Science Fiction Adventure Continues at Goodreads

In Sons of Taldra, Chapter 8, the Naadloosh stowaway is alive, feeding on homeless people in the undermall. Also, the Degrans learn what happened to Degranon.

MM Poem: Gay Love, Gay Romance

From "Home."

His hand presses/Against my chest, As if holding me together. ...more@ http://t.co/KqVwxUQqX1 #GayPoems #GayLovePoem pic.twitter.com/CGhn23SZcC

— DuaneSimolke (@DuaneSimolke) October 25, 2014

Quote on Writing, from Selected Poems

“Until I see writing and living/As a single color” #poetry #bookquotes #bookplugs #amwriting http://t.co/Vl9Z9tkcHf pic.twitter.com/AJWcU64oOA

— DuaneSimolke (@DuaneSimolke) October 24, 2014

Author Promotion Service theindiespotlight Becomes my 100th Twitter Follower!

Thanks to my 1000th Twitter follower @4FreeKindleBook! Authors and publishers, for free tweet requests, http://t.co/0x2l9fn7RY

— DuaneSimolke (@DuaneSimolke) September 24, 2014

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Gay Relationships in Science Fiction Novel.

Sons of Taldra, the sequel to Degranon, will focus more on the gay relationships, but will still feature just as much scifi adventure. It will also still feature strong female characters and a cast that’s mostly people of color. I hope to finish the revisions by the end of 2014.

#GaySciFi

9/04/14: Another 4-Star Review for Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure at Goodreads!

The brilliant scientist Taldra loves her twin gay sons and thinks of them as the hope for Valchondria's future, but one of them becomes entangled in the cult of Degranon, while the other becomes stranded on the other side of a doorway through time. Can they find their way home and help Taldra save their world?

Superhero Helps Readers Understand Autism

In less than 24 hours since its international debut, our Issue 1 of the world's 1st featured #comics hero with #autism is now on back-order.

— FaceValueComics (@FaceValueComics) August 28, 2014

Face Value Comics' autistic script #writer features a #comic hero with #autism in a #steampunk world with aliens, robots & lots of misunderstanding!

Active Goodreads Reader Nvnative Shares Book Tastes

#Goodreads #reader gives four stars to #books Degranon, Starbound, The Omniverse: The Unearthing, Witches Brew, etc. https://t.co/ZBjHi2z1FB

— DuaneSimolke (@DuaneSimolke) September 1, 2014

Works with four stars include books from Terry Brooks, Stephen Batchelor, Lawrence P. White, Steve Karmazenuk, Joe Haldeman, and Michael Siemsen.

Pride, A Gay Movie Opening in the UK, Based on a True Story

The closer the general release date gets (Sept 12th) the more excited we become! @PrideMovieUK https://t.co/s0kZ752oUX

— Gay's The Word (@gaystheword) August 23, 2014

Movie description:

It's Summer 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power, and the National Union of Mineworkers are on strike! At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But the only problem is the Union seems too embarrassed to receive their support.

Not discouraged, the activists ignore the Union and go direct to the miners. They identify a small mining villiage in Wales to make their donations to the community in person. This journey begins a surprising partnership between two seemingly alien comunties as they fight for the same cause.

Pride stars Bill Nighy, Adrew Scott, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Joseph Gilgun, Paddy Considine, George MacKay, Ben Schnetzer, Sophie Evans, Jessie Cave, Freddie Fox, Faye Marsay, Adrian Palmer, Lasco Atkins and Shane Salter.

New Cover for Selected Poems

Selected Poems.

“Thoughtful and moving poetry.” –Leona L Lee, author of Taxing Tallula. Read the review.

Selected Poems, new cover. #GayPoetry #GayLove #GayPoems #GayPoem http://t.co/NPBo1CB0H5 pic.twitter.com/S6KOJnmE5k

— DuaneSimolke (@DuaneSimolke) August 15, 2014

This short eBook includes the gay love poem Home, the strange story of The Gardener, and the comical Angels and Razors, as well as thirty other poems.

Complete list of poems in this book: Chasing Seagulls, Home, Album, Children in the Streets, The Gardener, Friday Afternoon Spectrum, Reception, second year, Angels and Razors, Separated, Faces, Songs In Sign Language, Forgotten, Higher Education, Family, Ex-Gay? Part I: Cocoon, Ex-Gay? Part II: The Ex-Me Movement, Ex-Gay? Part III: Who Does God Hate?, The Escape Artist, Daughter, The Same Lips, Pharisee, Anne Bradstreet, Bareback, Cycle, Cross, Two Rapes, Rainbow, Elephant on an Opera Stage, Detour, Editing, Process, Haiku.

These works also appear in my longer anthology Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems.

Keywords: Gay pride, Gay romance, Gay men, Gay poem, Gay poems, Gay poetry, Gay poets, Gay writers, Love poems, Story poems, Humor, Homophobia, Exgay, Ex-gay, Diversity, Poetry, American poets, Lubbock poets, Texas poets.

Available from bn.com (for Nook) , Smashwords (for multiple eBook platforms), and Amazon (for Kindle).

Blog entry updated 8/16/2014.