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Point of View: Acting Locally

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the online world vs. the offline one lately. I still remember clearly the march toward where we are now, from the good old days before every home had a computer and every hand held a cell phone. And then it launched – this glorious new thing called the World Wide Web, making it easy for anyone to post pages atop the internet. At first, no one quite knew what to do with it except throw advertisements on it. Over the period of three months, suddenly every billboard and magazine ad had a web address … Read more

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Author Spotlight: A.B. Julian

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: A.B Julian is an M/M Romance author and the creative force behind A.B Julian Books, Inc. Known for If I Met You First… and Hated: Care No More, they bring a deep academic background in Forensic Psychology and Education to every emotionally resonant story. Currently residing on the East Coast with three demanding cats, A.B Julian spends their days in the world of academia and their nights crafting high-heat, captivating novels. A.B … Read more

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Point of View: The Enshittification of (Almost) Everything

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Ask yourself this. When was the last time you were excited (not motivated by fear or disgust) to visit a social media website? Any website? Or this – name one corporation that you really love and think is doing good things for the world. For me, it’s been a long time since either of these was true. There’s a concept that was pioneered by Corey Doctorow a few years back in an article about the TikTok website, but it has since become broadly applicable to many sites on the web. In a nutshell, he observed that TikTok had burst onto … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Peter Fenton

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Peter’s first novel, The Woodcarver’s Model was released by Pride Publishing in April of 2022 and was a four time nominee in the Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Awards. Following the success of the first book, Pride Publishing released The Declan Hunt Mysteries series which includes Mann Hunt (nominated for a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award and recently translated into German, Italian and Spanish), Hoodoo House, (also a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award nominee and now available … Read more

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Point of View: Oh, World Con

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Oh, World Con. We just got back from a trip to Anaheim for the 84th annual World Con – the second year in a row I’ve gone. Last year, I managed to have a booth there for Liminal Fiction, and went to a number of table talks and got to meet some great folks. However, I got started late, so I wasn’t on any panels. And I felt a little out of my element the whole time.  Back in 2018, Mark and I went to the San Jose one, but only for a day and a half, and it was … Read more

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New Release: In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights, by Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus

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Beryll & Osiris Brackhaus have a new queer sci-fantasy romance out (gay, bi, poly): In Love and War – The First Lotus Knights. It is the year 1985 ET. House Virasana has fallen, the Lotus Throne stands empty, and a bitter succession war has every noble House at arms. To make things worse, House Tô-Genji and House Medina are locked in a vicious feud over a flood of cheap illicit drugs tearing their worlds apart. Prince Li Lan Tô-Genji is as far from the fighting as one can be. Third son of the Duke of Qufu, Li Lan is the … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Janice Jarrell

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Janice Jarrell

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Janice Jarrell is the author of emotionally rich gay romance novels about love, found family, resilience, and the lives that unfold after happily-ever-after. She published her first novel, Love’s Magic, in 2018 and has been following her characters into new stories ever since. Before becoming a published author, Janice spent thirty years working in education and many years writing slash fan fiction. Now 82, she writes the stories she loves, creates videos and … Read more

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New Release – Night Home – Rose Titus

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Rose Titus has a new paranormal vampire book out: Night Home. When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the small town who knew the professor almost a century … Read more

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Point of View: Sometimes You Can Go Back

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A little over fifty-eight years ago, my Mom went to Disneyland when I was about two months old and snapped the picture above (on the left) on the It’s a Small World ride. I came into possession of this photo some time back, and it has always stuck in my mind – a simple image from when Disneyland was the only Disney park (Disney World would open in Florida three years later), and before Disney became a huge, globe-spanning empire, encompassing such varied brands as Star Wars, Marvel, and (amusingly) the Aliens franchise. Which, as some have noted with glee, … Read more

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Author Spotlight: J.R. Loveless

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: J.R. Loveless is an avid fan, reader and writer of anything pertaining to male/male romance. She started out her adventure into the genre in 2004 when she discovered the anime Loveless, a softer side of Yaoi. The moment she saw Loveless, it sucked her in and hasn’t let go since. ​After Loveless, she voraciously searched for anything she could find within the anime world pertaining to Yaoi and Shounen-Ai. She found Gravitation, … Read more