gay romance

News and Deals V Day Style

News and Deals V Day Style

News Great real life romance stories include: A)  Herbert Carter and Mildred Hemmons via CNN.  Two people who typified the Tuskagee Airmen experience.  Brave trailblazers.  Mildred was the better pilot but not allowed to fly during the war.  The two carried out their courtship in the air: Seeing each other in flight created a bond. [...]

Friday Film Review: Happy, Texas

Friday Film Review: Happy, Texas

Happy, Texas (1999) Genre: Comedy/Crime/Romance Grade: B- The bonus features on the DVD show that this film played well at the Sundance Festival but honestly, I don’t remember hearing about it when it was released. Nor much about it since then – which is a shame since it’s a lighthearted, feel good comedy/romance with some [...]

GAY WRITES REVIEW:  The Glass Minstrel by Hayden Thorne

GAY WRITES REVIEW: The Glass Minstrel by Hayden Thorne

This review is part of our Gay Writes celebration. Don’t forget to comment on the  original post for a  chance to win one of those prizes as well as commenting on this post for a chance to win a copy of this book. Dear Ms. Thorne, After I read your last historical release, The Twilight Gods, I [...]

REVIEW:  The Eye of Ra by Dakota Chase

REVIEW: The Eye of Ra by Dakota Chase

Dear Ms. Chase, Ever since I started reading more LGBTQ books, the various books published by Prizm have been on my radar.   I love genre fiction just as much as literary fiction, and seeing a ‘gay’ take on the usual YA tropes is always fun.   Your book being a time-travel plot-line really had me intrigued, [...]

REVIEW: Necking anthology, edited by Julianne Bentley

REVIEW: Necking anthology, edited by Julianne Bentley

Dear Authors. The theme of this anthology is gay male threesomes, so I’m not sure where the title comes from. I opened the volume because it has stories by some of my favorite Dreamspinner authors (Merrow, Cullinan, Black) and because I love m/m romances AND threesome stories. Some of the stories have a HEA for [...]

Thursday Midday Links:

MediaBistro held an ebook summit for the past few days and there were some interesting tidbits released. One of the overriding themes of the summit was that the $9.99 price point was not sustainable. One panel suggested that ads were the best possible way for publishers of content (magazines and books) to offer a low [...]

Friday Film Review: Latter Days

Friday Film Review: Latter Days

Latter Days (2003) Genre: Gay Romance Grade: B I’m an absolute sucker for coming out stories and especially, apparently, for “religious twink overcoming his background to accept who he is” stories. This film delivers quite nicely. I came to it oddly: I stumbled across a novelization of the film while cruising (so to speak) the [...]