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Afflicted II

If you were waiting (impatiently like me ) for AMZ, I have received notice that all files have been updated.



B. Shire

Afflicted II – Now Available

It’s Here! And ‘HOTTER than Afflicted I‘

Or so I’m told.

Ladies are blushing. Gay men are…well, you know…

Find out for yourself!

Get your copy fromAmazon, B&N, or Kobo

See what others are already saying about it on Goodreads

10% of the proceeds from this, and all Brandon Shire books, are donated to LGBT Youth Charity

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Best Gay Contemporary Fiction – LGBT Rainbow Awards

In case you haven’t heard, the Rainbow Book Awards were announced and I am very proud to say that Listening to Dust tied for third place in the Best Gay Contemporary Fiction category.

The Value of Rain came in with an Honorable Mention in the same category at #7 and received andHonorableMention at #5 for Best Gay Debut Novel.

Congratulations to:

Winner: Wayne Hoffman – Sweet Like Sugar

2nd place: Ken O’Neill – The Marrying Kind

Third place tie: Lewis DeSimone - The Heart’s History

You can see the e...

What’s Coming in 2013?

Next year seems like a million miles away in writing terms. Talk to a publisher, book marketer, or an editor and they turn and look at the production board and shake their head. All the work before the holidays – release dates, deadlines, where’s the effing MS you promised…

I am all of the above: the writer, the marketer, the chastiser, the deadline harbinger of doom. Don’t get me wrong. I have help on this end. I have an outside editor and I have the people who pressed me to publish. They hav...

Afflicted Group Read

My fans have put together a group read over on Goodreads for Afflicted. Everyone is gearing up for the release of Afflicted II on Dec 6th.

The group is open to the public so you can stop by, leave a comment, or just poke around the place.

Quick Note: The print editions of Afflicted I & II will be out later this month.

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Gay pop star Will Young – Music Monday

Sometimes the music just speaks for itself.

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The final weeks until Afflicted 2

I’m in the home stretch for getting Afflicted II out to you by December and thought I would share some of the music that has been part of the writing process, as well as some thoughts about theAfflictedseries itself.

First, let me start off with anadmission:Afflictedwas anexperiment. In 15 years of writing I’ve never attempted to write erotic romance. This was a first. I enjoyed writing it. It was nice to have written something with a definitively happy ending; and if the muse has her way, I m...

Nessa L Warin on LGBT YA books and her new release

I’m talking with Nessa L. Warin today. Nessa has 4 books under her belt, works with Harmony Ink promoting positive books for LGBT Youth and has a new book out, To Dream, Perchance to Live.

B: Before we get into your book, let’s talk a little about what you do at Harmony Ink. The press is set up to promote books with positive role models for LGBT Youth, what do you do there to help foster the growth and reach your audience?

NW: I’m the media coordinator, which means I run the Facebook page and t...

Music Monday – ZZ Ward

To my knowledge ZZ Ward is not LGBT, but her music is so good that I thought I’d do a little sample here.

Til the Casket Drops is the first song she wrote for her new CD. The song is a story about going to war for the one you love, and as the muse starts hitting me with thoughts for a new book, it seems this captures its vibe perfectly. And if this seems familiar, you may have heard her on Pretty Little Liars, The Voice, or several other TV shows, and I’m sure you’ll likely be hearing her a lo...

48-hour Street Vigil for Atlanta’s homeless LGBT Youth

Living as homeless

November 6-8

Starting November 6, Executive Director of Lost-N-Found , Rick Westbrook, will be living on the roof of a truck parked in MidtownAtlantawith no more than the clothes on his back, his ID and his cell phone—no wallet, no money—for 48 hours. Please join the Lost-n-Found Facebook page for more information and live updates once he’s there.

ALLproceedsgo directly to getting LGBT kids off the street.

The truck will also take donations of coats, underwear/socks, canned foo...