Free online samples of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT)-themed ebooks from the authors and publishers at Smashwords.
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Freedom's Souvenir | by Pia Veleno Dec. 10, 2011 | Free! | 15085 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Pia is a dirty girl, but she knows you're naughty too. Tongue in cheek, and everywhere else, Pia spends her time running nowhere, avoiding housework, and randomly quoting Placebo lyrics. Now that others are reading her stories, her husband no longer wonders about her obsession with gay men falling in love. |
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Rough Road to Happiness (A Gay Erotica Romance) | by Shabbu June 06, 2010 | Free! | 5385 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Shabbu is the combined pen name for two established authors, one on the East Coast of the United States and one on the East Coast of Australia, who spin erotica together in cyber space. habu, a bisexual former supersonic spy jet pilot, intelligence agent, and diplomat, is a published mainstream novelist and short story writer under another name and in another dimension of his life. Sabb, once an accountant and sometime property developer, is a wild barbarian at heart and knows that love is out there of you’re lucky enough to find it. |
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Curvas y otras fatalidades | by Daniel Turambar Aug. 28, 2010 | Free! | 19714 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Daniel Hermosel Murcia Daniel Hermosel Murcia, farsante desde que se conoce. Publicaba semanalmente relatos en el blog ¿Y ahora qué, eh..?, (2007-2009), fruto del cual surgen los relatarios, a modo de anuarios, que conforman su obra. |
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Incident at Shady Oaks by Sarah Colter | by Unbranded Press Jan. 31, 2012 | Free! | 7700 words | Read a sample |
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Dirty Pleasure | by Lee Harlem Robinson March 30, 2012 | Free! | 14599 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Lee Harlem Robinson is a fictional character created for the blog ‘Trying to Throw My Arms Around the World’ by Hannelore Arbyn. In daily blog posts, Lee narrates the story of how she ended up in Hong Kong. ‘Come and Go’ picks up where ‘Trying to Throw my Arms Around the World’ stops and describes Lee’s dramatic adventures in romance in ‘that other city that never sleeps’. Hannelore Arbyn is a thirty-three year old Belgian who moved to Hong Kong in the fall of 2010. In 2002 she started the lesbian entertainment blog ‘Dykes and the City’ and not long after founded the popular lesbian advice blog ‘The Lesbian Question’. After a blog hiatus of a few years, the withdrawal from dyke drama and the creation of lesbian entertainment became so unbearable, she plunged into the world of blog fiction and invented Lee Harlem Robinson. ‘Come and Go’ is her first novel. |
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A Susan Slutt Mystery: Peril Over the Carport | by Michael G. Cornelius Aug. 27, 2010 | Free! | 8027 words | Sample 100% |
| Author bio: Michael G. Cornelius is the author/editor of eleven books, including the thriller The Ascension and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Creating Man. |
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Lies and Consequences | by Kaje Harper April 05, 2011 | Free! | 97986 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: I've been writing as long as I can remember (which is longer than I like to admit). I started creating M/M romances in high-school, filling binders with stories about what Starsky and Hutch really did on their days off. (Pretty PG-rated stuff - we're talking sheltered fourteen-year-old here. I was into the romantic possibilities.) Any potential writing career got side-tracked by forays into art, psychology, teaching, and a biomedical profession. And the challenges of raising children. When I took up the keyboard again it was just for fun, writing books for my own entertainment. At about manuscript seven, my epically patient spouse told me that if I was going to spend that much time at it, I should try to get published. And he kept saying it, loudly, until I submitted one. And it was accepted! (Really exciting!) That's Life Lessons that was published May 2011 MLR Press. A short story, And to All a Good Night, that follows it is available here for free. The sequel, Breaking Cover, came out from MLR in late July. And I'm currently in the editing process for other work, including a werewolf novel, Unacceptable Risk. My Smashwords book, Lies and Consequences, started as a kind of reaction after the November 2010 elections when the DADT repeal looked like it might be derailed. Then I was caught by surprise as I finished the book in December and the repeal passed. I tweaked it by upping the action, and deemphasizing the DADT subplot. The result was something lightweight, but hopefully fun. So I put it out as a free read. I hope you enjoy it. As a new author, I really appreciate reviews - what you liked and what you didn't. Remember those other six manuscripts? (Okay, nine now.) Maybe your comment will help turn the next good book into a better book. KH |
