Let me be very clear about this: I did not write the novel Me2. Yes, the book certainly sounds like a book I would write: a unusually constructed tale about queer identity, human existence, and the horror of having your life copied and stolen from you. Certainly it's with a publisher I have worked with many times before, having edited many anthologies, written one novel - Running Dry - and three previous collections of short stores - Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, and Filthy. Absolutely the style of the book - surreal yet lightly conversational and easily comprehensible - is very similar to styles I've used in past, for instance in my recently released gay vampire novel The Very Bloody Marys (from Haworth Books).

Fiction: The Chronicles of Swishy Pete

Episode: A Dream Affirmed

Langston Hughes, I can see the words fall from your mouth as they jumped off the page and smacked me right in the face. Honey, I know you must have understood the yearnings I felt all those years, not as an out writer but as an out man, especially when I read the line: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun…” in your poem. I have often wondered where I belonged as a gay man with a lifelong dream. As I lie in my bed reading your poems, I fell asleep and had a dream affirmed.

I decided to find out about the state of GLBT publishing from the publishers. Unfortunately, not all of them responded. Authors and readers can learn about the publishers behind their favorite books and maybe learn about some new ones. They’re listed alphabetically.

I enjoyed reading When You Don’t See Me by Timothy James Beck. When I found out that four authors wrote it, I was fascinated. I wondered how they collaborated to write it because I struggle solo to write articles, short stories and a novel that may never get finished. I figured other authors like me could learn something from these writers. Also, I wanted to introduce more readers to these authors and their great works.