I have a list of books I have read on GOOD READS, a website you can join and list the books you have read and see books others have read. Unfortunately I can’t link you to my page unless you are a member.

Good Reads has a great list of Gay and Lesbian books too, which again I don’t think you can see unless you join.  But to join is free.

I am preparing a list of good gay books I have read over the years.  I am beginning to list them under RECOMMENDED.  I have only listed those authors I can remember for now, and make only two annotation (reviews).  But hopefully I will continue to add to it.

Even as it is, it is worth googling the names.  (“as it is it is…” what a weird phrase to write, maybe it needs a comma after the first ‘it is’?)

Alex

The April 2011 issue of Wilde Oats is out.  Some fantastic stories this time.  The zine just gets better and better.

	Refrigeration Blues   by Richard Natale To understand Matt’s absurd suicide attempt, you have to understand what drove him to it: it’s better than life without his one and only.
	The Holy Ryder by Chris Castle  Sometimes it takes a crisis to bring a mother and son together.
	Taking Care  by Eric Nguyen After a year apart, Chad returns to help Max recover from a life-changing surgery. When everything changes, can anything remain the same?
	The Father of Free Men  Part 1, by Anel Viz In a Bronze Age culture, the spoiled heir to the richest family in the city is granted exclusive use of the beautiful slave Golden Eyes to satisfy his lust.
	News on Frances Connelly  by David Massengill College graduate Alex Nathan returns to his well-to-do hometown and reunites with Doug, his best friend and greatest crush. Can Alex’s affections compete with the town’s desire to see Doug settle for Frances Connelly?
	New Year’s Kiss  by Brian Rowe The South Pacific isn’t the only place that has enchanted evenings. You might see a stranger across a frigid, Northern crowd…
	Mind Games  by Michael Gouda The doctor says the memories will come back to him in time—who he is, why he’s in hospital. The police want to know too.
	Clockworld  by RJ Astruc There’s something wrong about Clockworld, but no one seems to be able to put a finger on it.  Is it the planet itself? Or is it the people who live there? Parts one and two were published in December issue (issue 7), parts three and four in this issue.
	The Time I Killed My Father  by Christopher Jackson Ash Most of us wish we had a chance to do things over. One man seizes the opportunity to right old wrongs.

Here’s an interesting site from an e-friend of mine, Nan Hawthorne, who is a mad keen fan of medieval history, and even earlier, Dark ages history (by that I mean, pre 1000 CE).

The site is called Medieval novels, listing novels set in this period.

• medieval-novels.com
  • Do you have a passion for historical novels set between 400 and 1600 AD?   Check out this ever growing source for new, used, and out of print  novels run by a  novelist in the genre.  Authors, list your books!

 

A new post needed?  OK, I will.  The Greens are pushing for gay marriage in Australia.  I’ve heard stats that say 62% of Aussies support it.  Most others probably don’t care.  Aussies don’t care about things like this.  By don’t care, I mean, “why not?  If they want it, they can have it.  What has it to do with us?”

For some bizarre reason our PM Julia Gilliard is against it.  Why?

Anyway, the mere fact the Greens an bring it up in Parliament is a big step forward.  It’ll come, and I think soon.

Gotta go, “The Office” is on soon.

Alex

Hey, this is really late notice, but I have a story in the May issue of Gay Flash Fiction, called FIVE MINUTES A DAY.  I am particularly pleased with this story, and am trying to expand it, or the idea behind it, into a larger story, maybe even a novel.

 

 

There is a new issue of Wilde Oats out. Sorry for such late notice, but if you haven’t seen it yet, I have a story in there.

Here is the link: Into Temptation

And check out the other stories too.

The new issue of Gay Flash Fiction is out – Issue 17.

I have a story in :

FIVE MINUTES A DAY.

I’d see him walk past my stop every day. He’d be walking to school and I’d be catching the bus. We’d just nod to each other; acknowledging our existence, and that we knew we both went to the same school. He was a year above me, so we never had much to do with each other. When we did pass each other at school, it’d be the same nod we’d give.

Five minutes a day, that was about all I ever saw of him. . . (read more)

There is a new issue of Wilde Oats out. There is no story from me this time, but lots of other stories worth looking at. Check the e-zines page for more details.

WILDE OATS ISSUE 3,  December 2009

I have a story called THE PRINCE’S BRIDE, which is also illustrated by me.

The theme of the issue is GAY MARRIAGE.

My story is based on a fairy tale theme, about a Prince who was expected to marry to carry on the line and produce an heir.  The problem was that the Prince did not want to marry, at least not a woman.

Around the forgotten parts of the city, the dark corners, the alleyways, hidden from the searching torchlight of police and charity workers, are the lost boys, the abandoned ones. May I gather with them in their loneliness, and tell them a fairy tale to warm their nights, a story of a Prince who – like them – never wanted to marry.

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