Interview: Patricia Nell Warren, author of The Front Runner, The Wild Man and The Lavender Locker Room.

Interviewer: Alan Chin, author of the novels, Island Song & The Lonely War

Late last year, while doing a book signing at the Palm Springs Pride celebration, a woman ambled up to me and asked how my signing was going. She was utterly charming, and during our conversation about signings, glbt-themed fiction, and the pride celebration, I realized I was talking to Patricia Nell Warren, author of The Front Runner and several other fantastic gay-themed books.

Keeping You series: To Find and to Keep
and To Keep and to Love

Short description:

To Find and to Keep: Daniel and Ryan thought their love was lost when Ryan's homophobic parents threatened him into leaving without a trace. Having found Ryan again four years later, Daniel is determined to keep him around this time.

To Keep and to Love: All Daniel and Ryan want is to live in peace and get married. But Ryan's parents plan to break them up at any cost. It almost works - Ryan is ready to give in to protect his lover - but Daniel isn't willing to let him go. They will have to stand together to protect their right to keep each other and their love.

Title: The Lonely War

Author: Alan Chin
Publisher: Zumaya Publications
Genre: historical M/M, World War II
Length: 328 pages (print; also ebook)


Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Review by HC for Amazon

I receive this question almost daily on my website MagneticFire: “I am a younger man but I have always preferred men 15-20 years older than I am. Even as I get older, the men I am attracted to, also get older. My gay friends don’t understand. Why am I attracted to older men?”

We know for sure, how difficult it can be for many people to come out as gay to both their friends, family, school, at work or in the association in which you are active.  We want with this page of articles to help illuminate the problems and how difficult it can be.

Submitted by Alan Chin
Reviewed by Victor Banis
Published by Dell Publishing

Like a number of British mystery writers, it seems to me, Reginald Hill is something of an acquired taste for Americans, notwithstanding that some of his Dalziel/Pascoe stories have been successfully transformed into television movies, I like them, the books I mean, not the least for the way in which he brings his repeat gay character, Sergeant Wield, into the plots without making much of an ado about his sexuality. He's out to his fellow officers, but in a very much ho-hum way.