CONVERSATION WITH JIM AUSTEN Q: Explain what you mean by a mash-up novel. A: A mash-up novel is a work of fiction that combines a preexisting literary text, often a classic work of fiction in the public domain, with another genre, in this case the gay romance genre, into a single narrative with new plot …
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CHAPTER 1 A LETTER ARRIVES Colin sat at his desk in his Islington lodgings on a murky December morning in 1927. He was muscular, handsome, rather clever, and enjoyed a private income of five pounds a week, enough for him to avoid any real work. He was, in fact, just as old as the century …
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Category: Gay Romance Mystery Ebook ISBN: 978-1-7320917-1-9 Publisher: Flying Heron Press Copyright: February, 2019 Word Count: 55,000 Release Date: February 19, 2019 Retail Price: $2.99 Available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NJ2L79L/ Blurb: In the Junior students’ dormitory at Oakschott Hall, a heavy gaslight falls from the ceiling, crushing the head of a student sleeping beneath it. Was it …
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Born in 1984, Jim Austen grew up in Murphy, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas-Austin with a degree in communications and journalism. He works as a news producer for a station in Rhode Island. Jim lives south of Boston with his wife and two children. A bisexual husband, he ‘came out’ to his …
Rachel is Waiting
I sit beside him on the sofa, letting him unbutton my shirt and pull it out of my pants. He massages my chest and pinches my nipples until they get hard. I like older men, but I’m not in the mood now for sex with Karl. “I don’t have much time. Rachel is waiting for …
When Harold Met Sully
A man in the gay fathers’ group is obsessed with Sully. “What man?” I ask. “Harold. You don’t know him.” Apparently Harold joined the group after I stopped going. I don’t recognize the name. He’s in his mid-fifties and came out when he divorced his wife. Sully, in his late twenties, thinks fifty is old. …