Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.” ― Woody Allen Sasquatch starts out with Jack celebrating his TGIF at the local Oyster Bar. This is not a bar where most gay men would find themselves out for drinks. Jack was just redneck enough where he didn't care. Jack just wanted to... Continue Reading →
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell Richie Wilkins and Brandon Burns were friends. And then they weren’t. That happens sometimes when you outgrow a person, or find that suddenly the little things a person does begin to grate on your nerves until you either rip your own ears off or cut... Continue Reading →
“Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell Richie Wilkins and Brandon Burns were friends. And then they weren’t. That happens sometimes when you outgrow a person, or find that suddenly the little things a person does begin to grate on your nerves until you either rip your own ears off or cut... Continue Reading →
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― C.G. Jung This is a very humorous look at two very different men. I have never seen two people have so many problems just trying to hook up. It all starts with Zane... Continue Reading →
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― C.G. Jung This is a very humorous look at two very different men. I have never seen two people have so many problems just trying to hook up. It all starts with Zane... Continue Reading →
“Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen Ian James is thirty-six years old, working at a job for which the prospects of advancement seem pretty slim, people won’t stop taking advantage of him—or just plain taking him for granted—and he’s just gone through a bad break up with his cheating boyfriend, who finally... Continue Reading →
“Where words fail, music speaks.” ― Hans Christian Andersen Ian James is thirty-six years old, working at a job for which the prospects of advancement seem pretty slim, people won’t stop taking advantage of him—or just plain taking him for granted—and he’s just gone through a bad break up with his cheating boyfriend, who finally... Continue Reading →
“You can’t always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.”--Kate DiCamillo Heidi Belleau’s latest offering is the first in the "Rear Entrance Video" series. You have to read the book to understand just how unbelievably clever the name of the store/series is. There are... Continue Reading →
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” ― William Shakespeare What is a boy to do when he realizes that he is gay while growing up in Jefferson, Wisconsin? Jefferson is a city where it... Continue Reading →
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” ― William Shakespeare What is a boy to do when he realizes that he is gay while growing up in Jefferson, Wisconsin? Jefferson is a city where it... Continue Reading →
“So he rolled on down and rolled on down where the mermaids sang while their lovers drowned…” – K.Z. Snow If you can, picture a realm where steampunk meets a real-world industrial revolution, a place where those who wear the brand of Mongrel on their person are segregated in the village of Taintwell, a place... Continue Reading →
“So he rolled on down and rolled on down where the mermaids sang while their lovers drowned…” – K.Z. Snow If you can, picture a realm where steampunk meets a real-world industrial revolution, a place where those who wear the brand of Mongrel on their person are segregated in the village of Taintwell, a place... Continue Reading →
“Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”-- Richard Bach I really wanted to love Same Page. I really did. The blurb was interesting, the cover arresting, the premise promising. For me, it just didn’t hold up the way I had hoped. Same Page... Continue Reading →
“Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”-- Richard Bach I really wanted to love Same Page. I really did. The blurb was interesting, the cover arresting, the premise promising. For me, it just didn’t hold up the way I had hoped. Same Page... Continue Reading →
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” ― Lynette Gould Billy’s Bones was the first book by Jamie Fessenden I had read. I saw the disclaimers about it maybe bringing up painful memories of childhood sexual abuse, of which I am... Continue Reading →
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” ― Lynette Gould Billy’s Bones was the first book by Jamie Fessenden I had read. I saw the disclaimers about it maybe bringing up painful memories of childhood sexual abuse, of which I am... Continue Reading →
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”― Bertrand Russell I have read “Southern Fried” by Rob Rosen so I felt like I knew what to expect going into “Vamp”. It turns out that I was right and I was wrong. Rob Rosen has a great sense of humor, add some... Continue Reading →
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”― Bertrand Russell I have read “Southern Fried” by Rob Rosen so I felt like I knew what to expect going into “Vamp”. It turns out that I was right and I was wrong. Rob Rosen has a great sense of humor, add some... Continue Reading →
Books may well be the only true magic. ― Alice Hoffman In our own world, perhaps, yes. But in Lucas Tripp’s world… Well, in Lucas’s world true magic is not confined entirely to the books for which he has a special love, the books for which, as his queen’s librarian, he is solely responsible. In... Continue Reading →
Books may well be the only true magic. ― Alice Hoffman In our own world, perhaps, yes. But in Lucas Tripp’s world… Well, in Lucas’s world true magic is not confined entirely to the books for which he has a special love, the books for which, as his queen’s librarian, he is solely responsible. In... Continue Reading →
The ideas behind "Folie à Deux", my short story for the Big Damn Heroines anthology, fermented in my mind for years before I actually sat down to write the story. Most of the time, strands of ideas come together to meet at one point like a spider web. This story was the epitome of that.... Continue Reading →
The ideas behind "Folie à Deux", my short story for the Big Damn Heroines anthology, fermented in my mind for years before I actually sat down to write the story. Most of the time, strands of ideas come together to meet at one point like a spider web. This story was the epitome of that.... Continue Reading →
“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi From the very first sentence of this book we see the struggle Brian has with leaving everything he knows behind. He loves his mom and dad, he cares for Adam, but he is IN LOVE with Jamie. So for Brian, he can't see any other... Continue Reading →
“Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi From the very first sentence of this book we see the struggle Brian has with leaving everything he knows behind. He loves his mom and dad, he cares for Adam, but he is IN LOVE with Jamie. So for Brian, he can't see any other... Continue Reading →
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