Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
June 22nd, 2011 by Oddmonster / 837 views
Title: Final Rest 
Author: Mary Morell
Publisher: Spinster’s Ink
Length: Novel / 202 pages
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Blurb:
Loretta Millett is a woman of strong habits. One of those habits is cinnamon-sugar toast for breakfast every morning. Her predictability ultimately leads to her death when she unwittingly puts digitalis on her toast. It is definitely murder and the local sheriff fingers Meg Traeger for the murderer. After all, Meg not only took digitalis regularly but was in Lorretta’s apartment the night before her death — arguing. She had the motive, the means and the opportunity.
Amy Traeger, Meg’s niece, convinces her lover, police detective Lucia Ramos to accompany her to Alabama to engage in some off-duty sleuthing to clear her aunt of all charges. They soon uncover the full extent of Lorretta’s unpopularity and establish the likelihood that everyone touched by her could have reason to wish her dead. Establishing who did kill her proves to be much more complicated…
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Posted in 4.5 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Lesbian, Mystery, Orientation, Reviews | 4 Comments »
June 9th, 2011 by Oddmonster / 1,147 views
Title: She’s My Dad 
Author: Iolanthe Woulff
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Length: Novel / 469 pages
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Blurb:
“Don’t hate, Nicholas. Hate destroys everything. Don’t let it destroy you…”
For decades, ultra-liberal Windfield College has been a thorn in the side of Northern Virginia’s hidebound elite. When a teaching position unexpectedly becomes available, the school hires a former male graduate – now a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell – as an assistant professor of English. Hoping to find peace, Nickie keeps her secret under wraps until ambitious lesbian student reporter Cinda Vanderhart outs her. And Cinda has noticed something else: both Nickie and a young townie waiter named Collie Skinner have a genetic quirk which causes their eyes to be different colors. Convinced that the similarity is no coincidence, Cinda begins an investigation to discover the connection between them.
Meanwhile, in a death-bed confession as she succumbs to years of brutality at the hands of her disgraced cop husband, Collie’s mother Luanne reveals that his birth resulted from an illicit affair she had with a long-vanished Windfield college senior named Nick Farrington. Shattered by his mother’s death, Collie turns for comfort to Robin Thompson, a gentle-hearted Christian co-worker at the upper-crust Foxton Arms restaurant. As Nickie is stalked by a pair of homicidal sociopaths, Robin finds herself entangled not only in Cinda’s investigative machinations but also a murderous plot by former U.S Ambassador and tycoon Eamon Douglass to eradicate the hated college with a suicide detonation of a Cesium 137 dirty bomb. Lives and secrets hang in the balance until everything comes to a head on the morning of Windfield’s annual spring picnic: April Fools Day.
Filled with richly-drawn characters and building to a stunning climax, SHE’S MY DAD is a story about the destructiveness of hate, the power of love, and the redemptive triumph of good over evil.
Like her title character Nickie Farrell, Iolanthe Woulff is a transsexual woman. A sixty-year-old Princeton-educated English major, she lives in Palm Springs, CA, where for several years she wrote a column in a local magazine about the challenges of gender transition. As the eldest child of author Herman Wouk, storytelling has always been dear to Ms. Woulff’s heart. Her hope is that besides providing a suspenseful read, SHE’S MY DAD will help to dispel some of the widespread misconceptions about transsexual people.
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Posted in 5 stars, Action Adventure, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Transgender | 5 Comments »
May 31st, 2011 by Kassa / 732 views
Title: I’m Saying Yes 
Author: E.N. Holland
Publisher: Bristlecone Pine Press
Length: Novel (110k/389 pgs)
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Blurb:
Jim Crane and Allen Prescott became lovers when they met as teenagers; in the years since they have carried on a furtive and secret affair, getting together only when time and their circumstances allowed. Jim has long wished to create a life with Allen but Allen has always refused. His ingrained belief that “people kill queers” has prevented him from recognizing and accepting his love for Jim. I’m Saying Yes opens when Jim, depressed and suicidal, gives Allen an ultimatum: choose me or else. After an agonizing night, Allen makes the decision to accept Jim’s offer, finally realizing that a life without his lover is a life not worth living.
