Romance Archives

August 29, 2013 10 min read

Sam Cameron’s Dangerous Boys Books Hardy Boys move over, the Anderson Twins are diving to their next crime scene. Navy...

‘Battle Axe’ by Carsen Taite

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

August 21, 2013 2 min read

Luca Bennett always seems to be fighting something or someone. In Battle Axe, there are many battles to be fought...

‘Date with Destiny’ by Mason Dixon

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

August 8, 2013 3 min read

In Date with Destiny, an unexpected meeting with Destiny Jackson, in a coffee shop near the bank where Rashida Ivey...

‘The Midnight Sun’ by Nene Adams

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

July 31, 2013 3 min read

In The Midnight Sun, FBI Agent Tabitha Knowles is taking some time off to enter a marathon boat race in...

‘Finding Bluefield’ by Elan Barnehama

David-Matthew Barnes

Reviews Romance

July 25, 2013 2 min read

Elan Barnehama’s appealing debut novel, Finding Bluefield, is both ambitious and successful on many levels. While the novel can be...

Book Lovers: Raining Men

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

July 24, 2013 4 min read

Rick R. Reed’s Raining Men It’s Raining Men (Dreamspinner Press, 2013) for Bobby Nelson in this superb sequel to Rick R. Reed’s best-seller, Chaser, and though Bobby’s...

‘Improvisation’ by Karis Walsh

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

July 15, 2013 2 min read

Improvisation—the cover itself is intriguing. It hints at a beautiful, elegant woman. Superimposed over the form is a stylized instrument—a...

Jay Bell: Something Like Love

Dick Smart

Interviews Romance

June 24, 2013 10 min read

Jay Bell, the winner of the 25th annual Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance for his novel, Kamikaze Boys (Jay...

‘Melt’ by Robbi McCoy

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

June 23, 2013 3 min read

Kelly Sheffield is a talented photojournalist on a career-changing assignment. She was once a love-struck student, but that was many...

‘Best Lesbian Romance 2013,’ edited by Radclyffe

Rita Salner

Anthology Romance

June 5, 2013 2 min read

Best Lesbian Romance 2013 (Cleis Press) is edited by Radclyffe—renowned author and founder/publisher of Bold Strokes Books. In her introduction, Radclyffe...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Dangerous Boys

‘Battle Axe’ by Carsen Taite

‘Date with Destiny’ by Mason Dixon

‘The Midnight Sun’ by Nene Adams

‘Finding Bluefield’ by Elan Barnehama

Book Lovers: Raining Men

‘Improvisation’ by Karis Walsh

Jay Bell: Something Like Love

‘Melt’ by Robbi McCoy

‘Best Lesbian Romance 2013,’ edited by Radclyffe

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta