2013 Rainbow Awards Submission: Ethan Stone - Past Tense

Past Tense by Ethan Stone
Publisher: Wilde City Press, LLC (May 29, 2013)
Amazon Kindle: Past Tense

Jason Holt was a young man when he lost everything; his family, his boyfriend, and his safety. He’s been on the run since, hiding from an evil man bent on revenge. Las Vegas was supposed to just be another pit stop in his travels but when he learns the very man he’s hiding from is in Sin City Jason decides it’s time to stop hiding.

Private detective Quinn Reynolds lost the man he loved several years ago and since then he has been hiding from life. He can’t move on and is obsessed with making the man responsible for his lover’s death pay for the crime.

When Jason comes to Quinn for help, Quinn finds a reason to move on. The dangerous situation around them quickly escalates and together they face an unimaginable evil. Can they survive the darkness and make it through to the light on the other side?

2013 Rainbow Awards Submission: Ethan Stone - Compromised

Compromised by Ethan Stone
Publisher: Total-e-Bound
Number of pages 183
ISBN# 978-1-78184-406-9

Book One in the Uniformity series.

Kash never thought he’d find true love working at a maximum security prison, but that’s exactly what happens.

Correctional Officer Daniel “Kash” Kashaveroff is single, gay and working at a maximum security prison in a small town in Nevada. Not the best job or town in which to meet men. He wants to fall in love again but isn’t actively looking.

Then he begins working with a new partner, Zane Davis, and his life is turned upside down. Kash is attracted to Zane but isn’t sure the sexy man plays for his team. When the gay or not mystery is solved, Zane and Kash begin a relationship that starts as friends-with-benefits but soon becomes a committed one.

Zane is bisexual and as much as he cares for Kash, he is still drawn to women. The attraction to the fairer sex creates problems in the relationship but Kash is committed to making it work.

While dealing with his relationship issues, Kash also becomes friends with an inmate named Cody Ives. Becoming personally involved with an inmate is against the rules, but Kash believes in the young man’s innocence and insists on proving it.

Buck & Elayne Angel

Buck Angel is a transgender filmmaker, advocate, adult film star, educator, and motivational speaker. Buck Angel is married to the professional body piercer and body modification enthusiast Elayne Angel. They were married in New Orleans on November 17, 2003.

In January 2012, when a girl scout infamously called for a boycott of Girl Scouts of the USA for admitting a transgender girl into one of its troupes, Angel spoke out and said, "When I was growing up, I was a Girl Scout. I was born as a girl, but I always knew I was a guy...they accepted me into the Girl Scout troop and everyone was loving and giving and it was never an issue."

Buck Angel (born 1972) is an American female-to-male (FTM) transsexual, adult film producer and performer, and LGBT icon. He is also founder of Buck Angel Entertainment, as a vehicle to produce media projects. He received the 2007 AVN Award as Transsexual Performer of the Year, and works as an advocate, educator, lecturer and writer.

According to his website, Angel was a pronounced tomboy as a child and adolescent. Born in the San Fernando Valley area of California, his gender atypical behavior during childhood was generally accepted at home. But, once his secondary sex characteristics began to develop around age 16, his home life became increasingly tense. After a suicide attempt in high school, his parents sent him to therapy. It was in his therapy that he admitted, for the first time, that he felt like a man. The information was not well received and according to Angel "They were going to put me in a mental institution." Unaware of the existence of treatments for gender dysphoria such as hormone replacement therapy, he lived for years as a female, during which time he took drugs and drank alcohol. Though he was profitably employed as a professional model, he has stated that he was generally dissatisfied with his identity and existence, and "was not loving life".

Angel began to produce and star in his own line of adult films (Buck Angel Entertainment). As he had not had any genital surgery and still possessed a vulva, he created a unique niche, calling himself "The Man With a Pussy".


Buck Angel is a transgender filmmaker, advocate, adult film star, educator, and motivational speaker. Buck Angel is married to the professional body piercer and body modification enthusiast Elayne Angel. They were married in New Orleans on November 17, 2003. In 2012, Angel spoke out and said, "When I was growing up, I was a Girl Scout. I was born as a girl, but I always knew I was a guy...they accepted me into the Girl Scout troop and everyone was loving and giving and it was never an issue."

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GayRomLit Ebook Giveaway: Anna Martin - Cricket

I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Atlanta in October (http://gayromlit.com/grl-authors) a personal favor, a special Ebook Giveaway: everyday I will post 1 book from each author, and among those who will leave a comment, I will draw a winner. Very easy and very fast ;-) I will send a PM to the winner, so remember to not leave anonymous comments!

