Reviewer Kassa talks condoms and fiction.

Excerpt from the post:
There are those that say who cares! It’s FICTION! Use the condom or don’t but make it hot and sometimes bareback is just hot. And really, very few m/m romance books are depicting gay men in reality. Not to knock authors but of course their men are going to be hot, gorgeous, and ( Read more... )

Veteran Nifty author Mathis B. Rogers has been plagiarized by published author Frank Sol. Mathis B. Rogers writes on his website:

I have just found out that someone stole my story, "Storm" and is selling it on Amazon.com and through the ebook publisher. I am NOT Frank Sol and I have reported him to Amazon.com. Thanks to those who contacted me ( Read more... )

Reviewer Kassa blogs about M/M genre purity and the general attitude towards het sex in M/M novels.

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The author wondered if m/m readers really hate all mention of females that much, the answer is actually Yes. In short anyway ( Read more... )

Blogger Teddypig writes about the 'virginity trope' in gay romance fiction.

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Homosexuality is just about sex.
Gay is about identity. [...]
Personally, unless we are talking about some Young Adult books I find the whole idea of “male virginity” in an experienced Gay character to be a bit um, questionable and I have to admit it’s far more ( Read more... )

The new GLBT review website Three Dollar Bill Reviews is looking more reviewers.

We pride ourselves on providing honest and detailed reviews for each book we read. What we need are people that enjoy reading LGBT books and like to share their thoughts and opinions through well-written and extensive reviews. We want to make sure that each author ( Read more... )

c-smith-author blogs about what authors owe or do not owe to readers.

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I'm going to be very direct here. The writer does not owe the reader a thing. The reader -- by purchasing the books -- holds all the commercial cards. If they do not like the writer, the writer's politics, the writer's gender identity, or if they feel the writer is being ( Read more... )

This doesn't really pertain to fiction, but I thought it would be interesting to some.

Author Jeff Erno guest-blogged on James Buchanan's blog about BDSM.

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What if, however, it was possible to have the best of both worlds? What if we could actually be who we are twenty-four hours of the day? What if we could actually be mainstream and ( Read more... )

Reviewer Jenre blogged on how she feels about D/s lifestyle in M/M fiction.

Excerpt:
One area connected with BDSM books which I have never been able to connect with though, are those books which deal with the D/s lifestyle where one man is submissive to another at all times ( Read more... )

This new review website Three Dollar Bill Reviews is "created to focus on books from all spectrums of GLBTQ" and will "include fiction, non-fiction, literature, erotica, horror, romance, poetry and more within the wide breadth of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and all other queer categories."

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You might be asking yourself right now, “Do ( Read more... )

Obsidian Bookshelf has a post on Alpha males in m/m fiction.

Excerpt:
The alpha male shows up a lot in m/m fiction and shouldn't be confused with a "Gary Stu" character [...].
Either he's the way we would like to be (defying authority, for example) or he represents a type of lover (intense, smoldering, and forceful) that we wouldn't mind ( Read more... )