Free online samples of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT)-themed ebooks from the authors and publishers at Smashwords.
| Taking Ryan | by GA Hauser May 03, 2012 | $4.99 | 84191 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over fifty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction and is an Honorary Board Member of Gay American Heroes for her support of the foundation. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com Awards: All Romance eBook- Best Author 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 All Romance eBook- Best novel 2007 Secrets and Misdemeanors All Romance eBook- Best novel 2008 Mile High |
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| Bloody Potomac 3, Let the Children Die | by Carl Reader May 03, 2012 | $3.99 | 17175 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Carl Reader trained as a journalist at Temple University and has worked as a reporter, photographer and editor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Montana. He's published short stories in literary magazines and on the Internet and has self-published a children's Christmas story called THE TWELFTH ELF OF KINDNESS.That book was partially published in Russia under the Sister Cities program. He's also self-published a novella called THE PERSECUTION OF WILLIAM PENN, which has been well-received in several libraries, including Haverford College. He's twice been represented by agents, once by a New York agent for a novel titled IN A CIRCLE OF STARS and again for a memoir by a California agent. He works as a professional photographer and freelance writer and has produced mounds of fiction that remains mostly hidden in his computer. |
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| Bloody Potomac 2, My Mother Bites | by Carl Reader May 03, 2012 | $3.99 | 22792 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Carl Reader trained as a journalist at Temple University and has worked as a reporter, photographer and editor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Montana. He's published short stories in literary magazines and on the Internet and has self-published a children's Christmas story called THE TWELFTH ELF OF KINDNESS.That book was partially published in Russia under the Sister Cities program. He's also self-published a novella called THE PERSECUTION OF WILLIAM PENN, which has been well-received in several libraries, including Haverford College. He's twice been represented by agents, once by a New York agent for a novel titled IN A CIRCLE OF STARS and again for a memoir by a California agent. He works as a professional photographer and freelance writer and has produced mounds of fiction that remains mostly hidden in his computer. |
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| New Discoveries | by M.D. James May 02, 2012 | $0.99 | 17627 words | |
| Author bio: M.D. James is from Kennesaw, Georgia and has always enjoyed reading and writing. At a young age, she discovered a passion for writing after winning her school's essay contest in the sixth grade. After moving around most of her life, due to having parents in the military, it was easier to create stories and friends than to become attached to real ones. She now resides in Cherokee, North Carolina with her husband and two kids. Her first series, The Muse Series, is sure to become Amazon Bestsellers. There are four books in the Muse Series. They include: As the Snow Falls - Vol. 1 (Book 1 in the Muse Series) As the Snow Falls - Vol. 2 (Book 2 in the Muse Series) After the Tears Melt - Vol. 1 (Book 3 in the Muse Series) After the Tears Melt - Vol. 2 (Book 4 in the Muse Series) M.D. James is currently writing a new series, in the romance genre, as well as a Prequel, and spin-off series for the Muse Series books. |
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| Fuck or Fail | by Michelle Red May 02, 2012 | $2.99 | 3308 words | Sample 15% |
| Author bio: Michelle Red studied literature before turning to erotica. She read a lot of short stories before deciding it was time for her to try. She writes for her personal enjoyment, and because she loves to share, her books are available online. |
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| Arrival: Forbidden Five | by Julie Hayes May 01, 2012 | $0.99 | 4068 words | Sample 20% |
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| Silver Moon: A Women of Wolf's Point Novel | by Catherine Lundoff May 01, 2012 | $6.99 | 81487 words | Sample 10% |
| Author bio: Catherine Lundoff lives in Minneapolis with her wonderful and long suffering partner. She is the author of two collections of lesbian erotica: Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing (Lethe Press, 2007) and Night’s Kiss (Lethe Press, 2009). Her stories have appeared in numerous publications including So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction, Time Well Bent: Queer Alternate History, Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, Farrago’s Wainscot, Khimairal Ink, Best Fantastic Erotica Vol. 1 and Such a Pretty Face. She is a Spectrum Award short fiction finalist and a contributor to Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (forthcoming, Greenwood Press). |
