Reviews are for readers more than anyone so here at Three Dollar Bill Reviews we wanted to know what readers liked about the genre. We sent out feelers asking readers two questions:

What do you love about GLBT literature?
What would you like to see more of?

We asked for answers anywhere from one word to dissertation length and can focus on m/m romance, literature, fiction, non-fiction, bisexual, lesbian, comics, erotica, action, porn, or the entire umbrella genre. Whatever their opinion was as a reader in the genre, we wanted to know. This is one response we’ve gotten back.

What do you love about GLBT literature?

Well, this a hard question to answer, because it’s easy just to say “Two guys are hot, what more do you need?” but it goes beyond hotness I think for most people. At least if you plan on sticking with it beyond a few months of titillation. Part of it for me was the novelty factor in the sense that in my early days I read a LOT of m/f romance, predominantly historical. I cut my adult reading eye teeth on Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and Johanna Lindsay like many romance readers. (I still wish I’d called my daughter Shanna.) For years that’s all I read. Then I got bored and I started reading mysteries, any detective mystery I could get my hands on, for about 15 years. I started to get more particular – British mysteries only – and then I got bored with that too. I went back to my roots somewhat and started reading Paranormal Romance (PNR). This was new to me as I’d stopped reading romance before vampires and werewolves were popular, but despite the fact the guys could change into amazing creatures and give you the best blood sucking orgasm ever, the m/f part really wasn’t that much different from when I was in my 20’s. The men still tended to relate to the women the same way and I think I kind of outgrew that type of relationship as I matured myself. I got tired of the alpha male saving the weak swooning heroine. Urban Fantasy (UF) helped for a short while, at least those girls could kick butt, but the guy was still often bigger, stronger, badder in the end.

Then I discovered m/m and while there are still some swooney boys who are rescued by their alpha lovers, it’s not the predominant theme or at least I can find more stories with equal relationships. I like stories with two betas (as they are often referred). Two normal guys, without relationship power struggles (but perhaps some large external struggles) because even in real-life m/f relationships I think that’s more normal, at least for the women I know. Of course it’s fun to have werewolves who rescue their mate and big strong doms and their meek (or not so meek) little subs once in a while, but I find on the whole there is more equality to the relationships of m/m than in m/f.

There have also been discussions at Val’s at Obsidian Bookshelf about the way men communicate, or don’t as the case may be. I am not a typical female. I HATE talking about feelings and relationship stuff. Ugh. So perhaps I relate more to the male characters of m/m who often feel the way I do. Sure they have their talkers as well in m/m, just like in real life, but most tend to think about things the way I do. I’ve heard reviewers or commentors say “But if he’d only said X then …” and I’m thinking “Yeah, but if I was him? I would have kept my mouth shut too.” So maybe that’s part of the appeal as well for me personally. Chris of Stumbling Over Chaos and Val expressed similar sentiments about emotional ”sharing” so maybe for those of us who are more “male” in our communication style (or lack of communication style) it draws us closer to the characters.

Oh yeah, and did I say two (or three) guys together is freaking hot? There’s that too.:-)

What would you like to see more of?

I would like to see more diverse setting in m/m. The vast majority of the books are set in the US, in either real or fictional places. There are some stories set in Canada, usually written by the same few authors and some in the UK or Australia but anything outside of those locales is rare. I have nothing against the US, I love the US (I’m Canadian for those who don’t know) and some cities there I adore, but I’d love to read a book set in Paris, or Moscow, or Santiago, or Seoul. Of course there is yaoi if I’m craving Japan and yes, there are always examples of books that are set elsewhere, NL Gassert’s The Protector set in Guam, KC Kendricks’ At the Southern Cross series set in the Caribbean and Neil Plakcy’s Three Wrong Turns in the Desert set in North Africa, but they are few and far between and I often snap them up BECAUSE they are set somewhere unique. I love to travel and while I can’t afford to go everywhere I’d love to in person, I like to do it vicariously through my favourite characters.

I also want the stories to be authentic. I want an Australian guy to ask his lover if he’s “taking the piss” or the British guy who dropped his ice-cream on the “pavement” while putting on his “jumper”. That’s what takes me there, not hearing a Frenchman or a Korean using American slang when they’ve never been to America. I know some readers HATE it when they don’t understand a phrase or word, but I love it. Google is your friend. If you aren’t sure, look it up, it’s good for your brain to learn new things.I find most of the time context explains it anyway.

