Rainbow Advent Calendar – my story – Shooting Star

It’s is my turn for this fun holiday writing event. My story is up today, both posted here and available for download. (Link below.) It’s always a bit of a surprise for me, to see where my holiday stories go. I’m not particularly good at the holiday sweet and fluffy, (although my older story Where the Heart Is comes close.) This time, I ended up with a bit of an adventure: . – Shooting Star … Read more

Rainbow Awards winners

The Rainbow Awards are complete for 2018-2019, thanks to a huge undertaking by Elisa Rolle, who organized 450 books, 106 judges, all over the world. The event raised over $12,000 as donations to LGBTQ charities. So many good books were honored with these awards. I was thrilled that my Kira Harp YA story collection, Rainbow Briefs volume 2, won the collection/anthology award this year. *** Here’s a full list of the winners. (Categories with large … Read more

Rainbow Advent Calendar free stories

I wanted to let you folks know about a holiday writing event I’m participating in : From the 1st – 24th of December authors of GLBT+ fiction will be opening a door to a selection of festive stories to while away the winter days and get you in the holiday spirit. Find stories from your favorite writers and discover some new ones along the way. The schedule is a surprise – I’m on it, but … Read more

Changes Coming Down released

Changes Coming Down – Changes Book 1 is now available on Smashwords and Amazon, with other retailers to follow. I had great fun revisiting Will, my quiet cowboy, Casey, the tough county sheriff, and Scott, a talented hockey player with his eyes fixed on the NHL. The book began as a challenge for a gift anthology, to write a story with those three main characters. It became a favorite excursion into mystery and the dynamics … Read more

Black Friday Author Chat and news

If you’re on Facebook, Rainbow Gold Reviews is having a 15-hour Black Friday of chat with many of your favorite authors. Join in to talk to over 50 authors, and maybe win some books. I’m on at 10 am Central time. I hope to see you there. https://www.facebook.com/events/413771222851752/ In other news, the French translation of my second Rebuilding Year novel – Une vie à construire: Se reconstruire, T2 released from MxM Bookmark yesterday. It’s always … Read more

Transgender guys in M/M

I blogged briefly on Love Bytes Reviews about how much I appreciate seeing trans guys in more M/M romances. Transgender Guys in M/M Romance Also for anyone waiting for me to get my newsletter up and running, Mail Chimp and I are battling that one out. Hopefully coming soon. And Changes Coming Down looks on track for a Dec 1 release, with the sequel coming out in Feb-March if all goes well.

Cover Reveal : Changes Coming Down

(with thanks to cover artist Karrie Jax for another great one.) Changes Coming Down – Changes Book 1 For three gay men in love, opening the closet door could be a risky move. Sheriff Casey Barlow has a slick, media-savvy challenger out to beat him in the upcoming election. Casey’s damned good at his job, but he hasn’t kissed the right asses, and early polls suggest voters like his opponent’s style. Coming out now, let … Read more

When Love is Bittersweet

Check out my blog post on Love Bytes Reviews about how to classify books with non-traditional romance endings. What’s your preference? When Love is Bittersweet

Into Deep Waters in paper edition

I wrote Into Deep Waters and released it as a freebie in 2012. Since then I’ve had quite a few requests for it in paper format, and I finally decided to follow through. I appreciate the formatting help of Deb from Beaten Track Publishing (who also created a perfect period photo for the back cover.) The tiny short coda story “Can’t Hurt to Believe” is included at the back of this volume. The paper book … Read more

GRL Authors’ free books

If you’re looking for some good free reading, check out the GRL Authors’ LGBT Romance collection on Prolific Works (was Instafreebie) – you do have to enter an email to download (and may then get an author newsletter, but can always unsubscribe.) This collection includes 77 gay romance offerings from novels to shorts – some are perma-free books (my own stories are the freebies Nor Iron Bars a Cage and Like the Taste of Summer); … Read more