The Best Queer Audiobooks to Walk Your Dog By…

I'm over today at Shepherd.com talking queer audiobooks, and five of my favourites in particular to listen to that made walking Max in all types of weather an experience to enjoy, rather than suffer through. And we're talking Canadian winter here, so let's be clear: it takes one hell of an audiobook... You can click …

Audiobooks, 2020

Last year, the vast majority of my reading was short fiction, which was by design, as I’m really, really good at buying collections and anthologies and then a new anthology or collection comes out and repeat and suddenly I’ve read one story from eleven different books. This led to my Short Stories 366 Project last …

Short Stories 366:348 — “Wrapped,” by Rebekah Weatherspoon

If you've not read the Fit trilogy from Rebekah Weatherspoon, seeing that there's a holiday novella snuck into the series as a "point-five" might seem like a barrier, but allow me to dismiss your concerns twicely: first, because this totally stands alone; second, you should just go binge the whole series anyway. Trust. Okay, let's …

If You Liked (Faux Ho Ho)…

Continuing from yesterday, where I talked about some books I think you'd like if you enjoyed "Rear Admiral," I'm going to put my bookseller hat back on and make some recommendations the way I used to, and hopefully connect you with some new (or new-to-you) books to check out. The idea behind these posts is …

#ShortStoryMonth Day Twenty-Two — Side Character Short Fiction Requests

Gimme This is a bit different today, in that I don't have short fiction to recommend, but rather short fiction I'd love to read that (as far as I know) doesn't exist. Side characters or secondary characters or just supportive folk that appear in a story that I wish I could read more about always …

Queermas (part two)!

I'm going to go out to do some shopping today. Mostly, all I've got left to worry about is stockings, but they sure don't stuff themselves, do they? Yesterday I listed some awesome gay books I bumped into this year, and today I'm gonna focus on some of the lady folk I've loved this year. …