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COUNTERPOINT: under consideration by a publisher. COUNTERPOINT, my second Victorian gay love story, is finally—after many years—completed! (Those are drums and trumpets you hear!) I have been immensely pleased to have received two glowing reviews from readers and wish I could share what they said. However, since COUNTERPOINT is now being considered by a publisher, it would be a bit premature to do so, not to mention it might be like walking under a ladder with a black cat running back and forth in front of me. This is as much as I can say now: In COUNTERPOINT the lives of three men are changed by the whims of fate and the cruelty of racial prejudice against the Gypsies. A strong love is torn away and one of them must learn to love again. It's about music, many kinds of passion, determination and love. QUINN QUINN is the third of my historical gay love stories. The violence of the labor union movement in the late 1800's is the background for the tale of a man whose life is careening on a tragic course because of a desperate lie told him by his mother. He didn't reckon on falling in love with another man—a man, moreover, who is everything he despises. RAIN DANCER RAIN DANCER is a different kind of love story. In RAIN DANCER a gay man is murdered and his partner risks his life to find the killer. Before he does, he uncovers a web of organized hate and looks into the face of terror. A BIT OF EARTH A BIT OF EARTH is the story of a man and woman who struggle against their families, against poverty, against tragedy, against misunderstanding and addiction. The setting is the Midwest early in the 20th Century. She is the daughter of a Fundamentalist preacher who believes the white race was created by God to be superior to all others, and he is an uneducated half-Cherokee from the Missouri back country. Throughout years of heartache and disappointments, all she wants is a bit of earth she can call her own. WHOM GODS DESTROY A brilliant cross-dressing female impersonator, the toast of the London underground entertainment world in the 1890's, is an equally brilliant, psychotic serial killer who makes Jack the Ripper seem like a country vicar. It's a story of insanity, cruelty, and a murderer who has never known what it was to be truly loved by anyone. Afraid to die, he comes to believe that the secret to living forever is the blood sacrifice of an innocent. He very nearly succeeds. HAMILTON’S WIFE The story of the marriage of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler—he the brilliant, mercurial first Secretary of the State, charismatic, both the object and pursuer of women not his wife and she the gentle, loyal wife who was his cornerstone and the anchor of his life and, I truly believe, the only real love of his life. |