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Point of View: When Did I Get So Old?

Scott Tenth Birthday

Just a blink of an eye ago, I was that little kid in the picture, blowing out candles on the sports cake that was so not who I am. But that’s how they treated boys in the Seventies. We were all little athletes in training, ready to grow up into big manly sportsing men. Boy, did I miss the mark. Even then, I knew I was different, but I didn’t have the words for it. I was on the cusp of my teen years, but there was nothing in my little suburban world to prepare me to be a gay … Read more

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New Release: Love Me Do – Meg Macy

Love Me Do - Meg Macy

Meg Macy has a new MM contemporary romance out, Love Is Love book two: Love Me Do. Longtime friends Jackson Riley and Juliette (aka Jules) Baxter are committed to fulfilling their first year of business at their breakfast café, but trouble is brewing again in their personal lives. Jack and Reese Baxter are in a committed relationship — or are they? Jack’s not so certain given Reese’s continued reluctance to come out of the closet. Jules has ended her polyamorous relationships, but she’s juggling her romantic attraction to two café staff members – a man and a woman. Jules’s parents … Read more

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New Release: Children of Anzulla: Draxton & Kellan – Kashel Char

Children of Anzulla: Draxton & Kellan - Kashel Char

Kashel Char has a new MM paranormal/sci-fantasy romance book out: Children of Anzulla: Draxton & Kellan. DRAXTON: Have you ever looked for something you know is there but can’t find it?I was born to explore caves, and when it comes to finding the door to another reality, I become a tire-screeching, hyper-focused maniac. When I use my charm, I know, no one can refuse me, especially when I’m wearing my sexy jean shorts and wide-brimmed hat, even if I pair them with flip-flops. I will do anything to secure an extension to explore the Star Caves, nestled in the Cradle … Read more

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New Release: Forrest House – E.M. Hamill

Forrest House - E.M. Hamill

E.M. Hamill has a new MM urban fantasy out: Forrest House. Blood is Stronger Than Magic Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate’s husband to protect them before he, too, disappears. Six months later, his former lover crash lands in the kids’ bedroom via a spell only Ander’s sister could have cast. Druid Cai Piper doesn’t remember how he … Read more

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Review: Standard Candle – G.B. Lindsey

Standard Candle - G.B. Lindsey

Genre: Contemporary, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bi Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book Denny: friend. Denny, who sleeps in threadbare tees that smell like his cigarettes, who coats his arms in the guts of engines, who kisses like he’s sampling you, scenting you, until you forget that there are things you can’t afford to forget. Denny: with benefits. It’s not dating. You’ve both done enough of that. You’re both stuck in this town, you’re both going nowhere, but at night, you have each other. It’s sex. It’s an arrangement. It suits you both. Denny: yours. Tonight, the … Read more

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Review: Tech Prince Troubles – Blaine D. Arden

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Trans Reviewer: Scott Get It At Amazon About The Book He came to this human hotel to disappear. Instead, he found a barista who makes espresso taste like home—and glitches no one else can solve. Adri Linari, overlooked tech mage and younger sibling of Niralen’s charismatic Crown Prince, is more comfortable with schematics than small talk. Overwhelmed by royal obligations, a sensory-frying engagement party, and the ache of always being the odd one out, he runs—straight to the Renversé Hotel in Princedelphia, Oregon. All he wants is quiet, a place to draw, and maybe … Read more

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New Release: All You Need Is Love – Meg Macy

All You Need Is Love - Meg Macy

Meg Macy has a new MM romance book out, Love is Love book one: All You Need is Love. Longtime friends Jack Riley and Juliette (aka Jules) Baxter are now partners in a new breakfast café, but they are surprised to be confronted by a wave of homophobia in a town known for its inclusive and diverse LGBTQA+ community. Their romantic lives are just as uncertain. Jack, a gay former actor and fashion model, has failed at committed relationships due to his unsavory past – until he meets Reese Baxter, his partner’s handsome, closeted cousin. Jules juggles several polyamorous relationships due … Read more

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Review: Down the River

Down the River - J. Scott Coatsworth

Just got an amazing review for Down the River from Ulysses at Queer Sci Fi: Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords | Vivlio | Universal Buy Link The Review Anyone who ever read Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City will appreciate this book. An episodic story of a motley group of friends in Sacramento (River City—a nickname I never knew), Down the River doesn’t have a plot so much as a gentle, insightful narrative of these people’s lives, both individual and shared, over the course of a fairly short timespan. The people are old and young, of various ethnicities, orientations and genders. They mostly know each other, and their lives … Read more

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Review: Valley of Secrets – H.L. Moore

Valley of Secrets - H.L. Moore

Genre: Fantasy, Romantic Arc LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bi, Non-Binary, Poly  Universal Buy Link About The Book This city of fools will be brought to order! Deposed, her father presumed dead, her friends slaughtered and the cavern in chaos, Grace Harrington is on the run and entirely alone. The only ally she has left is the man she hates most in the world: Nathaniel Morgenstern, the assassin who murdered her mother and seduced her father. Grace’s only hope of reclaiming the throne and saving her people is to seek the aid of Éamon Tadhg, the High Druid of Arajon. But she … Read more

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Review: Throne of Lies – H.L. Moore

Genre: Fantasy, Romantic Arc LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bisexual, Non-Binary Get It At Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book There are vipers in Arajon, from the Valley to the Bronze. Grace Harrington, the Dowager Archon of Arajon, is approaching her first anniversary on the throne she claimed following the death of her husband, slain at her own hands. But her position is so precarious that even the unwelcome presence of the former assassin Nathaniel Morgenstern, watching over her at her father’s behest, cannot protect her from her enemies. The city’s press has turned against her, the Bronze is rallying behind Odessa … Read more