Event: Corpus Christi in Dallas

From: Friday, June 4, 2010
To: Sunday, June 6, 2010
Time: 19.30
Location: Cathedral of Hope
5910 Cedar Springs Rd.
Dallas, TX

Art for Peace and Justice, Cathedral of Hope and 108 Productions proudly presents the Internationally-Acclaimed Revival of Terrence McNally's CORPUS CHRISTI

Coming to the Cathedral of Hope during the weekend Feast of Corpus Christi- June 4-6.

Seating is very limited so reserve your tickets today before it sells out at:

http://www.h4pj.org/index.php

For more information about the show and company visit:
http://www.108productions.org/  or
http://www.corpuschristi-themovie.com/

Event: Corpus Christi in Dallas

From: Friday, June 4, 2010
To: Sunday, June 6, 2010
Time: 19.30
Location: Cathedral of Hope
5910 Cedar Springs Rd.
Dallas, TX

Art for Peace and Justice, Cathedral of Hope and 108 Productions proudly presents the Internationally-Acclaimed Revival of Terrence McNally's CORPUS CHRISTI

Coming to the Cathedral of Hope during the weekend Feast of Corpus Christi- June 4-6.

Seating is very limited so reserve your tickets today before it sells out at:

http://www.h4pj.org/index.php

For more information about the show and company visit:
http://www.108productions.org/  or
http://www.corpuschristi-themovie.com/

Lessons in Love by Charlie Cochrane

Jonathan Stewart, Jonty for the intimate friends, and Orlando Coppersmith are both young professors in one of the Cambridge's college at the beginning of the twenty century. They are at opposite in work and behavior, Stewart a literature professor and Coppersmith a mathematics, Stewart open and friendly, both with students than colleagues, Coppersmith aloof and always lost in his mind. They also had very different family, Coppersmith now orphan and with two very cold and distant parents, Stewart still surrounded by a loving family.

But they are both rather young and so they click together. Jonty has no problem to admit that he has also a personal interest in Orlando, being him not new to feel a maybe not appropriate moving for another man. Instead Orlando is more hesitant, but not since he judges inappropriate that feelings, but since he never before has felt something similar for a man or a woman. Orlando was taught to avoid any personal emotion, to suppress any physical urges, so soon and so strong in his youth that he never allowed himself to disobey that teachings.

When Jonty tentatively tries to introduce Orlando to such physical contacts, Orlando believes that kissing and cuddling is the greatest extent of what two men can do together, not having any knowledge of what happens in bed between man and woman let alone between two men. But Jonty, even if in love with Orlando, can't be satisfied with simple being a little more than a dear friend for Orlando, and gently pushes for something more.

Just when Orlando is letting go a bit, a string of murders targets the students, and all the victims are men who were known to prefer the company of men. To Orlando's inhibitions is now added also the fear of what it could happen to Jonty if someone should know of their "particular" friendship.

The story is a good mix of romance and plot; the relationship between Orlando and Jonty has the lion share on the plot, leaving the investigation on the killing in second line, never interfering with the development of Orlando and Jonty's exploration of love. Even if the relationship reaches and deepens to a sex level, it's never in graphic details, always maintaining a sweet romance grade.

The setting is the same of the previous tale by Charlie Cochrane, the Old University buildings of Cambridge, with its all male atmosphere where women are only seen as intruders.

http://samhainpublishing.com/print/lessons-in-love-print

Amazon: Amazon: Lessons in Love (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 1)

Amazon Kindle: Amazon: Lessons in Love (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 1)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Falling Into Sin by Pepper Espinoza & Amanda Young

Falling in Controlled Circumstances by Pepper Espinoza

This is the story of a menages, clear and simple.

Greg and Phil are in a long-term relationship, 2 years as lovers and another 2 years as committed partner. It's a very good relationship, Greg a librarian, Phil a chief inspector for the local police department at Cambridge, England. Always seems perfect if not that lately Phil is pretty taken with his job, working odd shift. But Greg never has expressed any complaint, he is happy with their life; Phil is not a simple man to love, he is reserved and taciturn, but he is also very attentive; Greg feels cherished and protected when he is with his lover and on the other hand, Greg knows when his lover needs to be comforted and embraced in the warm arm of his lover and their house, to shut down the world outside.

Then arrives Jim, an American pilot who tests prototypes in the near Air base, recently moved on the neighbor. Jim is outspoken, friendly and handsome. And he has no problem to make clear to Greg that he finds him very attractive. Greg is not blind, and he can see all the good sides on Jim, but he really loves Phil and he would do nothing to compromise their relationship, neither a little kiss. And when at first Phil is sharp and detached toward Jim, Greg thinks that he can only offer a friendship to Jim, and better if the friendship arrives from both of them, Greg and Phil, without allowing to much private meeting between Greg and Jim. But then Phil's behavior changes, he seems to push the boundaries of Greg's fantasies, letting him imagine and taste how it could be with Jim and Phil together; not only that, Phil seems to desire that Greg builds something with Jim's only, trying to imagine what it would be if Phil was not there with him...

