Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 / 308 views
Title: Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star
Author: Blue Blake
Publisher: Running Press
Length: Novel / 299 pages
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Blurb:
Legendary adult film producer, actor, and director Blue Bake reveals all in this hilarious and extremely candid expose of the gay adult film industry. From the slums of Nottingham, England, where Blake began his career as a 16-year-old stripper to the giddy heights of porn super-stardom in Hollywood, California, this hysterical rollercoaster ride will leave the reader both shocked and titillated. There has never been a star like Blue Blake, and there has never been a book like this.
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Tags: Blue Blake, Running Press
Posted in 4 stars, Biography, Erotica, Gay, Non-Fiction, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 / 168 views
Title: All Lost Things 
Author: Josh Aterovis
Publisher: PD Publishing
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Blurb:
Killian Kendall’s life is changing faster than he can keep up. He’s graduating from high school, breaking up with his boyfriend, and starting a new job with a private investigator. He’s barely settled at his new desk when his ex-boyfriend calls with a desperate plea for help. He wants Killian to prove his new boyfriend is innocent in the shockingly violent murder of his abusive father. Killian reluctantly agrees to take the case, little knowing how complicated ~ and dangerous ~ things will become before it’s over.
On the home front, Killian’s surrogate parents decide to buy a historic mansion and turn it into a bed and breakfast. The house comes with a rich history … and maybe a ghost or two. Killian doesn’t want to believe in such things, but he’s quickly becoming convinced that something terrible happened to the home’s original owners. The century-old mystery both terrifies and tantalizes Killian. In the end, he may be the only one who can uncover the truth.
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Tags: Josh Aterovis, P.D. Publishing
Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Young Adult | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 29th, 2010 / 268 views
Title: My Hero: A Wild Boy’s Tale 
Author: Tristram Burden
Publisher: Rebel Satori / Queer Mojo
Length: Novel / 276 pages
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Blurb:
In a post-apocalyptic America, 17 year old Joshua My Hero lives out a humdrum existence, struggling to find truth and sense in a Christian-fundamentalist trailer park. But his psychic powers and sexual tastes leave him an outsider of his community, and forced to commit patricide in a final and desperate struggle for self-defence against his father’s rage, Joshua escapes into a wasted planet, armed only with an oracular penis, the patronage of an ancient earth spirit sent to rid the planet of all of its ills, and the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching…
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Tags: Queer Mojo, Rebel Satori, Tristram Burden
Posted in 3 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews, Urban Fantasy | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 29th, 2010 / 286 views
Title: Showdown at Yellowstone River 
Author: Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks
Publisher: Pink Petal Books
Length: Novella, 62 pages
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Blurb:
Gunslinger Matt Court has hung it up for good after a disastrous encounter in El Paso. He moved to Dakota Territory, took out a homestead and started courting Annie, the banker’s daughter. But when Annie comes up pregnant and runs away with her lover, her father calls in the notorious killer, Paz, to eliminate Matt.
But the mysterious Paz holds many secrets and Matt discovers not only the gunfighter’s personal code of honor, but a truth that is worth both their lives.
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Tags: Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks, Pink Petal Books
Posted in 1.5 stars, Bisexual, Erotica, Fiction, Historical, Orientation, Queer, Reviews, Western | No Comments »
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 / 169 views
Title: Off the Record 
Author: Matthew Haldeman-Time
Publisher: Lulu
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Blurb:
Jordan Jennings inherited both fame and fortune as the only son of a silver screen starlet and the grandson of two Hollywood legends. Because of his infamous birth (and famous parentage), Jordan’s every move made the headlines, and he soon learned that the only way to keep the media out of his life was not to have a life at all. Charged with keeping his family’s secrets, as well as his own, he put aside his own desires long ago for the sake of family pride and grew up to become a hopeless hermit. With the chance of love on the horizon, will Jordan have to sacrifice his family’s reputation in order to have a life of his own?
Patrick Wright was a fearless reporter whose career was headed straight to the top. He was a man who knew what he wanted and always went after it. With money, success, and a very healthy social life, Patrick was living the dream. He had no idea that anything was missing until he met Jordan. Jordan’s polished manners, incredible looks, and honest desire were an irresistible combination that Patrick just couldn’t do without. But when his career hangs in the balance and Patrick is faced with losing everything he’s worked so hard to achieve, will his love for Jordan conquer all?
