2008

This is the August 2008 Newsletter

GLB Newsletter for late August, 2008
     We hope you have had a pleasant summer. We have a couple of new e-books for your
reading pleasure. First, at the e-gay magazine web site, a historical novel by Jack Newman called
"Blowing in the Wind," beginning in the mid-1800s in the deep south of the U.S.; the civil
war was starting and a young black slave was falling in love with his young white master
(and vice versa). It could and it did happen, and the story will hold you in its grip until you
finish it. As the author says, "(It) is graphic in its description of male homosexual love. Why?
Because it is my statement telling the world that it's okay—just fine—to love passionately,
even if you are homosexual. And it is possible to have total, unselfish, and committed gay
love." Go to:
http://www.e-gaymag.com/toc.html

     And the second novel is in the magazine's XXX category (you must be adult to order it),
listed in the XXX Table of Contents: http://www.e-gaymag.com/XXXtoc.html
     This is a contemporary story of a young athlete who realizes that he is getting turned on by
one of his father's college buddies, and ‘what is this anyway?' His eyes are opened when
they spend time together at a cabin in the southern California hills, and it goes deeper when
he happens on a journal written by his father during his college days, filling in a lot of gaps
that were never obvious before. That is why the title is "Frat House Journals"; it was authored
by Glen Thompson. This is "one-handed reading."

And also, in line with the recession now abroad in most of our country, the GLB books already
marked down have been marked down an additional increment at the web site:
http://www.markeddownbooks.net
This is an unusual opportunity to replenish your library with the best in g/l/b/t paperback books
at this very attractive price.

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This is the new June 2008 Newsletter from GLB Publishers

What's new at GLB Publishers?

The newest work is the new novella, Sojourner, by Jo Lauer, found at
http://www.e-lesmag.com. It was only about a month ago that we introduced her
Waltzing with the Azaleas, and now we have a very different novella, two parallel stories
separated by many years and many miles. The direct link
is: http://www.e-lesmag.com/tocles.html .

Also there's a new edition of the award-winning Summer Club and the Creatures
by James Richards, with a new cover (see below), a new introduction, and a Reading Guide
meant for discussion groups. This books has its own page at
http://www.glbpubs.com/summerspec.html
The price is still $15.95.

And Basic Butch, the short story collection by R. P. Andrews, continues to make favorable
impressions wherever it appears. If you don't have your copy, the print collection is available
for $15.95, the e-book version of the collection is $8.00, and the individual e-book short stories
are each available for $1.00, as usual. Check it out at
http://www.glbpubs.com/basicbutch.html

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Summer Club and the Creatures

Second Edition   by James Richards

This is the May 2008 Newsletter from GLB Publishers

To bring you up to date, there are new e-books available at both e-book magazines:
www.e-lesmag.com "Waltzing with the Azaleas," a novella by Jo Lauer :

Cory doesn't know where he fits--nowhere, it seems, though he's been living a gay
lifestyle since adolescence. Best friend, butch lesbian Jessica, accompanies him on
a trip to claim his inheritance, which will allow him to finance a sex change that will
test their friendship.

and

www.e-gaymag.com "But Not For Me" by William Guarraia, a "long novel:"

The story of a teenaged boy sent to live with his sister and her husband.
The husband, a poor farmer, takes advantage of the boy's insecurities
and naivete to molest him. The molestations lead to a powerful mutual
passion and to confused feelings of uncertainty and love. The novel is based
on first-hand experiences. The language is of the time and place, the farms
and forests of Michigan years ago.

Our last announcement was for Basic Butch, a short story collection by R.P.
Andrews, which is making a major impression these days. This is available in both
print and e-book form. Click on the Title.

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February 2008 Newsletter

It's been a couple of months since we last sent a letter out to our customers, but affairs are
picking up more now. We are introducing a new book today, "Crossing Borders" by Will
Carr who is now over 80 years old but his account is about a trip he, as a 27 year old Jewish
man, took around the Mediterranean in the 1950s, looking for his place on earth. He came
out during this trip and even there he is still going strong over 50 years later. The book also
includes many pictures of people and sights that met his eyes and comparisons with today
are very vivid. The reviewers who have reported have all been very enthusiastic about this
book. You can get all the details at
www.glbpubs.com/borders.html .
See a picture of the cover below.

Our e-magazines (e-gaymag.com and e-lesmag.com) are also picking up more interest and
you will want to check out what's new in that more intimate format.