It's not simple to read of Greg's interest in Jim without reading it like a cheating on Phil, even if Phil is aware and consenting. There is never a moment in which Phil makes Greg feel guilty for what he feels for Jim, so I have not the feeling I used to when reading a menages, that one of the men is a cheater; but it's also true that Greg remains the "center" man, the link between Phil and Jim. True, the author tries all the possible combination, Phil & Greg, Phil & Greg & Jim, Greg & Jim, Phil & Jim, but she doesn't linger when the three are not together, making so stronger the menages and not the simple couple.

The feeling on the story is that Phil and Greg probably would be an happy couple also without Jim, Phil is the stronger man on whom Greg lean to, and Jim adds to the couple a new breeze, a bit of lightness, but probably Greg and Jim alone would not work out; for Greg, Jim would be a flirt, someone he could be happy for a bit, but not the man he would choose for a long-term relationship. In all this, Phil emerges as the master, the puppeteer of both Greg and Jim, but he reaches this rank without being nasty or aloof.

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/falling-in-controlled-circumstances

Amazon Kindle: Falling in Controlled Circumstances

Sins of the Past by Amanda Young

First of all... don't get pissed of the mistery which was not a mistery. I don't know if Amanda Young wants intentionally give us so much clue to unveal the hidden secret from the start, but she does that and so the big surprise you will have at the end of the book for me is not so big.

And so I have had the chance to indulge in something else, like the tender wooing Ryan starts with Andrew. Ryan and Andrew meet thanks to a blind date common friends organize. In the beginning Ryan thinks Andrew not to be his type: Andrew is rich and cultered, lives on previous accumulated wealthy and is a single father. Ryan is an exterior architect and has built his fortune by himself. He is a simple man and loves the handwork. And at thirtyone years old he has just stopped to cruising and maybe he is ready to start something serious, but a man with a little daughter? But Andrew is so nice and sexy...

I like both Ryan and Andrew. They are different, as different as can be white and black, but the sparks between them are hot. Ryan is the down-and-dirty soon type, Andrew is the quite and thinking one. Ryan is a Harley and denim type, Andrew a SUV and slacks one. But in bed they are very compatible and so, maybe, they can find a way to be together.

One only regret: when Amanda Young has introduced the supporting character of Bobby, at the beginning of the story, how she has described him... well, I'm, for some moment, been a fan of him to be the main character of the book :-)

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/sins-of-the-past

Amazon Kindle: Sins of the Past

Amazon: Falling Into Sin (print book)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Anne Cain

Lessons in Love by Charlie Cochrane

Jonathan Stewart, Jonty for the intimate friends, and Orlando Coppersmith are both young professors in one of the Cambridge's college at the beginning of the twenty century. They are at opposite in work and behavior, Stewart a literature professor and Coppersmith a mathematics, Stewart open and friendly, both with students than colleagues, Coppersmith aloof and always lost in his mind. They also had very different family, Coppersmith now orphan and with two very cold and distant parents, Stewart still surrounded by a loving family.

But they are both rather young and so they click together. Jonty has no problem to admit that he has also a personal interest in Orlando, being him not new to feel a maybe not appropriate moving for another man. Instead Orlando is more hesitant, but not since he judges inappropriate that feelings, but since he never before has felt something similar for a man or a woman. Orlando was taught to avoid any personal emotion, to suppress any physical urges, so soon and so strong in his youth that he never allowed himself to disobey that teachings.

When Jonty tentatively tries to introduce Orlando to such physical contacts, Orlando believes that kissing and cuddling is the greatest extent of what two men can do together, not having any knowledge of what happens in bed between man and woman let alone between two men. But Jonty, even if in love with Orlando, can't be satisfied with simple being a little more than a dear friend for Orlando, and gently pushes for something more.

Just when Orlando is letting go a bit, a string of murders targets the students, and all the victims are men who were known to prefer the company of men. To Orlando's inhibitions is now added also the fear of what it could happen to Jonty if someone should know of their "particular" friendship.

The story is a good mix of romance and plot; the relationship between Orlando and Jonty has the lion share on the plot, leaving the investigation on the killing in second line, never interfering with the development of Orlando and Jonty's exploration of love. Even if the relationship reaches and deepens to a sex level, it's never in graphic details, always maintaining a sweet romance grade.

The setting is the same of the previous tale by Charlie Cochrane, the Old University buildings of Cambridge, with its all male atmosphere where women are only seen as intruders.

http://samhainpublishing.com/print/lessons-in-love-print

Amazon: Amazon: Lessons in Love (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 1)

Amazon Kindle: Amazon: Lessons in Love (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 1)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Falling Into Sin by Pepper Espinoza & Amanda Young

Falling in Controlled Circumstances by Pepper Espinoza

This is the story of a menages, clear and simple.

Greg and Phil are in a long-term relationship, 2 years as lovers and another 2 years as committed partner. It's a very good relationship, Greg a librarian, Phil a chief inspector for the local police department at Cambridge, England. Always seems perfect if not that lately Phil is pretty taken with his job, working odd shift. But Greg never has expressed any complaint, he is happy with their life; Phil is not a simple man to love, he is reserved and taciturn, but he is also very attentive; Greg feels cherished and protected when he is with his lover and on the other hand, Greg knows when his lover needs to be comforted and embraced in the warm arm of his lover and their house, to shut down the world outside.