It’s more of a challenge to write I’m sure because usually at least one of the characters has to be English speaking to make it seem more realistic to those of us reading in English, but I’d love to see a story of two Spaniards or two Brazilians falling in love. As someone who’s dabbled in some writing for fun, I know it’s tons easier to write a story about my own town that I know inside out than a city I’ve never visited. (I had my daughter Googling to find out if there were Golden Griddle pancake houses in Calgary and where they would be. There aren’t by the way.) But I suppose that’s part of the fun for serious authors. So I would encourage authors to do as much research about a city/country as they do about a career when coming up with ideas for stories. But I also acknowledge that the publishing industry in m/m does not seem to be on my side in this and sometimes actively discourages stories that are too “non-North-American” which is really a shame because I’ve never heard a reader say “I hated that story set in France, if only it had been set in Ohio I could have enjoyed it.”

Tam @ http://tamsreads.blogspot.com/

We got back several responses and some we’re still waiting on. However we didn’t have email addresses for everyone so if you’d like to participate – which we’d love to be able to share different opinions from all kinds of readers, including authors who are readers too – please feel free to write up your own answers and contact us at threedollarbillreviews@gmail.com.

I admit it…I’m an addict.

Now, don’t be thinking bad things about me just yet. I admit I’m an addict, but at least it’s an addiction that isn’t necessarily harmful to my health. What am I addicted to? Books. Yes my friends, my addiction is to books.

This addiction started at a young age, and I happily put some of the blame on my parents who encouraged my addiction. I was bought lots of print books and read like mad, easily finishing a book a night. Of course, at that age, the books had big print and not that many pages, but it still meant that a lot of paperbacks went in and out of my bedroom. As I got older, I started buying different kinds of books, but the frequency didn’t slow down. In fact, I’m ashamed to say, it increased and and quickly surpassed my ability to actually read the books I purchased. Did that slow down my purchasing? Heck, no. I have many books in my house that I bought with the best of intentions…and that I still haven’t gotten around to reading. Yet I keep them, hoping that someday I will find the spare time.

Of course with print books, there’s a limitation forced on an addict that’s not necessarily easy to change. Physical space. When the books start to pile up on the floor as the bookshelves fill up, at a certain point it’s just not physically possible to bring in more books without getting rid of some. I mean, who wants to share their bed with piles of books that no longer fit on the bookshelves or on the floor? Not I…

Then a few years ago something happened to greatly intensify my addiction. I discovered ebooks. What a brilliant concept!! I can buy books to my heart’s content and not have to worry about bookshelves that are going to crack under the combined weight of too many books. Perfect! Or is it?

My addiction now has a direct feed of instant gratification, and thanks to the click of just a few buttons I can download numerous ebooks to my computer. I don’t have to worry about bookshelf space (though hard drive space might become an issue at some point) and I don’t even have to leave the house to do my shopping!

What is the end result of this? I now have a TBR list that has exploded past the point of being at all logical. I have more ebooks than I could possibly read in a lifetime, and am constantly adding books to the pile. It’s too easy to buy ebooks and then never get around to reading them! I see interesting blurbs, I get intrigued by a sexy cover, I read a review that peaks my interest and I go buy. I never give a thought to the hundreds and hundreds (and I’m not exaggerating here) of ebooks languishing on my TBR list.

I can admit my addiction, but I haven’t yet found a way to curb it. Despite knowing that I have more than enough to read, I keep finding new ebooks that I just have to purchase, that I just have to read. It’s getting to the point where I forget what I actually own, because I have so many ebooks!

Am I the only one afflicted with this addiction? Do other readers find it hard to resist the lure of new ebooks? Has anyone successfully beaten their TBR list into submission and gotten their addiction under control? Do you have any words of wisdom to a fellow addict?

I’m curious if readers prefer instant gratification or if too much at once is a bad thing. Currently our schedule for reviews is one per day, which usually works out to 0-2 reviews per reviewer a week. This keeps the stress on us pretty low (2 books a week at most? For us? Easy.) But also doesn’t overwhelm visitors with too many long reviews to read at any one time. Seems like a good idea that’s been working for us.

The downside to this is that we have had so many review requests that the scheduled reviews are pretty far out. This isn’t bad in a way – we LOVE all the review requests we’ve gotten, especially from repeat authors – but we also don’t want anyone to have to wait too long. Currently I’ve read almost all the books in my review pile – almost – and anything new won’t see a live review until April. Is one month really too long to wait for a thorough review?