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| Pennance | by Clare Ashton May 01, 2012 | $2.99 | 65119 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Clare Ashton grew up in Wales and lives in Oxfordshire with her partner Jayne and their toddler son Joe. She is the author of Pennance and likes to write fiction featuring strong female characters and more than its fair share of lesbians. She loves to mix suspense, mystery, romance and darker elements too. |
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| Triangle | by Susann Julieva May 01, 2012 | $1.99 | 124152 words | Sample 10% |
| Author bio: About Susann Julieva Susann Julieva was born and raised in Germany, where she is currently at work on her next novel. When she doesn't write, she reads. She can never say no to a good movie either. She loves cats, chocolate, traveling, and calls fandom her true home. |
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| The Indigo Bird - An Erotic Novel | by Max Markham May 01, 2012 | $6.95 | 77118 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Max Markham was born in 1954. He has worked, lived and travelled in Europe, Africa and Asia. He has had a picaresque life, often with a military flavour; a lot of his friends are soldiers. His father and both grandfathers were in the Army. His uncles were in the Navy and RAF. He did not follow their example; he read History at university, although he also trained as a reservist in the Territorial Army. Fate however seems determined that he should have war experience, like other members of his family. He has found himself doing temporary duty with the French forces and, on one occasion, facing the Territorial SAS as an enemy. He has managed to be in the firing line more than once: to date he has been in two coups d'etat, barely avoiding a third (in Yemen); one civil war; and narrowly avoided a firing squad (in the Democratic Republic of Congo). He lives in London. |
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| Never Mind | by James Orr May 01, 2012 | $3.99 | 54690 words | Sample 15% |
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| Burned Dreams | by K. B. Forrest April 30, 2012 | $4.99 | 34174 words | Sample 5% |
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| A Hoale Lot of Trouble | by Declan Sands April 30, 2012 | $2.99 | 47579 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Declan writes erotic fantasy and romantic suspense, creating stories that celebrate the joy of love in all its forms. Known for writing great characters, snappy dialogue, and unique and exhilarating stories, Declan has been writing for over a decade under several noms de plume. |
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| Spider Boy | by Joshua Skye April 30, 2012 | $1.99 | 4243 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Joshua Skye is the author of the fantasy adventure, "Xerxes Canyon." He works primarily within the horror, fantasy, and erotica genres, often combining elements from each. His short stories appear in anthologies from STARbooks Press, As Publications, and Knightwatch Press. His work has also appeared in periodicals such as Blood and Lullabies. He lives in rural Pennsylvania with his partner of fifteen years, Ray, and their seven-year-old son, Syrian. They share a historic Folk Victorian home with their pets Gypsy, Gizmo, and Bella, as well as a few spiders and ghosts. |
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| Practice, Practice | by A. Leigh Jones April 30, 2012 | $1.99 | 3734 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: A. Leigh Jones is the author of several short stories, some erotic, some not. Her first novel, Forever Crossed, is an urban fantasy, and is available at Amazon and wherever books are sold. |
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| What He Wants | by Kate Aaron April 30, 2012 | $3.99 | 78955 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Kate Aaron lives in Cheshire, England, with two dogs, a parrot, and a bearded dragon named Elvis. She has the best of friends, the worst of enemies, and a mischievous muse with a passion for storytelling that doesn't know the difference between fact and fiction. COMING 2012: Summer - Lost Realm #3 Summer - 'Fenton's Absolution' LR #3.5 |
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| The Strife of Love in a Dream of Cyril | by Mirvan Ereon April 29, 2012 | Free! | 6059 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: A poet, artist, writer, painter, madman and genius, Mirvan Ereon is a wonderful human being. He is strange, weird, fun, lovable, sexy, fuckable all at the same time. He is polysexual, polyamorous, pansexual, and many other twisted things and he is not afraid to be one. He is proud of who he is and he wants you to be the same way too with yourself! Message me. tell me anything. Ask me to wrote a story or a poem for you and I will gladly do it. I love doing requests =P And it is all free =P Send me a message - jinnypark_1691@yahoo.com |
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| Bonedust | by Xoe Xanders April 28, 2012 | $2.99 | 47545 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Xoe Xanders is a quirky small-town punk princess who writes dark, sexy, paranormal things. She writes both straight and gay romance — love is love, no matter race, color, or gender. |
