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23 May 2012
All three of Dorien's John
series are now available for Kindle at Amazon! You can find them
by searching the title in the Kindle Store. The titles are His Name Is John, Aaron's Wait and Caesar's Fall.
A new review of His Name Is John has just been posted by Kathy
Kozakewich. You can read it here:
http://kathy-kozakewich.blogspot.com/2012/05/his-name-is-john-by-dorien-grey.html.
Elisa
Rolle is an Italian book reviewer noted internationally for her
perceptive reviews. Since English is not her first language, her
phrasing sometimes requires a bit of getting accustomed to, but she is
always right on the money with her analysis. She was kind enough to
review The Peripheral Son,
and I am once more in her debt. You can find it here: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1579686.html.
Professor Emeritus Wayne Gunn, author of the definitive The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film
and dean of the analyses of gay mystery fiction, writes a regular
column on the genre in the Lambda
Literary Review. This month, he was kind enough to include a
review of my The Peripheral Son,
and I'd hope you might have a look: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/05/01/gunnshots-spring-2012/.
Dorien
was delighted to see a nice overview of his work as part of a detailed
article on Gay Male Mysteries in GLBTQ. To read what they have to say,
go to
http://www.glbtq.com/literature/myst_fic_gay,6.html.
Those
who have been in the military are familiar with the saying, "Hurry up
and wait." I find it still pretty much applies to my life today.
Writers write for weeks, months, in relatively monastic silence and
then, when their current work is finished, the immediate reaction is
that of a cork being removed from a bottle of champagne. Now that the
book is done, I want it out NOW!
Alas, it doesn't work that way, though Dante's Circle,
the latest Elliott Smith paranormal mystery (#4 in the series) does
seem to be moving along at a good clip toward publication. My
webmaster, Gary, and I will be starting on the video trailer soon.
My thanks to Australian reviewer, Denise Pickles, for her kind review
of The Peripheral Son. You
can find it at http://www.marymartin.com.au/crimar.html.
And speaking of reviews, I might refer you to reader reviews of any or
all of my books posted on Amazon.com.
The overwhelming number of them, I'm happy to report, are positive,
though there are one or two real clinkers among them. Hey, no one can
please everyone.
I'm already several thousand words into The Serpent's Tongue, the next
(#15) Dick Hardesty adventure, and I hope you will have as much fun
reading it as I am writing it.
I'm still spending far more time than I probably should on Facebook,
averaging several posts a day, and as I mentioned in a previous update,
it seems to be paying off in new readers. If you're on Facebook (or
Google+) and we aren't yet friends there yet, please let me know.
And I see this is yet another very short update. Well, you don't need a
detailed analysis of everything going on in my personal life. You have
your own to live. So go live it...but please do check back here every
now and then. I'd miss you if you didn't.
Best,
Dorien
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