Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.” --- C. Kennedy I have a hard time reading books containing incest. The subject matter is a heinous one and I... Continue Reading →
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Following as it does on the hot little kitten heels of C. Kennedy’s most recent title, the still best-selling... Continue Reading →
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Following as it does on the hot little kitten heels of C. Kennedy’s most recent title, the still best-selling... Continue Reading →
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* They met at ten, they kissed at twelve, and were madly in love by eighteen. Caleb Deering is the captain of the swim team and the hottest senior in school. He comes from a loving home with a kind father and a caring, but strict, mother who is battling... Continue Reading →
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* They met at ten, they kissed at twelve, and were madly in love by eighteen. Caleb Deering is the captain of the swim team and the hottest senior in school. He comes from a loving home with a kind father and a caring, but strict, mother who is battling... Continue Reading →
"In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.” ― John Steinbeck BLURB: According to legend, King Arthur is supposed to return when Britain needs him most. So why does a man claiming to be the once and future king suddenly appear in Los Angeles? This charismatic young Arthur creates a new Camelot within... Continue Reading →
"In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.” ― John Steinbeck BLURB: According to legend, King Arthur is supposed to return when Britain needs him most. So why does a man claiming to be the once and future king suddenly appear in Los Angeles? This charismatic young Arthur creates a new Camelot within... Continue Reading →
“Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky BLURB: Charlie Beresford would rather be doing anything this summer than hauling furniture for a moving company. Come September, he’ll be leaving for college, away from the awkwardness of Augustinian Academy, away from his father’s constant hints about prospective girlfriends. Then... Continue Reading →
“Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky BLURB: Charlie Beresford would rather be doing anything this summer than hauling furniture for a moving company. Come September, he’ll be leaving for college, away from the awkwardness of Augustinian Academy, away from his father’s constant hints about prospective girlfriends. Then... Continue Reading →
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” ― Kristen Reed The Twilight Gods and Renfred’s Masquerade are to this day the benchmark by which I measure all Young Adult historical fantasy novels, not that there are so many to choose from, mind, but as far as niches go, Hayden... Continue Reading →
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” ― Kristen Reed The Twilight Gods and Renfred’s Masquerade are to this day the benchmark by which I measure all Young Adult historical fantasy novels, not that there are so many to choose from, mind, but as far as niches go, Hayden... Continue Reading →
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” ― Julian Barnes This is a different type of book. You won’t find this on a specialty site from a small publisher that loves man-on-man quite like the rest of us. But sometimes a book comes along that is... Continue Reading →
“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” ― Julian Barnes This is a different type of book. You won’t find this on a specialty site from a small publisher that loves man-on-man quite like the rest of us. But sometimes a book comes along that is... Continue Reading →
“I'd never lived on a planet where such atrocities could happen, even before the souls came. This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds- the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions...the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs... Continue Reading →
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski Ryunoski Nakimura, or Ru to his friends has had a rough time of it recently. At the ripe old age of seventeen Ru has already been at the top of the music industry. He has also been knocked down... Continue Reading →
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” ― Leopold Stokowski Ryunoski Nakimura, or Ru to his friends has had a rough time of it recently. At the ripe old age of seventeen Ru has already been at the top of the music industry. He has also been knocked down... Continue Reading →
“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” ― Emilio Estevez For the past two years Aaron has been merely existing, floating through his life in a drugged haze. He can't tolerate anyone's touch. Not his mother, father or his brothers, the people who love him most,... Continue Reading →
“We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.” ― Emilio Estevez For the past two years Aaron has been merely existing, floating through his life in a drugged haze. He can't tolerate anyone's touch. Not his mother, father or his brothers, the people who love him most,... Continue Reading →
With a foreword by Cody Kennedy. Aaron Downing is broken, barely clinging to the hope that one day, he will be normal again. His life remains a constant string of nightmares, flashbacks, and fear, but he perseveres and starts college, determined to move on. Then Aaron gets assigned to work with Spencer Thomas for his... Continue Reading →
With a foreword by Cody Kennedy. Aaron Downing is broken, barely clinging to the hope that one day, he will be normal again. His life remains a constant string of nightmares, flashbacks, and fear, but he perseveres and starts college, determined to move on. Then Aaron gets assigned to work with Spencer Thomas for his... Continue Reading →
“I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they’re seeing too much… Because they have to have some innocence; there’s just no innocence left.” – Ellen DeGeneres Jackson Kern walks into his new school one day, and Taylor Andrews is immediately smitten. Becca volunteers to show Jackson around. She is always... Continue Reading →
“I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they’re seeing too much… Because they have to have some innocence; there’s just no innocence left.” – Ellen DeGeneres Jackson Kern walks into his new school one day, and Taylor Andrews is immediately smitten. Becca volunteers to show Jackson around. She is always... Continue Reading →
“The fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." – Charles Darwin Noah Hipwell is fifteen-years-old, has been expelled from school for standing up to a bully, lives with his single and ::gasp:: never married mother, and, oh, Noah also happens to be openly... Continue Reading →
“The fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." – Charles Darwin Noah Hipwell is fifteen-years-old, has been expelled from school for standing up to a bully, lives with his single and ::gasp:: never married mother, and, oh, Noah also happens to be openly... Continue Reading →
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