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| The Pizza Boy Always Rings Twice | by Keegan Kennedy April 28, 2012 | $2.99 | 8938 words | Sample 20% |
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| The Tutor and the Jock (Dirtyhunk Gay Erotica) | by Brian West April 27, 2012 | $2.99 | 7280 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: A gay romance and erotica storyteller, Brian West enjoys writing a range of gay fiction, from dirty short stories that ignite a flame to novellas that warm the heart. In Brian's growing collection at Dirtyhunk Books, you will find plenty of stories to devour, as well as stunning male characters to fall in love with. From successful businessmen to rugged cowboys to sexy college guys, the men appearing in the pages of Brian's books will keep you up all night! A SPECIAL NOTE FROM BRIAN... To all my readers, I would like to thank you for your support and feedback. I love nothing more than a good story, especially one that leaves me thinking about the characters after I've read the last page. I hope that my stories and characters do the same for you... These men certainly keep me up all night, demanding to be brought to life, paragraph by paragraph, word by word. It's not easy working with such demanding men! But then again, how on earth could we ever live without them? Cheers to great men and great stories! |
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| Mark's Opening Gambit | by Lee Brazil April 27, 2012 | $1.99 | 22508 words | Sample 20% |
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| Alexios' Fate | by Kayla Jameth April 27, 2012 | $3.99 | 55300 words | Sample 20% |
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| Keeper of the Grey, The Chronicles of Abigoth: Volume 1 | by Jeffrey Jude April 27, 2012 | Free! | 20655 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Jeff was born in Detroit Michigan and earned a B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Plant Ecology from Wayne State University before moving to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago where he studied Evolutionary Biology. While in Chicago Jeff was a volunteer at Gay and Lesbian Horizons serving as as a peer counselor as well as an instructor of gay sensitivity for the Chicago Police Department. He was also the co-chair of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Jeff then returned to Michigan for a couple of years and served as a board member of he Michigan Organization for Human Rights, as well as the MOHR Foundation. With a small group of friends, Jeff founded the Affirmations Community Center for lesbians and gays which has since moved to Ferndale Michigan and grown enormously. Missing Chicago, he returned to form Overlooked Opinions, the first national opinion polling firm specializing in gay and lesbian polling and market research. Overlooked Opinions' ground breaking research was cited in virtually every major market publication in the US and Canada, as well as across five contienents, promoting understanding and visibility for gay men and lesbian women worldide. Shortly thereafter, Jeff was named one Chicago's top 40 businessmen under 40 by Crain's Chicago Magazine. Jeff now lives part of the year in Riviera Nayarit and part of the year in a small town near Grand Rapids, Michigan. He lives with five wolfdog hybrids and is an avid nature lover enjoying regular jaunts into the jungles of Mexico and the Woodlands of Michigan. The Disciples of Goedric Trilogy is his second forey into the world of writing fiction. It started as a waking dream on the rowing machine and evolved into an epic tale spanning three volumes: Gay Gene Rising, Guardians of the Blood and SoulFire and Tears. The next book in the series picks up where The Disciples of Goedric left off and will be titled Killian's Breath. For those who wonder about such things, jeff is single, still searching for that knight in somewhat tarnished armor; his favorite food is Thai, and his favorite beverages are black coffee and red wine. |
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| Decades - English Edition | by Anne de Gandt April 27, 2012 | Free! | 11273 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Écrivain-photographe, Anne de Gandt crée des univers où se mêlent passé et présent, rêve et réalité. Son travail est une invitation aux voyages, à travers le temps, l'espace, la mémoire, l'identité et l'espoir. Writer-photographer, Anne de Gandt creates worlds which mingle past and present, dream and reality. She invites you to journey across time, space, memory, identity and hope. |
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| How to Seduce a Straight Guy | by Nate Tanner April 26, 2012 | $3.99 | 15624 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Nate Tanner was born in Iowa in 1980. His Zodiac sign is Gemini. He realized he was gay on the day he turned 18. After living a "shamelessly tempestuous" lifestyle in college and his 20s, Nate decided to share his experiences with the world by becoming an erotic fiction author. He writes in spare moments at his hectic day job, while by night he can be found prowling the Midwest for cute boys. |
