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July 4, 2024
200+ queer guys writing books featuring queer romance
Queer romance author Skye Kilaen has compiled a bumper list of over 200 authors – all queer guys writing books featuring queer romance.
There are so many names on the list I recognise – including my own! – but there are plenty more which are new to me. I just know my already overloaded TBR will be getting more books piled on in the very near future!
See the big gay list for yourself on Skye’s book blog, Planet Jinxatron:
200+ Authors of Queer Adult Romance Who Are Men / Transmasc...
G B Ralph interview printed in the Manawatū Guardian
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! This article was posted online over the weekend, and is now featured in this week’s print edition of the Manawatū Guardian – out today (Thursday 4 July 2024)!
Here’s a photo of the article in the newspaper:
Here’s a sharper version, clipped from the print edition’s (which you can see for yourself too, just click through and flip to page 3):
Or, if you prefer to read the article as it was published online over the weekend, you c...
July 1, 2024
The End of Dragons by Mark Stay
What comes after the end? Well, I have been impatiently waiting for five years to find out!
The same time period has passed for the characters since they were last seen in The End of Magic. We enter The End of Dragons to find many are making the most of the new world without magic while others are desperately clinging onto whatever shards of the old world they can get their hands on.
The End of Dragons is out nowThe End of Dragons is great fun, just begging to be adapted for ...
June 29, 2024
Author G B Ralph interviewed for the NZ Herald
Look, Mum – I’m in the paper! That’s certainly another author bingo square checked off for me.
Ilona Hanne interviewed me earlier in the week, and we had a fantastic chat. We discussed, among many other topics: our love of reading, libraries, cosy mysteries, The Milverton Mysteries, fictional cats, local inspiration, finding ways for people to die, writing diverse characters, and the journey from first idea though to publication and beyond.
Read the full article for yourself on The New...
June 28, 2024
Queer Kiwi reads for Pride Month’s final weekend
Fellow queer Kiwi author Jamie Sands has compiled five fantastic LGBTQ+ reads to see us through the final weekend of Pride Month – including my latest, Poison at Penshaw Hall!
We have necromancers, a lesbian witch, an anxious gay accused of murder, a handsome cop, whispering shadows, a blessing, a curse, beings of legend making themselves at home in Wellington, enemies to lovers, a possessive winged lord, and a very charming distraction, among many other things!
For more, check out Jam...
June 25, 2024
Interviewed for the newspaper
I just got off a Zoom call with Ilona Hanne (NZME journalist, editor of the Stratford Press, writing for the Manawatū Guardian) where we discussed our love of reading, libraries, cosy mysteries, and fictional cats!
We also covered how I started writing, publishing, the local setting for my Milverton Mysteries, and plenty more besides.
I’m looking forward to seeing what Ilona managed to pick out for her article from my ramblings. To be sure not to miss the article when it’s published, j...
June 23, 2024
100 days until Death in Douglas Glade release
This is fine, this is fine…
Death in Douglas Glade is out 2 October 2024, which is scary! But each pre-order gives me a sweet lil air kiss of motivation to make it the best Milverton Mystery yet.
Pre-order Death in Douglas Glade by G B RalphWhat’s the book about?
Pre-order Death in Douglas GladeKindle / ebookPre-order on Amazon today and receive your copy on release day: 2 October 2024.
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon AU (NZ)
PaperbackC...
A day with local authors and readers at the library
We had a rainy Sunday brunch with fellow authors followed by a book fair with readers at the Local Authors Day, which is part of Palmerston North City Library’s Writers and Readers winter series.
It was great to catch up with familiar faces and meet a whole bunch of new ones!
Authors at the Local Authors DayI know I’m missing a few names (apologies!), but from memory, going around the room anticlockwise:
Thom Conroy – author of The Naturalist and The Salted AirG B Ralph – a...June 21, 2024
Kobo audiobook sale: Poison at Penshaw Hall
Addison, Jake, Mabel, and Keith are at it again! And they’re getting all the love and attention this pride month 
The audiobooks are available all over the place at all times, but if you want to grab Penshaw for less, this weekend on Kobo is where it’s at. It’s on sale for a flat 4.99 across a bunch of currencies, once again resulting in some delightful discounts 
Buy Poison at Penshaw HallKindle / ebook
June 19, 2024
Local Authors Day
I’ll be at the Palmerston North City Library on Sunday afternoon with a bunch of other fantastic local authors!
Drop in any time between 1–4pm on Sunday 23 June 2024
Mezzanine Floor, Central Library, 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Things you can do or not do (choose your own adventure):Browse the booksPick up books, read the back, then put them down againTalk to authors about their books, or just about books in generalBuy booksGet books signed by authorsTell a...
