GLBT Literature & Fiction

 
I Wrote This Song
by Dayne Avery
I Wrote This Song is a MUST read. This novel deals with the gamut of human emotions and creates real characters with real issues that are treated with finesse and grace. Love is always a complicated and complex conundrum of emotions and Mr. Avery vividly shows the duality of love: its beauty as well as its uncanny ability to hurt. In the end, the heart will always love what it loves...

 
Nick of Time
by Scott & Scott
Nick is a savagely handsome stonemason who has given up on gay men and has agreed to marry an Irishwoman who needs him for a green card. Brent is dancer from the city in town for his sister's wedding. To Nick, Brent's a bitchy slut who would think nothing of breaking his heart. To Brent, Nick's just another dumb strong closet case stuck a thousand miles from the city beat. But when opposites attract, who is going to tell the Irishwoman that her time is up?
 

 
Razor Burn
by Scott & Scott
Blayne is strictly business—a stuffed shirt working for his father’s company to develop the next men’s razor. Ben is out of work and out looking for a good time. He's trying to forget his troubles and get over a past he can't even remember. When they meet in a coffee shop one afternoon, Ben gets a lot more than a job. And when they start working together, nothing can keep them apart—not amnesia, not secrets, not Blayne's father, not even Blayne's wife!

 
A Time Before Me
by Michael Holloway Perronne
Growing up in a small Mississippi town, shy and inexperienced Mason spends much of his time with his best friend and childhood crush, the charming and daring Billy. When a six-pack of beer leads to a kiss between the two, Mason believes his dreams have come true. Billy's disregard for the incident, however, dashes Mason's hopes.
After graduation, Mason fears he's doomed to spend a humid Mississippi summer scooping ice cream. But everything changes when his vivacious Aunt Savannah invites him to live with her in New Orleans and work in the box office of her drag queen cabaret. It's there--in the decadent and liberating French Quarter--that Mason begins to fall for Joey, a strikingly handsome and sweet nineteen-year-old, who may just be ready to open his heart to someone new.
 

 
Half Life
Aaron Krach
Aaron Krach has given us the story of two June weeks in the lives of Adam and his friends--days of love, death, and coming of age, all rendered with a perfect understanding of how boys at the edge of manhood think and (with more than a few laugh-out-loud lines) how they talk.
 

 
Male Model
by Dave Benbow
A-list celebs rub shoulders at that Rodeo Drive "Disneyland for the clothes conscious consumer," the Cameron Fuller Store, as top designer Fuller launches his new fragrance, Pacific Coast Highway. Despite an eleventh-hour decision to debut the scent there rather than in SoHo in New York, everything goes smoothly, and that includes new model Blake, 15 years younger than Fuller and hot in hiking gear, hot in a tux. And then Cameron's wife of 20 years and arguably the prettier half of "America's Couple" dies in the middle of the bash. Some timing. But did drunken, hostile Suzette Fuller fall from the window, or was she pushed? The subsequent plot reveals the handsome, violet-eyed, closeted Cameron's passionate involvement with ex-window-dresser Blake and his hostile father-in-law Silas Cabbott's behind-the-scenes maneuvering to sink Pacific Coast Highway.
 

 
Latter Days
by C. Jay Cox
Christian Markelli is the stereotypical West Hollywood gay "party boy" hunk, with a reputation for seducing even young men who claim to be straight. So it is not so strange when his coworkers at Lillys (a restaurant owned by a former movie star) bet him $50 he can't seduce a young Mormon missionary who recently moved in (along with three other missionaries) into his apartment complex. Along the way, Christian falls in love with the shy, frustrated Aaron Davis, who also finds himself attracted to Christian, in contrary to his strong religious upbringing and beliefs. He also makes Christian realize something about himself, and the story becomes a compelling story of connection and self-discovery as well as romance. It also realistically depicts the plight of gay members of the LDS church, as Aaron is discovered by a roommate and sent home from his mission in disgrace.
 

 
Just As I Am
E. Lynn Harris
Set in a black upper-middle class milieu, this unappealing potboiler attempts to detail the lives and loves of an intersecting group of overachievers with a variety of sexual appetites. Harris ( Invisible Life ) has managed to capture the material aspects of the good life and the East Coast black gay scene, but he has also propped up his labored prose on a well-intentioned scaffold of gay activist issues. The result is more checklist than novel: when a character is introduced, a demographic stereotype is quickly outlined to elicit the reader's mechanical response. Successful, handsome and bisexual, African American sports lawyer Raymond Tyler Jr. has just moved to Atlanta from New York. But he's plagued by problems. His respected and politically active Alabama family think he's straight. He's hot for a supposedly hetero colleague at the law firm who seems to be coming on to him, but who fears being exposed. His newest client, a sexy star NFL quarterback and arrogant troublemaker, wants a little action too and doesn't mind embarrassing Tyler to get it. Meanwhile, Tyler's former lover, a New York actress, is dealing with a rich, pushy and cartoonishly possessive lover.