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| Saving Liam | by Sasha L. Miller April 26, 2012 | $7.99 | 119905 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Sasha has been writing slash ever since she began writing awful fanfiction in her freshman year of college. She grew up in the boonies of Northern New York (nowhere near NYC) and then branched out for college in a different part of the boonies of NNY. She then spent a few years in Vermont before finally landing in Cincinnati, where she shares a house crazy roommates and crazier cats. |
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| Fire Thief | by Jordan Castillo Price April 26, 2012 | $0.99 | 4262 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Jordan Castillo Price's influences include Ouija boards, Return of the Living Dead, "light as a feather, stiff as a board," and boys in eyeliner. |
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| The Sticks | by JF Smith April 25, 2012 | $0.99 | 9124 words | Sample 20% |
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| Power In The Blood | by Angelia Sparrow April 25, 2012 | $5.99 | 74292 words | Sample 20% |
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| Stuffed (Gay Erotic Stories #1) | by Evan J. Xavier April 25, 2012 | $2.99 | 5434 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Author of Gay Erotic Stories. Self-deprecating, semi-cool, quirky, and a perfect southern gentleman when he's not horizontal. |
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| Resurrection Sticks | by Kelli Jae Baeli April 25, 2012 | $3.99 | 29811 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: *All Books unavailable here in standard ebook formats, can be had at the author's site in PDF format.* Baeli was born to spin a yarn. The daughter of a professional musician, she arrived in Wichita and began her journey with a song in her heart and a plethora of passion erupting from her pen. This love of lyrics, prose and poetry was just the simple seed of what would grow into a wordsmith's obsession with the creation of multifarious characters and storylines that fork with dual plot lines into romance and intrigue. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Colorado are just a few locales that surface in Baeli's novels as these places are ones she drank in from her time in University, to retreating for self exploration. Each place is rich in bucolic terrain and provided grand palettes for her mysteries and suspenseful romances. Townies and their coveted colloquialisms provided divine fodder for tales too real to be true. There is nothing like experience to craft a character. Baeli has plenty to spare—from a stint in the military to late nights spent delivering newspapers, waiting tables, or as a technical writer for a corporate jet company. Each job was a necessity, but one that Baeli turned into a study in the human condition or sometimes inhumane conditions. Some of Baeli's fondest endeavors were fronting an all female band for seven years in Little Rock and her enjoyable time as a managing editor for a women's press. In recent years, Baeli has pursued technology with a dedicated passion. Website building, blogging and creating and maintaining online forums have shared the docket with her ever-present story crafting. Baeli has relied on her technical writing roots and expanded her repertoire, enabling her to edit for herself and other writers, both accomplished and aspiring. With over 200 song writing credits and 26 books to her credit, Kelli Jae Baeli shows no signs of wear. She has returned to her beloved Colorado where she may be found amongst the Denverites, people-watching over coffee and conversation, awaiting the next story to inspire and entrance. (~Justice Harlow) The author can be followed on Twitter @JaeBaeli. Reader and Professional reviews, as well as Feedback, Praises, and First-Born Children, are cheerfully accepted via her website, jaebaeli.com. |
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| My First But Not My Last | by Leigh Jarrett April 25, 2012 | $2.99 | 5530 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Canadian author of Gay Romance novels and Gay Erotica. As a teen growing up in Vancouver, BC (Canada), Leigh Jarrett spent many hours each day discovering the stories surrounding the many characters emerging from the proverbial closet in her mind. Of course the adults called it daydreaming, but that didn’t deter her from weaving increasingly diverse storylines as she grew older. Notes were made and pictures were drawn, but none of the stories were ever written down until she received a nudge from an unlikely source. Her imaginary childhood friend, Sebastian of Cardin, became the first written character, appearing in all three books of the upcoming Circle Trilogy. Sebastian's passion for life and the beautiful men he shared it with inspired Leigh to tell his story; and that is where it all began. Come Play In My World... |
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| Bully | by Carter Wolf April 24, 2012 | $0.99 | 4274 words | Sample 20% |