Then arrives Jim, an American pilot who tests prototypes in the near Air base, recently moved on the neighbor. Jim is outspoken, friendly and handsome. And he has no problem to make clear to Greg that he finds him very attractive. Greg is not blind, and he can see all the good sides on Jim, but he really loves Phil and he would do nothing to compromise their relationship, neither a little kiss. And when at first Phil is sharp and detached toward Jim, Greg thinks that he can only offer a friendship to Jim, and better if the friendship arrives from both of them, Greg and Phil, without allowing to much private meeting between Greg and Jim. But then Phil's behavior changes, he seems to push the boundaries of Greg's fantasies, letting him imagine and taste how it could be with Jim and Phil together; not only that, Phil seems to desire that Greg builds something with Jim's only, trying to imagine what it would be if Phil was not there with him...

It's not simple to read of Greg's interest in Jim without reading it like a cheating on Phil, even if Phil is aware and consenting. There is never a moment in which Phil makes Greg feel guilty for what he feels for Jim, so I have not the feeling I used to when reading a menages, that one of the men is a cheater; but it's also true that Greg remains the "center" man, the link between Phil and Jim. True, the author tries all the possible combination, Phil & Greg, Phil & Greg & Jim, Greg & Jim, Phil & Jim, but she doesn't linger when the three are not together, making so stronger the menages and not the simple couple.

The feeling on the story is that Phil and Greg probably would be an happy couple also without Jim, Phil is the stronger man on whom Greg lean to, and Jim adds to the couple a new breeze, a bit of lightness, but probably Greg and Jim alone would not work out; for Greg, Jim would be a flirt, someone he could be happy for a bit, but not the man he would choose for a long-term relationship. In all this, Phil emerges as the master, the puppeteer of both Greg and Jim, but he reaches this rank without being nasty or aloof.

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/falling-in-controlled-circumstances

Amazon Kindle: Falling in Controlled Circumstances

Sins of the Past by Amanda Young

First of all... don't get pissed of the mistery which was not a mistery. I don't know if Amanda Young wants intentionally give us so much clue to unveal the hidden secret from the start, but she does that and so the big surprise you will have at the end of the book for me is not so big.

And so I have had the chance to indulge in something else, like the tender wooing Ryan starts with Andrew. Ryan and Andrew meet thanks to a blind date common friends organize. In the beginning Ryan thinks Andrew not to be his type: Andrew is rich and cultered, lives on previous accumulated wealthy and is a single father. Ryan is an exterior architect and has built his fortune by himself. He is a simple man and loves the handwork. And at thirtyone years old he has just stopped to cruising and maybe he is ready to start something serious, but a man with a little daughter? But Andrew is so nice and sexy...

I like both Ryan and Andrew. They are different, as different as can be white and black, but the sparks between them are hot. Ryan is the down-and-dirty soon type, Andrew is the quite and thinking one. Ryan is a Harley and denim type, Andrew a SUV and slacks one. But in bed they are very compatible and so, maybe, they can find a way to be together.

One only regret: when Amanda Young has introduced the supporting character of Bobby, at the beginning of the story, how she has described him... well, I'm, for some moment, been a fan of him to be the main character of the book :-)

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/sins-of-the-past

Amazon Kindle: Sins of the Past

Amazon: Falling Into Sin (print book)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Anne Cain

Event: Erotic Romance, Erotica, and Porn: Writing Male/Male Romance

Date: From Sunday, May 23, 2010, time 13.30
To Saturday, June 5, 2010 time 14.30
Location: GAYDAYS ORLANDO 2010

Kiernan Kelly, Orlando M/M author, will be hosting an author/reader panel at GayDays this year. This will be the first year panels are being held, and want it to be a success! Join Kiernan Kelly, Lori Toland, and H. B. Kurtzwilde for an hour of open and frank discussion at the "Erotic Romance, Erotica, and Porn: What's the difference, and where's the line in writing erotic male/male romance" panel. Saturday, June 5, 2010, Double Tree Resort, International Drive, Orlando, Florida, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Free Giveaways! Don't miss it!

Event: Erotic Romance, Erotica, and Porn: Writing Male/Male Romance

Date: From Sunday, May 23, 2010, time 13.30
To Saturday, June 5, 2010 time 14.30
Location: GAYDAYS ORLANDO 2010

Kiernan Kelly, Orlando M/M author, will be hosting an author/reader panel at GayDays this year. This will be the first year panels are being held, and want it to be a success! Join Kiernan Kelly, Lori Toland, and H. B. Kurtzwilde for an hour of open and frank discussion at the "Erotic Romance, Erotica, and Porn: What's the difference, and where's the line in writing erotic male/male romance" panel. Saturday, June 5, 2010, Double Tree Resort, International Drive, Orlando, Florida, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Free Giveaways! Don't miss it!