New Review: Rainbow Reviews

Check out the new review of ‘A Report from Winter’ on the Rainbow Reviews website. The goal of Rainbow Reviews is “to provide honest and intelligent reviews for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender books.” New reviews are posted every Sunday, and there are 1,743 reviews in its archives.

Bearing Witness

Please visit the Out in Print book blog to read my review of Ron J. Suresha’s Revised Edition of Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions. This comprehensive volume comes to us through Bear Bones Books, a new imprint of Lethe Press. Ron Suresha is acquisitions and development editor for Bear Bones, which may be just [...]

Call for Reviewers

If you have a book review blog, or write for one, please contact me about receiving a free signed copy of A Report from Winter. At a time when mainstream publishing has become just another arm of mainstream media, bloggers and other independent reviewers have taken on the heroic task of helping good books rise [...]

Review: ‘The Rest of Our Lives’ by Dan Stone

When it’s successful, humorous writing looks so effortless that we forget how much effort goes into it. There is a subjective element to humor that makes it very, very difficult to pull off on the page. Is the author as amusing as he thinks he is?   Happily, Dan Stone’s novel The Rest of Our [...]

Kind Words: Scott Heim, Jeff Mann, Malcolm Boyd

I’m extremely grateful to three first-class writers who were kind enough to read the galley of my book and offer comments.

Movie Review: C.R.A.Z.Y.

C.R.A.Z.Y. is the kind of movie-movie that pulls you into its plot, characters, and setting until you feel it’s something you’re not just watching but experiencing.

35 Cents and Suspect Thoughts

Information about the memoir 35 Cents by Matty Lee, published by Suspect Thoughts