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Gay Teen Suicide: Three in One Year, In the Same School District

Got this disturbing letter from Change.Org. What disturbed me was that, once upon a time, I'd been there myself...and how ignorant people might not realize how much their hatred and intolerance can harm.

Dear Rick,

One suicide is one too many.

But three suicides in one year, within one school district, all by students who are gay or lesbian? That's nothing short of an epidemic, and it's the problem currently facing Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin school district.

The most recent incident occurred in ...

Crime Scene Now Available

I'm excited to announce the release of my latest publication, "Crime Scene" from Untreed Reads Publishing. The psychological thriller is an e-book short (only about 4,000 words) and can be read in one sitting...

...but may stay with you for long after.

The publisher synopsizes "Crime Scene" this way:

"After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer...

EW Poll: The Scariest Films of the Past Decade

I have always been a sucker for horror movies. Good horror movies. They can be pretty hard to find.

That's why I was excited when I saw this poll and its results in Entertainment Weekly magazine this week. I have seen all the films on the list and actually pretty much concur with the findings, although I would put The Strangers at the top of the list. That film creeped me out big time, and I'm pretty jaded when it comes to horror. I was also disappointed that Audition , a Japanese horror movie ...

Two Free Horror Novels for Your Kindle

In my continuing quest to bring you free notable books for your Kindle, I'm blogging today about two free horror novels from the Leisure Books. One is from incomparable horror author Brian Keene and the other is from Colleen Thompson who has a whole series of suspense novels that I haven't delved into yet, but that look really worthwhile. The price for these books right now at Amazon is a big fat zero. But hurry...these books often revert back to their full price with no warning. 

Use the...

Win a FREE Copy of My New Collection ON THE EDGE

On the Edge is my collection of gay romantic erotica, stories that had been previously published only as e-books. Now they're available for the print readers among you, in this lovely paperback edition (I think that cover is amazing!).

Anyway, you're saying: "get to the free part, stupid. That's what I'm here for." Okay. The rules are easy to follow:

1. Subscribe to this blog by clicking on the link at the right.
2. Leave a comment below. Very important: give me an e-mail address where I can...

A Search for Permanence

My mother used to joke that she'd need to get a new address book just for all the different addresses I've had. If I were to publish a roster of all the different places I've lived in my adult life, it would make for a longer-than-usual blog. You'd probably call me a nomad, a wanderer, someone who can't stay in one place too long.

And yet I am a true, dyed-in-the-wool Cancer; my home is vitally important to me. So why all the moving around? Restless?

For the first 18 years of my life, I grew up...

Take the American Morality Survey

The so-called "Public Advocate of the United States" is passing around the "American Morality Survey" hoping that it will definitively show Americans do NOT support equal rights in marriage, jobs, and education.

Let's tip the scales in favor of decency and equality by taking their survey and showing them what's right.

I did. It was only five quick questions, and I'm sure they expect you to side with them.

This, in part, is what I got in response after I clicked the submit button for my survey:

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Judge Strikes Down Counseling Grad Students' Refusal to Counsel LGBT Students

Homophobe J. KeatonSo Jennifer Keaton filed suit to keep from being expelled by her graduate counseling program for her "problems" with counseling LGBT students.

She lost.

Keaton has been quoted as saying she would tell LGBT clients that their behavior was "morally wrong" and she would try to get them to "change." She also said she would refer LGBT clients to other counselors. "Yuck, I just can't handle being around gay people! It gives me the willies!" No, she didn't really say that, but I lik...

A Vampire Novel to Remember: MOZART'S BLOOD by Louise Marley

Hope you'll take the time to check out my latest review at "Grimoire" my book review column at Dark Scribe magazine. This month, I'm giving my thoughts of one of the most accomplished vampire novels I've read in years, Mozart's Blood.

Here's a taste:

"Just when you think you've read everyone in horror who matters, along comes Louise Marley with her amazing and lyrical vampire tale, Mozart's Blood. Gripping, artful, tellingly detailed, and impossible to put down, Mozart's Blood is that rare...

OUT IN PRINT Reviews A DEMON INSIDE

Another positive review for my haunted house story from OUT IN PRINT:

"A Demon Inside is a rip-snorter of a read with enough spooky scenes, chilling night-time visitations and cackling, otherworldly laughter to put a few shadows into even the warmest, safest summer night. You don't have to wait for Halloween to get your chills – start the scaring season early with the ever-dependable Rick R. Reed."

Read the whole review here.