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| In a Dark Wood | by Josh Lanyon April 24, 2012 | $2.99 | 12968 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: A distinct voice in gay fiction, multi-award-winning author JOSH LANYON has been writing gay mystery, adventure and romance for over a decade. In addition to numerous short stories, novellas, and novels, Josh is the author of the critically acclaimed Adrien English series, including The Hell You Say, winner of the 2006 USABookNews awards for GLBT Fiction. Josh is an Eppie Award winner and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. |
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| Red Racer | by Marie Brown April 24, 2012 | $0.99 | 14534 words | Sample 50% |
| Author bio: Marie Brown has lived in many locations across the United States, but spends most of her time exploring the realms of imagination. Currently located in Colorado, she spends most of her free time in front of her computer, frequently covered in cats. |
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| Murder In Germantown - A Ravonne Lemmelle Legal Thriller | by Rahiem Brooks April 23, 2012 | $6.99 | 83187 words | Sample 40% |
| Author bio: Rahiem Jerome Brooks is the breakout novelist with an overwhelming reservoir of criminal tales that motivate American denizen to be overprotective with their personal data, i.e. social security number, pin number, and account number. His debut street thriller, LAUGH NOW won 2010 African-Americans on the Move Book Club's Book of the Year. Since 1995, Rahiem Brooks has done hundreds of interviews with con men and swindlers in county, state and federal prisons; after all, he was locked down in them, too. He spawned tougher white collar crimes law and the Truncated Act. Hollywood blockbusters like Oceans Eleven and Italian Job that do not affect ordinary citizens are nothing more than entertainment. Through fictional accounts of his former crimes, Rahiem conveys the types of white-collar crimes that obstruct the livelihood of identity theft victims, by chronicling how con men acquire someones identity profile from an avaricious car salesman or medical records specialist for a small fee, and commences to rob the national economy to the tune of 14-billion dollars a year. Rahiems novels prompt retailers to thoroughly scrutinize every transaction, and not to allow a teenager to use the credit card in the name, Dr. John Warwick. Sounds absurd, and it is; however, successful swindlers like Rahiem has used credit cards with the last name Romanovski, Wu, and Philippidis. A glimpse at Rahiems press photo evidence, he is not a Wu. Some of Rahiem's other soon-to-be published books include: CON TEST (Prodigy Publishing Group) set to release 4-11-11, MR. 357 (Prodigy Publishing Group), and DIE LATER (Prodigy Publishing Group) set to release 9-10-11, the highly anticipated sequel to the published novel, LAUGH NOW (Prodigy Publishing Group), available at amazon.com. Rahiem Brooks plans to continue his Film/TV certificate program at University of California, Los Angeles, and currently lives in Philadelphia building his Prodigy Publishing Group brand. |
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| Relatively Fabulous | by Chad Wilde April 23, 2012 | $2.99 | 21291 words | Sample 20% |
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| Romantically Fabulous | by Chad Wilde April 23, 2012 | Free! | 21291 words | Read a sample |
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| Benders | by Jonathan Woolf April 23, 2012 | $4.99 | 79183 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Mr. Woolf is of Scottish descent and resides in Sarasota, Florida. |
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| Too Hot to Handle | by L.C. Dean April 23, 2012 | $1.99 | 7890 words | Sample 10% |
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| Good Vibrations | by KT Grant April 23, 2012 | $1.99 | 5248 words | Sample 10% |
| Author bio: KT Grant is a self-proclaimed eccentric redhead who not only loves to read a wide variety of romances, but also loves writing them. Under her alter-ego, she is a well known book reviewer and blogger who doesn't shy away from voicing her opinion. A proud native of New Jersey, KT also works in Manhattan as a freelancer in the television and video industry. KT has been quoted in such publications as the Romance Writers Associations' Romance Writers Report. She has also been mentioned in the Guardian, UK, Publisher's Weekly's Beyond the Book, and at Bookseller.com. |
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| Friends With Benefits | by Caroline Doyle April 23, 2012 | $0.99 | 1256 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: I am 49 years old and live in Merseyside, England. I am a new writer. What I write comes from a lifetimes experience. I write fiction as well as non fiction. My ebooks are all available here and the two in paperback, 'the clinging vines' and 'The Oculate Conspiracy' are available from all major online retailers. |
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| El Secuestro De Ryan Millshank | by Jaypbee April 23, 2012 | $3.10 | 13965 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: I'm a gay guy living in the south of England, UK. I live with my soul mate, who I've had the pleasure of living with for more than half my life. I write gay erotic short stories aimed at gay, bi or straight guys. |