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British Flash | by UK MAT Publishing June 08, 2011 | Free! | 24660 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: UK MAT is a team of five UK based GLBTQ romance authors who wanted to do something to raise the profile of UK set GLBTQ fiction. Our first project is a free anthology of flash fiction written by attendees of the second annual UK Meet of GLBTQ fiction. The UK MAT team are Alex Beecroft, Charlie Cochrane, Clare London, JL Merrow and Josephine Myles. |
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Easy Come, Easy Go | by Ayla Starr Feb. 18, 2012 | Free! | 5610 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: I wonder. I dream. I write. That is all you need to know. If you like my stories, don't be shy to leave a quick comment! |
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Hard Medicine | by Chad Wilde Jan. 24, 2012 | Free! | 1497 words | Read a sample |
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The Morning Walk | by Rae Smith Feb. 20, 2012 | Free! | 3235 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Sitting down to write this a bio freaks me out a little bit. It's like standing up in public and having to speak, and you look around the room, open your mouth to speak and all that comes out is a scratchy squeak. That’s me. I’m shy. Always have been and most likely always will be. But, anyway, here goes. I am in my forties, and I live in England with my wonderful husband, my three amazingly brilliant children, and my beloved laptop. No pets. I've been making up stories almost since I learned how to talk. When I was little, my family used to call them my ‘tall tales’ but I remained undeterred and carried on telling them, eventually writing them down when I discovered pretty notebooks and pens. I love writing. I have always enjoyed sharing my imagination with other people. And if I go long periods without writing, I get a little testy, according to my family. I started out posting my stories for free on the internet – mainly LiveJournal, but then, through the encouragement of some of my readers I decided to pursue the idea of getting published via the eBook route. My readers are some of the most loving, loyal, and awesome people. They’ve stood by me through all my doubts and worries, and kept me on track when the panic sets in. If it wasn’t for them, I’d still be dealing with an inert sense of inferiority, and be plagued with self-doubt. I like to write in a wide variety of genres and cover a host of subjects, but my heart will always be with erotic romance. There's something magical about two people (be they gay, straight, or in-between) finding each other and fighting against all odds to reach happily ever after. If my characters and their stories can touch just one other person--can take his mind off his troubles or make her day seem just a little bit brighter--then I feel like I've done something important. |
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Joy Ride | by J.M. Snyder Aug. 11, 2009 | Free! | 4803 words | Sample 100% |
| 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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Zerendipity | by Kris Howard April 03, 2011 | Free! | 3374 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Kris Howard is a master's-prepared computer programmer. She lives in Southern California with her wife, a dog, and two cats. Kris's passions include photography, friends, water, women, and the Pacific Northwest. |
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Aroma: A Lesbian Legend of the Papaya | by Mirvan Ereon March 31, 2012 | Free! | 4922 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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The Reunion | by Raven de Hart Aug. 23, 2011 | Free! | 2699 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: After years, Raven de Hart refined her story telling, her tantalizing tales to the point of local royalty. Now, after returning from exile, she has returned to her old tricks. She can be found in her throne room at http://dehartslist.blogspot.com or consorting with the Kitten Knights at http://kittenknights.com |
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A Delicate Game | by Sasha L. Miller Sep. 06, 2011 | Free! | 7181 words | Read a sample |
| 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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Lindira | by Ann Somerville Oct. 28, 2011 | Free! | 22576 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Ann Somerville grew up in one of Australia’s prettiest small cities. In 1989, she left Australia with a BA and a burning ambition to see more of the world and its people, and to discover this ‘culture’ thing people kept telling her about. In 2006, she returned home to Southeast Queensland with two more degrees, an English husband, and a staggering case of homesickness, vowing never to leave Australia again. Her long, plot-driven fiction featuring gay and bisexual characters has been professionally published, although copious free full length stories and novels are also available on her website. She blogs about writing, publishing, her life and many shiny distracting things. |
