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“Bereft,” my YA novel, won a Bronze Moonbeam Award!
The 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards were announced yesterday. The Moonbeam Awards are about, “Celebrating Youthful Curiosity, Discovery and Learning through Books and Reading”
Bereft placed third in the “Young Adult Fiction-Mature Issues” category–the Bronze Medal.
My publisher, Tiny Satchel Press, also had another win: Drifting by Lisa R. Nelson won the Silver medal.
Writing is such a…
Reminder that I wrote a YA novel about a black gay teen
My novel BEREFT is an quasi autobiographical novel about homophobia, racism and bullying published in 2013 by Tiny Satchel Press. It won 2 awards (a Moonbeam and an Independent Publishers Book Award).
Here’s a review: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/06/24/bereft-by-craig-laurance-gidney/
Celebrity Ghosts, 80s style: At Danceteria & Other Stories by Philip Dean Walker
Celebrity Ghosts, 80s style: At Danceteria & Other Stories by Philip Dean Walker
At Danceteria and Other Stories by Philip Dean Walker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The specter of AIDS haunts this star-studded, themed collection which is set in the early 80s, just at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. The cast includes Keith Haring, Sylvester, the Reagans, Jackie O, and Little Edie Beale. The settings veer from New York Bathhouses to the Castro to Fire Island to the White House. The…
I wrote an appreciation of Philip Ridley’s novel, In the Eyes of Mr Fury over at The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Facebook page. Go over there and check it out!
Siouxsie Sioux, Philip Ridley and Queer Magical Realism. I wrote an appreciation of Philip Ridley’s novel, In the Eyes of Mr Fury over at The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered Facebook page. Go over there and check it out!Author Felice Picano recommends my collection of short fiction, “Skin Deep Magic”!
Author Felice Picano recommends my collection of short fiction, “Skin Deep Magic”!
Over at Elisa Reviews, Felice Picano, a multi-awarding winner author and member of the influential Violet Quill group (a collective of important gay male writers), had this to say about Skin Deep Magic.
“These are wonderful, fanciful, fantastic stories in their nature and yet oh so real in the truths they convey. My favorites are “Mauve’s Quilt”, “Zora’s Destiny” and “Death and Two Maidens,” but…
Storm Constantine (October 12, 1956 - January 14, 2021). Queer Speculative Fiction Trailblazer.
Storm Constantine (October 12, 1956 – January 14, 2021). Queer Speculative Fiction Trailblazer.
I first came across Storm Constantine’s work in the early 90s, at the local gay bookstore. Her Wraeththu novels were post-apocalyptic fantasy that featured androgynous post-humans who all looked like a cross between David Bowie and members of an 80s goth band. The novels featured a fairly explicit sex-based magic(k) system that was groundbreaking to me. As much as I enjoyed the Wraeththu novels,…
REMINDER: I’ll be reading at the Lambda Literary Finalists Showcase this Friday
REMINDER: I’ll be reading at the Lambda Literary Finalists Showcase this Friday
Join finalists of the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards for readings of their nominated works at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art . All readings are free and open to the public.
Confirmed readers: Timothy Liu, Michael Carroll, Ellen Bass, Dia Felix, Jameson Currier, Craig L. Gidney, Michael Broder, David Swatling, Ron Suresha, Rafe Haze, Kelly Cogswell, Susan Kuklin, Sean Strub,…
Tanith Lee Roundtable
The roundtable discussion, entitled Storyteller: The Legacy and Work of Tanith Lee panel discussion is now available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. The Outer Dark hosted the panel, which will be on the OD podcast sometime in the future. I had a blast talking with and listening to fellow panelists editor/author Terri Windling, scholars Lisa Kröger, and Melanie R Anderson. The panel was…