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Author of Contemporary Gay Romance

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Romance novels are about love

June 30, 2015 By Brandon Leave a Comment

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Romance novels are about love… with a capital L.  They’re about finding that elusive special someone who gets your quirks and insecurities, and accepts you as you are. Throw in a fabulous storyline with plenty of chemistry and you’ve got a winning combination any enthusiastic reader will happily devour.  However, it isn’t only the message of love that moves me in romance books.  It’s the message of hope. This is particularly true in the MM genre. [Read more…] about Romance novels are about love

Filed Under: Author Interviews, Book Excerpts, Gay Romance Novels Tagged With: gay love story, LGBT, mm romance

Sibley Jackson Gay M/M Romance Summer Sale

May 29, 2015 By Brandon Leave a Comment

Sibley Jackson (pen name of Caddy Rowland for gay m/m romance) is pleased to announce the last book, From the Ashes, of her serialized Where There’s Smoke series has just been released!

These books are in Kindle Unlimited, as Caddy is testing the Kindle Unlimited program for borrows. If you are a Kindle Unlimited member, you can read any Sibley Jackson story for FREE. If you aren’t a Kindle Unlimited member, the following sale is for YOU on Amazon.com. (Please note: Amazon controls which Amazon sites feature sales and which sites offer Kindle Unlimited.)

To celebrate the completion of Where There’s Smoke, Sibley is having a Slide into Summer Sale. It’s a sale taking place over the next five weeks, with the first book, Wicked Heat FREE on Amazon.com for three days starting today, May 29 through Sunday, May 31.

Each book will follow, having its own one week sale at .99. Here is the timeline:

June 1-June 7  Simmering Desire

June 8-June 14  Slow Burn

June 15-June 21 Blistering Blaze

June 22-June 28  Baptism by Fire

June 29-July 5  From the Ashes

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Book Blurb:

Andy isn’t planning on a relationship getting in the way of his career. He needs to prove himself invaluable to his boss, Gordy. Things get messed up the minute Gordy introduces him to his son, Cody, who will be working under Andy for the summer.

At first glance, Andy knows the guy is trouble. Cody is a lethal combination of a pretty face and a very rugged physique. Cody makes him achingly hot, which confuses and angers him. He likes rough-looking men, not pretty boys, even if this particular pretty face comes with a brutally sculpted body. Not only that, the dude is his boss’s son!

Cody also feels the same burning desire. It flusters him, as he’s determined to remain in the closet. Cody knows full well being gay won’t be accepted by his family. Besides, Andy is rude and short-tempered from the start. Who needs someone like that in their life?

Regardless, the heat between the two men refuses to die own. It’s going to be a long, hot summer.

A summer neither man will soon forget.

Again, Wicked Heat  is FREE  On Amazon.com for three days starting today, May 29 through Sunday, May 31, with another book following for .99 each week for 5 weeks.

 

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Here’s to a summer filled with great reading and fabulous summer experiences!

Thank you,

Sibley Jackson/Caddy Rowland

Caddy Rowland is a novelist and painter. Her social media links follow.

To find out about her Sibley Jackson novels visit: Sibley Jackson Author Page

Sign up for New Release Newsletter by Email: Sibley Jackson Sign Up

Author Fanpage for both Sibley and Caddy: www.facebok.com/authorcaddyrowland

Author Blog: www.caddyrowlandblog.blogspot.com (Sibley Page on blog)

Twitter: @caddyorpims

 

Filed Under: Author Interviews, Gay Romance Novels, Short Stories Tagged With: gay love story, LGBT, mm romance

Queering the Beyond with Adam Sass

May 12, 2015 By Brandon 1 Comment

With the creation of new worlds, aliens, and inter-galactic politics one would think that science fiction is a literary genre welcoming of diversity. However, both queer and female voices in sci-fi are often either hard-to-find or snubbed by the genre’s readers. Startling Sci-Fi: New Tales of the Beyond edited by Casey Ellis (New Lit Salon Press) is inclusive of both queer and female voices. The collection also attempts to disprove the misnomer that “literary fiction” and “genre fiction” can’t be one in the same. I sat down with one of the anthologies authors, Adam Sass, to find out how he’s helping to queer the beyond.

SF cover, ebook cover WEBBrandon: Why do you think Science Fiction attracts so many gay readers and writers?

Adam: It has a flair, doesn’t it? Sci-fi writing lends itself to splashy, showy, larger-than-life characters. It colors the mundane, presents big ideas, creates fabulous powers, and features operatic drama; all things gays (on average) find to be mother’s milk. It’s also a genre that’s big on metaphor. Gays can really rock a metaphor.

Brandon: Pop culture plays a big role in your story, “98% Graves.” Can you discuss pop culture’s influence on your work in general and in this story specifically? [Read more…] about Queering the Beyond with Adam Sass

Filed Under: Author Interviews, Gay Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy Tagged With: author interview, award winning gay fiction, gay authors, gay scifi, LGBT

Dear Henry… Gay Humor on stage in NYC

April 12, 2015 By Brandon Leave a Comment

Friend, author, and playwright Arthur Wooten has a new play hitting the stage in NYC and you won’t want to miss it if you happen to be in the Big Apple on Monday April 27, Sunday May 3, or Saturday, May 9. 

dear henry playbillBrandon: This is a one-man show, is that correct?

Arthur: Yes. It stars the highly accomplished Luke Doyle and revolves around a man writing letters to his boyfriend Henry, who is regaling the numerous and crazy shenanigans (both sexual and non) the two have gotten into during their relationship.

Brandon: How did you come up with this?

Arthur: In 2008 & 2009 I was the humorist for the London-based Magazine reFRESH. I wrote this as a column. reFRESH readers fell in love it and couldn’t wait for the next installment. Soon I had Brits (both gay and straight) waiting to see what the two would get into next. That column became the jumping off point for the show.

[Read more…] about Dear Henry… Gay Humor on stage in NYC

Filed Under: Author Interviews Tagged With: gay authors, LGBT, theater

Spotlight on Historical Gay Romance – Harry’s Great Trek

February 22, 2015 By Brandon 2 Comments

Welcome Roger M. Kean to the blog to discuss his final book in the Empire Trilogy. ~ B.

Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000031_00009]Brandon: So tell me a little about how you came to write this trilogy.

Roger: I was brought up on a reading diet of H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, and Capt. W.E. Johns’ flying hero, Biggles. Excitement and adventure in far-flung outposts of the British Empire colored my childhood. And I count myself lucky. Unlike my contemporaries stuck in “Austerity” Britain in the era before mass air travel, at eight, I was thrown headlong into an exotic land—I spent my early-to-teenage years in Nigeria. To a little white boy, Lagos was strange, exotic, and excitingly alien: near my home tribal drums still beat a heart-thumping tattoo in the sultry night air. Diverse cultures filled my formative years—not least eccentric British expatriates. Pell-mell I was thrown into the kind of adventures I could never have had back in stuffy old UK. [Read more…] about Spotlight on Historical Gay Romance – Harry’s Great Trek

Filed Under: Author Interviews, Gay Fiction, Gay Romance Novels Tagged With: gay authors, gay love story, LGBT, mm romance

Retro Reads… and a Giveaway

January 31, 2015 By Brandon Leave a Comment

I’m over at Prism Book Alliance talking about two of my more literary fan favs, Listening to Dust and The Value of Rain. Feel free to stop by, enter to win a gift card, and join in the conversation at Prism.

Read their review of Listening to Dust.

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