Critical Acclaim for Linda J. Albertano
Foreword by Suzanne Lummis
After we’ve noted that Linda J. Albertano thrived in Los Angeles as a force of nature and fount of mischievous intelligence and performative creations; after we’ve remarked upon the ways she seemed always larger than life, as well as––at 6’4” –– taller than most; after we’ve marveled at her triumphant career in the edgiest art despite being silenced, abused and exploited in Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian foster homes during much of her youth…
We must not omit this. She was funny….
Also…
Laurel Ann Bogen, (Founding Member of Nearly Fatal Women, poet, and author)
S.A. Griffin, poet, actor and Dadaist Supreme
Quentin Ring, Director, Beyond Baroque
Prince Diabate, Kora Master Guinea, West Africa. (Translated from the French by Frank Lutz.)
Anna Homler, poet and performance artist
Taj Mahal, great Blues Artist
Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, leaders in the DaDa art movement
Adam Leipzig, producer, director, stage, and performance art productions
In 1991, we introduced Jewel Diamond Taylor’s Success Gems with foreword by Iyanla Vanzant, globetrotting to book events, African American on Tour, and a local radio program.
We brought the Goddess Gift to life with a certified personality quiz by psychologist Dr. Sharon Turnbull. “Goddess Gift” became an Amazon Bestseller overnight.
To complement our work as a boutique book publisher with a broadcast background, we took a step further and launched QTradio.net specifically for authors, one of the pioneers in 24-hour Live-365 Internet radio stations. We were honored to collaborate with esteemed authors Dr. William July, Dr. Elaine Sonne, Cynthia Brian, her daughter Heather Britney, and the popular radio personality Edie B. Anderson from KDHX.
In addition, the esteemed poet laureate Dr. Eugene B. Redmond, who won the American Book Award for his work “Eye in the Ceiling,” joined forces with us to produce the first-ever Miles Davis Festival in his hometown E. St. Louis, Illinois. Since this is also the publisher’s hometown, we went to work on our first major event.
Jazz icons Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ahmad Jamal, Clark Terry, Russell Gunn, and others joined us for a 12-hour back-to-back festival on the Mississippi Riverfront across from St. Louis, Missouri. The entire month of May is set aside to celebrate Miles Davis.
We celebrated a 20-year reunion in 2021 with Mr. Jamal, Miles’ nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., Erika Johnson +, including Keyon Harrold, who played trumpet under Don Cheadle in the (Miles Ahead) movie. Quincy Troupe, who co-wrote the autobiography of Miles Davis, and Dr. Ben Cawthra, author and curater of (Miles: The Miles Davis Retrospective) for the Missouri History Museum joined us again with family and friends.
Yet, it is the memory of a cherished friend and her unpublished books that has compelled us to recommence operations, partnering with a few carefully chosen allies who share a deep interest in the diverse realms of arts, literature, music, film, and broadcasting. Linda was a phenomenon in various arts including Women’s Rights from the 1960s to the 2020s. Sadly, this majestic icon, who by many was thought to be an “eternal” lover of humanity and art, passed away on September 13, 2022. We introduce our relaunch tome, “On the Life of Linda J. Albertano”, compiled and edited by her loving husband Frank Lutz.
The Love Ache
by Frank Lutz
I can’t take her anywhere anymore.
Not out to eat
at her favorite places, nor to the movies,
nor to the opera,
nor on short trips
like to Santa Barbara,
nor to New York City;
nor to Europe,
nor to Africa,
nor back to Rome ‘
so I can finish
my Vatican project.
I can’t even hold her hand anymore. Before Covid hit
three years ago
we were planning Rome.
Then that plague
infected the world.
But as the world-wide infection
was subsiding,
in April of this year 2022
Linda discovered a lump
in her tummy.
Off to the doctors
and the limits they gave her,
no surgery, no radiation,
only chemotherapy.
And so – she elected not
to suffer incapacitated
Excerpt from “On the Life of Linda J. Albertano”