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Gavin Newsom Interview; Snapshot Self-destructing Photos; Catfishing: Konrath on KDP Select

In this week's Time Magazine, former San Francisco mayor and supporter of gay marriage, Gavin Newsom, is the focus in the "10 Questions" section. He's also the present California Lt. Governor and the author of a new book titled, Citizenville.

The questions are interesting, especially this one about the Catholic Church, which I found interesting because I was raised Catholic and went through twelve years of strict Catholic education. I basically feel the same way he does, and I understand his...

New Gay Fiction by Jeffery Self: Openly Gay Actor

Update: Smashwords link

When I saw a press release in my inbox about a new novel written by openly gay actor, Jeffery Self, I knew I had to post something about it before the day was over. As those of you who read this blog may know, I've posted so many things about closeted gay actors in Hollywood over the years it would take too much time to link to them now in this post.

Jeffery Self is a young gay actor who has had parts in more than a few highly successful TV shows. One of the things he's...

Gender Politics in M/M Romance; The Virgin Bachelor; Elton John AD Cover

I actually wrote a much longer post on gender politics in M/M Romance, however, it turned out to be so dull and pedantic I decided to save it and keep it in the archives. What brought me to this topic was a post I read over a week ago about gender politics in M/M Romance, a post with which I didn't completely agree. And since I have my own blog, I decided to just write my own post on the topic for my readership.

And keep in mind that this is coming from my own personal experience, not fro...

Kindle Direct Publishing Newsletter

The reason why I always post things from the (KDP) Kindle Direct Publishing Newsletter is to let others know what's going on, and to show what so many indie authors are doing things these days. I've posted about how I'm a fan of "Downton Abbey," and that's largely because I find the changes the characters were going through during post Edwardian times are fascinating. In many ways, 100 years later, we're going through the same changes in this century. Publishing alone is changi...

Guilty Verdict and Off to Jail for Sockpuppet; Downton Abbey Gay Trope

In an interesting case involving the Dead Sea Scrolls and a sockpuppet story of epic proportions, a NY attorney was found guilty on multiple counts that range from identity theft to aggravated harassment. I swear this happened, and I have links to prove it.

This is what his attorney had to say:

"Today what happened was the district attorney of New York County and the trial court made hurting somebody's feelings a criminal act. In New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a cr...

Billionaire Bad Boy: The Actor Learning to Love

I've found that whenever I get ready to submit a new book to a publisher, writing a blog post about it, with the initial plot description in raw form, helps keep me organized for the finished product. If blogs are supposed to be daily journals, this is one way to utilize them. Writing book descriptions for sell copy can often be more intimidating than writing the actual book. It's like writing a query letter to an agent, but this time it really counts because it's the thing that may or m...

Upcoming Film on Joey Stefano: Porn Brat Pack of the 1980's

Last Thursday I mentioned that I did a telephone interview with a writer from G Philly Magazine  about the late adult entertainment star, Joey Stefano. I've posted about this before here, and here. I'm not sure how much of a help I was to him, because I knew Stefano on a casual basis from seeing him in nightclubs in the early 1990's...acquaintances. And this was all local, in the Philadelphia area, not in LA where Stefano worked in films at the time. Stefano was, indeed, from Ch...

How To Become a Member of Lambda Literary

Another one of my New Year's resolutions this year is to become a member of Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF). So I went to the LLF web site and found this:

The Lambda Literary Foundation is the leading national nonprofit for LGBT readers, writers, publishers, editors, librarians, booksellers and the entire LGBT literary community. Your membership contributions help to sustain our programs: the Lambda Literary Awards, the Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, and our website, LambdaLiterar...

RRW Will Partner With Elisa Rolle In This Year's Rainbow Awards

There are going to be a few changes with this year's Rainbow Awards, and one of them will be that Elisa Rolle has partnered with RRW (Rainbow Romance Writers). RRW is a chapter of RWA, Romance Writers of America.

From my inbox:

The 2013 Elisa Rolle Rainbow Awards are an annual contest celebrating outstanding work in LGBT fiction and nonfiction. Hosted and owned by blogger Elisa Rolle, the contest is open to all authors of work containing LGBT fictional characters and work chronicling the true s...

Jonah Lehrer Gets 20 Thousand; Tim Tebow Goes Anti-Gay; Obnoxious Self-Promotion

Jonah Lehrer who was caught plagiarizing last year was recently paid the sum of $20,000 by the Knight Foundation to speak on some of the bad decisions he's made, and also on the topic of failure.

Reaction has been uniformly negative, with pointed posts in the New York Times , Forbes and Los Angeles Magazine . But while I don’t necessarily disagree with such commentary, I also think it misses the point.

I have also seen these negative reactions everywhere, not just in the mainstrea...