EDGE Miami

With his second novel, "The Sower," Kemble Scott, author of the outrageous and uproarious best-seller "SoMa," refocuses our attentions on the harmful and repressive myths that we’ve been trained to swallow as true and self-evident.

What is Kelland? Who is Kelland? Four different people have four different ideas, but none of them see the truth--or the larger pattern they’re all part of in a struggle that redefines good and evil.

With his novel "Kelland," openly gay author Paul G. Bens, Jr. introduces a strange and exiting idea: the title character is not one individual, but a being with multiple manifestations spanning assorted ages, genders, and ethnicities. Bens talks to EDGE about the mysteries behind his book, which might best be described as a kind of karmic thriller.

With his new novel "Object of Desire," William J. Mann (author of "The Men from the Boys" and its sequels) asks the right questions at the right time. An honest and tender book, it may be Mann’s best novel to date.

A middle-aged man heads to Palm Springs to come to terms with his homosexual feelings and sort out his past as a repressed teenager in seminary school. Present and past force him to learn the new language of truth.

Novelist Steven Saylor has been known and respected for his Roma Sub Rosa series, which winds murder mystery and Roman history together into clever ancient-world whodunits. Now Saylor has written an epic: one thousand years of Roman Republic all in one package titled Roma.