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2007

GLB Newsletter, October, 2007

It has been several months since our last newsletter, so let's bring you up to date. There is
a new novel, fresh from the printers, called "The King's Assassin" by Robert Burdette Sweet.
                                                  http://www.glbpubs.com/king.html
The writer acts as a translator of a tale by a catholic priest sent on a holy mission to India
in the 17th century, where he encounters a sensual challenge to his holy assignment. The cover
is attached below, one painted by the author himself.

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There is also a new e-book novel in the e-gaymag section, "Saying I Love You" by William Guarraia.
"Saying I LoveYou" is the story of a great physical attraction which develops between two
unlikely participants. One is a gay electrician, the other a rural hghway worker married with
three children. Neither of them is very articulate. Each finds ways to say "I love you" to each
other. Words are not the way. The action takes place in an isolated A-frame located in the
woods of northern Michigan.
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And we can announce the first of what will be many articles of interest at our lesbian magazine,
                                             http://www.e-lesmag.com/tocles.html
The title is "Smiles, Death, and Dreams" by Tanya Dehne. Following the suicide of her ex-girlfriend,
Andrea embarks on a tumultuous journey through another desperate relationship, and down the dark
corridor of self-destruction and mental illness. She begins to unravel emotionally and mentally.
Rebelling against her powerful need to conform and be healthy, she plunges into affairs and risky
behaviors with little regard as to the consequences. When these consequences begin to spill over
on to her lover, Jen, however, Andrea admits her need for help, and begins the long journey back to mental stability.

The King's Assassin   by Robert Burdette Sweet

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GLB Publishers Newsletter for April, 2007

Two new non-fiction articles have been added to the E-GayMag section, both by William
Murdoch whose life story started off that magazine. William presents a history of
American Indian and Alaska natives as he has seen it in his many years of working in
their corner in: A MEMOIR AND A PAST HISTORY RELATING TO
NATIVE AMERICANS {INDIANS} AND ALASKA NATIVE PEOPLES
He also shares with us his analysis of smoking from his own perspective and that of his
friend in the article: TO SMOKE OR NOT TO SMOKE CIGARETTES
THAT IS THE QUESTION, HERE'S WHY AND HOW

The direct route to E-GayMag is http://www.e-gaymag.com

Our next print book release will be in June, James Richard's "Summer Club and the Creatures"
in time for Gay Pride celebrations.

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GLB Newsletter for February, 2007

Lots of news this month. Our newest book is just out: "Man In Shadow" novel by Russell Thomas.
Peter is a respected PhD Professor of English at a midwestern college but spends much of his
free time servicing straights and more inhibited gays in the parks, orgy rooms, and arcade movies
in the darkness and shadows at night...until that special day when that special guy, married with
two children, comes along. See the cover below.
     This novel is an excellent example of what we call the "maturation of gay/lesbian writing" now
occurring, which has become the subject of a special blog for writing and writers and readers,
www.BLOGGLBT.com, to which you are all invited, both to read over and contribute to. No more
are we only concentrating on how we are different from straights, but how we are adapting to our
new lifestyle, ignoring the straights, and writing about it.
     Three new e-books have also been added. See the GLB Home Page [ www.glbpubs.com ]
or go to the new e-GayMag [ www.e-gaymag.com ] where we are adding about one new e-book
per week.

      Man  in Shadow    by   Russell Thomas

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2006

GLB Newsletter for September, 2006

Announcing a new print and e-book novel, set in London, by a noted English author: "Blasphemy" by Roger N. Taber. "Laurence Fisher, a gay Londoner stuck in a go-nowhere job, is too wrapped up in his own unhappiness to spare concern for anyone else—until he meets Danny, a street-wise troubled, hustling kid in danger from pimps, drug dealers, and kidnappers. This is a suspenseful action story where love intrudes after all and with a reach for freedom in the British twenty-first century." —Ralph Higgins, Wayves. Check out <  www.glbpubs.com/blas.html  >.
Print edition: US$ 15.95; in England 10.99. E-book-US $8.00.

Also a new contemporary e-book -- "Aristocrat"-- by the noted John Coriolan. The story of Trice, born in a small mid-west town, who soon recognized that he had (at least) one of the biggest tools around and decided to use it to become a classical actor. US$6.00.

See the cover graphics below.

