Saturday Sentiments: It's Just Coffee!

It’s just coffee. You won’t have to surrender any of your independence ~ Molesely, Downton Abby

As I’m preparing for this week’s Saturday Sentiments post, I’m reminded of two things.

First, I am working on my first short story for a charity anthology for the Orlando victims. I’ve never done a short story or contemporary so it’s a bit of a stretch for me. In the story, the main character has not dated for a very long time and it’s a similar situaiton…dinner does not constitute bliss and commitment.

It reminds me of my own “dating” life lately. Scared to death of going on anything that resembles a date, I’ve probably missed many opportunities to meet some great people. It’s kind of like some of my favorite characters in the novels I read and write. They miss some great moments to get to know what could be the love of their life.

Too bad real life didn’t turn out like romance novels. :-)

What are you reading this weekend?

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

My first novel, A Place to Call Their Own is available from Amazon US!

Can two men find love amidst the pervasive culture of  propriety, honor, and expectation of the 1960s?

My latest novel, Need Your Love is available from Amazon US! 

Saturday Sentiments: Love in All Its Differenet Forms

Here’s to Love in all its different forms ~ Jill Badonsky

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I am not a political anything. I have been out since I was 19 and even back in the 1990s, that was a political statement. I was one of the first gay men married here in Jackson County, Missouri when the county started issuing marriage licenses to the same-gendered couples.

I started writing because I wanted to tell a story. I continue writing because if one person who doesn’t understand what it’s like to be LGBTQIA+ reads my stories and can understand we have the same wants, needs, and fears, as them, then I feel like I’ve made my contribution to the world.

In the past, whenever someone posted something I didn’t agree with on a post of mine on Facebook, I either ignored or even deleted the rude comments. But this week I couldn’t ignore a comment on one of my posts. A connection of one my friends posted a comment on not liking gay marriage and it hit me wrong this week.

So here’s what I’d like to say to the ones on the opposite end of my spectrum: READ. MY. BOOKS. If, after you’ve read one of my novels, you still feel the same, so be it, I tried. If you don’t want to read about gay pioneers or a closeted gay lawyer and banker in the 1960s, then look on my Facebook page and choose one of the other thousands of other authors I’m friends with and choose one of their books. It’s even Father’s day weekend and you can find hundreds of titles that bring up the subject of gay families.

My heart goes out the families of the victims in Orlando. But my Christian sensibility also prays for the soul of the perpetrator of the attack and for those who don’t sympathize with the victims and their families. For me, that is love in its purest form.

Whether it’s romance or not, what are you reading this weekend? I’m still working on A Tested Love by Kayla Jameth.

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

My first novel, A Place to Call Their Own is available from JMS Books !

Can two men find love amidst the pervasive culture of  propriety, honor, and expectation of the 1960s?

My latest novel, Need Your Love is available from JMS Books!

Saturday Sentiments

If I’d shouted blue murder every time someone tried to kiss me at Eaton, I’d have gone hoarse in the mouth ~ Robert, Downton Abbey

I’ve spent the last month regrouping and reorganizing my life. I launched the new blog and retooled this one last weekend. I’ve created new routines at home, since I have to take care of all the chores myself now. Above all, I am back to writing again.

I am working on a merman romance, Sartin, here’s a working blurb:

In a world foretold by prophesies and folk tales, what’s more important, happiness or destiny?

Sartin’s amber eyes told his mother, and the rest of the pod, that he was destined to become a great Alewar from the day he was born. Mocked by the majority of the pod for his progressive practice of Decoy, Sartin’s life doesn’t feel like the life of any of the great Alewars his mother told him about. Hoping to find an Alewar mate at his twenty-third Winter Meeting, an injury and storm take Sartin far away from Winter Cove. Nursed back to health by a Land Person, Sartin finds love and acceptance. Torn between his love of Maru and his love of the sea, Sartin must choose between happiness and destiny in this tale of Sartin of the Sea.


Now that it feels like summer, what are you reading?

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Is it possible for two Civil War veterans to find their place in the world on the Kansas Prairie?

My first novel, A Place to Call Their Own is available from Barnes and Noble!

Can two men find love amidst the pervasive culture of  propriety, honor, and expectation of the 1960s?

My latest novel, Need Your Love is available from Barnes and Noble!