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How far would you go for your first love? Buy The Madness of Two today from all major ebook retailers! Amazon — iBooks — Barnes & Noble — Kobo — Smashwords Don’t forget to add The Madness of Two on Goodreads! How far would you go for your first love? Nobody at school […]

Mark your calendars! The Madness of Two will be available at all major ebook retailers on October 21! How far would you go for your first love? Nobody at school would guess that outcast Andy is secretly best friends with the most popular boy in class. But cool, collected Grant […]

It’s aliiiiiiiiive!! *insert demonic cackle here.* Twisted Metal is available now from Amazon and Smashwords. Coming soon to all other major ebook retailers and in paperback. Ollie Becker’s family fled Mason’s Landing, MO, 12 years ago, leaving everything behind—including Ollie’s boyfriend, Kane Wright. When Ollie returns, reeling from another devastating […]

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Yes, seriously! It’s been a looooong time, baby, but my new book Twisted Metal will be released April 3 to all major ebook retailers 🥳 Ollie Becker’s family fled the small town of Mason’s Landing, Missouri, over a decade ago. In the chaos, they left everything behind — their home, […]

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Don’t miss the $.99 Pennies Sale, happening now on Amazon! From September 20-24th, get Strait Laced for just $0.99! And don’t miss these other fantastic m/m romance titles too! Looking In by Michael BaileyLet Me In by Luna DavidSecret Daddy by JR GraySecret Simon by Davidson KingCutting It Close by […]

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CW: discussion of domestic abuse, sexual violence, intimate partner violence. Almost a third of sexual minority men, and one half of women, report being a victim of domestic abuse. For psychological abuse the figure is even higher: over half of queer men and 75 percent of queer women report being []

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I love historical (queer) fiction, but it suffers even more than other genres under the burden of killing the gays. It pleases me inordinately that modern m/m fiction is giving historical queer characters the happy endings they so richly deserve, but nothing thrills me more than finding a book from []

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History is not a monolith, and queerfolk have been around since before men started scratching hunting scenes on cave walls. Yet much of what we know of queer history comes from the voices of our oppressors. We have records of churches and governments condemning those who are other, of hangings []

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I had to get the battery in my Macbook replaced recently. It had been on the blink and flashing a replace soon warning for at least six months, it was at 1500-odd cycles, and my whole top case was getting glitchy. My mic had stopped working and keys decided if []

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When we think about recent(ish) queer history, most of the stories that come to us are of lawbreakers. Some, like Oscar Wilde, are more famous than others (Peter Wildeblood). Like Alan Turing, we can turn them into martyrs, the founding fathers upon whose shoulders modern gay rights movements stand. While []