June always fills my heart with joy and wonder because of the very real achievements of LGBTQIA activists and the rest of us who simply live our lives as out gay people. I’m celebrating hard-won victories this month. For instance, when Walter and I decided to get married, we had Read more…
Dear Friends, The Fourth of July—following closely on Pride Month—always reminds me how fragile our liberties are. And never have I had a keener sense of our fragilities then I do today. But it seems to me that the Constitution is still reasonably intact, and that wisdom and justice still Read more…
Dear Friends, You haven’t heard from me lately because in mid-April, when I was rushing across Eighth Avenue to meet a cousin for an early supper after her matinee, I took a spill and managed to bust my right shoulder and right kneecap. The shoulder surgery that followed was but Read more…
Dear Friends,In honor of my birthday (last Saturday), and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I’ve decided to give away five copies of my Holiday Novella Series Box Set. So if you’re feeling romantic, please take a selfie of you and your significant other before Valentine’s Day and post Read more…
Dear Reader, There’s always such a rush of activity this time of year. I’m trying to catch up on all the things I didn’t accomplish this fall—or is it this year? My Christmas project is nearly complete, fortunately. I don’t do much ambitious cooking these days. Putting dinner on the Read more…
Dear Reader, Can it be possible that the season is here? Surely I haven’t finished complaining about the summer heat, and Thanksgiving is two days away. And that means a book release, of course! The ebook version of OPERA OBSESSED is still available for preorder with a December 1 release Read more…
Dear Reader, As much as I hate the concept of New Year’s resolutions I still feel the need to make some plans for the future. But first, let’s take stock. I just reread my post to kick off 2018 – https://audacitybooks.com/be-it-resolved/. So how did I do? There’s nothing like accountability to Read more…
Dear Reader, The days sweep by this holiday season. Thanksgiving is behind us—and the first round of over-indulgence—and now I’m staging my own little celebration: Volume III, AND LOVE ENDURES, goes live on Saturday! Amazon will deliver its ebook preorders that day, and the paperback and hardcover will come online Read more…
Dear Reader, As promised, today I’m offering a free download of Volume II, LOVE AND THE EPIDEMIC , to celebrate the December 1 release of Volume III, AND LOVE ENDURES. Any book in the trilogy stands alone, but I do think it’s a better experience to read all three, in Read more…
Dear Reader, I had forgotten that July 4 follows so quickly on the heels of Pride Month. Independence. A heady concept, indeed. Essential, and yet such a new idea in the history of civilization. Today I’m pondering the blessings of independence. I don’t usually work up a whole lot of Read more…