Posted in Gay Novel Review on Nov 18th, 2009
I recently enjoyed reading a Josh Lanyon murder mystery, The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks.
Take a large and creepy old house in Vermont with dark, mysterious shadows everywhere and unexplained drafts turned into apartment dwellings with a landlady from hell.
We are then introduced to the mild mannered, asthmatic and shy Perry Foster – a 23-year-old [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Mar 28th, 2009
In Stealing Some Time, it is the year 2477 and much of the world has long since become desert due to the unchecked use of fossil fuels in the centuries past.
Technical Sergeant Kallen Deshara of the North American Alliance’s Air Defense Force is only 20 years old and already has been in three relationships.
While in [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Mar 21st, 2009
All hell breaks loose when Dean Smith, Earl of Carwick, is tricked into being discovered in the company of Rob, a handsome male prostitute. Now Dean needs to repair his broken engagement to a wealthy heiress… and Rob is the only one who can identify the man who set him up, proving to Dean’s fiancée [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Mar 7th, 2009
A few years ago, Rupert Smith was complaining in frustration to a fellow writer about his inability to find a publisher for a second novel. “Have you ever thought of writing porn,” his friend asked.
Rupert Smith took on a new author name, James Lear, and started writing gay erotica. His first book was entitled [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review, TyRain Rant on Feb 29th, 2008
When I was young gay man, there never seemed to be enough science-fiction novels for me to read, with Frank Herbert’s Dune and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation remaining my classic favorites. As I have matured I have found myself with quite a varied taste in literature. I just finished reading American Theocracy – The Peril and [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Jan 10th, 2008
I just finished reading The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce – an enjoyable gay gothic mystery.
Many time-honored expected gothic cliches are included in this tale. The year is 1899 and Andrew Wyndham is twenty years old. When a friend arranges for him to work as tutor to the son of a wealthy patron of [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Oct 15th, 2007
Gay author Edmund White has written over twenty books including
the classic gay coming of age novel – A Boy’s Own Story
and was co-editor of The Joy of Gay Sex
In 1991 Edmund White wrote about being gay:
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn’t [...]
Posted in Gay Novel Review on Aug 26th, 2007
Back in the mid-1970’s, a naïve 20-something Mary Ann Singleton arrived in San Francisco for the first time. Making her new home at a boarding house at 28 Barbary Lane, Singleton’s life soon became intertwined with the building’s colorful tenants: the enigmatic and magical transsexual Anna Madrigal, the womanizing Brian, and the sweet, sexy, hopelessly [...]
