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Reading Round Up: NYC Road Trip, Meeting Online Friends and Books!
This year’s road-trip season kicked-off early on May 13 when I boarded a train from Montréal to New York City. My partner was attending a conference at the United Nations, so I though it a perfect...
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Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up by Steve Berman
Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up by editor Steve Berman is an excellent collection of thirteen short stories for and about LGBTQ teens and young adults. The anthology offers a diversity of life...
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Reading Round Up: The Best in LGBTQ Fiction for 2011
Each December I compile my list of favourite books read over the course of the year. Unfortunately, the trend I experienced in 2010 persisted in 2011 and my reading and reviewing time was extremely...
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Reading Round Up: Road Trip and Book Shopping
This summer’s road trip was not too far from home. In late July we headed to Toronto for about a week and then it was on to the Rez with a few side trips to Guelph, Paris (Ontario) and Fort Erie....
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Light by ‘Nathan Burgoine
I’ve been a fan of ‘Nathan Burgoine’s short fiction since reading his first published story “Heart” in the critically acclaimed anthology Fool For Love: New Gay Fiction. To say that I eagerly...
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Reading Round-Up: Q & A with Author ‘Nathan Burgoine
‘Nathan Burgoine grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookseller – a job he still does, and still loves. A cat lover, ‘Nathan managed to fall in love and...
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Reading Round Up: The Best in LGBTQ Fiction for 2013
My list of reading favourites for 2013 features a mix of titles, both literary and genre fiction, including action/adventure, contemporary, fantasy, urban fantasy, mystery, young adult and (erotic)...
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Reading Round Up: Winner of Canada Reads 2014 & Lambda Literary Awards Finalists
Each year I await the announcement of the Canada Reads nominees and the Lambda Literary Awards list of finalists to inform my reading list for the year and beyond. For those unfamiliar, Canada Reads...
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The Unwanted by Jeffrey Ricker
The Unwanted, Jeffrey Ricker’s second novel, is an extremely well written, action-packed gay young adult fantasy set against the backdrop of the ancient Greek mythological world. In it, the author...
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Reading Round Up: Q & A with Author Jeffrey Ricker
I’ve mentioned many times of my love for the anthology Fool or Love: New Gay Fiction and one of the reasons is that this compilation of short stories introduced me to several wonderful writers, one of...
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