Dear Reader, Less than a week to go! THIS IS GOD’S COUNTRY, Volume I of the Tolerance Trilogy, goes live on Monday. Amazon was able to get all three formats on the same page (with a little prodding). The paperbacks look great, by the way, and I’m anxiously awaiting delivery Read more…
Dear Reader, In honor of Valentine’s Day I’m celebrating not just love but The Love Trilogy! I’ve been planning for a while to offer the Trilogy as an ebook box set, and this is the perfect time to do it. I’ll have it available on Amazon next week for $9.99, 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, It is with great pleasure and pride I announce the completion of Volume III of my Love Trilogy, AND LOVE ENDURES. The process was particularly joyous. As before, wonderful new characters showed up in my head and introduced themselves. And it was particularly satisfying to welcome back old Read more…
Dear Reader, Sonya Teclai, our social media director, asked me the other day what it was like growing up gay in the South in the 1950s and ’60s. “And living to tell about it,” was the understood part of her question that didn’t need voicing. I thought deeply about it, 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…
Dear Reader, LGBTQ pride is an everyday thing. And yet it is right and fitting to assign it a unique month. June always feels special to me, because each day reminds me of the great progress made in the struggle for equality. And the fight for essential rights still not Read more…
Dear Reader, It is fitting that the new Supreme Court ruling called Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission should have been decided during Pride Month. Like most Americans, all I knew about the case was the mainstream media pronouncement, “The Baker Won.” Well, not so fast. I turned to Read more…
Dear Reader, Memory is a strange phenomenon. Just when we think we’ve pinned it down, it throws us a curve. My memories have been all over the place recently as I write about a particularly vulnerable section of my life. I’m sure I’ve told you that my narrator shares certain Read more…