On the one hand, I don’t think it’s that bad. This could easily be the wait on some review sites that just publish one paragraph.

On the other, I tend to want to get the reviews out as soon as I’ve written them so no one has to wait.

So I’m asking you, readers and authors, what you prefer.

Would you rather a plethora of reviews all at once in small or large clumps, or spread out bit by bit in a steady stream?

What’s an appropriate wait time for readers and authors?

Our site has gotten off to a great start and the first month was filled with reviews. The thing that was most surprising to us was the number of requests for reviews just in the first month! Obviously word is getting out and we couldn’t be happier!

There is a most interesting trend that I’m seeing with the requests we’re getting. As an LGBT review site, we are getting requests for all types of books, including gay male stories, a few bisexual stories, even a transgender story here and there. But what we’re getting sent in droves is reqeusts for review of lesbian stories. Lesbian stories from all different genres: romance, sci-fi, historical, western, action, mystery, short stories, novels. You name it and we’ve likely gotten a request for at least one lesbian book in that genre.

We aren’t complaining one bit, and in fact I couldn’t be happier, but since I’m the lone reviewer of lesbian fiction on the site right now, I’m trying desperately to keep up! We’ve mentioned several times our need for more reviewers, especially reviewers looking to read lesbian fiction. Hopefully soon we’ll have additional help, but until then I’m reading as fast as I can.

A lot of the authors sending requests have expressed their excitement over a review site willing to review lesbian stories. I’ve been wondering a lot lately, why aren’t there more reviewers and review sites that read and review lesbian fiction? Are there review sites that I’m just not aware of? Are there reviewers out there that I just haven’t found?

There are a plethora of sites and blogs that review gay male fiction, and many many reviewers that only like to read stories with gay men. I can think of one site other than this one that reviews lesbian fiction. Why aren’t there more sites out there that focus solely on lesbian fiction? Where are all the readers of lesbian fiction going for reviews of books?

One of my theories is connected to a reason why ebooks of lesbian stories just don’t sell as well as ebooks of gay male stories. Lesbian paperback books sell very well, and it seems that the majority of readers of lesbian fiction just aren’t as entrenched in the emerging ebook industry. The demand from readers seems to still be for paperbacks, for novels or anthologies of short stories. With the majority of readers of lesbian fiction buying paperbacks, it then would make sense to assume that those readers aren’t as active in any online communities and therefore aren’t as involved in review sites or blogs.

What are your thoughts about the fact that there aren’t very many sites that review lesbian fiction? Would you like to see more sites and reviewers focusing on lesbian fiction? Do you know of any reviewers that read lesbian fiction?

For now, I’ll just have to keep reading and reviewing lesbian fiction and hope that somewhere out there are reviewers that will eventually find our site and want to help out. If you know of any readers that like to review lesbian fiction definitely send them our way!

Star ratings are a fixture of reviews and found everywhere, but they’re not always friendly. Also the star rating meanings seem to change from person to person, site to site, and with the phases of the moon in conjunction with the 12^th star from a distant galaxy as it rotates to the left. So many regard these ratings as somewhat mysterious and without a lot of meaning. Here at Three Dollar Bill Reviews, I’ll try to help elucidate what our particular ratings mean. Also these ratings will stay consistent no matter what site the review is reposted to. Although Good Reads, Amazon, Library Thing and the like don’t allow half stars so the ratings may be rounded up or down accordingly.

So what exactly is our rating system and what does it mean?

Well we rate on a classic 1-5 star system. We will be posting reviews of any rating so we differ from some sites that will only post 3 star reviews and above. Our hope is that each review is thorough and detailed enough to offer a reasonable explanation of the book, our feelings, and the rating. This isn’t always easy but we strive to do our best.

1 star reviews – these are books that we didn’t like. That may seem self explanatory but within these stories we found very little good to talk about. The story may have an offending element that we explain or have serious problems that led to severe dislike. These are books we wouldn’t have finished if not for review and/or wanted to throw said book one or more times.

2 star reviews – these are books we disliked but had some positive elements. Again these may be long reviews to explain many aspects that didn’t work for us and why. Here there may be serious problems with the plot, writing, characters, or all of the above. We got through the book but wouldn’t recommend these titles.

