Bold Strokes Books Archives

October 10, 2013 3 min read

Does She Love You? (Bold Strokes Books) gives new meaning to the eternal triangle. Annabelle Taylor is a devoted wife. However,...

’20th Century Un-Limited’ by Felice Picano

Damian Serbu

Reviews Speculative Fiction

October 3, 2013 3 min read

The maturation of LGBT literature provides a vast array of authors, genres, and styles from which a reader chooses what...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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...

‘The Pyramid Waltz’ by Barbara Ann Wright

Anna Furtado

Reviews Speculative Fiction

June 11, 2013 2 min read

Demons come in varying forms and perhaps not all demons are equally evil. In The Pyramid Waltz, the kingdom of...

Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and Dreams Come True

Dick Smart

Opinion Romance

April 24, 2013 13 min read

Missionary Position Companions (Nich’ooni) is an astonishingly powerful self-published novel by Jed A. Bryan (BecHavn,2012) that explores two unfamiliar American...

‘The Princess Affair’ by Nell Stark

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

April 21, 2013 2 min read

The Princess Affair (Bold Strokes Books)–the title sounds like a lighthearted romp through an adorable love story, but it’s nothing...

‘Dirty Money’ by Ashley Bartlett

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

April 11, 2013 2 min read

Dirty Money is the second installment of Ashley Bartlett’s Dirty series (book one is Dirty Sex). Vivian Cooper and the...

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

‘Does She Love You?’ by Rachel Spangler

’20th Century Un-Limited’ by Felice Picano

‘Battle Axe’ by Carsen Taite

‘Date with Destiny’ by Mason Dixon

‘Finding Bluefield’ by Elan Barnehama

‘Improvisation’ by Karis Walsh

‘The Pyramid Waltz’ by Barbara Ann Wright

Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and Dreams Come True

‘The Princess Affair’ by Nell Stark

‘Dirty Money’ by Ashley Bartlett

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