We have an update! Thanks again to everyone who submitted additional recommendations for the Readers’ Favourite Gay Books. Wren did a superb job incorporating your new recommendations with the previous list and I would like to thank her on behalf of all the M/M readers.  The list is now 300 books, at least two thirds of which you selected and I know that readers of M/M romances and other gay books will appreciate your contributions. As I said in the earlier post, this is not a Top Anything list, it’s a list of favourite M/M books from you, supplemented by many of mine.

You will be pleased to know that all of your new suggestions have been added. We have maintained the same categorization system to make it easy for you to find the books and I hope that this list will continue to be an excellent reference source for you, the readers. All of the different gay sub genres are here including memoirs and other books of social significance such as Armistead Maupin’s wonderful commentary about life in San Francisco in the 1970s – Tales of the City -  a memorable period of gay and also US history. 

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Yesterday’s Amber Allure “free” book was Freaks in Love by T.A. Chase. And the winner, according to Randy who thinks he’s human because John plays with him, is ….

Salina

Congratulations Salina. Please email jessewave@gmail.com and include the format of your choice so that I can send your information to Amber Allure. Thanks for playing everyone. Today there are 2 free books on the site.

Today I’m talking to Janey Chapel who is a relatively new M/M author. Janey has written the very successful romances –  Maritime Men, a love story between two Navy SEALs, followed by TLC 101, both of which are reviewed on the site. The sequel to Maritime Men, Anchors Aweigh, was released today by Dreamspinner Press, and Janey talks to us about why she wanted to write a sequel. She also gives us a few insights about herself.

Hi Janey and welcome. Why don’t you start by telling us a little bit about Janey, both personally and as an author?

Hi Wave! Thanks for having me today — I feel like I got invited to the cool kids’ table at lunch. About me… let’s see… I grew up in a wordy family that valued verbal precision and pith — my dad taught journalism and my mom was an editor — which may explain why I still write short compared to many other authors. I’m a Southerner; I lived in North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and southern Ohio (or, as we called it, “Northern Kentucky”) before my husband’s job brought us to a place that describes its winter weather events with suffixes like “–pocalypse” and “–mageddon”. Writing about hot men keeps me warm!

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Christian Otto our Webmaster has donated a print copy of Donald Hardy’s Lover’s Knot as a free book on the site. Here’s the blurb -

Jonathan Williams has inherited Trevaglan Farm from a distant relative. With his best friend, Alayne, in tow, Jonathan returns to the estate to take possession, meet the current staff, and generally learn what it’s like to live as the landed gentry now.

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 Title and Link: Anchors Aweigh
Author: Janey Chapel
Publisher URL: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: Novella
Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

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Today’s Dreamspinner Press free book is Anchors Aweigh by Janey Chapel. Here’s the blurb -

Sequel to Maritime Men

After completing Navy SEAL training, Cooper Fitch and Eli Jones face assignment to different platoons. Since the strength of their mutual physical attraction is exceeded only by their emotional reliance on each other, the idea of being separated for a year or more is a bitter pill to swallow.

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Class: John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett

This week I’m going back to my “Ask the Audience” post – and answer something that Tam asked:

Erastes: Do you think British men in romance novels in general (or m/m specifically) are accurately portrayed or do all of us in NA just fall for the accent and we either romanticise them (they are all James Bonds) or do we not give them enough credit (they are all Mr. Bean)? What about movies with British guys? You would know British men (not all of them obviously ) better than I. (Although I’ve known a few in my life – but never in the Biblical sense, more’s the pity.)

Thanks, Tam!

Well, as usual, I’m going to address this from an historical perspective because I read very very few m/m contemporaries, and I think the only contemp m/m one I read was by a British writer (A Dangerous Man by Anne Brooke) .

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Title: Bound to Please
Author: Kimberly Gardner
Publisher: MLR Press
Genre: M/M/M contemporary BDSM romance
Length: 332 pages
Rating: 4.75 stars out of 5

A guest review by Jenre

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The Amber Allure free book yesterday was Rick Reed’s The Blue Moon Cafe. And Randy has decided that the winner is …………

Danae

Congratulations Danae. Please email jessewave@gmail.com and indicate the format of your choice. Thanks for playing everyone.

Title: The Telling
Author: Eden Winters
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: Novel
Rating: 5 stars out of 5

A Guest review by John

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The Amber Allure free book today is Freaks in Love by T.A. Chase. Here’s the blurb -

Title: Balance
Author: Zahra Owens
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary M/M, very light BDSM
Length: Novella (15,529 words)
Rating: 2 stars out of 5

A guest review by Leslie

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Yesterday Fae Sutherland generously donated a copy of her book Bee Among the Clover in both print and ebook format to two lucky readers on the site, by random draw. And the winners are -

Jason – print book
Rikki – ebook

Congratulations Jason and Rikki. Please email jessewave@gmail.com so that I can forward your information to Fae. Jason I will need your snail mail address and Rikki please indicate the format of your choice. Thanks for playing everyone.

Title and Link: Falling
Author: D.W. Marchwell
Publisher URL: Dreamspinner
Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance
Length: 230 pages
Rating: 3.25 out of 5

A guest review by Kassa

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Today’s Amber Allure free book is The Blue Moon Cafe by Rick R. Reed. Here’s the blurb -

When I asked Steve Berman to write a  fun post I had no idea what he was going to talk about because he wouldn’t tell me. It was a sekkrit. Now the sekkrit is out. He’s talking about why he hates some aspects of spec fiction. Here’s what he has to say -

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So, I happen to write spec fic. That’s the massive category that covers everything from high fantasy (handsome knights squaring off against dragons) to horror (chainsaw-wielding maniacs threatening high school jocks) to steampunk (daring zeppelin aces). I also adore spec fic a great deal, which is why I edit the Wilde Stories series, which reprints under one cover the best gay male spec fic published the prior year.
 
And I’m here to talk about monsters. Specifically, the ones I’m sick to death of and the ones I’m aching to see.
 
 
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