3 star reviews – these are perhaps the hardest reviews to write because the books are ok, decent but not ones we want to read again. Perhaps there were problems in the book but it may simply be we didn’t connect to the characters or story in any meaningful way leaving us bored or disconnected. Some of the stories may be good or decent, just nothing we’d want to read again. Since most books are likely to be average, 3 stars is NOT a bad rating. This rating means the book is ok/good and may fit in well with the genre.

4 star reviews – these are books we liked and would read again. These books entertained and maybe had problems but we got beyond those to still think positively about the book. These are stories that rise above the majority of books in the genre and offer something unique or well written. We enjoyed the story and recommend these titles to readers.

5 star reviews – these are the best of the best. This rating is reserved for the very select few that are simply outstanding in our humble opinion. You likely won’t see this rating all that often but it means the title is something special. While all of these books are highly recommended, these titles are also keepers and beloved additions to our shelves. As voracious readers, anything rated 5 stars caused us to sit up and take serious notice and so should you.

I was going to talk about something totally different and then this unexpectedly got into my head so here we are. So now I want to talk a little bit about ebooks and something that we’re taught in kindergarten is a good thing… sharing.

I’m a big fan of ebooks and I adore my Sony Reader. I have easily around 2,000 ebooks so I’m the first to admit that ebooks are a wonderful thing. The availability of books in electronic format have made it possible for me to discover authors I might otherwise never have been exposed to. And most importantly, it’s saved me some space in my house that is already overrun quite enough with books and bookshelves.

Even with how many ebooks I purchase, there’re still some things about them that I find a bit frustrating. One in particular is the concept of sharing with friends. I own a lot of paperbacks, and even some hardcover books, and it’s not uncommon for me to loan a book to a friend. If I read a book and am absolutely blown away, my first thought usually is, “I have to give this to X to read!” If I enjoy a book, I inherently want to spread the news and introduce the author to some good friends that enjoy reading like I do. Often those friends have gone on to buy the author’s other books, and I wished for a few seconds that I could get a kickback from the author!

As we move into the age of the ebook, sharing has become an extremely controversial topic. Sharing is almost unequivocally seen as pirating, which authors aren’t too fond of as a rule, quite understandably. The most significant argument goes back to number of copies. When I purchase a paperback and give it to a friend to read, there is one copy of the book. I purchased that one copy and even when I give it to someone else, there is still only one copy. We can’t read the book at the same time. In a perfect world, I get the book back when the friend is done with it (though that’s not always been the case, lucky me).

When purchasing an electronic copy, the intention is that you are paying for one copy that you then download to your computer or your reader. Of course, the minute you download a copy to a reader, you’ve technically gone beyond one copy. I purchase ebooks primarily in PDF format. They are stored on my computer and I use calibre to upload to my Sony Reader. Calibre creates a copy of the ebook in a dedicated folder and then moves yet another copy to my Reader. Without any intention of malicious behavior, I’ve now got three copies of an ebook which I only paid for once.

Sharing an ebook with a friend usually means you’d be sending a version of the ebook via email. Of course now you’ve created a few more copies of the ebook, as most email programs these days save a copy of sent emails and the friend has a copy in their email. And from there the number of copies just continues to multiply.

Logically then the only way for me to share an ebook is if I can hand my Reader to my friend, who uses it to read the book. Now I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m extremely protective of my Sony Reader. The sucker was quite expensive, and if we are separated for even a few hours we both start to experience separation anxiety. Plus, if I give my Reader to someone else to borrow I can’t be reading anything on it! So I don’t want to do that. Plus the majority of my friends who love reading like I do, and read the type of books I do, live all across the country. The internet provides the primary form of communication, hence email. In order to share an ebook, I could email it to my friend, delete (and I really mean delete, by removing from Trash) my sent email, my friend gets the email and deletes (again, really delete) the email after downloading the book, reads the book, then deletes the ebook file and empties their Trash on their computer. That is the closest way to approximate the sharing of paperbacks, but boy, that’s a lot of steps and a lot of points for error.

