Posted in excerpts, gay, writing on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The Man from C.A.M.P. excerpt by Victor J Banis
The Man from C.A.M.P. by Victor J. Banis: When I wrote THE MAN FROM C.A.M.P. in 1966, I little suspected that I was writing something that would come to be regarded in time as a “classic.” I was simply having lots of fun and thumbing my nose [...]
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Posted in excerpts, gay, writing on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Times Queer excerpt by Mykola Dementiuk
Times Queer excerpt by Mykola Dementiuk is a graphic, dark, coming-of-age story set in New York’s infamous Times Square during the 1950s and 60s. Introduced to sexual feelings at an early age, protagonist Richard Kozlovsky continues on a path shared by many children who have been touched in a sexual [...]
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Posted in cowboy, excerpts, gay, writing on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Lawless excerpt by Sarah Black
Lt. Colton Wheeler is the law in a lawless land. A year after his lover, Dr. Diego Del Rio, lost his eye in a vicious hate crime,trouble from across the border threatens to shatter the life they’re building together.
An old lover stakes a claim, and Colton suspects he wants more than [...]
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Hard Hats: Gay Erotic Stories excerpts edited by Neil Plakcy
I spent five years working as a project manager on various shopping center construction sites, and the hard-working, hard-bodied guys I saw around me every day were the subject of some of my most intense fantasies. From the shirtless carpenters to the beefy laborers, there [...]
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Posted in gay, how to, writing on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Man, Oh Man: Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h excerpt by Josh Lanyon
Hello, I’m Josh Lanyon. I write gay or M/M romance usually within the context of a romantic-suspense or mystery romance. I’ve been writing and publishing M/M or gay fiction for over a decade; in fact, MLR Press has just released my How [...]
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Posted in crime, excerpts, gay, writing on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Drag Queen in the Court of Death excerpt by Caro Soles
This excerpt is from the Lambda Award finalist Drag Queen in the Court of Death by Caro Soles.
While cleaning out his dead ex-lover Ronnie’s apartment, staid history professor Michael Dunn-Barten makes a grisly discovery. Suddenly Michael must travel back 25 years to find answers by [...]
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Posted in crime, gay, writing on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bar Watcher excerpt by Dorien Grey
The Bar Watcher is the third of the 11-book Dick Hardesty Mystery series by Dorien Grey, and involves Dick’s reluctant search for someone who is killing off cruel and obnoxious gay men…”taking out the garbage” as one character calls it.
The following excerpt is from the opening pages of the [...]
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Posted in crime, excerpts, gay, writing on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Reap the Whirlwind excerpt by Josh Aterovis
The following excerpt is taken from Reap the Whirlwind by Josh Aterovis. “Nothing can stay the same forever. We get in trouble in life when we think it can and will. Everything changes, or as King Solomon said in the Bible and The Byrds sang in the 60’s, [...]
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Posted in crime, gay, writing on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Mahu Fire excerpt by Neil S Plakcy
Mahu Fire by Neil S Plakcy is the third mystery for openly gay homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka. About six months have passed since his undercover assignment in the Lambda finalist Mahu Surfer, and he’s back on the job in Honolulu. In these opening chapters, Kimo begins to wonder if [...]
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Posted in excerpts, gay, writing on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The following is a brief excerpt from Spine Intact, Some Creases, the memoir of Victor J. Banis. Part personal history, part gay history, some writing tips,
some comments on philosophy and religion and a few recipes for good measure by a legendary name and pioneer of gay fiction.
Spine Intact, Some Creases
Wildside Press (March 18, 200
ISBN: [...]
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