Where Fiction and Reality Meet
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. – Thomas Tusser Oh my, but did Christmastime just get a whole lot naughtier? And did the month of December just get a whole lot hotter? I think it did for Mike and Karl, and for me too, thanks to a... Continue Reading →
If you're a fan of short fiction, if you're a fan of historical fiction, if you'd like to believe that from the tragedy that was the genocide of the Jewish people during World War II, some semblance of happiness was achieved by a fortunate few, then go right now and pick up the Rainbow Award... Continue Reading →
If you're a fan of short fiction, if you're a fan of historical fiction, if you'd like to believe that from the tragedy that was the genocide of the Jewish people during World War II, some semblance of happiness was achieved by a fortunate few, then go right now and pick up the Rainbow Award... Continue Reading →
Fate brought you back to me, this time I won't let you leave. – Unknown Sometimes a man’ll get a notion in his head to do the right thing but for the wrong reasons, or sometimes it’s a matter of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, whatever the case, six year ago, Jordan... Continue Reading →
Fate brought you back to me, this time I won't let you leave. – Unknown Sometimes a man’ll get a notion in his head to do the right thing but for the wrong reasons, or sometimes it’s a matter of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, whatever the case, six year ago, Jordan... Continue Reading →
I don't know why I didn't do this sooner. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, what can I say? Anyway, did you know that JMS Books is giving away a free E-Book every day? Yep, that's right, totally and 100% free, and that lovely gift is going on now through the end of the... Continue Reading →
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke. – Charles Dickens Okay, there are no two ways about it; this story is just too cute. I love Matt and Vic, have loved them for a very long time, so whenever J.M. Snyder decides to pay them a... Continue Reading →
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke. – Charles Dickens Okay, there are no two ways about it; this story is just too cute. I love Matt and Vic, have loved them for a very long time, so whenever J.M. Snyder decides to pay them a... Continue Reading →
“The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: adventures are to the adventurous.” – Benjamin Disraeli So if you’re feeling particularly adventuresome, Benji Bright is three books into an eight book mini-serial that might be right up your adventure/fantasy alley. Chevalier: The Weeping Spear, The Salt Rose, and The Selfish... Continue Reading →
“The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: adventures are to the adventurous.” – Benjamin Disraeli So if you’re feeling particularly adventuresome, Benji Bright is three books into an eight book mini-serial that might be right up your adventure/fantasy alley. Chevalier: The Weeping Spear, The Salt Rose, and The Selfish... Continue Reading →
“I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself.” – Vivian Stanshall Paul Alan Fahey offers two very different LGBT short stories in Boys Will Be Boys and The View from 16 Podwale Street, but there’s one thing they both have very much in common: they are... Continue Reading →
Yes, another October has passed, which means the time to have read these two short horror stories has passed too, so it’s a good thing I’m always in the mood for a good mind-screw of the twisted and ghoulish variety, no matter the time of year. Even though they're not very long on word count,... Continue Reading →
Yes, another October has passed, which means the time to have read these two short horror stories has passed too, so it’s a good thing I’m always in the mood for a good mind-screw of the twisted and ghoulish variety, no matter the time of year. Even though they're not very long on word count,... Continue Reading →
Read on to see how! Hi, Jennifer, and welcome to The Novel Approach! I’m so glad to have you here with me today. Let’s just jump right into things and have you tell us a little bit about yourself before we get to the contest portion of the program. Q. When did you decide that... Continue Reading →
Read on to see how! Hi, Jennifer, and welcome to The Novel Approach! I’m so glad to have you here with me today. Let’s just jump right into things and have you tell us a little bit about yourself before we get to the contest portion of the program. Q. When did you decide that... Continue Reading →
“It may have just been a moment to you, but it changed every single one that followed for me.” – (pleasefindthis – Author of the book I Wrote This for You) Sometimes there is a lovely symmetry to all the possible things that can go wrong with the most carefully laid plans, when one of... Continue Reading →
“It may have just been a moment to you, but it changed every single one that followed for me.” – (pleasefindthis – Author of the book I Wrote This for You) Sometimes there is a lovely symmetry to all the possible things that can go wrong with the most carefully laid plans, when one of... Continue Reading →
I’m not sure which eye-popping feature of Phallic Worship: World Wide & Centuries Long caught my eye first, the title or the cover model. I’ll say the title—if I say the cover model, it’ll make me seem shallow. But whichever it was, one thing is certain: Allen Mack has written an interesting read, especially looking... Continue Reading →
I’m not sure which eye-popping feature of Phallic Worship: World Wide & Centuries Long caught my eye first, the title or the cover model. I’ll say the title—if I say the cover model, it’ll make me seem shallow. But whichever it was, one thing is certain: Allen Mack has written an interesting read, especially looking... Continue Reading →
“It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.” – Unknown When the Right One Comes Along is a short story that begins in the mid-80s, when AIDS was just starting to make the transition from obscure illness to public health crisis, when a young boy named Ryan... Continue Reading →
“It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.” – Unknown When the Right One Comes Along is a short story that begins in the mid-80s, when AIDS was just starting to make the transition from obscure illness to public health crisis, when a young boy named Ryan... Continue Reading →
“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit.” – Jeanette Winterson Cole Grayson’s life is a lie: the celebrity, the wife, the unborn child. All of these things are the pretense of perfection, the façade that reflects to the world a distorted reality and misrepresents the... Continue Reading →
“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit.” – Jeanette Winterson Cole Grayson’s life is a lie: the celebrity, the wife, the unborn child. All of these things are the pretense of perfection, the façade that reflects to the world a distorted reality and misrepresents the... Continue Reading →
“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.” – Oscar Wilde Jennifer Cierra’s Melting Wax and Burning Feathers is a short, beautifully written story that I found myself wishing had gone on for much longer than it did, but... Continue Reading →
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