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January 27, 2013
Gay For You: Matt Bomer Made Him Gay!!
I came across one of the most amusing posts I've seen in a long time, written by Chez Pazienza. You can read more about him here. He has some interesting credentials. The photo isn't bad either. But most of all you'll love his kind of sort of gay for you article about how Matt Bomer turned him gay. Here's an excerpt:
I’ve always considered myself a straight guy, despite a past littered with deviant sexual exploits of all shapes, sizes and proclivities. But I’m not ashamed to say that...
January 26, 2013
Agent Lori Perkins Looking For "Trunk Novel Submissions"
Who: Literary Agent Lori Perkins
OK, so I've been a literary agent for 25 years.
I've had 8 titles on the NY Times best seller list.
What: She wrote a blog post recently about "Trunk Novels."
Or tell the author to come up with something new, and to put this one in the trunk (thus the term "trunk novels," which always makes me think of that scene from The Hunger).
Why: She's interested in reading "Trunk Novels." As stated above, trunk novels are novels that never sold, and authors put them away...
2012's Most Overused Words: Epic; Awesome; Heh...
About once a week I try to find time to sit down and check out words. I'm talking about words in general, to see if I can find something I don't use often or have never used before. Unfortunately, this post about overused words all started with me looking for homophones and turned into something completely different altogether.
I came across one web site that had a list of the most overused words of 2012, and then did another search and came up with so many lists like this there did...
January 25, 2013
Amazon/KDP News; Global Fund; Why I Don't Promote Some KDP Authors
Here's the latest Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing news (KDP) about the Global Fund for those enrolled in KDP select. Below that I've posted a few things from the KDP newsletter.
The rest of the newsletter is about other KDP authors who write fiction, one of whom I've read before, who has had some success. But I don't feel the urge to promote any of them. I also know one of them self-published in several places, including Amazon, through a literary agent's e-publishing service and there's...
The rest of the newsletter is about other KDP authors who write fiction, one of whom I've read before, who has had some success. But I don't feel the urge to promote any of them. I also know one of them self-published in several places, including Amazon, through a literary agent's e-publishing service and there's...
Manti Te'o Odd Situation; The New Normal Hair Debacle; Divine the One and Only
I've been following this ordeal Manti Te'o is going through with tongue-in-cheek interest because it's so completely bizarre. I also think it's a reflection on what it's like to live in these modern times of social media where anyone can be duped and tricked into believing almost anything. Even more interesting is how Te'o responded to a question about whether or not he's gay.
Manti Te'o insists he's the victim of a hoax and that he was set up, I think, by a man pretending to be a woman...
January 24, 2013
Royalty Time Again: Do What you Love
For many writers it's royalty time again, and for most that can be an interesting experience. A good deal of the writers I know all work full time and are busy raising families and they do their writing in their spare time, which is the way it's always been done. I ran two businesses for years, seven days a week, and wrote in my spare time, thrilled to get any work writing LGBT fiction I could get at the time. Most of that work was done with anthologies because the call for gay nove...
January 23, 2013
Edward Lear; The Owl and the Pussycat: This Is the Darker Side of Gay?
When you think of Edward Lear and The Owl and the Pussycat, you don't think gay or the darker side of anything. You think nonsense books, because that's what he's best known for writing. Poems that comfort you come to mind, and words like "runcible" spoon make you smile.
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist , illustrator , author and poet, and is renowned primarily for his literary nonsense , in poetry and prose and especially his limericks , a form that he...
January 22, 2013
Double Standard for Men and Women: Prince Harry Speaks About Nude Photos
I posted about the double standard that I thought went down between the Prince Harry nude Vegas photos and the topless photos taken of Princess Kate sunbathing last year. In that post, I mentioned how no one was concerned about Harry's privacy.
Prince Harry recently said this:
"I was in a private area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should expect. Back at home, all my close friends rallied around me and were great."
He says more, here.
When Prince H...
Gay Hollywood: The George Nader-Rock Hudson Connection; Just Don't Be Gay
When I accidentally turned on the TV last weekend and found a tribute to the late Loretta Young, with an all day event of her old TV show Letters to Loretta, I didn't think I'd be writing a post about George Nader...or even Rock Hudson. What interested me most about the old show was that it had been done in anthology format, where each show is just like a short story with one overall theme. In this case all shows were based on letters written to Loretta Young.
But when I found myself watc...
January 21, 2013
Fifty Shades in Hardcover; Matt Bomer at Inaugural; Oprah Not Going; International E-Book Sales
According to the article below, "Fifty Shades of Grey" will be released in a hard cover print edition on Jan. 30.
E L James blockbuster bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy will be published by Doubleday in hardcover editions for the first time on January 29. Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed will have a combined initial printing of 200,000 copies, and will be widely available in independent and chain bookstores, department and wholesale stores, as well as o...