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Never let go : To have and to hold | by Aeryn Jaden Jan. 09, 2012 | Free! | 8937 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: So, I'm twenty-four going on fifty and bored to death living in a city in a forgotten country called Romania. I spice my life by reading all that I get my hands on (with an unhealthy predilection towards more pervy genres like erotic literature and addictive m/m stories). As for writing, I've started doodling at the age of seven, at eleven I shocked my lit teach with a sci-fi short love story(by then I was well acquainted with my mom's hidden stash of Sandra Brown and Sidney Sheldon)and proceeded to take a short break in my literature career...lol. Finally after like fifteen years of avid reading, I've said what the heck, and started writing again. Now I'm hoping my readers will be harder to shock and won't need therapy to recover. |
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Swept Up In Blue | by Pender Mackie Feb. 05, 2012 | Free! | 4802 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Pender Mackie lives in Canada though she spent her childhood years in England. An imaginative child, Pender wasn’t a willing student and didn’t learn to read until her father—deciding some incentive was needed—promised her a pony as soon as she could read a newspaper. Properly motivated, Pender picked up a book and discovered the joys of fiction. Though her infatuation with ponies didn’t last, she still loves a good story. Pender has been writing M/M romance stories for about three years, but has only just started submitting some of them for publication. She is busy putting the final touches on several others. |
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The Way to Will | by Drew Hunt Oct. 21, 2010 | Free! | 7490 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Having read all the decent free fiction on the net Drew could find, he set out to try his hand at writing something himself. Fed up reading about characters who were super-wealthy, impossibly handsome, and incredibly well-endowed, Drew determined to make his characters real and believable. Drew lives a quiet life in the north of England with his cat. Someday he hopes to meet the kind of man he writes about. Readers can contact him at drew@drew-hunt.co.uk. |
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We Break the News | by Jon Rutherford April 10, 2012 | Free! | 17191 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Longtime (as in really, really long) Midwest USA resident, Jon has, in common with Ben in his novella "Bumps," a useless degree in French. Interests include classical guitar, classical music in general, writing (surprised?), endlessly watching streaming movies, coffee, and all sorts of other stuff. Jon is attracted to writing stories in which good people do good things for one another. He feels that you hardly ever get to read that kind of thing in the news media. And yet it happens all the time. He also likes zany action and words generally with a gay-related theme. There's generally an element of fantasy, and some pretty seriously rough language. He's noticed that, gulp, people really talk that way. |
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Unamused | by Rosalyn Wraight Jan. 22, 2012 | Free! | 1948 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Rosalyn Wraight is the author of the Lesbian Adventure Club series and a lesbian mystery series featuring Detective Laura McCallister. |
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Alif | by Bradley Stoke April 15, 2012 | Free! | 92843 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: ‘Omega’ and ‘Alif’ are novels that are publicly available on other web sites that showcase fiction. Inevitably, they have attracted the critical attention of some of the readers. These readers are not professional reviewers, but that does not necessarily mean that their observations are the less valid. In the interests of shameless self-promotion, I include here reviews that have been complimentary to my novels. |
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Thaw | by Jordan Castillo Price March 01, 2009 | Free! | 1402 words | Read a sample |
| 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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Refuse | by Elliott DeLine April 08, 2011 | You set the price! | 80468 words | Sample 25% |
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One More Suicide | by David McGhee May 04, 2011 | Free! | 149024 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Born and raised in the south, David McGhee suffered through a myriad of mental illness issues all throughout his life. As an openly gay male with these disadvantages, David has been searching for himself through music and print for some time now. He feels as if nothing is better therapy than working on stories and writing a catchy song on the guitar. David is 27 as of February 15th. He is 5'7" and has a thing for taller guys. Currently 155ish pounds. Is currently suffering from a liver defect that he is shortly going to receive an evasive treatment for, knocking him out of the count for a few months due to it's toxicity on the body. Hopefully this doesn't effect his extra curricular activities none. Mother passed away on February 12th 2010. Father is still alive and kicking. David has an IQ of 155 yet he still forgets to look both ways or even to make sure he has the walk sign when crossing the street. Check him out on social media sites! http://facebook.com/trueposer Twitter: @trueposer His blog is updated often: http://trueposer.blogspot.com |
