Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: We Are Lost and Found Author: Helene Dunbar Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Length: 304 Pages Category: Young Adult At a Glance: We Are Lost and Found is not a teen romance. It is wholly character driven, deals with myriad heavy subjects that make it less than a light read, and I was so drawn in... Continue Reading →
Title: Defenseless Author: AJ Rose Publisher: Self-Published Length: 438 Pages Category: Contemporary At a Glance: Author AJ Rose uses her gift as a storyteller to weave a tale that draws forth every emotion, from anger to laughter to love, and she does so with the hope that we will begin to understand that gay bashing... Continue Reading →
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.” – Cher Title: Bashed Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: 2nd Edition It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they... Continue Reading →
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.” – Cher Title: Bashed Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: 2nd Edition It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they... Continue Reading →
© Rick R. Reed, 2014, all rights reserved Bashed, my hate crime/love story, includes an afterword exclusive to this new edition. I’m sharing it with you in this guest post to let you know why the subject matter for this book—hate crimes against LGBT people—is so close and personal for me. I also think this... Continue Reading →
© Rick R. Reed, 2014, all rights reserved Bashed, my hate crime/love story, includes an afterword exclusive to this new edition. I’m sharing it with you in this guest post to let you know why the subject matter for this book—hate crimes against LGBT people—is so close and personal for me. I also think this... Continue Reading →
Blurb: 2nd Edition It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they leave their favorite night spot. That dark October night, three gay-bashers emerge from the gloom, armed with slurs, fists, and an aluminum baseball bat. The hate crime leaves Donald lost and alone, clinging to the... Continue Reading →
Blurb: 2nd Edition It should have been a perfect night out. Instead, Mark and Donald collide with tragedy when they leave their favorite night spot. That dark October night, three gay-bashers emerge from the gloom, armed with slurs, fists, and an aluminum baseball bat. The hate crime leaves Donald lost and alone, clinging to the... Continue Reading →
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” ― Therese Anne Fowler Taylor V. Donovan’s Six Degrees of Lust is a novel that’s part murder mystery and part relationship mystery, with a heavy emphasis on the relationship and even more on the mystery of how Sam Shaughnessy and Mac O’Bannon... Continue Reading →
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” ― Therese Anne Fowler Taylor V. Donovan’s Six Degrees of Lust is a novel that’s part murder mystery and part relationship mystery, with a heavy emphasis on the relationship and even more on the mystery of how Sam Shaughnessy and Mac O’Bannon... Continue Reading →
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