Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Two years and two months ago, I was brand new to the M/M romance genre, and it was two years and two months ago, with a book that I stumbled upon quite by accident in my frenzy to discover more, more, more books to feed my newly reawakened passion for reading, that I became a... Continue Reading →
“If you don't create change, change will create you.” – Unknown Even when Chauncey Irving isn’t looking for trouble, trouble seems determined to find Chauncey Irving, and there was indeed a time when the man went purposefully looking for it with a certain sense of obsessive need. Until, that is, a very wise boy taught... Continue Reading →
“If you don't create change, change will create you.” – Unknown Even when Chauncey Irving isn’t looking for trouble, trouble seems determined to find Chauncey Irving, and there was indeed a time when the man went purposefully looking for it with a certain sense of obsessive need. Until, that is, a very wise boy taught... Continue Reading →
Evangelism and politics have a lot in common, when you think about it: Whoever speaks loudest and glad-hands best draws the most money to his coffers to further promote his agenda. Whoever puts the best spin on the proselytizing from the media pulpit wins the most souls. Whoever can convince the masses he is the... Continue Reading →
Evangelism and politics have a lot in common, when you think about it: Whoever speaks loudest and glad-hands best draws the most money to his coffers to further promote his agenda. Whoever puts the best spin on the proselytizing from the media pulpit wins the most souls. Whoever can convince the masses he is the... Continue Reading →
Jake Landon believes he’s going to spend the summer after his college graduation fighting wildfires in the Colorado Mountains, partnered with some cantankerous and hygiene-challenged geezer who’ll make Jake forget that he’s at all attracted to men. Fighting fires will eat up a few months, and then some, of the year he’s taking off before... Continue Reading →
Jake Landon believes he’s going to spend the summer after his college graduation fighting wildfires in the Colorado Mountains, partnered with some cantankerous and hygiene-challenged geezer who’ll make Jake forget that he’s at all attracted to men. Fighting fires will eat up a few months, and then some, of the year he’s taking off before... Continue Reading →
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato In the imperfect fabric of Casey’s life, there is rejection and desperation and the physical sacrifices he makes just to survive after his parents’ throw him away. Into that weave comes Josiah Daniels, a man who still believes that doing unto others... Continue Reading →
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato In the imperfect fabric of Casey’s life, there is rejection and desperation and the physical sacrifices he makes just to survive after his parents’ throw him away. Into that weave comes Josiah Daniels, a man who still believes that doing unto others... Continue Reading →
Charlie Harris has been summoned. ”Need you.” Two words that years before had meant something coming from the lips of someone Charlie believed had loved him. Those two little words effectively do their part to tempt Charlie to Whistle Pass, Illinois, where, rather than finding the man he’d fallen in love with in the trenches... Continue Reading →
Charlie Harris has been summoned. ”Need you.” Two words that years before had meant something coming from the lips of someone Charlie believed had loved him. Those two little words effectively do their part to tempt Charlie to Whistle Pass, Illinois, where, rather than finding the man he’d fallen in love with in the trenches... Continue Reading →
Fifteen years is a long time to wait for the continuum of time to catch up to you, and only in the imaginations of authors who will bend the laws of physics and play into the fantasy of being able to manipulate clocks and calendars, to move forwards or backwards to influence the future or... Continue Reading →
Fifteen years is a long time to wait for the continuum of time to catch up to you, and only in the imaginations of authors who will bend the laws of physics and play into the fantasy of being able to manipulate clocks and calendars, to move forwards or backwards to influence the future or... Continue Reading →
“…when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.” - John Knowles, A Separate Peace And sometimes the same applies to someone, and that alone has to be good enough because to expect anything more is asking too much of the one you love. To want anything... Continue Reading →
“…when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.” - John Knowles, A Separate Peace And sometimes the same applies to someone, and that alone has to be good enough because to expect anything more is asking too much of the one you love. To want anything... Continue Reading →
What if took an act of divine intervention to ensure you’d live long enough to find your soul mate? What if it took multiple acts of divine intervention to make you embrace who you are, to find the courage to accept yourself, to finally see yourself as beautiful because someone else sees your grace and... Continue Reading →
What if took an act of divine intervention to ensure you’d live long enough to find your soul mate? What if it took multiple acts of divine intervention to make you embrace who you are, to find the courage to accept yourself, to finally see yourself as beautiful because someone else sees your grace and... Continue Reading →
In their most broad and most literal terms, John Hughes’ films defined the angst of my--and maybe every other ‘80s teenager’s--high school years. Pretty in Pink (if you thought Andie should’ve picked Duckie Dale, raise your hand!), Sixteen Candles (::sigh:: Jake Ryan), and The Breakfast Club (yes, I would’ve chosen John Bender), each are the... Continue Reading →
In their most broad and most literal terms, John Hughes’ films defined the angst of my--and maybe every other ‘80s teenager’s--high school years. Pretty in Pink (if you thought Andie should’ve picked Duckie Dale, raise your hand!), Sixteen Candles (::sigh:: Jake Ryan), and The Breakfast Club (yes, I would’ve chosen John Bender), each are the... Continue Reading →
Over the course of centuries, numerous wars have been waged in the name of religion. In the late sixteenth century, England and Spain, the reigning world superpowers, were locked in a battle over their God. Queen Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne brought on the beginning of Protestant rule in Great Britain, and it was the... Continue Reading →
Over the course of centuries, numerous wars have been waged in the name of religion. In the late sixteenth century, England and Spain, the reigning world superpowers, were locked in a battle over their God. Queen Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne brought on the beginning of Protestant rule in Great Britain, and it was the... Continue Reading →
Mystery and murder are set against a backdrop of the sexy and sophisticated art world, where wealthy businessman Miles Winter and temperamental bad-boy artist Zeke Roswell were introduced in True Colors, the full length novel that’s now been followed by three erotic short stories: Ambush, Payback, and the latest release, Switch. To say that these... Continue Reading →
Mystery and murder are set against a backdrop of the sexy and sophisticated art world, where wealthy businessman Miles Winter and temperamental bad-boy artist Zeke Roswell were introduced in True Colors, the full length novel that’s now been followed by three erotic short stories: Ambush, Payback, and the latest release, Switch. To say that these... Continue Reading →
I think I’ll just take a Xanax and a bottle of gin and go curl up in a corner now because, let me tell you, if I didn’t have some sort of anxiety disorder before reading Koan, I think I do now. I was going to make that my review. Just that. But please, I... Continue Reading →
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