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To Sir, With Love | by Karyn Mitchell June 24, 2011 | Free! | 2764 words | Read a sample |
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Lot Seven | by Raven de Hart Sep. 15, 2011 | Free! | 3123 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: After years, Raven de Hart refined her story telling, her tantalizing tales to the point of local royalty. Now, after returning from exile, she has returned to her old tricks. She can be found in her throne room at http://dehartslist.blogspot.com or consorting with the Kitten Knights at http://kittenknights.com |
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Faith | by Danial Jones March 24, 2012 | Free! | 46689 words | Read a sample |
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Two Halves | by Nat Roslin April 12, 2012 | Free! | 2678 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Nat Roslin lives in a quiet village just outside of the city of Leeds in the UK. Ze has been writing for many years and after many inwards debates is beginning to publish hir work online. Ze is passionate about putting out LGBT literature, in the form of short stories, flash fiction and hopefully in the future a novel ze is working on. |
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Articles About Sex | by Wael El-Manzalawy May 09, 2012 | Free! | 1580 words | Read a sample |
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First Kiss | by J. Tomas Sep. 01, 2011 | Free! | 2598 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: J. Tomas is a pseudonym, I'll admit it up front, under which I publish gay YA fiction. I write gay erotic romance as J.M. Snyder and publish non-gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as J.T. Marie. You can email me at jtomas@j-tomas.net. So who am I? A writer, a reader, a poet. A video game nerd ~ I heart Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, and Legend of Zelda. A cat owner. A movie goer, music lover, boyband groupie. A queer author who remembers all too well the pains of high school, first love, and how it felt to ride the school bus when all the "cool" kids had their own car. Who knows what it's like to be different in a school of clones, to feel different, look different, act different. Who wants to put those feelings down on paper so others know they aren't alone. More specifically, I live in Virginia with two very spoiled cats. I have a day job that's not too bad, and I've always wanted to be a writer, so I write. |
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A Limited Engagement | by Josh Lanyon Dec. 06, 2011 | Free! | 6375 words | Read a sample |
| 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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Sliders: The Dark Side of Transgender | by Aimee Norin Jan. 09, 2012 | Free! | 87016 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: I believe a person should be able to follow his or her own heart, but I also believe long-term happiness is best sought with a realistic understanding of the problems involved. No one person can provide that for others, but I believe an approach to issues with both the light and the dark side of things is helpful in finding a workable path through life. |
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The Boy Upstairs | by Jon Rutherford Jan. 15, 2012 | Free! | 6782 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Longtime (as in really, really long) Midwest USA resident, Jon has, in common with Ben in his novella "Bumps," a useless degree in French. Interests include classical guitar, classical music in general, writing (surprised?), endlessly watching streaming movies, coffee, and all sorts of other stuff. Jon is attracted to writing stories in which good people do good things for one another. He feels that you hardly ever get to read that kind of thing in the news media. And yet it happens all the time. He also likes zany action and words generally with a gay-related theme. There's generally an element of fantasy, and some pretty seriously rough language. He's noticed that, gulp, people really talk that way. |
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The Stardust Diaries | by Tarn Swan March 18, 2010 | Free! | 58549 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: The Stardust Diaries are unique - they're a soap opera, a domestic drama, a comedy and a thoroughly entertaining and often moving love story. 'Swan Songs' is the first installment of the fictional autobiography series 'The Stardust Diaries' The love of Tarn's life is his transgender partner, Jonathan Lane, assistant manager in a jeweller's shop, aka Stardust Twinkles, transvestite and part time drag queen. Life with Twinkles is many things, but quiet isn’t one of them. He’s beautiful, complex, impulsive, a diva, demanding, loving, bitchy, jealous, emotional and sometimes just plain naughty! Tarn's views and philosophical observations on life and love with his unique partner are highly entertaining. The hub of T & T's social life is The Pink Parrot Club, a haven for the transgender crowd. Here you’ll find Twink's best friend, Lulu, and his deadly rival, Natalie, the fiend in a frock. Meet the ballroom dancing medics, Teddy and Maurice, and Brian, the club owner, and a host of others including Rick the lascivious barman. Follow the everyday trials, tribulations heartaches and joys of life with a man who has a unique aspect to his personality. An uplifting and tender book with some real laugh out loud moments. Tarn Swan has an alter ego known as Fabian Black http://www.fabianblackromance.com |