I’m Saying Yes chronicles their first four months together as they begin their life as an openly gay couple, in a time-1976-and place-rural west Texas-where this was not the norm. They face challenges that range from simple: figuring out details of housekeeping, to sad: dealing with the death of Hal Lawrence, an older man who becomes a special friend and trusted confidante. It is a transformational time for both men but particularly Allen, who, over the course of the novel comes to accept his sexuality and ultimately, himself.
Jim and Allen have a few rocky moments but the story ends on a happy note because, as Allen says, when you believe in yourself and are guided by a strong and powerful love, anything is possible. Their deeply shared love and commitment to each is other is proof that that is true.
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May 24th, 2011 by Kassa / 664 views
Title: Blame it on the Raging Hormones 
Author: Nathan Goh
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel / 200 pgs
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Blurb:
This coming-of-age memoir of an ordinary gay boy from Singapore, in the form of an online journal, is brutally honest, endearing, poignant and raw. Nicky, an insecure youth in Singapore, goes on a journey of love and self-discovery and soon crashes into an underworld of sex, drugs, hustling and betrayal. After a series of failed romance, he heads for a breakdown, especially when his three friends, Dexter, Daniel and Dave, the Triple Ds, who support and guide him, have problems of their own and cannot help him. Can Nicky survive the cruel gay world of superficialities? Will he ever find true love? And is that even the solution to all his problems?
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | No Comments »
May 19th, 2011 by Kassa / 486 views
Title: Bob the Book 
Author: David Pratt
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions
Length: Novel / 200 pgs
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Blurb:
Just what is a ‘gay book’? -A book attracted to books of the same gender! Meet ‘Bob the Book,’ a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But a freak accident separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners and readers are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work? Read ‘Bob the Book’ to find all the answers.
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May 17th, 2011 by Kassa / 314 views
Title: The Tourist 
Author: Clare London
Publisher: Carina Press
Length: Novella (34k/118 pgs)
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Blurb:
Visiting isn’t a science, at least not for me. It’s just what I do. Not that I mind, though. It’s not a bad thing, you understand, to find yourself in someone else’s body, stepping into a hot shower stark-naked and sporting a decent-sized morning wood.
Ace is a tourist. A spirit who spends his time visiting the lives of others for entertainment and sexual satisfaction. He can’t make anyone do anything they aren’t willing to do—but he is able to push them to their personal limits.
He’s currently visiting Dan and his lover, Ricky—a couple struggling with jealousy and words left unsaid. Emboldened by Ace, Dan becomes more sexually aggressive, a pleasant surprise for Ricky. But when an abusive ex threatens their newfound happiness, how far will Ace want to get involved? Will his fascination with the couple’s sexual games tempt him to protect them from a very real physical danger?
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Posted in 3 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Romance | 1 Comment »
May 12th, 2011 by Kassa / 3,928 views
Title: Blowjob 3: An Erotic Collection 
Author: Johnny Murdoc
Publisher: Queer Young Cowboys
Length: Anthology / 150 pgs
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Blurb:
Blowjob 3 is a collection of erotic fiction, non-fiction, and photography by Best Gay Erotica and SexIs contributor Johnny Murdoc.
In “Busted,” a chance encounter with a police officer results in a heated encounter on the hood of a cop car. In “Do Me a Favor,” a college soccer player encourages his boyfriend to seduce one of his straight teammates. In “Rough Sports,” a young man’s rough sex fantasy comes true with the help of three football players in an empty locker room. These stories and more explore the intimate boundaries of sexual encounters between men.
