2009-04-26

LGBT Ebook and Print Releases April 18-24, 2009

AMBER ALLURE
Fortunate Son by Fae Sutherland & Marguerite Labbe
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Carey'd Away by J. M. Snyder
Excerpt: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/598185.html
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Betrayed by Cassie Stevens
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ASPEN MOUNTAIN PRESS
Happy Ending by L.B. Gregg
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CHANGELING PRESS
She's the One by Riley Ashford
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DREAMSPINNER PRESS
Horizons by Mickie B. Ashling
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ELLORA’S CAVE
Private Dicks by Katie Allen
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EXCESSICA
Henry and Jim by J.M. Snyder
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LIQUID SILVER BOOKS
Another Royal Dilemma by Robin Gideon
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LITERARY ROAD
Hellbourne: Bound & Determined by Amber Kell
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LOOSE ID
The Valde: Water by Astrid Amara
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Tomcat Jones by Willa Okati
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MLR PRESS
Smart Ass: Close Quarters by Amber Green & L.B. Gregg
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L.A. Heat by P.A. Brown
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PHAZE BOOKS
Seventh by L.E. Bryce
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Saddle Up 'N' Ride! by Remmy Duchene
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SAMHAIN PUBLISHING
Many Roads Home by Ann Somerville
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SIREN PUBLISHING
Mr. Wonderful by Stormy Glenn
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TORQUERE BOOKS
Comstock by Aaron Michaels
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Massage with Happy Ending by Vic Winter
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Sea Change by Syd McGinley
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Outland by Kiernan Kelly
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A Strange Place in Time Book III: The Merry Executioner Returns by Alyx J. Shaw
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Fur and Fang by Sean Michael and BA Tortuga
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LGBT Ebook and Print Releases April 18-24, 2009

Unboundaries Top 100 Gay Novels

After I posted my Top 100 Gay Novels List, with its rules and limit, the more strict the one that consider only XXI century titles and authors, one of the author in the list thanked me to be included, but he said that there was others and more important books that deserve to be nominated, and maybe I can draw an all time list, without any limit... I thought, why not? and so here is for your enjoyment, the Unboundaries Top 100 Gay Novels:

1 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2 Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt
3 Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
4 The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
5 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
6 The Alienist by Caleb Carr
7 Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
8 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
9 Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

10 Maurice by E. M. Forster
11 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
12 The Immoralist by Andre Gide
13 Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
14 A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
15 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
16 The Master by Colm Toibin
17 Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
18 The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
19 Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
20 At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
21 Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
22 Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
23 Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
24 Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
25 The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

26 Melusine by Sarah Monette
27 A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
28 A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
29 Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
30 China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
31 The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
32 The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
33 Sarah by J. T. LeRoy
34 Wraeththu by Storm Constantine
35 Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
36 Becoming a Man by Paul Monette
37 Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor
38 How I Paid for College by Marc Acito
39 Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
40 Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
41 Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman
42 Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron

43 Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
44 Hero by Perry Moore
45 Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
46 The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
47 City of Night by John Rechy
48 Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
49 The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
50 Disco Bloodbath by James St. James
51 Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
52 The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer
53 Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
54 The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley
55 Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
56 Dog Years by Mark Doty
57 All Through the Night by Suzanne Brockmann
58 Like People in History by Felice Picano

59 My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
60 Frisk by Dennis Cooper
61 Totally Joe by James Howe
62 The Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
63 The Magician's Tale by David Hunt
64 The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson
65 An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
66 The World of Normal Boys by K. M. Soehnlein
67 Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey
68 Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy
69 Fadeout by Joseph Hansen
70 Plays Well with Others by Allan Gurganus
71 Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan
72 Martin and John by Dale Peck
73 The Lord Won't Mind by Gordon Merrick
74 Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates
75 Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett

76 World Within World by Stephen Spender
77 Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg
78 Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop
79 Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and Other Trials from My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford
80 The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
81 Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
82 The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
83 The Back Passage by James Lear
84 Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
85 The First Verse by Barry McCrea
86 Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
87 Brethren: Raised By Wolves by W. A. Hoffman
88 The Tin Star by J. L. Langley
89 How Town by Michael Nava
90 The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro
91 The Abomination by Paul Golding

92 A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
93 The Men From the Boys by William J. Mann
94 The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse by Keith Hartman
95 Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler
96 Death Trick by Richard Stevenson
97 A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R. W. Day
98 Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
99 Vintage by Steve Berman
100 Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelbein
101 The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman

I also created a mini library of only 200 titles on LibraryThing; I will not update it as often as my official library, but obviously, I'm open to suggestions:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TopGayNovels

Unboundaries Top 100 Gay Novels

Eating Out (2004) directed by Q. Allan Brocka

Director: Q. Allan Brocka

Writer: Q. Allan Brocka (writer)

Genre: Comedy

Tagline: The fastest way to a girl's heart is through her gay best friend.

Plot: Set in the Arizona Sonoran desert, Caleb (Scott Lunsford), is a hunky straight college student who has just been dumped by his slutty girlfriend. Caleb then meets Gwen (Emily Stiles) and falls head over heels for her, the only problem is that Gwen is only attracted to gay men. In an attempt to help Caleb with his plight Kyle (Jim Verraros, American Idol ), Caleb's gay roommate, hatches up a plan to get Caleb closer to Gwen and in turn he can also get closer to Marc (Ryan Carnes, Desperate Housewives ), Gwen's gay roommate. The plan seriously backfires when Marc develops a major crush on Caleb and Gwen decides they make a perfect couple.

