Review - Unnatural Selection Collection
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“Unnatural Selection Collection” is an omnibus edition collecting three novellas featuring DC Nick Guthrie, his fellow detectives and his friends, especially Dr Anton Marber. I should warn you that there’s an inevitable bit of ‘spoilers’ in recounting all three books in one go like this. I’ve been careful not to reveal the mysteries of each book, but it’s impossible, I think, to discuss what happens in each book without telling you what the state of the relationship between the two main characters is.
Tags: Speculative Fiction Mystery
Review - The Fights Of Summer
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Note: I received an advanced copy for review. The released story may have had minor changes. James is a young man studying in university, and in an unusual relationship with two other men, Carl and Dane. The other two men are also students, as well as mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters. James himself is something of a pacifist. He dreads fight nights, when he has to watch one or both of his lovers get beaten in a cage.
Tags: Contemporary Menage
Is Bali Ruined? Reflections On My Own Travels
I've decided to post a little more here on the general topic of travel. While I've written a few articles about some of the places that feature in my books, I haven't talked about travel in general, which is, after all, what I write about for a living (a very, very modest living, I might add). I've been thinking about this for a while, but this particular article was prompted by an article on Huffington Post asking, “Is Bali a Lost Cause?
Tags: Advice Bali Gay Travel Opinion
Review - Scorpion
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As “Scorpion” opens, Kendras is limping into the seedy underbelly of the city where he grew up. He was wounded in battle, his foot almost crushed, and then dumped back in the city that hired him without money or means to live. Kendras is a Scorpion, an elite force of mercenaries. He might be the only one left. While sitting in a tavern trying to avoid attracting attention, Kendras is spotted by Steel, a mysterious man who needs Kendras for his own plans, but who is also strongly attracted to the Scorpion.
Tags: Fantasy
Places That Inspire - The Elephant Terrace
I recently realized that I've used a certain setting in three of my books, and yet I've never written a post about it. The place is the Terrace of Elephants in Angkor Thom, the huge royal city complex near Angkor Wat in Cambodia. It appears, however briefly and in different time periods, in Journey to Angkor, The Naga’s Treasure and my latest work in progress, “Letting Go.” Terrace of the Elephants The terrace is a standard stop on tours of the main Angkor archaeological complex, and it is an impressive sight in its own right: A thick stone wall about three meters high and more than 100 meters long, with almost every inch of its face carved with scenes of triumphal marches of soldiers and elephants.
Tags: Angkor Wat Cambodia Journey to Angkor Letting Go Naga's Treasure
Review - The Keeper
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Hadi is a young man with a full life in the middle of Milan’s fashion world. He’s not one of the star designers, but he’s one of the people those stars trust to turn their concepts into fabulous reality. But then one day he receives an urgent call from his family back in France. Hadi must drop everything and take on the role of ‘keeper’. For generations, Hadi’s family has been the guardians of a secret.
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy
Review - I Once Had a Master
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“I Once Had a Master” is a collection of nine short stories by one of the masters (if you’ll pardon the expression) of gay BDSM erotica. Preston passed away in 1994 and the book, originally published in 1985, is only available in print, so it’s taken me a while to get my hands on it. The collection isn’t exactly what I was expecting. While the stories are almost all hard-core in one way or another, there’s a lot more to them than just the kinky sex, which often plays a minor role.
Review - Strange Fortune
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Major Valentine Strange is a soldier of fortune with a rather sizable gambling debt, which is why he accepts a dubious commission from the church to retrieve powerful artifact from a monastery high up in the mountains far from the city of Hidush. To ensure his success, the Holy Order assigns Aleister Grimshaw, a powerful witch, to accompany Strange on his mission. Master Grimshaw has his own questionable past to live down.
Tags: Fantasy
Journeys Omnibus Edition Released
I’m pleased to announce the availability of a new ‘omnibus’ edition of the Journeys series. The new book combines all three of the Journeys books - Journey to Angkor, Journey to Rai-Lay and Journey’s End - into a single ebook file. If you haven’t yet read the series, this is a great way to pick up all three books at a reduced price. You can purchase it from Amazon or directly from me in ePub or Kindle formats for US$6.
Review - The Mark of an Alpha
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Bennett enjoys pleasing his master, Marsdon, although he doesn’t know that’s his name. He doesn’t even know what the man looks like. They’ve been playing together, exclusively, in the BDSM club for months, and the one thing Bennett won’t do is reveal his full face. He has always been blindfolded or hooded before meeting Marsdon. He also wears cologne to mask his wolf scent. “The Mark of an Alpha” opens on their last night together in the club.
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