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: Glbt
April 26, 2012 | Thursday | 26 Comments
I was intrigued by the description of this book: When soccer star Chris Fischer moves next door to an openly gay classmate, he doesn't realize the wall between their rooms will be so thin he'll hear his neighbor's every move. But soon he and Peter become friends, and Chris is intrigued—imagining what happens on the other side of the wall. Active on the Queer Student Council, Peter Cohen wishes he wasn't so damn hot for his straight neighbor. He can't tell if Chris is flirting or in denial or what, but Chris's innocent overtures lure Peter into flirtation that throws…
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April 21, 2012 | Saturday | 27 Comments
Data and deals, we have! First: Rainbow Romance Writers are doing a survey of romance readers and asked me to pass along the link to you. I enquired what the survey data was going to used for, and they told me, "we're mostly just gathering intel. It's sort of piggybacking off of the survey that RWA did recently but with a few more specific questions, with some focus on LGBT romance, although we're looking for a pretty broad range of responses. Some of what we do with what we find will depend on what the data reveals, but we may…
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March 21, 2012 | Wednesday | 27 Comments
I first encountered this book when I noticed a conversation on Twitter about the main character, Mark. I don't even remember who was talking about it - it might have been CheekyReads or Smexybooks or both - but something in the conversation caught my attention, and when I read the description, I felt like I'd been waiting for this book and didn't know I had been. This is a character I couldn't wait to read about. A hero who looks like an alpha, but is terribly, wrenchingly shy? A quiet and honorable guy who looks like a giant, muscly alpha…
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March 15, 2011 | Tuesday | 53 Comments
I had a request for the runners up in the reader nominations for the DABWAHA, so here are the top ten books, with the finalist and the nine runners up as nominated by readers in each category. An asterisk denotes a tie. YA 1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Finalist) 2. Matched by Ally Condie 3. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 4. The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong 5. The Duff by Kody Keplinger 6. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly 7. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa 8. The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa 9. Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George 10*. Last…
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June 22, 2010 | Tuesday | 82 Comments
From awesome librarian Carrie comes this request:
My library is doing a book display of GLBT titles, and I thought it would be fun if they included some romance. Anyone have fantastic GLTB romance to recommend?
Her caveats: she’d need the books to be in print - which is tricky because so much GLBT romance is digital only - and she needs to hopefully order a few titles, so they have to be available. So, what do you recommend?
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May 05, 2009 | Tuesday | 57 Comments
If you missed the great awesome news: RWA has a new chapter, the Rainbow Romance Writers, a GLBT Romance chapter. WOO HOO! How awesome is that? Mazel tov! I first heard the news from RWA President Diane Pershing at the Princeton romance conference, though she asked at the time that the announcement not be made until the final details had been filed - so I didn’t mention it then. There was, however, applause and squeeing at the time. No comment on who exactly was squeeing. So while I was waiting for the official word from RWA, which went out 1…
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