Wayne has come up with another new short story from his days on an Australian nude beach: We added this one to the list and have just released a new e-book, a collection of Wayne's short stories from "down under", called "Wayne's World 1". All this is available at www.glbpubs.com/ww1.html

And one (actually two) new developments. We have two new web sites, associated with the GLB Publishers site, devoted to novella-length fiction (25,000 to 50,000 words) made available as e-books:< e-gaymag.com >and < e-lesmag.com >. We receive many of such manuscripts and they are too short to print (too thin a spine) but they are good gay and lesbian fiction, and the novella fits into today's schedule, sometimes easier than a full novel. See the GLB home page (www.glbpubs.com) for more info.

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April Newsletter from GLB Publishers

Although it is the season, there is no April fool in the announcement that we have two
new novels for your pleasure: "Beautiful Dreamers" from Chris Kent, the first new
schoolboy novel from that author in many moons, and a new novel by the highly
respected Robert Burdette Sweet, "Island Mambo." The book covers of these new books
can be found at the foot of this letter (I hope).
     Concerning "Beautiful Dreamers", David Chapman, who has his finger on the schoolboy
fiction pulse, says, "Beautiful Dreamers depicts in unapologetic terms a world with
changing boundaries, where some of the adolescent boys choose to dally with willing,
mature men. But this is not a tawdry tale of young victims lured into destructive
relationships; in fact, the young students of Bruce Academy are frequently the sexual
aggressors. As usual with Chris Kent's fiction, the plot is engaging, the characters are
believable, and the sex scenes are torrid. The jail bait are in control, and they play a
dangerous game with each other and their older lovers. This is uncertain territory that
may create some degree of controversy."
     Canadian Ralph Higgins, who has become a perceptive and dependable reviewer in his
own right, has said about "Island Mambo": "Robert Burdette Sweet is a skilled writer
and one who delights in challenging our assumptions about civilization. In "Island
Mambo," he takes on Nature versus Nurture by showing what happens when so-called
civilized people are taken out of their familiar surroundings and forced to learn to play
the game of life and death with all the rules changed . Who can they turn to now? The
strange woman called the Mambo whose roots are elemental and who may have a
connection with his death? Lenny, Edgar's native servant, his lover and executor of his
will? Staying alive may require trusting in unseen forces and leaving the known safe
world behind.
     "A suspenseful novel with a murder at its centre, Island Mambo leads the reader on a
bizarre, almost hallucinatory journey into our inner fears and drives and gives a vision of
how we might act if we knew no one was watching."
     One step of progress. The Gay History Writers Project has opened a new site for Richard
Amory, author of the famous Loon Series and many more gay books. The new site
includes one of his later novels, "Frost," plus an Introduction by the author's son (soon).
There will be more to come.

And one more development: A new project (listed on the GLB Home Page) has started to
publish (as e-books) humorous short stories by readers on their "coming out" for both
men and women. There may also be a version for transsexuals if we receive appropriate
short stories. See the full explanation on the web site:
http://www.glbpubs.com/comingoutex.html
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Newsletter for February, 2006

Announcing the next new book from GLB Publishers:
You may be aware of GLB Publishers' project for Gay History fiction revival presentations
of e-books online, but this is a step toward reviving print publishing of some novels from
the 1960s: the new print book title is "Tales From C.A. M. P.: Jackie's Back!"
Whether or not you remember the Jackie Holmes' mysteries of those years, they will fascinate you when
Jackie (and Sophie, the white poodle) takes on the villains of the non-gay world (such as
B.U.T.C.H.) and comes up smiling, after struggling mightily with the evil, straight denizens, with
lines like, "What'll it be, boys, heads or tails?" This perfect-bound volume includes three
leading novels from the original series: "Rally Round the Fag" (Jackie goes in drag to foil an
international plot), "Blow the Man Down" (Mother Schmucker from the underwater
"Atlantis" is foiled in an attempted world-wide take-over), and "Gothic Gaye" (there are mysterious
goings-on and B.U.T.C.H. agents at the famous castle of Baron von der Gout). The author,
Victor J. Banis, also follows up with a summary and critique of all these shenanigans, including
the struggles as they happened in the 1960s, in a section called, "An Accidental Hero."
See the attached front cover graphic.

2005

This is the final GLB newsletter of 2005. Thanks for being with us.

