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Roger Kean and his Books
Hi Complainers! If you enjoy reading novels with a historical theme you may enjoy Thunderbolt:Torn Enemy of Rome. Well, you can download it from Smashwords for any ebook format for FREE until June 20. This is an exclusive to the Complaint Department. Warning, there are scenes of gay love and romance ;-)
Go to: Smashwords, select format, and enter code: DY77Y
And hopefully enjoy the story of Malco Barca, hero of Carthage.
Eric wrote: "Done!Thanks, Roger.
Eric"
And give this one priority over that disgusting Bellamy book. Thunderbolt:Torn Enemy of Rome by Roger Kean is true gay historical fiction, not some hack's idea of improprieties I could not even begin to describe in lurid detail but if you want me to try I think I could remember every lurid detail Bellamy wrote.
Now Preston, don't you go upsetting my good friend Rod Bellamy. He's not a Goodreads member, so he can't defend himself ;-/
Yeah, Preston. You piss off Roger's good friend Rod, and he (Rod not Roger) just might smite you with his rod.Uh, hmmm. Well, no, that wouldn't be any sort of punishment for Preston, would it.
Ah well, I'm sure he'll think of something should the occasion arise.
>s<
Eric
Preston wrote: "Good because this is the Roger Kean and His Books section not the Rod Bellamy fan club. Let's keep this on topic. Harumph! "Maybe so, Preston, but Mississippi Hustler was an awfully fun/good book.
Thanks for "suggesting" it Roger! :)
Rick wrote: "Maybe so, Preston, but Mississippi Hustler was an awful..."Playing in the mud and making a mess was a bit childish. Going to New Orleans and not going to any of the jazz clubs was dumb. Going to Kaimuki and not having dinner in a Chinese restaurant is a crime. A cylindrical building with people living in the walls of the cylinder is unbelevable. Going into the rain forest and not using the mud and Ti leaves to make a slide was a violation of Hawaiian tradition. Not getting any tangible commitment from Mohammad was not very smart and made for a sad ending.
Just in case you don't figure out I'm kidding, see my 5 star review here in Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Don't talk to me about mud wrestling… I've just had to write a scene with three pairs of gladiators using other self-possessed weapons for swords, fighting under showers of rose petals, and…
Roger wrote: "Don't talk to me about mud wrestling… I've just had to write a scene with three pairs of gladiators using other self-possessed weapons for swords, fighting under showers of rose petals, and…"Just post the chapter here and we'll let you know if you measure up to Rod Bellamy.
Preston wrote: "///giggle\\\"Yes, and as co-mod you'd ban me for failing to comply with the Rules on the group home page… ;-))
So email us the chapter you big tease you! :P
Roger wrote: "Don't talk to me about mud wrestling… I've just had to write a scene with three pairs of gladiators using other self-possessed weapons for swords, fighting under showers of rose petals, and…"Hmm, I'm guessing this might be from Deadly Circus of Desire: Boys of Imperial Rome 240 Pages, Softcover, 5.25 X 7.5"
Which I just got an advanced solicitation request from tlavideo.com about
Here's the page
http://www.tlavideo.com/gay-deadly-ci...
Rick wrote: "Which I just got an advanced solicitation request from tlavideo.com about Here's the page..."It's a bit of a wait. Bruno Gmünder's website says it comes out in December, the TLA page you thoughtfully provided the link for says the release date is 12/30/2014, Amazon says it is to be released on December 1st.
Amazon has the best price $11.46 and won't charge customers until the book is actually shipped to the customer sometime in December.
Well, Roger did say he was working on it. ;)
Actually, I'm done. We're all waiting on Oliver to finish the illustrations. The GR entry is still a mess, without cover and that weird spacing, not to mention the odd way of showing the title (!), presumably badly picked up from Amazon?
Roger wrote: "The GR entry is still a mess, without cover and that weird spacing, not to mention the odd way of showing the title (!)"That's terrible. If there had been a Goodreads Librarian who was a loyal and true fan of Zack he might have cleaned that up for you awhile ago.
Oh wow Ethan Who Love Carter is a great story. People should read it after they read A Life Apart. I voted for A Life Apart.A sample chapter, Chapter 9 of the book is at this link: http://pastehtml.com/view/crdmw4gnm.rtxt
"From the beginning author and artist set the scene of wanton male lustfulness…"I'm sold!
* wanton * isn't that an ingredient in a Chinese soup? ;-)
Roger wrote: "* wanton * isn't that an ingredient in a Chinese soup? ;-)"Yep it's Chinese mystery meat ravioli in chicken broth.
A year later than planned, the third in the Empire Trilogy is almost ready for publication (by mid-February).Harry's Great Trek is not just a continuation of the stories in A Life Apart and Gregory's Story, it is more than that—it is a wraparound… and it is Harry’s own story.
The first four chapters may be read at: http://www.cityboiz.com/harrys-great-...
What do you do when the person you have loved in secret since your schooldays finds happiness with another, leaving your heart bereft and your future a bleak, lonely prospect?
For Harry Smythe-Vane, junior officer serving in the British army at the end of the failed campaign to rescue Gordon of Khartoum from the Mahdist siege of 1885, finding childhood friends Richard and Edward united in love spells the end of a dream he knows was doomed from the start—more so, a dream condemned by society at large: the love of two men for each other.