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Tags: Lulu, Matthew Haldeman-Time
Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews | 4 Comments »
Friday, March 26th, 2010 / 249 views
Title: Going Down 
Author: Ann Somerville
Publisher: Smashwords
Length: Novella / 70 pages
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Blurb:
Derzo Einan wanted to help people, and for fifteen years he rescued others from fires, floods and natural disasters. But in the aftermath of a horrific event, he’s left unable to help anyone, not even himself, his gift of empathy now more of a curse and his career in tatters. Running from his demons, Einan finds refuge in a big city, discovering an underclass of helpless hopeless people even worse off than himself—and another soul as troubled and damaged as him. In saving one more person, will he find his own salvation?
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Tags: Ann Somerville, Smashwords
Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Urban Fantasy | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 / 200 views
Title: Reap the Whirlwind 
Author: Josh Aterovis
Publisher: PD Publishing
Buy the book: Amazon, Author
Blurb:
“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, to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. It’s not a particularly easy lesson to learn, or a fun one for that matter. I learned it the summer between high school and college, and my life would never be the same.”
Will’s life is changing so quickly he can’t keep up. He’s moving out of his parents’ home for the first time, changing careers, making new friends, and falling in love with the person he least expected. In the process, he’s also learning a lot about himself. As if he doesn’t have enough going on, his life-long best friend dies in what appears to be a drunken accident. But when Will receives a note hinting that it may not have been an accident after all, he finds that he can’t rest until he knows the truth. With the help of Killian Kendall and his friends, Will begins an amateur investigation that will result in even more death. Will thought the biggest changes were behind him, but they had only just begun.
Reap the Whirlwind blends a coming-of-age story and mystery with a powerful love story. It is the winner of two Gay Writers Guild awards.
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Tags: Josh Aterovis, P.D. Publishing
Posted in 2 stars, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews, Young Adult | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 / 313 views
Title: Alive on the Inside 
Editor: Angelia Sparrow & Naomi Brooks
Publisher: Amber Allure
Length: Novel / 289 pages
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Blurb:
Nick Harper has a nice life, a nice job, and a nice girl. Until Labor Day Weekend, when the Phantasmagoria Traveling Wonder Show comes to town.
Seduced by the dark and wickedly erotic charms of both the Phantasmagoria and Torturo, a man known in the freak sideshow as The Pain King, Nick embarks on a journey of self-discovery, love, and pain.
But the show is not what it seems. It changes those who come with it in ways they can never imagine, not even in their worst nightmares.
And Nick’s changes are just beginning…
Genres: Gay / Erotic Horror / Dark Fantasy / BDSM / Contains Some Secondary Heterosexual (M/F) And Lesbian (F/F) Content
Advisory: This book contains graphic violence, hardcore bondage and punishment, torture and blood play. May not be suitable for the more sensitive reader.
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Tags: Amber Allure, Angelia Sparrow, Naomi Brooks
Posted in 4 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Horror, Reviews | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 / 177 views
Title: The Ties That Bind
Author: Cheri Crystal
Publisher: loveyoudivine
Length: Short Story, 39 pages
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Blurb:
In a sequel to Does the Butch Come with the Recipe, softball captain, Cyndy Kaplan and her girlfriend, Tristan Rizzo, are back for a whole new adventure with much higher stakes. After Tristan’s prediction comes true and the Butch Cookbook earns enough money to subsidize a trip to Ft. Lauderdale for the whole team to attend the playoffs, she suggests another getaway, only without the softball league. Cyndy agrees to pop her Provincetown cherry in order to commemorate the 25th Annual Women’s Week. They end up renting a fantastic house in the fun-filled, estrogen-fest, with Tristan’s twin sister and her girlfriend to partake in the festivities. Cyndy has no idea what to expect, but Tristan is certain she’ll have Cyndy begging to come back for more.
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Tags: Cheri Crystal, loveyoudivine
Posted in 4 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Lesbian, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 / 161 views
Title: Engineer Smith
Author: Jay Lancaster
Publisher: loveyoudivine
Length: Short Story, 27 pages
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Blurb:
Smith has always been happier in the world of computers. Input/output is so very straightforward. It’s not a principle that can be applied to Smith’s relationship with Nell, the older woman who took beautiful, ambiguous, androgynous Smith under her wing a few years before. As the relationship matures, so, too, do Smith and Nell. But will they grow together…or apart? Smith’s feelings threaten to tear them apart, and the answers can only be found if Smith breaks the silence and asks the right questions. Asking Nell might destroy their fragile peace; Smith turns to the one logical source to be trusted: Larn, the Artificial Intelligence System. But Larn is advanced; he now learns from each human interaction and can reprogram himself. And Smith starts to understand that desire is not always based on mere physical attraction. But how deep can a relationship run when one party is human and the other is just learning to be human?
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Tags: Jay Lancaster, loveyoudivine
Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Reviews, Science Fiction, Transgender | 1 Comment »