The main news this time is the availability of a new e-book web site, part of the Gay
History Writers Project to celebrate and revive some of the gay/lesbian writings of the
mid-twentieth century. We have been able to bring back some books by Victor J. Banis,
whose pseudonym was Don Holliday when writing the C.A.M.P. series of books, with
the famed character, Jackie Holmes, ably assisted by his white poodle, Sophie, who saved
the gay community from the ravages of all kinds of societies' threats, such as the rival
anti-gay organization, B.U.T.C.H. If you were never exposed to the C.A.M.P. books, you
have a treat in store, and if you have a vague recollection of them, you will greatly enjoy
reading them again. I know I did. See the original covers in the graphics below. We will
also have an announcement next year regarding reprinting some of these great books of
the 1960s. These e-books can be found at the author's Gay History site:
http://www.victorjbanis.com
More information with the list of writers now included is provided at the headquarters:
http://www.glbpubs.com/gayhis.html
And again, Happy Holidays and the Best for 2006!

           

GLB Publishers Newsletter # 11 for October-November, 2005

This time we are making a splash about e-books, to which we don't normally give the
credit they deserve. On our home site (glbpubs.com) is a "self-help" e-book by Craig
Curtis, who is noted far and wide for his previous book, "Fabulous Hell." When we say
"self-help" it is in quotation marks because that may be a matter of opinion with an opus
called "I Told You I Love You Now Get Out!," as only the acerbic, witty, master of gay
camp could express it. The "cover" graphic (also available to download) below will give
you some idea. Check it out at  http://www.glbpubs.com/ityilyngo.html .

We have also expanded the Gay History Writers e-book Project, bringing Barton Lewis'
list to 8 e-books (in as many formats) at http://www.bartonlewis.com and adding a new
author, Dirk Vanden, author of noted novels of the 1970-era including "I Want It All,"
"All Or Nothing," etc. at http://www.dirkvanden.com . These are full novels that set
trends and opened doors in gay writing in those time frames. More will be added in the
future. And there's the original of this Gay History series, John Coriolan's unique works
at http://www.johncoriolan.com .

There are also some new e-book short stories by Wayne at Wayne's World Down Under.
If you haven't sampled our Australian fare, now's the time.

And in keeping with the season, we have renewed our availability of gift certificates for
books and now also for the new e-book described in the first paragraph. It would be
possible to arrange most of your Christmas shopping from your arm chair in front of the
Internet screen this year, with books and e-books sent by keystrokes.

And by the way, happy holidays to you all.

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This the GLB Publishers Newsletter #10 for September, 2005.

The headline is the release of the 10th book in the Dick Hardesty mystery series by
Dorien Grey: "The Paper Mirror". This series has broken all records and still is strong
on the best-seller list. To quote some of the pre-press reviewers:

"The plot is well constructed and intriguing. His characters are, as ever, skillfully drawn."
Denise Pickles, Australia.

"As always, Dorien Grey offers splendid entertainment and enough plot twists to qualify as rotini."
Elizabeth Burton.

"'The Paper Mirror' is the best to date... The characters are clever, often conniving, excellently
masterminded, and thoroughly developed...an excellent choice for any who enjoy a good mystery."
Mollie Martin.

The cover graphic is at the bottom of your newsletter.


You may recall that we have been involved in reviving gay writing from the mid-twentieth century,
and some more books have been added recently. Most of these will probably never be reprinted
but we are bringing them back as e-books. In addition to work by John Coriolan at
< http://www.johncoriolan.com > we have now added another writer's site
< http://www.bartonlewis.com > . Barton Lewis contributed a bunch of gay erotica novels to
Greenleaf Classics in about 1980. We classify these as XXErotica since they are very explicit
as was the theme in those days for many of Greenleaf's paperbacks. Five are now available;
more will be added as time permits. These are made available only as e-books but in your choice
of 8 formats for downloading to your computer. These are hot!

And another mention of the half-priced book attraction at
< http://www.half-pricedbooks.net > which many of you have taken advantage of
since our opening last month. A good idea for Christmas gifts, by the way.

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July, 2005

This is GLB Publishers Newsletter Number 8, July, 2005.          