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The Hook Up | by Steven Kerry Aug. 16, 2011 | Free! | 4151 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Steven Kerry is a musician and songwriter from Los Angeles who has had several of his songs published and recorded, and both sang and co-produced his own album of original material on LML Music under the group name Stain’d Glass. His writing has been published in Frontiers Newsmagazine and other publications. His extensive experience as a hospital social worker has proven a natural source of inspiration for the My Strange Little Oasis trilogy and future novels. Steven describes his writing style as “inspired by cinema,†as he prefers listening to movie soundtrack music while writing at night “the old fashioned way,†with nothing more than a pen, paper, and sufficient caffeine. |
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The Wanderer | by A. Scott Boddie Nov. 04, 2011 | Free! | 1705 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: A. Scott Boddie is a graduate of Baker College, holding a BBA and a MBA; however, the business world was no substitute for his love of writing. He resigned from his business job to pursue a career as a writer. |
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Voyage East | by Tom Williams Aug. 01, 2011 | Free! | 8489 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Tom Williams' writing career started at about the age of 10, when he won a book in a national competition organized by a tea company. But, despite the student magazine publishing a piece of his at Oxford, there was no serious creative writing for decades after that. Instead, he wrote books for business covering everything from the gambling industry to new developments in printing technology. It was on a trip to Sarawak, visiting Dyak longhouses, that Tom discovered James Brooke and he spent far too much time in libraries over the next few years until he felt that he had some understanding of the man. He also started collecting South East Asian weapons and now knows an unhealthy amount about how to behead someone with a parang. These interests combined to produce 'The White Rajah'. Tom lives in London. His main interest is avoiding doing any honest work and this leaves him with time to ski, skate and dance the tango, all of which he does quite well. He is also working on another novel, again a historical story but this time set in Argentina during the Napoleonic wars. |
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Light Reaches Earth | by Comicality April 11, 2012 | Free! | 16944 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: I've been writing for a long time now, always looking for a new challenge to create a true experience for each and every reader who happens to stumble across my books by accident. I've always been a huge fan of science fiction and paranormal thrillers, and comic books where I got my start growing up. Nothing teaches you more about complexity of character and story arcs than those old comic graphic novels, in my opinion. And character is a huge focus of mine. So I certainly hope you enjoy these stories and my others over at Amazon.com. You will always get an emotional and heartfelt effort from me, each and every time. Have fun! I'll let the writing speak for itself from here on out. Feel free to write me anytime at Comicality@webtv.net |
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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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Just Smile For Me | by Ruth Pettite March 17, 2011 | Free! | 4408 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Ruth has been writing for over 15 years. Her works have been featured on Lulu Poetry and on Blogspot. As an author, Ruth went through rigorous events that pushed further into the art, including many years of thinking she would never make it. Her first short story collection, "Random Thoughts," has been collaborated over the past year. Selling on www.wordclay.com, Ruth has put together several humorous and sad stories Starting off with a few short words and a dare, Ruth developed the knack for putting together short stories with memorable characters, real life situations, and work that will make you smile when you are done. Ruth lives in Nevada, where she has obtained her degree in Business Management. With her domestic partner and five boys, Ruth makes sure to find the time to keep the pen rolling and the pages turning. |
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The One | by Rosalyn Wraight Jan. 22, 2012 | Free! | 1540 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Rosalyn Wraight is the author of the Lesbian Adventure Club series and a lesbian mystery series featuring Detective Laura McCallister. |
