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December 12, 2012
2012 Holiday Gift Guide recommends “Songs for the New Depression”!
What a thrill to have Songs for the New Depression land on Queer Me Up’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide! Come to think of it, a red ribbon around this book might be just the ticket! Happy holidays!
Legendary Author Michael Nava praises “Songs for the New Depression”
Coming out in the 1980′s, I eagerly devoured every LGBT book I could lay my hands on. Novels from such authors as Armistead Maupin, Larry Kramer, and Patricia Nell Warren filled my crate shelves. But given my even-earlier leanings toward the mysteries of such stalwarts as the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Agatha Christie, the [...]
December 10, 2012
Popular Gay Author Morphs into Female Broadway Legend in His New Fictional Memoir
When I began my journey to author-hood, one of the first and most generous writers with whom I connected was the prolific and witty Arthur Wooten. Offering advice and willing to share tales of his own publishing adventures, Wooten quickly became a favorite. While his books range from the très gay On Picking Fruit and [...]
December 7, 2012
Favorite Holiday Album This Year
If you follow my posts or have read my novel, you already know that I’m a Christmas fanatic. In our house, we typically put up three trees, have a gigantic nutcracker collection, and at one point had a holiday CD collection totaling over 200, which is kind of crazy, considering that you really only hear [...]
An Acclaimed Gay Author Surprises with Two New Novels
I first met fellow writer Trebor Healey at Palm Springs Pride, where we were both signing copies of our novels at the Authors’ Village. Given that the title of my first novel includes the word “depression” and his recent title contains the word “sorrow,” we quickly bonded over a shared lament of others trying to [...]
December 3, 2012
Out in Print names “Songs for the New Depression” one of their “Best Books of 2012″
I’m so grateful for Out in Print Reviews including Songs for the New Depression in their wrap up of the top books of the year; it is a career highlight for me. Not only does it affirm my instinct to write, but it also means that others may eventually discover my tale, and hopefully it [...]
Band of Thebes’ Best LGBT Books of 2012
With LGBT bookstores shuttering and the consolidation of gay media resulting in reduced promotional opportunities for publishers and authors, few venues remain for discovering literature reflecting the gay experience. Happily, Stephen Bottum continues to provide one of the best sources for LGBT publishing news on his blog, Band of Thebes, which he began five years [...]
November 29, 2012
The Best LGBT Books of 2012
One of my favorite websites, Stephen Bottum’s Band of Thebes, just released its list of authors’ top picks for the best in 2012 gay and lesbian literature. I was honored to have been asked to submit my favorite, and was thrilled to see two of my friends, Arthur Wooten and David G. Hallman, on the [...]
The Rainbow Hour: An Interview with Kergan Edwards-Stout
I’m so thankful to GSHRadio’s Rainbow Hour for including me on yesterday’s show, in honor of World AIDS Day. What fun, to follow the hysterical “America’s #1 Tupperware salesgal” Dixie Longate! The hosts, Victor, Otto, Gregory, Steve, and I chat about HIV/AIDS, my novel, as well as my piece on Huffington Post, “Please Defriend Me,” [...]
It’s World AIDS Day. Does Anyone Care?
On March 5, 1995, the day I turned 30, I admitted my then-partner Shane Sawick into the hospital. He would not come out alive, dying just two weeks later, on March 22. While AIDS was the war he battled, he was ultimately done in by a skirmish with PML (Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy), a rare but [...]
