Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” ― J.M. Barrie Anyta Sunday’s The Douglas Fir isn’t really a Christmas story as much as it is the story of a man finding his miracle in the last place he’d have ever thought to look. It’s the story of... Continue Reading →
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” ― J.M. Barrie Anyta Sunday’s The Douglas Fir isn’t really a Christmas story as much as it is the story of a man finding his miracle in the last place he’d have ever thought to look. It’s the story of... Continue Reading →
BLURB: When Nicky Hauser walks in on his restaurant-owner boyfriend having sex with a waiter, Nicky loses his lover, his job, and his home all in one night. Although he’s nearly thirty, he’s never settled on a true career, and he has nothing to show for his years with Tom. Depressed and unable to find... Continue Reading →
“Reflect upon your present blessings--of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”--Charles Dickens Max Vos has blogged about his creative process. He says he starts with the seed of a story, then looks for character inspiration. Next he fleshes out the characters and lets them pretty much... Continue Reading →
“Reflect upon your present blessings--of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”--Charles Dickens Max Vos has blogged about his creative process. He says he starts with the seed of a story, then looks for character inspiration. Next he fleshes out the characters and lets them pretty much... Continue Reading →
Writing werewolves in the real world. When Lisa at The Novel Approach offered me a chance to give one of my older books a bump, I wasn't sure which one to choose. But it turns out, I still can't resist my first werewolf, Simon. So it had to be Unacceptable Risk. When I wrote the... Continue Reading →
Writing werewolves in the real world. When Lisa at The Novel Approach offered me a chance to give one of my older books a bump, I wasn't sure which one to choose. But it turns out, I still can't resist my first werewolf, Simon. So it had to be Unacceptable Risk. When I wrote the... Continue Reading →
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~ Albert Einstein First off, let me just say that it's taken me a long time to review this book. Trying to come up with words that truly reflect how I feel has been really hard with this one. To... Continue Reading →
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~ Albert Einstein First off, let me just say that it's taken me a long time to review this book. Trying to come up with words that truly reflect how I feel has been really hard with this one. To... Continue Reading →
“You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching.” ― Melisa M. Hamling Summary: After coming out to his girlfriend of nine years, Mark has packed his life into boxes, ready to step out and experience his new life as an honest gay man. When the movers come to pack... Continue Reading →
“You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching.” ― Melisa M. Hamling Summary: After coming out to his girlfriend of nine years, Mark has packed his life into boxes, ready to step out and experience his new life as an honest gay man. When the movers come to pack... Continue Reading →
“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.” ― Winston Churchill BLURB: Cash McCord loves his life. He owns the family ranch, works hard and invites the occasional cowboy into his bed. All that changes when his brother Jack and Jack’s wife Val are killed in a car crash, leaving behind six... Continue Reading →
“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.” ― Winston Churchill BLURB: Cash McCord loves his life. He owns the family ranch, works hard and invites the occasional cowboy into his bed. All that changes when his brother Jack and Jack’s wife Val are killed in a car crash, leaving behind six... Continue Reading →
If asked which of my novels is my favourite one, I always say the same thing: I have no favourite — each and every one of my novels tell a different story, a story that was important to me at the time, and, as such, they each have their own special spot on the bookshelf... Continue Reading →
If asked which of my novels is my favourite one, I always say the same thing: I have no favourite — each and every one of my novels tell a different story, a story that was important to me at the time, and, as such, they each have their own special spot on the bookshelf... Continue Reading →
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ” ― William Arthur Ward I've read a few books by this author and enjoyed each and every one of them, so I jumped at the chance to read her latest. The author takes the reader into the world of international cycling. For someone like... Continue Reading →
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ” ― William Arthur Ward I've read a few books by this author and enjoyed each and every one of them, so I jumped at the chance to read her latest. The author takes the reader into the world of international cycling. For someone like... Continue Reading →
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”--Bob Marley Vance Wolf owns Wolf Creek Ranch along with his mother. His father died recently of a heart attack that Vance attributes completely to their new neighbor Andrew Blackwell. Blackwell wants to buy Wolf Creek Ranch.... Continue Reading →
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”--Bob Marley Vance Wolf owns Wolf Creek Ranch along with his mother. His father died recently of a heart attack that Vance attributes completely to their new neighbor Andrew Blackwell. Blackwell wants to buy Wolf Creek Ranch.... Continue Reading →
“Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.” ― William Goldman Blurb: When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly,... Continue Reading →
“Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.” ― William Goldman Blurb: When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly,... Continue Reading →
One book that I hold near and dear to my heart is Orientation. If my books were my children, Orientation would be the quiet one, the one people would kindly describe as ‘different.’ Orientation, although it won the EPIC eBook Award for Best GLBT novel, is probably one of my least popular books, because it’s... Continue Reading →
One book that I hold near and dear to my heart is Orientation. If my books were my children, Orientation would be the quiet one, the one people would kindly describe as ‘different.’ Orientation, although it won the EPIC eBook Award for Best GLBT novel, is probably one of my least popular books, because it’s... Continue Reading →
“If love and hate aren’t true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.” ― Daria Snadowsky There’s nothing quite like reading for a good cause, and there’s nothing quite as gratifying as really liking what you read for that cause. Authors Cherry Dare, Isabel... Continue Reading →
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