Awards: 2004 Best of the Fest GLBT Film Award (Q. Allan Brocka) at Breckenridge Festival of Film
2004 Audience Award (Q. Allan Brocka) at Dallas OUT TAKES
2004 Audience Award as Best Feature Film (Q. Allan Brocka) at Phoenix Out Far! Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
2004 Grand Prize as Best Feature (Q. Allan Brocka) at Rhode Island International Film Festival
2004 Audience Award as Best Feature (Q. Allan Brocka) at San Diego Film Festival
2004 Best First Feature (Q. Allan Brocka) at San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

@IMDb
@Amazon: Eating Out
@Netflix
@Wolfe Video

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Cast (in credits order)
Rebekah Kochan ... Tiffani
Scott Lunsford ... Caleb Peterson
Jim Verraros ... Kyle
Ryan Carnes ... Marc Everhard
Emily Brooke Hands ... Gwen Anderson (as Emily Stiles)
Natalie Burge ... Milkshake Marcy
Adrienne Pearson ... Jenny the Beaver "Firecrotch"
Jillian Nusbaum ... Jamie Peterson
Christopher Michaels ... Sebastian (British Guy)
Billy Shepard ... Joey (as William Shepherd)
( rest of the cast )

Caleb & Mark

( the friends )

Eating Out (2004) directed by Q. Allan Brocka

Caleb & Mark

( the friends )

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006) directed by Phillip J. Bartell

Director: Phillip J. Bartell

Writers: Phillip J. Bartell (writer)
Q. Allan Brocka (characters)
Q. Allan Brocka (writer)

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Tagline: Are you ready for seconds?

Plot: How far would you go to get the person of your dreams? In the first Eating Out, Kyle (Jim Verraros) convinced his straight roommate to pretend to be gay in order to get the girl. Now, with the help of Gwen (Emily Brooke Hands) and Tiffani (Rebekah Kochan), Kyle pretends to be heterosexual in order to land Troy (Marco Dapper), the new guy (and nude model) who's turning the heads of both men and women. He soon finds himself joining the campus ex-gay support group and nabbing a girlfriend (Tiffany)! Kyle's ex-boyfriend Marc (Brett Chukerman) is horrified at the plan and decides to pursue the confused Troy with his own tactic -- being his "out" gay self. Who will win Troy first? In the boy eat boy, boy eat girl, bisexual mystique of Eating Out 2, the stakes are raised, sexual boundaries are obliterated, and the answer is never what you might expect!

@IMDb
@Amazon: Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
@Netflix
@Wolfe Video

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Cast (in credits order)
Brett Chukerman ... Marc
Marco Dapper ... Troy
Jim Verraros ... Kyle
Rebekah Kochan ... Tiffani
Emily Brooke Hands ... Gwen Anderson
Jessie Gold ... Violet
Adrian Quinonez ... Octavio
Scott Vickaryous ... Jacob
Mink Stole ... Helen
James Michael Bobby ... Allan
( rest of the cast )

Marc & Troy

( the friends )

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006) directed by Phillip J. Bartell

Marc & Troy

( the friends )

Dissonance by Sonja Spencer

This is a very sweet novella, a bit heavy in the angst department, but not without hope.

Matthias is a fragile soul. A music student with a full scholarship for an US college, he left his home in Ireland, where maybe he was sheltered and protected, to come to a stranger land. And the first approach was not a good one, since Matthias obviously is not a man that can take care of himself against jocks and similar people. Matthias is as fragile in body and in soul, and after that experience, he ran away back home. But now is another year and lucky for him, another dorm: this time to welcome him there is Kent, a stocky man to the outside, but a gentle soul inside. Probably Kent is used to be judge from his look, and even if he is majoring in sport medicine, he probably passes for a man not so endowed in the brain department as he is in the body. Matthias and Kent are apparently totally mismatched, tall and lanky Matthias, small and tought Kent; skittish and hard to be near to Matthias, friendly and easygoing Kent. But thanks to the fate that put them together in the same door some days before the other students come in, Kent manages to conquer Matthias's trust.

Matthias is not a man who will learn to be independent, he will always remain a fragile being that needs a protector. We haven't to judge him weak, he is only a man who lives on another level, lost in his music and who will never understand that there are nasty things in the outside world. Matthias is a man who would be happy to live in a golden cage, if allowed to play his music. On the other hand Kent, even with his tough exterior, is a gentle man who will never take advantage of Matthias; Kent feels almost privileged that a beautiful human being as Matthias allows him to be near. Matthias is not beautiful in a strictly physical speaking way, his beauty derives by his fragility; and Kent understands that, if he wants to conquer Matthias' trust, he has to give the man the impression that he is not a danger, that he is not forcing the man to take step he is not ready to take. Giving him the feeling that he is taking his own decisions, is the way to hold him forever.

In a little way also Kent is fragile, he fears to be rejected; probably Kent is very self-conscious of his look, and maybe, even if it's not said, he had bad experiences in the past with people presuming he was tough and strong, when maybe Kent is only a very gentle man, and sometime he is the one who needs to be reassured. Yes, Kent assumes the role of protector for Matthias, but at the same time, he finds in Matthias' a soul mate, someone who is gentle and fragile inside as he himself is.

This is only a novella, a maybe it's a bit rushed in the conclusion, but all the first part, when Matthias and Kent get to know each other is very nice and tender. There is sex, but it is always more tender than erotic, more cuddle than anything else.

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/novellas.htm#Dissonance

Reading List:

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