There was an uproar recently when a Kindle reader admitted in an article to reading books she hadn’t paid for but had gotten from friends. Numerous authors attacked her for being a pirate and a horrible person, without doing any research into how the Kindle works. Eventually someone from Amazon clarified that the Kindle is set up so that you can “share” ebooks with up to 4 close friends. This is done by having everyone “share” an Amazon account. You can register up to 5 devices to an account, and if those devices happen to be random friends no biggie. Of course all payment is also done under that one account. If your friends want to always be the ones to pay for the books, that’s their prerogative, but among the 5 of you, you get to share the ebooks that any of the others purchase. Excellent! There’s only one problem…this works for ebooks from the Amazon store only. Damn. Back to square one. (Note that the same applies to books purchased from the Sony store where you can have up to 6 devices, which includes computers and Readers, and they all share the same list of ebooks. Same note about payment applies to the Sony store and, again, it’s only for Sony store books.)

The large majority of the ebooks I purchase do not come from the Sony store, and even more so are not from Amazon, and most of them are DRM free which I’m actually grateful for. But it does mean that there really doesn’t seem to be a good option for “sharing” or “lending” a book to someone to read. On the surface that probably appears to be a good thing, but in the end I think it makes it harder for me to convince my friends to take a chance on authors that I really liked.

I don’t have a solution to all of this, but I’m curious as to your thoughts on the subject. Would you be more interested in a specific brand of eReader if it included a method of sharing books? Do you even want to be able to share ebooks with a few friends? Are you frustrated by the limitation of ebooks as I am?

Authors, how do you feel about readers sharing your books? Are you for or against it? Do you think that the effectiveness of word-of-mouth is decreased by the inability to share books or are they mutually exclusive?

We’ve been open for almost three weeks now and the site has gotten off to an excellent start! We’ve posted several reviews and a few commentary pieces, all of which have gotten some great comments. The best thing is that we have been getting lots of requests for reviews! We are thrilled and quite in awe at the response we’ve gotten from authors and we’re so happy! Keep those review requests coming!

Of course, you may have noticed, we started this site with two reviewers. Two. When you consider the number of review requests we’re getting…well you could easily say we are a bit swamped! In a good way of course! So, we are looking for people to join our team!

We pride ourselves on providing honest and detailed reviews for each book we read. What we need are people that enjoy reading LGBT books and like to share their thoughts and opinions through well-written and extensive reviews. We want to make sure that each author that contacts us has their book reviewed, and it’s becoming abundantly clear that in order to do that we need some additional help!

If you’re a reader interested in reviewing for us, send an email to threedollarbillreviews@gmail.com. If you’re part of a community with people who might be interested in reviewing, please share a link to this post. If you’re an author and have received a great review that you feel fits with our site, please forward the name of the reviewer to us. Above all, share this link wherever you can! You never know where we could find new reviewers!

Thank you to all of the authors who have sent us requests and who have shared information about our site. You’ve helped our site take off with a flying leap and we are forever grateful!

I know I’m supposed to talk about book series but I wasn’t particularly motivated to do that. Or perhaps I was too motivated and didn’t want to rant. Either way, I think the topic of blurbs on books is more interesting.

Blurbs are essential to book buying and selling. Beyond the title and cover, they are the single most essential part to whether someone will buy a book or not. After that comes excerpts which I’ll get to in another post.

Will the blurb entice the reader enough to overlook perhaps a bad cover? Or will the blurb ruin a great cover? Is the blurb too lengthy? Too short? Contain typos? Mistakes?

All of these are considerations when writing a blurb but as a reader, what do you look for in a blurb?

In my opinion, a great blurb should contain a few of the key themes to the book. I always look for the core of the book in a quick skim. Is it a comedy? Romance? Parody? Drama? Thriller? Who are the main characters and what is the essential focus. One’s closeted or one’s straight or one is a witness on the run or so on. I want to know the basic facts but without needing to know the entire story and ruin why I should read the book. A great blurb should also omit any random facts or characters that aren’t important.

If the book is about two men falling in love while getting over the death of a lover, it’s not important to name the dead lover and may confuse the reader who skims the blurb looking for the main names only to encounter three names. If the token character is named in a romance, readers may confuse the book with a ménage even if the blurb says the two people are sleeping together and one is just a friend. Similarly if several are named in a blurb for a book this could leave readers confused who the main character is/are.

Additionally there is always talk amongst authors about ending a blurb with a question. This seems to be universally shunned as horrible but do readers really care. Do you really think is a stupid, vapid convention? I mean on the one hand, the question is redundant. You know the couple will live happily ever after if it’s a romance and if it’s a thriller, no one is too worried the main character will die. There are a few common safety nets that allow readers to disregard the questions on blurbs since most readers already know the answer. So why ask the question in a blurb?