Harry must now pluck up the courage to pursue an uncertain quest for an elusive new soulmate—his great trek to attain fulfillment.
From dangerous missions on India’s wild North-West Frontier to the deserts of Sudan, Harry forges a career and experiences fleeting friendships, but when a spell of leave takes him to London his heart is struck. He meets his almost-forgotten godson Jolyon Langrish-Smith, a troubled teenager in Oscar Wilde’s louche circle. It’s an encounter that pitches Harry headlong on a turbulent journey of emotional involvement, of hurt and joy.
Painting a vivid panorama of the British Empire at its height, with its multi-faceted but rigid society hovering on the brink of change, Harry’s Great Trek is an epic saga of love and war—alive with an engaging cast of the humble and the famous, the honorable and the scoundrels—which climaxes in 1900 amid the carnage of the Boer War. There Harry’s future is decided as one quest ends and a new journey begins…
Harry’s Great Trek concludes the “Empire Trilogy” which also comprised of A Life Apart and Gregory’s Story.
Just received a paperback copy from CreateSpace. Its spine is over an inch thick, which explains the cost, sadly :( Still, there is a lot to read…
There are 10 maps…
I hope so for the cost! It's such a shame that Amazon-CreateSpace charge so much for manufacture, distribution-post, and their own mark-up. But I suppose on-demand print is never cheap like "real" printing.
Imagine what Gutenberg would say about print on demand. He probably would have a lot of German guttural sounding words cursing Roger for writing about gay love. But hey, he might throw a Gutenberg Bible at him and then Roger can retire from writing :-)Having read all three books I can tell you that the best part is when
(view spoiler).
No spoilers now, it's official AMZ on-sale date! and thank you Preston…https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Got my copy last night! Let's hear it for pre-orders!!
Hey, Lori, thanks! :-)(Hope you enjoy it…)
Harry's Great Trek is one of the two Reads of the Month at the Queereader's Group:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
GR reader scavola, reading Harry's Great Trek just said:"Let's face it, Roger Kean is not only the best writer of gay fiction, but one of the best writers PERIOD. Someday there better be a statue of him next to a library somewhere, or society will have missed its mark!"
I'm a humble kind of person, really, but if anyone would like to host a Kickstarter campaign for the statue…
I'm in, but only if there is another statue right beside him of Mr. Frey. Not to belittle Mr. Kean's talent or contributions, I just always think of them together and a statue of one without the other seems like it would be incomplete.
Rick wrote: "...I just always think of them together and a statue of one without the other seems like it would be incomplete. ..."
Absolutely Rick. Not only 45 years together but working together for many (most?) of those years. Oliver's work exhibited at The British Library (Americans think of this like our Library of Congress) last year along with a presentation by the Library of Oli being interviewed about gay art and all of his work to date suggests to me The British Library might be a good place for these two whose whose work was often as intertwined as are their hearts.
Okay I should have mentioned that Roger as publisher and Oli as artist who owned and produced the most popular computer gaming magazines are much in demand for vintage gaming conventions where they are hailed as great heroes of Retro Gaming. But I thought it would be confusing, However the Retro Gamers have already put these two up on pedestals.
I can help with the Kickstarter campaign. Roger and Oli absolutely deserve a statue but you know they'll have to get use to being s**t on that happens to statues all the time.
PS...what Preston and Rick said!
Rick wrote: "I just always think of them together and a statue of one without the other seems like it would be incomplete...."Like Alcock and Brown at Heathrow…?
Otherwise…
Thank you… (and Oliver's been blushing…)
Roger wrote: "Like Alcock and Brown at Heathrow…?"Sure. But I was thinking more along the lines of Alexander and Hephaestion or Achilles and Patroclus, but Alcock and Brown will work too. ;)
Rick wrote: "Roger wrote: "Like Alcock and Brown at Heathrow…?"Sure. But I was thinking more along the lines of Alexander and Hephaestion or Achilles and Patroclus, but Alcock and Brown will work too. ;)"
In the bright shiny days of passenger air travel—when airliners had rotary things on the front of their engines and meals were freshly cooked in the galley and served with fine nappery and silverware, and Liberace and his mother sat across the aisle from you, and you could lay two 7-year-olds head to toe between your knees and the seat back in front of you—driving into London-Heathrow to catch a flight to Lagos meant passing the Alcock & Brown statue in the uncluttered, spacious, newly minted central area (I first flew from a clutch of wartime nissen huts clinging to the A4 Bath Road called Heathrow North).
Just seeing them standing there and know the captain and 2nd officer of your impending flight were just like them, was both exhilarating and comforting. (The fact that our civilian pilots then probably earned their wings dropping bombs on Germany and Italy never occurred since we boys always assumed they had been Spitfire fighter pilot of course, and would have been flying with Dan Dare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dare if B.O.A.C. hadn't offered a better salary.)
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:::sob::: Thank you, Preston. That Rod is always gurning on about how wonderful it is living in Hawaii, when I'm stuck in damp, wet, gloomy, grey Ludlow. I couldn't even begin to imagine what it must be like to live in hawaii… :::sob:::