Before I get into that, my books are now available on Kobo devices!
So, the other day I was searching for a good gay novel, thinking I’d like to see what’s out there. Surely I’m not the only person writing fiction which features incidentally gay characters in the middle of a plot that isn’t about that.
Nope.
Here’s what I found (which I hesitate to even post here because it ventures so close to p*rn):
This makes me feel I have a duty to put something better out there. If that sounds snobby, so be it. I don’t care, because all that stuff above is not fiction, is not literature, it’s verbal pornography for wanking over. Sex-fantasy stories, the same coming-out story told over and over by people who are too old to be lingering over those images and should have something more to say by now, ‘forbidden love’ wish-fulfillment”¦
I’m not saying it should be censored, but if that’s the best we can imagine for ourselves, that breaks my heart.
Surely there’s better work out there, but you can’t find it for the vast sea of naked torsos.