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Big meeting with my editor today. May 4, 2027 this book will hit the shelves, 27.5 years after the project began. It's starting to feel real. This is still the internal title page standing in for a cover until we get one. Harper is still working on that. They hope to show me a design in a month. I'm not sure when I can share it, but it will be hard to resist. Really eager to see it next. Right now, we're working on a wish list of blurbers to send out requests. Give me a shout

Title page inside the book. Two huge milestones for Don't Fall in Love: It's typeset now, so it looks like a real book. It is a real book. I marked up the page proofs and returned--final pass except typos on the next one. SO it's really done. Woohoo. Spring 2027 release. Meeting with my editor this coming week to hopefully nail down the date. Likely late May or early June. That's the title page above, not the cover, which is still being designed. Chapters: And here's the craz

After a year bouncing ideas between my editor (Noah Eaker), agent (Betsy Lerner), and me, we hurled into a lightning round this week, including polling you followers on IG* we came down to two finalists. I approved both, but had a clear favorite. Noah canvased within Harper Books (HarperCollins's flagship imprint), and he was the winner by a landslide, was my favorite and his: The Secret Lives of Two Gay Soldiers Hiding in Plain Sight I'd been circling in Plain Sight for a y

I get the copy-edits back tomorrow! After 26 years, nearly there. (I began shadowing “Brett and Drake” for the Salon story Feb 4, 2000.)

Heated Rivalry Tuxedo kiss: Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, played by Connor Storrie Hudson Williams . Gay America is having a moment. The Heated Rivalry tidal wave came out of nowhere and hit one second after midnight on Thanksgiving. We've been riveted, obsessed and gutted ever since. Outside of small indie films that never reached a wide audience, we've never existed like this on the screen before. Even Brokeback Mountain* never went for it like this. For a great n

Temporary mockup cover for my gay soldiers book 'Don't Fall in Love." I created this for this site years ago, using rudimentary sw as a placeholder. The HarperCollins art department will have the real one in the next month or two. We have finished the edits to Don't Fall in Love, and it went into production at HarperCollins in December 2025. It will be published this fall, 2026. Publication date coming soon. Harper's art department has begun work on the cover, too.

Hmmmmm. I've rarely been so conflicted in a response. And my 4 stars should be 3.5. And I totally think I need to revisit this in 6...

Slate just set about creating a canon of major nonfiction books, by naming The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years. Staggered...

Thanks to everyone who voted Parkland into the semi-finals of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction of 2019. The downside: I ask for you to vote again. I appreciate the votes, shares, tweets, etc. Thanks. This round ends tonight at midnight pacific time. I learned you can vote 3 times: once per round, per category. Please use them all. Thanks! https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-nonfiction-books-2019

So, good news and bad news, since I've been insanely busy book touring and haven't attended to my blog. The good news: Parkland : Birth of a Movement, was longlisted last month for a really prestigious award: the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for best nonfiction book of 2019. How cool was that? The year-end awards are just beginning, and gratifying to see Parkland in the mix. Even more cool: I was nominated alongside Toni Morrison! Unfortunately, th