San Francisco author K.M. Soehnlein has a new novel out, Robin and Ruby. Readers first met Robin MacKenzie almost nine years ago in Karl’s debut novel, The World of Normal Boys. In that book, which received the Lambda Literary Award, Robin was a 13-year-old child of the seventies attempting to find his place and his voice. The new book catches up with Robin in the eighties, “caught between his dreams of being a stage actor and the nightmare of negotiating relationships in an era when sex and death are inevitably linked.”

Join the author for the book launch at Books Inc. in the Castro this Thursday, April 1, followed by a party at Cafe Flore, featuring music by DJ Jacob Spencer. And check out the book trailer here.