In “Queer Print,” Murdoc discusses the rising trend of small press magazines like Butt, Pinups, and Original Plumbing. “Private Lives, Public Candor,” explores the evolution of intimacy in the digital age. In “Making Love,” Murdoc talks to the creators and stars of the sweet, dirty movie I Want Your Love. Murdoc’s other essays include a personal discussion about pornography and its role in relationships, the need for condoms and testing in the porn industry, the politics of Barack Obama, and the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church. The essays feature discussions with Travis Mathews, Quinnford + Scout, Amos Mac, Christopher Schulz, Jack Shamama, Jesse Metzger, and Brendan Gregory.
Rounding out the collection is more than twenty erotic photographs!
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Anthology, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Non-Fiction, Reviews | 2 Comments »
May 10th, 2011 by Kassa / 392 views
Title: No Apologies 
Author: Tibby Armstrong
Publisher: Loose Id
Length:: Novel / 200 pgs
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Blurb:
Cheerful and friendly, Aaron Blake has never met a puzzle that intrigues him more than brooding Greg Falkner. He wants to get to know his roommate, but it seems the only way past his shell is through it. When a reluctant friendship turns into a budding romance, can the two keep their feelings secret from their classmates? Or will their newfound love destroy them both?
So goes the story screenwriter Greg Falkner spins for audiences and his longtime partner, Aaron Blake, in No Apologies. Loosely based on their lives together, the film rocks Hollywood with its blatant portrayal of two teenagers falling in love and coming of age in a world that struggles to accept them, while they in turn struggle to accept themselves.
At the end of the evening, will Greg’s risky venture break a relationship that’s already foundering? Or will the real life Greg and Aaron also find their happily ever after with no apologies?
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Posted in 3 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Romance | 1 Comment »
May 5th, 2011 by Kassa / 626 views
Title: Learning to Dharn 
Author: Ann Somerville
Publisher: Smashwords
Length:: Novel / 180 pgs
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Blurb:
Rhede Kelten, newly qualified physician, journeys across the oceans to Inades, seeking employment and a life away from an unloving family. An offer of a remote hospital post seems perfect, and he accepts a lift to his new posting from kind strangers. But an idyllic trip turns to horror when they’re attacked, his friends brutally murdered, and his own life is saved by a mysterious, mute stranger. Now his fate is in this stranger’s hands as they travel across a snowy wilderness. With his destination unknown, and his companion unwilling to share the smallest detail or comfort, Kelten wonders if he’ll ever be able to resume a normal life.
Dharn is a hunter, deaf from birth, who’s been raised in a community where deafness is no disability. His life follows an orderly rhythm from season to season, trapping with the help of his loyal dog, but when he rescues a feckless, rather arrogant young man from marauders, his peaceful existence is turned upside down. The responsibility isn’t exactly welcome, but there’s something about Kelten that attracts him. If Dharn can just keep him out of the clutches of the law and the marauders’ friends, these two people from very different backgrounds might have a chance of being together.
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Posted in 3 stars, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Historical, Reviews, Science Fiction | No Comments »
May 3rd, 2011 by Kassa / 378 views
Title: Perfect Score 
Author: Susan Roebuck
Publisher: Awe-Struck Publishing
Length:: Novel / 250 pgs
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Blurb:
Feckless, exasperating Alex Finch is a rich, handsome and talented singer/songwriter who longs for two things: a career as a professional rock singer, and to have his love for Sam Barrowdale reciprocated. But drifter Sam’s two aims are simply to earn enough money to pay his sister’s medical bills and to hide from the world his reading/writing and speech disability. At this time the word “dyslexia” is generally unknown so to most people he’s just a “retard”. From the severe knocks life’s dealt him, Sam’s developed a tough outer coating and he has no time for a spoilt, selfish guitar player.
Despite his defects, Alex’s love for Sam never wavers and when Sam unexpectedly disappears, Alex begins a somewhat bungling quest to find him, only to discover that Sam has a fearful enemy: Alex’s powerful and influential yet sociopathic uncle.
As Alex spirals downwards towards alcoholism, many questions need answering. Just why did Alex’s evil uncle adopt him at age eleven yet deny him any affection? And what’s the mystery behind Alex’s father’s death?
Both seem to face unbeatable odds. Are they doomed to follow separate paths forever?
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