Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley Tyler Parker knows very well what it’s like growing up gay in Foster, Texas, the town where Brad Greymark and Kyle Stilleno have begun to redefine what it... Continue Reading →
“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ― Oscar Wilde I am going to preface this review by saying I love Jacob Flores!! I have yet to read a book he has written that I haven't just adored. I have been looking forward... Continue Reading →
“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?” ― Charles Baudelaire What is Greenwode? Let me tell you, that’s likely the easiest of all the questions to answer among the many loose threads left unwoven into the tapestry of this series at... Continue Reading →
“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?” ― Charles Baudelaire What is Greenwode? Let me tell you, that’s likely the easiest of all the questions to answer among the many loose threads left unwoven into the tapestry of this series at... Continue Reading →
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Every once in a while you read a book that touches something inside of you. It makes your heart sing, it makes your heart break and then it puts it back together again. Memorizing You took my heart... Continue Reading →
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Every once in a while you read a book that touches something inside of you. It makes your heart sing, it makes your heart break and then it puts it back together again. Memorizing You took my heart... Continue Reading →
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. – E.E. Cummings A Marrying Man is Gasq-Dion’s rapid follow up and continuation to her novel A Betting Man. Blaine and Spencer, who are the best friends of the main characters from A Betting Man, are recruited to arrange and organize both the engagement and wedding of... Continue Reading →
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. – E.E. Cummings A Marrying Man is Gasq-Dion’s rapid follow up and continuation to her novel A Betting Man. Blaine and Spencer, who are the best friends of the main characters from A Betting Man, are recruited to arrange and organize both the engagement and wedding of... Continue Reading →
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.” ― Anaïs Nin This novella packs a quite a punch from the beginning. Ty and Landon are best friends from college. They have over the course of their friendship developed a very close relationship and have, in fact, fallen in love. Ty stands... Continue Reading →
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.” ― Anaïs Nin This novella packs a quite a punch from the beginning. Ty and Landon are best friends from college. They have over the course of their friendship developed a very close relationship and have, in fact, fallen in love. Ty stands... Continue Reading →
“He had two lives: one open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood … and another life running its course in secret … everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself,... Continue Reading →
“He had two lives: one open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood … and another life running its course in secret … everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself,... Continue Reading →
“Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson David McIntyre and Rick Sutton are on a plane over the Pacific when they hit a freak storm, forcing them to land on a deserted island. (Let the hot sexiness begin and my fantasies run wild!) While on the island and their struggle... Continue Reading →
“Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson David McIntyre and Rick Sutton are on a plane over the Pacific when they hit a freak storm, forcing them to land on a deserted island. (Let the hot sexiness begin and my fantasies run wild!) While on the island and their struggle... Continue Reading →
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates In this third and final story in the Waiting for Forever series by Jamie Mayfield, we rejoin the story directly after Brian, Mike, Alex and Leo rescued Jamie from Steven O'Dell. Jamie has been beaten severely and has... Continue Reading →
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates In this third and final story in the Waiting for Forever series by Jamie Mayfield, we rejoin the story directly after Brian, Mike, Alex and Leo rescued Jamie from Steven O'Dell. Jamie has been beaten severely and has... Continue Reading →
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche True Confessions: 1.) Everything I know about the Mormon faith could fit in a container the approximate size of a thimble. 2.) I’m not a religious person, but I am spiritual. 3.) I have a difficult time understanding how hate and religion integrate. 4.)... Continue Reading →
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson This was a story inside a story inside a story. Grayson Burrows and James Pearson are both doctors. They both went to medical school, they both treat patients and... Continue Reading →
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson This was a story inside a story inside a story. Grayson Burrows and James Pearson are both doctors. They both went to medical school, they both treat patients and... Continue Reading →
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.” ― Salman Rushdie Connor and Zach’s life together changes dramatically one dark and snowy night as their car skids off the road and slams headlong into a tree, leaving Connor seriously injured and Zach in a panic when he comes to and sees that... Continue Reading →
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.” ― Salman Rushdie Connor and Zach’s life together changes dramatically one dark and snowy night as their car skids off the road and slams headlong into a tree, leaving Connor seriously injured and Zach in a panic when he comes to and sees that... Continue Reading →
Nerd: One whose unbridled passion for something, or things, defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people’s judgment. – Zachary Levi Madison Parker has offered her talents to the Goodreads M/M Romance Group’s “Love Has No Boundaries” summer event, and, in the process, has managed to give the jock/nerd trope a... Continue Reading →
Nerd: One whose unbridled passion for something, or things, defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people’s judgment. – Zachary Levi Madison Parker has offered her talents to the Goodreads M/M Romance Group’s “Love Has No Boundaries” summer event, and, in the process, has managed to give the jock/nerd trope a... Continue Reading →
“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.” ― Jennifer Donnelly Everett Gerard is not what anyone might describe as paternal. In fact, the words used to describe Gerard run more along the lines of libertine, gadabout, and then, of course, there’s always his unnatural appetites he must keep secreted... Continue Reading →
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