, Billy Harris, pays a surprise and turmoil filled visit. Now feeling confused and directionless, Mason travels back home to the New Orleans French Quarter to attend his Aunt Savannah's wedding. It's there in the decadent and live-and-let-live Big Easy that Mason begins to reconnect with old friends, family-and perhaps finally even himself. When Mason gets the opportunity to rekindle a romance from his teenage years with the guy he's never been able to forget, Joey, he wonders if it is possible to recapture young love twelve years later.
Michael Holloway Perronne is the author of four novels: "A Time Before Me",
"Starstruck: A Hollywood Saga", "Falling Into Me", and "Embrace the Rain."
His debut novel, "A Time Before Me" won the Bronze Award, Foreword
Magazine's 2006 Book of the Year Award in the Gay/Lesbian fiction category.
In addition, Michael just released his first travel guide, "The Quickie Gay
Guide to Cape Town, South Africa."
Michael was born and raised in Mississippi. He received a BA in Film from
the University of Southern Mississippi and a MFA in Drama and
Communications from the University of New Orleans. During college, he also
kept himself busy with local gay activism. He also served a term as Treasurer
for the Mississippi Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
For a few years he worked as a production assistant in television and film, in
both New Orleans and Los Angeles, on such projects as the television series
The Big Easy and the television movies Rag and Bone, Blue Moon, and
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Following that, he worked as the Conference
Services Coordinator for the National Association of Television Program
Executives. He has also done script reading and analysis for the Los Angeles
Independent Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Collaborative.
He currently lives in Los Angeles. His next book, "A Time Before Us", is
scheduled to be released in early 2011.
