TheGayUK‘s theme this month is Vintage. The articles I’ve written this month are: Vintage History: Manchester Gay Village, Top 5 Vintage TV Characters & Book Reviews. Now, some of these have been submitted, but not yet published. The Editor assures me he’s spreading out the articles over the month, so here’s your chance to get [...]
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A while ago I saw a tweet from TheGayUK asking for Writers who want to contribute to get in touch or submit some work online for review. I sent an email in between working on a shortstory and they encouraged me to submit something. I’m not going to lie, I completely forgot about it until [...]
Categories: Amazon, Books & Authors, Creative Writing, Happiness & Joy, Reviews.
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Strange Bedfellows by Rob Byrnes is a crime caper story that is an addictive read. Grant Lambert and Chase LaMarca are introduced on a job to rob a store. As the scene unfolds they have to pretend to be mannequins in the shop window as the Police have turned up, which is an hilarious scene [...]
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Night Shadows: Queer Horror Edited by Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann is an anthropology of short stories that all have a horror and lesbian, gay or bisexual theme. It’s the ideal read on dark and cold winters night or on the run up to Halloween. I thoughly enjoyed reading Night Shadows that was kindly sent [...]
Categories: Books & Authors, Gay & Campness, Reviews.
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