Fantasy Writer, Husband, and Gay Media Aficionado
This article will contain mild spoilers for the show Gotham. I say mild because a lot of it was in comic form for many years ahead of time, spoiler alert guys, Bruce Wayne is Batman, other than that, for the most part, a lot of these spoilers are incidental to the story line. This review …
Continue reading “Gotham – Mourning the end of a plethora of queer tales.”
How time flies! It’s been 2 years since I last blogged‽ Crazy. What have I been doing since then? Surely I’d have finished editing Blood Foundry (my first completed High Fantasy Epic Novel), and be underway on Blood Legacy(the long awaited sequel, look I long await it so it’s not a stretch to call it …
So I’ve been planning Blood Legacy for a week now but I’ve had a major plot hole the entire time. So much so that every time I sat down to further my planning I found myself returning to the gaping hole, unable to focus on anything else. I tried writing around it, that didn’t help, …
So I blog as a method of procrastination. Today I’m procrastinating working on my second book, but the purpose of this blog post is to buckle down and rededicate myself to the idea. Last year I buckled down and did something that I thought was unachievable, I wrote a book! I love those words, and I …
This ones a guilty pleasure of mine, while the Russel Middlebrook series has been over for quite some time, with the author’s reboot of the Russel Middlebrook Series: The Futon Years, I feel it’s time to write about this. The Russel Middlebrook series is a classic gay coming of age series, filled with classic teen …
Continue reading “Book Series: The Russel Middlebrook Series – Brent Hartinger”
I’m not going to lie, I only started reading the Earth 2 series because they made the Green Lantern gay. When we’re first introduced to Alan Scott (rich, cute, philanthropic, heartthrob) he’s really gay, we get a kiss scene and everything (not as sexual as midnighter but definitely more romantic). Alas as far as an …
The final book in the Discworld series. It was with great trepidation I read this, Terry Pratchett’s final book released after his death. It’s with even greater hesitation that I write about it because who am I to judge a man’s dying work, let alone that of Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, but this was a …
Continue reading “Book: The Shepherd’s Crown – Terry Pratchett”
I’ve wanted to love Constantine for a long time, it has all the right ingredients to be amazing; A coarse, attractive, unabashedly bisexual lead, a supernatural chthonic underworld, magic, mystery and grungy rock and roll. Despite this I’ve only ever felt ambivalent about the series, and I’m sure whether it’s because I feel like I’ve …
Continue reading “Comic: Constantine: The Hellblazer – Ming Doyle”
This series was not at the top of my list, I only just found out about it this year, I love Laurell K Hamilton’s books which led me to Richard Kadrey’s works which eventually led me to here. The first book was slow and very average, but it does it’s job of setting the scene …
Continue reading “Book Series: The Dresden Files – Jim Butcher”
Midnighter is the kind of comic I wished existed when I was a kid. Then growing up I’ve still always had this thought, why aren’t there more gay superheroes. When I found out there was a gay couple in a DC Comic called Storm Watch I went and read as much of it as possible, …
This is Mindy Kaling’s second book. I loved her first book, but then I loved her as Kelly Kapoor in The Office and I love her show the Mindy Project. She’s a successful comedy writer as well as actress so it’s no surprise that this book is hilarious, what is surprising is that this book …
My first encounter with Chip Zdarsky’s work was only fairly recently when he released Sex Criminals. While it was very heterocentric I still found myself laughing along at this weird comic. Before Kaptara came out he was plugging it as a Gayer version of Saga, and as a long standing lover of Saga my interest …
I’ve never been one much for Non-Fiction, but as I age I find myself seeking better role models and I find this style of book a fantastic source of inspiration and encouragement. They had me sold when I read it was about a gay guy in his late twenties telling his tales of trials and …
Continue reading “Book: I’m Special; And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves – Ryan O’Connell”
I’ve always been interested in religion, I see them as a form of storytelling, so I love when the books and comics I read include and work with these old stories and breathe life into them anew. That’s what The Wicked + The Divine does, it takes a concept like reincarnation and godhood and it …
Continue reading “Comic: The Wicked + The Divine – Kieron Gillen”
When I was growing up as the Harry Potter books were being released Harry was always a year older or younger than me. Harry, Ron and Hermione (who I pronounced Hermoyne for the longest time) were as much a part of my group of friends as my real friends were. Now as a twenty something …
So I’ve just finished The Private Eye. I sat downloaded and read the entire thing in one sitting, it was so thoroughly engrossing. The premise is that in the future nobody trusts the internet or technology so nobody uses it for the most but after having gone through the internet age people had learned and grown …
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