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The Persian | by Gordon Watt Jan. 11, 2011 | Free! | 85235 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Gordon Watt is a writer and film-editor working between London and Congleton, his home in Cheshire. He spent ten years working for the BBC in London working between News and Features editing daily news stories and later, long-form documentaries for the News Channel, BBC 1, 3 and 4, BBC World and BBC Persian TV. He has made several short films and in 2005, produced a feature-film. Gordon spends most of his time in Cheshire staring out at his vegetable garden and trying not to notice the pride of cats stalking his partner Kit across the lawn. He also regrets registering his web domain name before realising how pretentious the ‘A’ in his name on the front of this book looks. |
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And to All a Good Night (Life Lessons 1 1/2) | by Kaje Harper June 25, 2011 | Free! | 11725 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: I've been writing as long as I can remember (which is longer than I like to admit). I started creating M/M romances in high-school, filling binders with stories about what Starsky and Hutch really did on their days off. (Pretty PG-rated stuff - we're talking sheltered fourteen-year-old here. I was into the romantic possibilities.) Any potential writing career got side-tracked by forays into art, psychology, teaching, and a biomedical profession. And the challenges of raising children. When I took up the keyboard again it was just for fun, writing books for my own entertainment. At about manuscript seven, my epically patient spouse told me that if I was going to spend that much time at it, I should try to get published. And he kept saying it, loudly, until I submitted one. And it was accepted! (Really exciting!) That's Life Lessons that was published May 2011 MLR Press. A short story, And to All a Good Night, that follows it is available here for free. The sequel, Breaking Cover, came out from MLR in late July. And I'm currently in the editing process for other work, including a werewolf novel, Unacceptable Risk. My Smashwords book, Lies and Consequences, started as a kind of reaction after the November 2010 elections when the DADT repeal looked like it might be derailed. Then I was caught by surprise as I finished the book in December and the repeal passed. I tweaked it by upping the action, and deemphasizing the DADT subplot. The result was something lightweight, but hopefully fun. So I put it out as a free read. I hope you enjoy it. As a new author, I really appreciate reviews - what you liked and what you didn't. Remember those other six manuscripts? (Okay, nine now.) Maybe your comment will help turn the next good book into a better book. KH |
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Luscious Love | by Zach Sweets Aug. 12, 2011 | Free! | 6559 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Zach, an army brat, was born in El Paso, TX, and has lived in North Carolina, Germany, Kansas, California, and the District of Columbia, before graduating from University of Baltimore in May 2010, with a degree in Applied Information Technology. He now resides in Arizona, where he moved to start a new adventure with his partner and dog. In his spare time, Zach enjoys reading, mainly horror. He enjoys doing outdoor activities, and he runs on a daily basis. He participates in charitable running events, from 5k up to marathon distances. Zach writes as often as he can and likes to push himself with writing challenges. Joining the M/M Romance group on Goodreads.com has immensely boosted his motivation to become a successful Deaf author, writing about man to man love, with some horror thrown in for good measure. When he is not writing or reading, Zach likes to practice his web design and development skills. He loves to hang out with love of his life as often as he can, finding things to do inside and outside the house, whether it be yard work, hiking, bike riding, walking their dog, eating out at a cozy diner, or just loving. |
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Time to Think | by Rigby Taylor Nov. 08, 2011 | Free! | 30433 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Rigby lives on several acres of rainforest in sub-tropical Queensland, Australia with his partner. |
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Steeplechase | by Rosalyn Wraight Jan. 22, 2012 | Free! | 2023 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Rosalyn Wraight is the author of the Lesbian Adventure Club series and a lesbian mystery series featuring Detective Laura McCallister. |
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Language Lessons (gay romance) | by Jay Bell April 18, 2011 | Free! | 13628 words | Read a sample |
| Author bio: Jay Bell never gave much thought to Germany until he met a handsome foreign exchange student. At that moment, beer and pretzels became the most important thing in the world. After moving to Germany and getting married, Jay found himself eager to communicate the feelings of alienation, adventure, and love that surrounded this decision, and has been putting pen to paper ever since. You can learn more about the author at www.jaybellbooks.com |
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THE EXQUISITE MOUTH | by Mirvan Ereon March 27, 2012 | Free! | 4007 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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