Brandon Shire's Blog, page 38

Afflicted – M/M Romance

A high priced male escort and a blind gay man meet by chance. What ensues is a hot, steamy romance by two men looking for something more than a one night stand. But can they reach beyond their owninsecuritiesto grasp what they really desire?

So I’ve been working on this for a while now. The basis of the story was from a short I had written almost ten years ago. Over this past weekend we finally decided on a title and put the cover together.

This is a substantial departure from my other nove...

Remembering

We did not stand for a faith

Or a people

Or a flag.

We stood for a cause

And that cause

Was freedom.

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Introspection

What do you see?

A bass player laying it down?

A pirouette in mid motion?

A child throwing a tantrum?

A fisherman reeling in the big one

he always talked about, but lost….

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Ordinary Heroes – Gay Couples

I originally posted this on Chick n Dicks(they’re generous enough to invite me around once in a while) when they were doing an Ordinary Hero’ssegmentfor the month of February. In light of thepresident’sendorsement yesterday and the fact that I personally believe that gay couples CAN change people’s misconceptions just by being who they are, I have re-posted it again here, with a few edits for SFW reading.

Let’s face it, we like our escapist reading. We love the hot swarthy men who jump int...

Here’s Your Wake Up Call about LGBT Youth Programs

Here is a reprint of the email one of the organizations I work with just received. Sometimes I really wonder if my reader’s understand what we’re actually battling against in LGBT Youth organizations. Sometimes I wonder if they really believe that the atrocities in my books are just a warped imagination and not a reflection of thedevastationstill being wrought on our community. And many times I wonder if we will ever wake up, put down our latte’s and actually dosomethingbeside give lip se...

Two People, One Heart

I sometimes just sit back and watch the screaming that goes on about marriage, but it’s not too hard to understand what love means, especially when you come across a gem like this.

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We have a WINNER!!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulationsto Nicole Hanson for winning a signed copy of Listening To Dustfrom my first Goodreads giveaway.

And thank you to the 500+ people that signed up for it!

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Giveaway- Free Autographed copy

I’m giving away an autographed copy of Listening to Dust to one US resident. Enter on Goodreads from May 1st to May4th. I’ll be adding in giveaways for other countries in the very near future. Watch for them!

And while your on Goodreads you can read the excerptchapter that one book blogger dared her followers to read and not cry.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


Listening To Dust
by Brandon Shire

Giveaway ends May 04, 2012.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter to win

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On the Whimsy

So when I started this out I was being convinced by friends that I ‘just had to publish.’

It won’t be much, new book tech, kindle, nook and all that…Yeah, right. I had to figure out a whole new language, find book marketing bloggers that weren’t trying to pedal me some bullshit scheme about how they were going to make me the next NYT bestseller, and then there were all those querky tech problems that I still have no clue about.

Soon thereafter itbecameblog posts and twitter and google plus...

Stephen Dobbins – Guest Post

Dad was a diplomat, or so I was told. Honestly I was too young to understand or care. He might have been MI5 for all I knew. The only thing I understood was that he was gone a good bit, and that when he was home we were an inseparable lot; me, my mum and him.

My parents loved me a great deal and I always felt loved even when I thought that I was different from other boys. But they loved each other even more and I could see it each time their eyes met. Maybe that was why their death hurt me...