Where Fiction and Reality Meet
And a Whiskey and Wry World Tour All-Access-Pass, hmmmmm??? Well, Rhys Ford and the Sinner's Gin boys would like to know because to coincide with GayRomLit 2013, Rhys is offering the chance for one lucky minion...errr...reader to win a backstage pass just like the one shown here, as well as a $20 Gift Card to... Continue Reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” ― Cassandra Giovanni I'll Take the Rain is a little snippet, only 23 pages; a slice of life between the narrator and his boyfriend. The author doesn't give us any names. My only conclusion as to why is that this could be... Continue Reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.” ― Cassandra Giovanni I'll Take the Rain is a little snippet, only 23 pages; a slice of life between the narrator and his boyfriend. The author doesn't give us any names. My only conclusion as to why is that this could be... Continue Reading →
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” ― Oscar Wilde BLURB: After an affair with a married DA led to scandal and disbarment, Cooper Nelson left his legal career in shambles, and found solace working as a hand at the Blue River Ranch. Eight years later, during a rare visit into town, Cooper bumps into... Continue Reading →
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.” ― Oscar Wilde BLURB: After an affair with a married DA led to scandal and disbarment, Cooper Nelson left his legal career in shambles, and found solace working as a hand at the Blue River Ranch. Eight years later, during a rare visit into town, Cooper bumps into... Continue Reading →
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." --Henry Drummond While Wild Magic is the fourth book in Poppy Dennison’s popular Triad series, it is great as a standalone. I didn’t read... Continue Reading →
“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." --Henry Drummond While Wild Magic is the fourth book in Poppy Dennison’s popular Triad series, it is great as a standalone. I didn’t read... Continue Reading →
I am very excited to be on The Novel Approach today! Thank you for having me! With GRL less than a week and a half away, I cannot tell you how happy I am to be going. Last year was the first time I attended the event, in Albuquerque New Mexico, and it was the... Continue Reading →
If you follow my blog over at Insight Out! then you’ll be more than painfully aware of my deep and all encompassing respect for this author. If you’re a fan of the genre you’ll know him best from his Tales of Foster High series, or the fantasy frolics of his Lords of Arcadia series. You’ll... Continue Reading →
If you follow my blog over at Insight Out! then you’ll be more than painfully aware of my deep and all encompassing respect for this author. If you’re a fan of the genre you’ll know him best from his Tales of Foster High series, or the fantasy frolics of his Lords of Arcadia series. You’ll... Continue Reading →
“Words are the voice of the heart.” ― Confucius In this sweet short story, we get to visit again with Mason and Jax, the two MCs from Mountain Memories. In the past months, Mason has moved across the country to be closer to Jax and gotten a job at Shenandoah National Park. His days are... Continue Reading →
“Words are the voice of the heart.” ― Confucius In this sweet short story, we get to visit again with Mason and Jax, the two MCs from Mountain Memories. In the past months, Mason has moved across the country to be closer to Jax and gotten a job at Shenandoah National Park. His days are... Continue Reading →
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte There is an eighteen year gap in the biblical recounting of Jesus’ life, a period between the ages of twelve and thirty that... Continue Reading →
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.” – Napoleon Bonaparte There is an eighteen year gap in the biblical recounting of Jesus’ life, a period between the ages of twelve and thirty that... Continue Reading →
Greetings GRL-goers! Is this your first GayRomLit? Are you munching on your fingernails, going over every detail the organizers have disclosed, and picturing yourself standing alone in a corner once you’re there? Or have you gone before? Did you realize that the fingernail-gnawing was a total waste of good nails; the plans didn’t really matter... Continue Reading →
“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers” ― Anne Rice I was really excited to read this book because it has my two favorite things in the... Continue Reading →
“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers” ― Anne Rice I was really excited to read this book because it has my two favorite things in the... Continue Reading →
This week was slim pickins in the "ooo" category. In fact, this one didn’t really do it for me either. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice, just not "wow". If I saw this in a long row of books in a book store, I don’t know if I would pick it up or not. I... Continue Reading →
This week was slim pickins in the "ooo" category. In fact, this one didn’t really do it for me either. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice, just not "wow". If I saw this in a long row of books in a book store, I don’t know if I would pick it up or not. I... Continue Reading →
“Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.” -- Jane Rubietta The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines illumination as: spiritual or intellectual enlightenment OR decoration by the art of illuminating. In Rowan Speedwell’s Illumination, both definitions apply.... Continue Reading →
“Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.” -- Jane Rubietta The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines illumination as: spiritual or intellectual enlightenment OR decoration by the art of illuminating. In Rowan Speedwell’s Illumination, both definitions apply.... Continue Reading →
Is It October Seventeenth Yet? When GRL kicked off in October 2011 I was still learning my way around MM Romancelandia. I’d been reading gay romance almost exclusively for a few years already, and Six Degrees of Lust was under contract, but it wasn’t until April 2011 that I joined Goodreads. That’s when I really... Continue Reading →
Is It October Seventeenth Yet? When GRL kicked off in October 2011 I was still learning my way around MM Romancelandia. I’d been reading gay romance almost exclusively for a few years already, and Six Degrees of Lust was under contract, but it wasn’t until April 2011 that I joined Goodreads. That’s when I really... Continue Reading →
“Mystery, why so attractive to me?” ― Richelle E. Goodrich BLURB: In 1942, Pearl Harbor has been bombed and the war is very much in evidence, but it would seem to have little to do with Frank Boyle, a respected Bronx born insurance investigator. He's a man who can keep secrets, and no one suspects... Continue Reading →
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