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Fred Karger Files Charges Against Anti-Gay Marriage Group

I post these things primarily because most people aren't going to read about them or hear about them in the mainstream. Evidently, Fred Karger, an openly gay man who ran on the Republican ticket for President this year, is seeking the names of private donors who have been helping to fund a private anti-gay marriage group called The National Organization for Marriage....NOM.

Yes, you heard that correctly. Karger is openly gay, a Republican, he supports gay marriage, and he ran for President. Wi...

Sexuality and Women's Changing Needs: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey; Nonfiction

 Because there are fifty contributing writers in the nonfiction book "Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey," the advanced book promotion has been interesting. There's isn't one set web site or blog to get pre-release information. What's been happening is something I've been seeing more of on the Internet: social media promotion.

In other words, the majority of informational posts about "Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey" have been through twitter and facebook. Of course contrib...

Yelp Takes A Stand Against Fake Reviews...

I find this link to the LA Times particularly interesting because of all that's been going on with regard to reviews in general in the book community. When I say in general, I mean there are many questionable things I see all the time about book reviews and they have nothing to do with bullying or a lot of what's been discussed this past year.

I'm talking more about this sort of thing right now. In this article, the LA Times talks about how Yelp is starting to fight back against businesses th...

Billionaire Bad Boys: The Ivy League Rake

I try not to post about myself or my books too often because I don't want that to be what this blog is all about. In doing this, I often tend to neglect my own work and overcompensate with other things I hope people will find interesting. But I wanted to talk about an upcoming release tentatively titled, "The Ivy League Rake" that's part of an eight book series concentrated in billionaire bad boys.

For those who don't know what a rake is, this might help:

A rake, short for rakehell, is a histo...

Male Full Frontal Nudity ll: Michael Pitt and Zack McGowen

After posting earlier this week about a male full frontal nudity scene with Bobby Cannavale in "Boardwalk Empire," I remembered a few other scenes I'd happened to notice recently and figured I'd post about them, too. And it's Friday. We're in the middle of a vicious election, gas prices are soaring at record highs, and Joy Behar's big mouth is still running overtime. So it's nice to take a break from it all for a day or two.

I find it interesting that actor Michael Pitt...who happens to...

Hoping Lambda Sees That Newsweek Mag Goes Digital

Earlier this week I posted about the fact that the LLF still doesn't accept digital submissions from authors for the Lambda Awards.

Not only is it costly for authors to submit copies of print books these days, but most authors have a large digital readership that's building constantly.

So this is why I'm hoping the folks at the LLF who are in charge of the Lambda Awards read this article about Newsweek Magazine going completely digital in a few months. I've been predicting this sort...

The Only 36 Storylines...in the World

I've posted before how I don't believe there are any truly original storylines left in the world. I know some will disagree with me, but I'm not the only one who believes this.

According to this blogger, a French writer named Georges Polti actually came up with 36 storylines that have been done over and over again. In this case it's thirty six "dramatic situations."

This could be applied to any genre, from romance to mystery, in my opinion. The Cinderella story is a good example for romance....

No Calorie Birthday Cake...

Tony celebrated another birthday this week and I decided to do something different this year. We both don't eat cake because it's so fattening. Tony will sometimes, but I haven't had a piece of cake in about four years. And every year for the past twenty years I've been buying a birthday cake and taking a spoonful, and then throwing it away three or four days later.

And I hate to waste food more than anything in the world. Besides, we both stopped making a big thing out of birthdays a while a...

So, Candy Crowley, What About Equal Rights and Same Sex Marriage?

I have always found Candy Crowley to be an excellent example of how objectivity in American journalism is dying. During the heated Democratic primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the last Presidential election she proved her bias time and again. It's always seemed to me that her true intention is not to inform people with issues, but to turn events and issues around to promote the candidate of her own personal choice. When I heard she was...

Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey Swag!!

I've posted about how I'm part of a book being released this fall titled, "Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey." I've been around for a long time and I've seen a lot of book releases in my time, from anthologies I've been in to single author titles. But this is the first time I've ever seen promotional swag like THIS!

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