The print news this month is the release of our latest novel, "Blood Warm" by Robert Burdette
Sweet. <  http://www.glbpubs.com/blood.html  > (Robert Sweet is also the author of the noted "White
Sambo" that we published about 10 years ago.) See the front cover at the bottom of this page
(the author also painted the cover!) Probably the review by Ralph Higgins sums the book
up best:
     "Blood Warm" is a delight and Robert Burdette Sweet is that rarest of rare birds, the born
storyteller. Writing with the skill and delicacy of a cloisonn artist and yet with the bold surging
expressiveness of a fauve painter, Sweet creates a living, dancing, laughing, loving world.
Bob Sweet, the narrator of "Blood Warm," has run away seeking oblivion. Bowed by
responsibility, social constraints, his job and the pernicious influence of his mother, he is
an alien in his own country. Sexually conflicted, stumbling and socially clumsy, he escapes
to a tropical island hoping for peace and freedom. And we enter into this lush, colourful world
with him. We see the sunset, feel the humidity among the tree ferns, our feet move to the
compelling beat of the voodoo drums and our blood rushes at the sight of the dark-skinned,
beautiful Junior. We even feel the strain of paradise when it becomes a cage. Nothing is
accidental is this skillfully written, richly comic novel; each incident follows another with
a natural inevitability and Sweet's characters are vivid and engaging: capricious Jessamine,
willful Margo, the irritating Daisy and Edmond, the frightening mysterious Lemba, and the
sweet and sexy Junior.
And, somehow, along the way, we fall in love with Bob.

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And there's more good news on the e-book front:

For the first time in many years, a new Bill Lee fiction, "Montana Mates," a 34,400 word novella about cowboys and Indians (literally), has been released as an e-book in your choice of format (8 choices offered). The young cowboy, raised on a ranch but routed into the bunkhouse with mature ranch hands at age 17, finds out how things work in man-to-man relationships just in time to respond to the chance encounter with a young Flathead Indian from a neighboring ranch in Montana. $4 for each format.

And here's something new that we don't think has been done before anywhere. We are featuring a new book, a collection of short stories which are still being written, developing as we speak, from a special gay writer in Australia who is producing short stories from "down under". This book is called "Wayne's World Down Under" (Volume 1)
and already has a group of gay men's short stories ready for downloading. As more stories are written they will be added so it will pay to check back often. Things don't work exactly the same in Australia as they do in most of the rest of the world, we find, and the manners of expression are different, too. We're sure you will be interested to sample Wayne's World, and the short stories, as usual, are available for $1 each for each format.

MAY, 2005

Seventh GLB News, May., 2005        

Hello again from GLB Publishers.

     Many of our readers will receive the big news in this letter with big smiles: announcing a
new Chris Kent fiction, "Bravehearts and Memories: Two Novellas," which contains both
the original "Bravehearts" novella (on boys' roles in the Scottish-English revolution); also
a previously unpublished collection of memories of childhood, "Luverboy's Memories," that
Chris Kent collected and brings to his readers with sincere hopes for increased understanding
of kids. A 216-page paperback priced at US$14.95 for the print book, it will also soon be
available in the UK and Europe for £10.50. The availability as a print book in Australia is
uncertain, but it will be available world-wide as an e-book (in eight formats) for US$ 8.00.
     The latter work brought us to a new decision, to set up a web site for Chris' books and also
a chat list for those interested in his work, and the much larger subject of boys' sexuality and
problems so well publicized in some of the priests' scandals of recent years. So we can also
announce the new web site (which is still somewhat under construction) called
http://www.chriskentbooks.com (what else could it be?). As mentioned on the web site, the
chat list can be joined by subscribing: chriskentbooks-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .

Hope you all have an interesting and comfortable season. (Since we have members in Australia
and other down-under environs, we can't assume everyone is going into summer!)

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Sixth GLB News, Feb., 2005

A short but important message to all our readers.

We are now celebrating the conclusion of our 15th year at GLB Publishers, bringing what
we hope are good choices of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry print books and e-books to g/l/b/t
readers throughout the world. We have a new seal to mark the celebration, and we will be
placing one of these adhesive seals on all books leaving our offices for this year, 2005. (We
have removed all attachments because of mail complexities in some recipients' email boxes.)

We also want to mention that one of our books has been nominated for an award by the
Lambda Literary Foundation for best 2004 book in the Gay Men's Mystery category: Dorien
Grey's very popular The Role Players. The list of nominees can be viewed at
http://www.lambdalit.org/lammy/finalists.html
Congratulations, Dorien! This is the third book from the Dick hardesty series (now numbering
9 books in total) to be nominated over the past few years, and can be found on the GLB web
site at http://www.glbpubs.com/trp.html

The entire series has its own web site:
http://www.dickhardestymysteries.com

where all the books in the series are reviewed.

