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Big meeting with my editor today. May 4, 2027 this book will hit the shelves, 27.5 years after the project began. It's starting to feel real. This is still the internal title page standing in for a cover until we get one. Harper is still working on that. They hope to show me a design in a month. I'm not sure when I can share it, but it will be hard to resist. Really eager to see it next. Right now, we're working on a wish list of blurbers to send out requests. Give me a shout

With 3 months’ distance, JOHN of JOHN by Douglas Stuart is still my favorite book of the year, and of the decade. Extraordinary work. I devoured it in a week, a land speed record for me—especially in the throes of a tight editing deadline. This gave me the juice, and the joy, inhabiting the Outer Hebrides. I was thoroughly transported there. With Cal. If this book went on for a thousand pages, I would want to spend them with Cal. A gay art school graduate returning home—the p

I early voted today. Please do the same. We have the power, but only if we use it.

Got my flu shot this weekend, and zero side effects. No brainer: the flu always knocks me on my heals for 3 weeks. This is the best time of the year to get it for max retention through the season, which kicks off with Thanksgiving, so you want it at least 2 weeks before, so you great your family at full protection. I got my covid shot at the doc's a few weeks ago, but wanted to wait just a tad for this. (That has backfired before though, when I wait and get busy . . . ) I usu

Title page inside the book. Two huge milestones for Don't Fall in Love: It's typeset now, so it looks like a real book. It is a real book. I marked up the page proofs and returned--final pass except typos on the next one. SO it's really done. Woohoo. Spring 2027 release. Meeting with my editor this coming week to hopefully nail down the date. Likely late May or early June. That's the title page above, not the cover, which is still being designed. Chapters: And here's the craz

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...