More importantly, how do readers feel about a blurb ending in a question? Does it even matter or simply ignorable?

And finally… readers, what do you want in your blurbs? What are the key things you look for when reading a blurb for a book you’re considering buying?

We all know the acronym GLBT, some of us use GLBTQ, and it’s pretty common knowledge what all the letters stand for. This site was created to focus on books from all spectrums of GLBTQ but when it comes to the B…there’s some frustration.

A large percentage of the GLBTQ books being published these days are gay male stories, but what about readers like me who are looking for quality fiction from the other areas of the rainbow? Quality lesbian fiction may not be as popular in the ebook community, but there is a plethora of fiction out there if you know where to look. Transgender fiction is even harder to find, but there’re stories out there. So what about bisexual stories? I’ve identified as bisexual for over 15 years now, and after years of reading books I’ve come to the conclusion that finding quality fiction with bisexual characters is much harder than it seems.

A 2002 survey in the US by the National Center for Health Statistics found that of people ages 18-44, 1.8% of men and 2.8% of women consider themselves bisexual. That’s compared to 2.3% of men and 1.3% of women that consider themselves homosexual. That’s just one survey and there are numerous studies with other numbers but the common conclusion is that there is a solid percentage of the population that identifies as bisexual. So why is it so hard to find bisexual fiction?

Being bisexual means that you are attracted to both men and women. A bisexual male might be in a relationship with a female, or he might be in a relationship with a male. Both are love in every sense of the word, but on the surface what do those relationships appear to be? When with a female, the man appears to be in a heterosexual relationship. When with a male, the man appears to be in a homosexual relationship. When a book is written based on one of these relationships, the gut reaction for most publishers, and readers, is to categorize the book based on what the relationship “looks” like. The fact that one of the characters is bisexual gets lost in the shuffle.

Many publishers have what are presented as bisexual selections, and the vast majority of the time these are ménage stories. Typically, you’ll have a bisexual male in a relationship with both a male and a female. This is definitely one way to find bisexual characters, where bisexuality and polyamory are joined together, but what about readers who are looking for bisexual characters in monogamous relationships? Where do we go to find characters that reflect our own lives?

On the one hand, readers that identify as bisexual are at a great advantage as we have a wider array of fiction that we can read and enjoy since we love and are attracted to people of both genders. Yet on the other hand, we end up reading either heterosexual or homosexual characters and not often getting a character we can truly identify with. Of course, books usually focus on one relationship so a character’s bisexuality doesn’t really come up except through details of past relationships. Rock? Meet hard place.

After reading for years and years, I’ve only found a small handful of fiction books that feature bisexual characters in monogamous relationships. A search of “bisexual” on Amazon returns 87 romance titles, with 75 labeled Erotica and 18 labeled contemporary. The majority of those titles appear to involve polyamory. There are 841 books returned under Gay & Lesbian, and glancing through the beginning of the list are numerous non-fiction books with real life tales from bisexuals. Many are phenomenal books, yet still not fiction.

Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer to this one. I will just continue to search for fiction with bisexual characters.  If you have any recommendations please share them!

Hello to all and we’re officially opening the doors!  Yes, what we have here my fellow readers and authors is a brand spanking new book review site.  :-)  It’s been about a month in the making as we built the foundation…then knocked down a few walls and built them up again.  Our vision the entire time was to create a website that was both easy to read and easy to navigate and was a resource for readers interested in the GLBTQ genre.

You might be asking yourself right now, “Do we really need another review site?”  Well of course my answer is yes and here’s why.  There are absolutely a lot of review sites and blogs out there right now, but very few sites are focused solely on GLBTQ books.  Of those that do review books in the GLBTQ category, the majority are reviewing solely books with gay male characters.  Our goal for the site as a whole is to feature reviews of books from all facets of the queer rainbow: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and more.  If it’s as queer as a three dollar bill, then it will fit in perfectly here.

With several years of reviewing experience between our reviewers, and even more years spent reading GLBTQ books, our goal is to share our thoughts and experiences with other readers as well as provide thorough, quality reviews.  Added to that will be posts that cover a variety of topics such as in depth discussions of different publishers, the best and worst of ebook sellers, current trends in the market, and just about anything our brains feel the need to expound upon.

So welcome to all and hope you enjoy the new site!