And the ebook giveaway goes to: julesjones

Today author is Anna Martin: Anna Martin is from a picturesque seaside village in the south west of England. After spending most of her childhood making up stories, she studied English Literature at university before attempting to turn her hand as a professional writer. Apart from being physically dependent on her laptop, she is enthusiastic about writing and producing local grassroots theatre (especially at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she can be found every summer), travelling, learning to play the ukulele, and Ben & Jerry’s New York Super Fudge Chunk. Although her most recent work is in the LGBT Adult Fiction genre, in the past Anna has worked on a variety of different projects including short stories, drabbles, flash fiction, fan fiction, plays for both children and adults and poetry. She has written novels in the Teen or Young Adult genre, Romance and Fantasy novels. Anna is, by her own admission, almost unhealthily obsessed with books. The library she has amassed is both large and diverse; "My favourite books," she says, "are 'The Moonstone' by Wilkie Collins, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee and 'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood." She also owns multiple copies of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park books and re-reads the Harry Potter novels with almost startling regularity. Anna claims her entire career is due to the love, support and creative ass-kicking provided by her closest friend Jennifer. Jennifer refuses to accept any responsibility for anything Anna has written.
Website: http://www.annamartin-fiction.com
Most recent title : Tattoos & Teacups
Publishers: Dreamspinner Press

Cricket by Anna Martin
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (July 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1623808766
ISBN-13: 978-1623808761
Amazon: Cricket
Amazon Kindle: Cricket

New York native Henry Richardson needs a change. His boyfriend just dumped him, and his business has fallen victim to the economy. But is jumping on a plane after a surprise phone call taking things too far?

The promise of a new opportunity drags Henry away from the city to a tiny village in the English countryside and an enormous manor house his great-grandmother wants to bequeath him. As an experienced wedding planner, he sees the potential in renovating the dilapidated building and using it for events. All he needs is to find some local businesses to provide the essentials.

That's how Henry meets Ryan Burgess, the shy but hardworking owner of an organic farm. The spark between them sizzles slowly while work on the house continues, but Ryan is deeply in the closet and unwilling to take the last step. They finally find something that clicks in cricket, something that Henry, a former amateur baseball player, is surprisingly good at. For him, cricket helps bridge the gap between England and New York-but unless Ryan can find something to span the divide between his sexuality and his fear, their relationship doesn't stand a chance.

Ossie Clark, Celia Birtwell, Nicholas Balaban & Diego Cogolato

Raymond "Ossie" Clark (9 June 1942 – 6 August 1996) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era. Clark is now renowned for his vintage designs by present-day designers. In 1996, 54 year old Ossie was stabbed to death in his council flat in Kensington and Chelsea, London, by his then 28 year old Italian former lover, Diego Cogolato. Cogolato was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and jailed for six years.

Clark is compared to the 1960s fashion great Biba and influenced many other designers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Anna Sui and Tom Ford. Manolo Blahnik has said of Ossie Clark's work: "He created an incredible magic with the body and achieved what fashion should do — produce desire." Ossie Clark and Ossie Clark for Radley clothes are highly sought after, and are worn by well known models like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, England in 1942, Raymond Clark's parents, Anne and Samuel Clark, moved to Oswaldtwistle during the war, hence his nickname, "Ossie". Ossie's mother, Anne Grace Clark, was in labour with Ossie for seven days during an air raid in World War II. Anne had been expecting a girl and so had no name picked out for her new baby. She let the midwife name him Raymond. Ossie was the youngest of six children ( Gladys, Kay, Beryl, Sammy and John ). Ossie and his brother John sang in the church choir at St Oswald's church in Winwick where Ossie won awards for his vocal talents.

Family and friends noted that from a very early age he was "brilliant at doing anything". Young Ossie would make clothes for his nieces and nephews. He practised tailoring clothing on his dolls and designed swimsuits for the neighborhood girls when not yet ten years old. The Art teacher at Ossie's Secondary School recognised Ossie's creative flair and gave him a large collection of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazines. Clark pored over these magazines and absorbed the glamour and cutting edge fashion.


David Hockney's Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy
Ossie Clark met Celia Birtwell in 1961 when they were at art school in Lancashire. They married in 1969 when she was pregnant with their first son, Albert. They had another son, George, 3 years later. David Hockney painted' Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy', as a wedding present. He was taking drugs and began to go downhill. She was tired of his other affairs and started to have an affair with artist Adrian George. When Clark found out he began violent episodes towards her. She divorced him in 1974.


The pictures behind Kim Waiyaki and Nick Balaban are Kim's homoerotic African influenced lithographs and silkscreen prints which he showed in the "No Comment" exhibition.
In January 1978 Ossie Clark met his second long term partner Nicholas Balaban who was working as a barman at the Sombrero Club in Kensington. With Ossie's encouragement Balaban applied to the Byam Shaw School of Art and went on to start his own highly successful fashion business producing printed T-shirts for high street boutiques and multiples. Unfortunately Clarke's continued erratic behaviour eventually led to the relationship's collapse in 1983/84. Nick died of AIDS in 1994.


The 'Village People' are Nick Balaban, Guy Burch and Geraldine Walsh taken in 1984 at Byam Shaw where they studied at the time of "No Comment"
In 1995 Ossie Clark invited the 27-year-old Italian Diego Cogolato to move in with him as his lover. Although split up they continued to see each other. At 6 am on 7th August 1996 Diego Cogolato went in a dazed state to a police station and said that he thought that he had killed someone. In fact he had stabbed Clark in his flat 37 times and then bashed his head in. Cogolato was convicted of the murder but on the grounds of diminished responsibility he was given just a six-year sentence.


Amanda Lear, 1968, Satin three-piece party trouser-suit by Ossie Clark and Amanda Pollock, London ©Getty Images

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