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Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places? -- Then Hungry Ghosts is Your Guilty Pleasure

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 22, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- What can a PTA mom in Peoria and a lesbian in West Hollywood have in common? One thing's for sure, it ain't no country love song, but rather the adventurous life of Roxanne Reaver who sings her tale in Hungry Ghosts, the first book of her new autobiographical trilogy Lesbian Buddha in Hollywood. Reaver's richly prosed tome beautifully recreates L.A.'s lesbian scene circa the 1980s. If you've ever been on the quest to find your soul mate or your own soul, you will relate to this story. Throughout this sexy, humorous, poignant and heartwarming first book, Hungry Ghosts follows this gay woman's quest to find true love and, in the process, she begins the real journey to find herself.

The trilogy begins with book one, Hungry Ghosts. At twenty-four, Roxanne reels from her recently failed lesbian marriage and her completely stalled screenwriting career. As she commiserates with friends in an after-hours coffee house, she hears a deep inner Primal Voice commanding her to ask a sexy blonde waitress out on a date. Though not the burning bush of Moses, it's equally as effective. Sex and spirituality soon merge as our protagonist, though skeptical of this inner guide, follows its lead as it teases and titillates her with ever increasing sensuality that softens her heart to her own spiritual nature. As the trilogy unfolds, Roxanne's sensual and spiritual experiences awaken her to shocking personal revelations which crack open her heart and mind, allowing her soul's light to shine.

"Hungry Ghosts, and the entire Lesbian Buddha in Hollywood trilogy, leaves the readers laughing and blushing as it opens their hearts and titillates their senses with its sauciness," says Reaver. "Lesbian Buddha In Hollywood combines love, humor, sex and our insatiable urge for romance in such a sweet, sassy, sexy and sensitive way that in the process shows us that we are all on divinely inspired soul journeys whether we know it or not."

About the Author

Roxanne Reaver majored in English literature at the University of California in Santa Cruz. Her first novel was a grandiose tome that would have been a thousand pages long and patterned after Dante's Divine Comedy had she not collapsed in complete exhaustion after giving birth to a mere two hundred pages. Despite that dire beginning, she has written prolifically. She has sold her writing to both prime time television and feature film markets. She has also been working in Hollywood accounting departments for over twenty years. Ms. Reaver has been practicing Buddhist meditation for more than fourteen years.

                  Hungry Ghosts by Roxanne Reaver
               Lesbian Buddha In Hollywood: Book One
                   Publication Date: Spring 2005
          Trade Paperback; $22.99; 319 pages; 1-4134-3619-6
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