ALTHOUGH I’M a voracious reader, it may come as a slight surprise that my adventures into triathlons started with a fiction novel. Two years ago, after two of my operations, I read a Mystery/Thriller by Don Travis, called The Zozobra Incident. It attracted me because
THIS YEAR, I announced my Best Books of 2017 on WROTE Podcast first. Click HERE to listen to me talk about the list (toward the end at 53:11). I rarely get to comment on what made each book special to me–personally–in a written review, so
I’VE BEEN a bit absent from my blog lately. Apologies. The holidays are always a stressful time for me, because I’ve been working retail for the last decade and it’s also Rand’s birthday (on Christmas). This year I spent most my time between work shifts
Title: The Beast Without Series: Arcadia Trust #1 Author: Christian Baines Genre: Gay Paranormal Publisher: Glass House Books Pages: 234 Blurb Reylan is everything a Sydney vampire aspires to be: wealthy, handsome and independent, carefully feeding off companions plucked from the gay bars of Oxford
Some people like to blog their best books before the end of the year. Not me. What if I miss something great? So here you all are, my top ten books of 2016 (not necessarily published this year and in no particular order). Happy New
Title: Gun to My Head Author: Dira Lewis Genre: LGBTQ+ Paranormal Fiction Publisher: Less Than Three Press Pages/Word Count: 325 pages Blurb: Sin is a vampire at the end of his rope. Having escaped forcible conversion by a vampire cult, he temporarily kills himself and
Best Books of 2015, in no particular order. They are novels I read in 2015, but weren’t necessarily published that year. Usually I try to do ten top books, but I couldn’t decide which one to leave out, so it’s eleven. Most are speculative fiction,
Favorite LGBT Reads of 2014 (not necessarily published in 2014 and not in any particular order): Contemporary/Literary/Nonfiction Training Season by Leta Blake Love Match by Keira Andrews If You Knew Then What I Know Now by Ryan Van Meter Hot Head by Damon Suede In
The characterization of Desmond Poole in “Meatworks” by Jordan Castillo Price is some of the best protagonist work I’ve seen in a while. Desmond Poole is a punk, a drunk, and a dirty asshole. He’s disabled and living off the government (though not well), and