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The video Gay Love Poem has received over 200,000 views a...

The video Gay Love Poem has received over 200,000 views at YouTube. That video features "Home," from my books Holding Me Together and Selected Poems. Keywords: writing, writers, poets, poetry, poems, anthologies, collections, holding me together, home, gay love, gay relationships, gay men, LGBT, marriage, long-term, LTR, men loving men, men4men, man4man, man2man.

The prolific book and movie reviewer Amos Lassen selected...

The prolific book and movie reviewer Amos Lassen selected a list of 2010's top 11 books (so far) for the gay site Lambda Literary. Amos is also an author and teacher.

So far, fifty people added Degranon: A Science Fiction Ad...

So far, fifty people added Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure to their Goodreads lists.

Read about my award-winning short story collection. Keywo...

Read about my award-winning short story collection. Keywords: small-town, West Texas, stories, fiction, comedy, satire, drama, rural, acorn, Sordid Lives, Greater Tuna, Tuna Texas, Lubbock author, Duane Simolke, Lubbock authors, Lubbock writer, Lubbock writers, Lubbock Texas, West Texas book, West Texas books, Lubbock book, Lubbock books, texas tech university alumni, football, sports, teachers,

Discover West Texas fiction and more at Love Those Excerp...

Discover West Texas fiction and more at Love Those Excerpts. Read daily excerpts for books of all genres.

Revisiting Diversity in Science Fiction. Reposted from Ti...

Revisiting Diversity in Science Fiction. Reposted from Tiki Hut.Now that I've completed a draft to the sequel of Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, I still find myself surprised by the slow but steadily growing audience Degranon finds. It's been almost ten years since the first edition appeared. I rewrote the book two years after its publication, following an earlier idea of making some of

I posted some scifi trailers yesterday. Here's one for th...

I posted some scifi trailers yesterday. Here's one for the new Jake Gyllenhaal movie, Source Code. It looks it might be exciting, unless the time travel scenes keep repeating in a monotonous fashion. Source Code HD trailer.

In the gay DVD Strapped, a young hustler becomes trapped ...

In the gay DVD Strapped, a young hustler becomes trapped in an apartment building. The tenants there affect him in surprising ways. Read my review at ThisWeekInTexas.Com.

SciFi Trailers: Science Fiction: 1600 views at YouTube!Co...

SciFi Trailers: Science Fiction: 1600 views at YouTube!Cowboys and Aliens, with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.I Am Number 4, based on the teen novel.Green Lantern, the new full-length trailer.Tron Legacy, the long-awaited Disney sequel.Battle: Los Angeles, an invasion movie with a war-movie feel.More scifi:Falling Skies discussion at ComicCon.Outcasts press release. The new show, with Battlestar

West Texas: A TUNA CHRISTMAS Opens New Tour in Lubbock. T...

West Texas: A TUNA CHRISTMAS Opens New Tour in Lubbock. The show features new sets and costumes, but still with the original cast of two, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams, playing multiple roles.For more West Texas humor, check out Fat Diary and The Acorn Stories.