Erryn reviews ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo’ by Marlon Bundo and Jill Twiss, illustrated by E.G. Keller. The audiobook and ebook were published March 18, 2018. The audio is 7 fantastic minutes and the picture book is 40 beautifully illustrated pages. The publisher is Partially…
Erryn reviews ‘My Name is Ayla’ by Phetra H. Novak. The ebook was published May 1, 2017, 142 pages. A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. Why I read this book: Honestly, I was asked. I am so glad I was. Everyone should be safe in a liberal country like Sweden. But, Peter…
Dana reviews BOYSTOWN Season 8 by Jake Biondi (Published February 14, 2018, 339 pages) A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. To read the review for BOYSTOWN Season 1 click here. To read the review for BOYSTOWN Season 2 click here. To read the review for BOYSTOWN Season 3 click here. To…
‘Never Too Late’ Anthology. Published December 7, 2017 by Beaten Track Publishing, 131,000 words. Author’s: Caraway Carter, Ofelia Grand, Hans M Hirschi, Laura Susan Johnson, A.M. Leibowitz, Debbie McGowan, Phetra H Novak, J.P. Walker and Alexis Woods. Nine stories about friendship, family and love, featuring LGBTQIA characters aged 50+. A complimentary copy of this…
Melissa reviews books 1 (Queer Magick) and book 2 (Fairy Tales) of LC Davis’s Queer Magick series. Published June 2017. Book 1 An LGBT+ fantasy of apocalyptic proportions. Twenty-something Holden Adams never asked to be the harbinger of the apocalypse, or for the seven lovers who come with the job. All he wanted in Stillwater, Vermont…
J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi book out: Some stories are epic. The Earth is in a state of collapse, with wars breaking out over resources and an environment pushed to the edge by human greed. Three living generation ships have been built with a combination of genetic mastery, artificial intelligence, technology,…
Dana reviews Hopeless Romantic by Francis Gideon (Published by Riptide Publishing, April 10, 2017, 293 pages) A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. Giveaway at bottom of post. Please check it out to win a cool prize from Rainbows4All Why I read this: I want to start out by saying how great these…
I started working on The Impossible Boy late in 2013, when conversations around LGBT rights were definitely different to how they are today. Four years doesn’t sound like much, but the world has changed so much and conversations around trans rights in particular have definitely evolved. I had a good idea of what I wanted…
Wendy reviews ‘Trans – Trap (Volume 1)’ by Ms. Fifi Frost. Self published August 6, 2017, 210 pages. What happens when small town bigotry meets big city progressiveness? Trans-Trap! Trans-Trap is the latest work by Ms. Fifi Frost. Fifi won the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award for her riveting memoir, Rusted Rhinestones. Trans-Trap is…
IDENTIFYING AS GENDERQUEER INSTEAD OF TRANSGENDER Hi! I’m Allan, and I’m genderqueer. I also qualify as transgender, but I don’t use that term. I don’t identify as transgender. My handy MacOS Dictionary defines “transgender” as: denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity does not correspond with the gender assigned to them…
Today Julie Aitchenson stops by RGR Trans Aware Event to talk about her upcoming book ‘Being Roy’ and why it is important to expose children and young adults to diverse expressions of sexuality. Let’s all give Julie a warm hello and thank her for stopping by today, As the October release of my first young…
Transition on Trains: On Being a Nonbinary Author by Jenn Polish And here I am again. On the Long Island Railroad, riding backwards with a notebook in my hand. Then, I was in tight dresses and tighter smiles. Now, my head is breezy because my hair is buzzed into a fade, the grabbable bit left…
Dana reviews A Fine Bromance by Christoper Hawthorne Moss (Published by Harmony Ink Press, August 11, 2016, 180 pages) A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. Why I read this: The obvious reason I picked this book is that it had a trans character in it and we are having a Trans…
Today we welcome Gillian St. Kevern. Gillian is here today answering a few questions I had for her. She is also giving RGR readers a free copy of her book ‘The Wing Commander’s Curse’. Thank you Gillian for taking time to visit with us today. What got you started writing MM romance? I started out…
Books of Inclusion By Joe Cosentino Like many people, I am horrified by the Trump Administrations’ assault on LGBT Americans, including on our transsexual friends. So, I appreciate Rainbow Gold Reviews’ event highlighting tran authors and characters. While not tran myself, four of my novels include major tran characters who are Caucasian, African American, Latina,…
WHY I WROTE A ROMANCE FEATURING A TRANSMAN Bethany asked me to write a guest post for this event and, since I don’t do that very often, I asked her for some advice on what to write about. She suggested I explain why I wrote this book…and I cringed. See, I wrote this book in…
Wendy reviews Grounded by Aidan Wayne. Published by NineStar Press August 21, 2017, 120 pages. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. We would like to say Happy Release Day to Aidan Wayne and congratulations! Please be sure to check out the giveaway at the bottom of this post…
Today let’s all welcome Jay Northcote to the RGR Trans Aware Event. Jay was gracious enough to answer a few questions for this event. Jay was also kind enough to provide me a RC of ‘Starting From Scratch’ for a review. So check out Jay’s wonderful interview and my review of ‘Starting From Scratch’, oh…
Eloreen reviews A Winter in Rome by Francis Gideon (Published November 11, 2015 by Less Than Three Press. Length: 142 pages) A copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. Blurb: Craig is a man adrift, never quite feeling like he belongs or like he’s as successful and settled as those around him—especially his…
Let’s all welcome Jeff today on RGR Trans Aware Week. Jeff is the co-host of Jeff & Will’s Big Gay Fiction Podcast and author of the ‘Hat Trick’ series. He is here today giving us some background on the series and what his inspiration was. He is also generously offering a box set of ‘Hat Trick’ which…