We hope you are having a good 2005 so far.
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2004

December 4, 2004

This is GLB Publishers' Newsletter # 4, Dec. 4, 2004 *

Based on your interest, or what we perceive as interest developing among Internet users, we are in the process of adding a new format to our available e-book format list, the Mobi-Pocket PRC format. This format can be used in several different handheld reading devices and also on computer screens with the MobiPocket Reader (similar to the MS Reader and Adobe Reader), free for download to your computer. Conversion to these more complicated formats is not always 100% successful, so first, our apologies if you run into trouble, and second, please advise us if you have problems, since that is the only way we have of finding out. We cannot do quality control on every possible application. If you have a problem, we will correct the situation or provide another format if necessary. Of course the cost for PRC e-books will be the same as for all other formats. If you don't find the PRC format listed for your choice of e-books during this prep period, drop us a note and we will put your choice at the head of the line for conversion to PRC. Individual short stories are not available in PRC but the collection of stories from which they came is available as MobiPocket PRC.
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We should also mention that we are offering gift certificates for all the print books, just in time for the holiday season. Scroll to the bottom of those books you've been considering and use the easy credit card system to get some books on their way, for your friends or yourself. As usual, we don't charge for shipping or tax for these purchases, unless you want Express or Priority shipping.
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And of course, we want to wish all our readers and authors a happy holiday season. Here is a link to a greeting card that our faithful helper picked out at http://www.glbpubs.com/hol04.html
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W. L. (Bill) Warner
www.glbpubs.com
GLB Publishers

October 20, 2004

   A whole new genre, Gay Gangsta novel by Fredryk Traynor

This is GLB Publishers' Newsletter # 3, Oct. 20, 2004

We have a new book to announce, of course, but this is a special one. While it is not the
first time we have published a first-of-its-kind, it is the first one like this.
      Some of you may be familiar with the hip-hop gangsta movement, stemming at first
from the Rap singers but now making its way through the cultural trapdoors as fiction
writing as well. Some say Vickie Stringer was first, writing her gritty "Let That Be The
Reason" and selling the xeroxed copy from her car trunk, later adding more books to her
list and founding her own publishing company for gangsta fiction, but probably Donald
Goines was really first to describe the black street experience in words that rang through
to the core. He was variously described as a pimp, thief, bootlegger, armed robber, small
time dope dealer but also a great street-talk writer only discovered by the mainstream
press and critical journals in recent years (he died in 1974). The rap songs have taken up
the chant, and some of those that have threatened gays and queers have been top sellers.
     However, skip to the 21st Century and terms like Down Low and Homothugs and it may
lead to where we are, announcing what we believe to be the first of its kind, a Gay
Gangsta novel, set (where else?) in San Francisco, by Fredryk Traynor, fresh from that
scene himself and knowledgeable about the details very similar to Goines, but thirty
years later.
     If you don't know much about the Gangsta story, do a Yahoo or Google search for
Gangsta. You may learn more than you wanted to know, or you may be intrigued. But I
can promise that you will be intrigued by the book, "Bless the Thugz and Lil' Chil'rins,"
now available at GLB Publishers: GLBPubs.
     A few clips from reviewers comments: Deatri King-Bey of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers says:
"It's a great story whose main characters, intelligent thugz with heart, happened to be gay."
But of course no one "happens to be gay," we know that; Ralph Higgins says:
"Fredryk Traynor's skill creates a believable world of brutality, dark cruelty, and nonchalant
acceptance of death, but he also makes us believe that there can exist, even in these conditions,
kindness, caring, and family. And that love can come even to a gangsta faggot and a badass thug."
     As always, this novel is available as a paperback in all bookstores and as an e-book download at our
web site. To add spice to the main dish, we extracted three short stories by Fredryk Traynor
from previously-published GLB anthologies to add to the attraction, these as e-book short
stories for downloading, found at GLBPubs .

We should also mention the new wrinkle (new to us) of offering gift certificates for all
the print books, just in time for the holiday season. Scroll to the bottom of those books
you've been considering and use the easy credit card system to get some books on their
way, for your friends or yourself. As usual, we don't charge for shipping or tax for these
purchases, unless you want Express shipping.		            

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W. L. (Bill) Warner
GLB Publishers®

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