Finalists for the 21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards

This year, 105 finalists representing 72 publishers are competing for awards in 22 categories.

Winners will be announced on Thursday, May 28, at a gala awards ceremony in New York. For tickets and more information, go to Awards Ceremony.

I've listed the Gay nominations below. Go the the LLF web site for a complete list of GLBT finalists. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current_finalists.html

GAY DEBUT FICTION

* Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox, Arsenal Pulp Press
* Light Fell, Evan Fallenberg, Soho Press
* The Screwed-Up Life of Charlie The Second, Drew Ferguson, Kensington
* The Steve Machine, Mike Hoolboom, Coach House Books
* Finlater, Shawn Ruff, Quote Editions

jump to top of pge
GAY EROTICA

* Best Gay Erotica 2009, Richard Labonte & James Lear, Cleis Press
* The Secret Tunnel, James Lear, Cleis Press
* Hard Working Men, William Maltese, Victor J. Banis, Jardonn Smith, & J.P. Bowie, MLR Press

jump to top of pge
GAY FICTION

* Stray Dog Winter, David Francis, Macadam/Cage Publishing
* The Torturer's Wife, Thomas Glave, City Light Publishers
* We Disappear, Scott Heim, HarperCollins
* The Conversion, Joseph Olshan, St. Martin’s Press
* The Boomerang Kid, Jay Quinn, Alyson

jump to top of pge
GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

* Bringing Him Home, Aaron Cooper, Late August Press
* Swish, Joel Derfner, Broadway Books
* Assisted Loving, Bob Morris, HarperCollins
* Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, Sheila Rowbotham, Verso Books
* King of Shadows, Aaron Shurin, City Lights Publishers

jump to top of pge
GAY MYSTERY

* The Fisher Boy, Stephen Anable, Poisoned Pen Press
* Sundowner Ubuntu, Anthony Bidulka, Insomniac Press
* Mahu Fire, Neil Plakcy, Alyson Books
* First You Fall, Scott Sherman, Alyson Books
* Spider Season, John Morgan Wilson, St. Martin's Press

jump to top of pge
GAY POETRY

* Want, Rick Barot, Sarabande Press
* Please, Jericho Brown, New Issues
* Fire to Fire, Mark Doty, HarperCollins
* Now You're the Enemy, James Allen Hall, Univ. of Arkansas Press
* My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian, Wesleyan University Press

jump to top of pge
GAY ROMANCE

* Mexican Heat, Laura Baumbach & Josh Lanyon, MLR Press
* Got 'til it's Gone, Larry Duplechan, Arsenal Pulp Press
* The Protector, N.L. Gassert, Seventh Window Publications

I took this list of nominees to New York this weekend but didn't have much luck at finding many of them. I hoped I'd find some of them at the Oscar Wilde Bookstore but it was already closed. I found We Disappear by Scott Heim and Assisted Loving at the Strand but that was it.

I just finished Stray Dog Winter by David Francis and is is very good. I highly recommend it. Anybody else read it yet?

Dan

I was put off of Stray Dog Winter after hearing that it was "disturbing" and "brutal" which I decided wasn't really where I need to go. Have I been steered wrong?

If you like mystery "Spider Season" is very good. I would liek to read "Got 'til it's Gone" by Duplechan. Duplechan's "Captin Swing" was excellent.

Try Amazon.com for the titles you can't find in stores.

I try to never buy any books from Amazon or any chain book store. The independents may be going fast but there's no reason not to buy everything you can from them.

Winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are listed here:

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current_finalists.html

I should pay more attention to Library Thing and this group. Soldier Boy was a 2013 Lambda Literary Foundation Finalist in the Erotic Romance category and the latest version is going to be available for sale in about two weeks. If you'd like to read the PDF for free, give me a heads up. I'm the author and you can find me on Facebook every day (the Thomas Marshall with the blue shirt and the cardiac monitor system in the background). Hope you're enjoying the summer, guys! :-)