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June 13, 2014
Revisiting Lily
Friend and author,Xavier Axelson is doing what few authors are brave enough to do – pulling a published story apart, rewriting it, and bringing it back to life. I asked him to stop by and talk to us about his horror novel, Lily, and give us a bit more information. (I’m nosy like that.) ~B.
Lily is the first of my books to be reissued, and while I am eternally grateful to Seventh Window Publications (it’s my favorite story) I was skeptical to revisit a world created two years prior. After all,...
June 9, 2014
Challenges for the future of LGBT Rights
In honor of LGBT Pride month, I am among a great group of panelists who will be hosting a month long discussion about Pride, LGBT Youth, Allies, and more. Our panelists are a diverse group of readers, writers, and supporters of gay fiction, including Larry Benjamin, Rick Bettencourt, Brandilyn Carpenter, Rob Colton, Andrew Q Gordon, Lane Hayes, andDebbie McGowan. Each week, two people will answer two questions related LGBT pride, rights, and related topics. We will also be giving away free co...
June 6, 2014
Telling The Stories of Lost Friends
After meeting the talented Michael Rupured at RainbowCon 2014, I asked him to stop by and tell us a little about hisbooks. Don’t let the titles fool you, these aren’t just seasonal tales.
Thanks so much, Brandon, for inviting me onto your blog to introduce myself and to share a little about the kind of books I write. Meeting you was one of many highlights of the recent RainbowCon in Tampa. It’s nice to finally have a face to go with the name.
After coming out in 1979 at the age of 21, I have li...
June 3, 2014
Cover Reveal – Summer Symphony
It’s about love, and music, and grief.
It’s about a miscarriage and how a man is expected to stuff his anguish inside, as if he was never a part of the process, nor mourned for the loss.
It’s about marriage and society and how we fall into the roles we are assigned by each.
It’s about two men and a woman, and what it means to be human.
Fall 2014
cover design: Aeternum Designs
June 2, 2014
Stay Positive – Short film #HIV
Stay Positive from Robert-Carnilius on Vimeo.
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Provincetown International Film Festival
Frameline International LGBT Film Festival
The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Fresno Reel Pride Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Reeling Chicago LBGT International Film Festival
Cinema Mostra AIDS|Sao Paulor, Brazil
Mezipatra Queer Film Festival|Czech Republic
Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
May 30, 2014
Being Gay Didn’t Mean I Was Wrong
Readers nominated Me and Mine by Sarah Goodwin for a 2014 LGBT Book Gem. I asked her to stop by and give us some background on the story. ~B.
I wrote the first version of Me and Mine while I was in my second year of university, doing my Creative Writing degree. At the time I was only just starting to receive treatment for depression, and because I wasn’t able to focus on assignments, I began to write a lot of fanfiction. I’ve always read fanfiction, since I was about thirteen, but I’d never re...
May 23, 2014
The Wolf at the Door
More than a few readers nominatedJameson Currier’sThe Wolf at the Doorfor a 2014 LGBT Book Gem. I asked him to give us readers a little of the story behind the novel.
The Wolf at the Door, my novel set in a haunted gay-owned guesthouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans, was begun in 2003, after several visits to New Orleans, including participating in the annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival and taking innumerable walking tours throughout the French Quarter, Garden District, and loca...
May 21, 2014
Saugatuck Summer
Hi, and welcome to the Saugatuck Summer blog tour! First of all, I want to thank Brandon for hosting me again. One of my best memories of RainbowCon last month was the few minutes we got to talk when he extended the invitation. It’s been a while since I’ve appeared on his blog and I’m so happy to be back!
For those of you who have seen me talking about it on social media for the last nearly year and a half, you know that Saugatuck Summer was a labor of love far beyond what I would normally cla...
May 18, 2014
Nominated for Best Novella
It is my pleasure to inform you that Listening to Dust has been nominated for a 2014 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards – Best Novella.
As many of my readers know, Dustalso won a Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction in 2012, and it continues to be the book I receive the most email about.
It is not an easy story. It was never meant it be. It is about love and loss. As one reviewer wrote: This ain’t Brokeback Mountain. It will rip your fu*&ing heart out without ap...
May 16, 2014
The Boy I Love
Welcome Marion Husband to the blog. Readers nominated her The Boy I Love series for a 2014 LGBT Book Gem.
When I give readings and talks about The Boy I Love trilogy of novels, I am sometimes asked why, as a heterosexual woman, I wanted to write about homosexual men. I answer that it was accidental, a way into a plot: I’d started a novel and it seemed to me that it didn’t have enough drama, there had to be more conflict, more struggle and interest. It occurred to me that if the central charact...