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| John's Match | by Viki Lyn April 22, 2012 | $3.99 | 43601 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Viki Lyn's Biography Rainbow award winner, Viki Lyn is a successful writer of sexy gay romance. Sparked by a keen interest in yaoi, also known as Japanese Boys Love manga, she began her own love affair with gay romance. After reading and collecting whatever she could get her hands on, she wrote her first man love romance in 2006. Her stories are an eclectic mix but it is always romance that drives the story to its final happily-ever-after. Her latest book, Out of Bounds, has received stellar reviews for realistically depicting the hardship many gay people experience when coming out. A native of California, Viki travels the world in search of inspiration but calls Arizona home. She shares her beautiful adobe home with her wonderful husband and favorite man (fictional or real). Favorite Movies: When Harry Met Sally, Something's Gotta Give, Latter Days, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Sense and Sensibility, North and South Favorite color: Red Astrological signs: Aries with Cancer moon and Virgo rising |
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| Wicked Game | by Alex Anderson April 22, 2012 | $4.99 | 170038 words | Sample 11% |
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| Must Love Cats | by J.M. Snyder April 22, 2012 | $3.99 | 16200 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: An author of gay erotic romance, J.M. Snyder began self-publishing gay erotic fiction in 2002. Since then, Snyder has worked with several e-publishers, most notably Amber Allure Press and eXcessica Publishing. Snyder’s short fiction has appeared online at Ruthie’s Club, Tit-Elation, Eros Monthly, and Amazon Shorts, as well as in anthologies released by Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and others. For more book excerpts, free fiction, and purchasing information, please visit http://jmsnyder.net. |
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| Half in Love | by Lee Patton April 22, 2012 | $2.99 | 9043 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: After growing up in an immigrant/lumbering/fishing town on California's Mendocino Coast, and after college in Sacramento and San Francisco, I headed to Colorado to teach high school and work on my M.A. in Denver University’s Writing Program. In the late 80’s, I wrote plays for Denver’s legendary Changing Scene. That led me to develop plays produced in Arizona, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Alaska, then off-off Broadway in New York. A scholarship sent me to London to study theatre, where a jealous-love murder threat in our dorm inspired the fictionalized events of my first novel, Nothing Gold Can Stay (Alyson Books, 2000, published as Casey Nelson to avoid embarrassing my fellow students and teachers). In the second novel, Love and Genetic Weaponry: The Beginner's Guide (Alyson Books, 2009), I explored a completely fictitious Hitchcockian-paranoid-romance set among very real Western landscapes. The idea of the amateur sleuth fascinated me, especially my protagonist, Ray O’Brien, a young teacher forced into the role of accidental detective. He must solve the mystery and defuse danger using only his everyday wits and evolving insights into human nature. Like my character, I have found myself in the midst of a role I never predicted—accidental mystery writer. But I’m at work on the third novel in the series, Fresh Grave in Grand Canyon, which gives me a chance to explore more of what I love—whitewater rafting and the canyon’s surreal geology—and develop another romance interrupted, of course, by murder. |
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| A Queer Pattern of Murder | by Tom Jemielity April 22, 2012 | $2.99 | 15407 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Tom Jemielity is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, having taught there and earlier at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and at John Carroll University. He retired in 2003 after more than four decades of teaching and research, with a strong emphasis on comedy and satire in both. Most of his more than twenty scholarly publications deal with satire, including the book-length study Satire and the Hebrew Prophets. Since retirement, he has published several comic short stories and essays in Cynic On-Line Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Macguffin, New York Observer, and Rosebud. With his wife, Barbara, he lives in South Bend, Indiana (reluctantly). They have three adult children and two grandkids. Snapshots are available on request. |
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| La Photographie Moderne | by Neil Crenner April 21, 2012 | $9.99 | 98183 words | Sample 20% |
| Author bio: Neil lives in Palm Springs, California with his cat Halo. He enjoys, reading, writing and video games on the PS3 & PSP. Currently single and enjoying life. Writing the continuing adventure of Reason Simon. |
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| Savior | by Bran Lindy Ayres April 21, 2012 | $3.99 | 91098 words | Sample 20% |
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