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After a year bouncing ideas between my editor (Noah Eaker), agent (Betsy Lerner), and me, we hurled into a lightning round this week, including polling you followers on IG* we came down to two finalists. I approved both, but had a clear favorite. Noah canvased within Harper Books (HarperCollins's flagship imprint), and he was the winner by a landslide, was my favorite and his: The Secret Lives of Two Gay Soldiers Hiding in Plain Sight I'd been circling in Plain Sight for a y

I get the copy-edits back tomorrow! After 26 years, nearly there. (I began shadowing “Brett and Drake” for the Salon story Feb 4, 2000.)

Heated Rivalry Tuxedo kiss: Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, played by Connor Storrie Hudson Williams . Gay America is having a moment. The Heated Rivalry tidal wave came out of nowhere and hit one second after midnight on Thanksgiving. We've been riveted, obsessed and gutted ever since. Outside of small indie films that never reached a wide audience, we've never existed like this on the screen before. Even Brokeback Mountain* never went for it like this. For a great n

Temporary mockup cover for my gay soldiers book 'Don't Fall in Love." I created this for this site years ago, using rudimentary sw as a placeholder. The HarperCollins art department will have the real one in the next month or two. We have finished the edits to Don't Fall in Love, and it went into production at HarperCollins in December 2025. It will be published this fall, 2026. Publication date coming soon. Harper's art department has begun work on the cover, too.

Hmmmmm. I've rarely been so conflicted in a response. And my 4 stars should be 3.5. And I totally think I need to revisit this in 6...

Slate just set about creating a canon of major nonfiction books, by naming The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years. Staggered...