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during a time of great change throughout the industry." Spinsters Ink shut down in 2017, but has since reopened as an imprint of
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Drury wrote a trilogy of detective novels featuring a lesbian protagonist named Tyler Jones. Her novel
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Drury was also a philanthropist, and established and sponsored a
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