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Aug.23.2012
You know how they say you can tell a lot about a writer by their work? If this is the case, then the next time I meet up with any of the authors from Night Shadows: Queer Horror I'm bringing a gun, an escape plan, and maybe a handsome young priest with smouldering good looks.
I say all that in...
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Aug.23.2012
It's been a while since I did a story-by-story review of an anthology. I'm lucky enough to be included in Night Shadows: Queer Horror despite being someone who - with no shame do I admit this - usually can't handle horror.
You can file it under "tastes vary" but the reality is this: I squick out...
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Aug.07.2012
This morning, I found a link to this in my in-box. It's my author profile on the Bold Strokes Books website, and it includes the precis and general plot summary of LIGHT.
That would be my novel.
When my short story "Heart" got published a few years ago by Becky Cochrane and Timothy J. Lambert, I...
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Jul.09.2012
One of the more common reasons I've heard for downloading a copy is the "just looking" one. On the one hand, I get this. One of the things you can do in a brick and mortar store is wander over to a chair, sit down, open the book, and start reading. Read the blurb, the critical praise, find out...
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Jul.08.2012
There are absolutely authors out there who can produce quality work all by themselves.
I'm not one of them.
There's a part of me that wonders if there's some accidental modesty or an attempt to make an author seem so mysterious afoot in the sometimes general lack of awareness about what a...
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Jul.07.2012
There's that great tongue in cheek saying, and I think it applies wonderfully to the idea of DRM, that "fool proof plans just make for better fools."
When it comes to E-book piracy, one of the ideas publishers have come up with is the DRM. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is more easily...
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Jul.06.2012
I recently found (and retweeted a link to) what I thought was a nifty little blog entry from Rachel Vincent that helped clear up a bit of the process for whether or not someone had committed some e-piracy. I liked the blog (obviously, or I wouldn't have linked to it) in that I thought it did very...
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May.31.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
Today marks the end of my month of short fiction discussion. I hope you enjoyed the tour of BOYS OF SUMMER, THE TOUCH OF THE SEA, and SWEAT, as well as my scattered thoughts for the last couple of days. The giveaway was fun and I was stunned at the three hundred plus...
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May.30.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
Recently, I've been working on (read: staring at while holding a red pen) a very large pile of paper which represents roughly five-eighths of my novel-in-progress, LIGHT.
Wait! But this is "Short Story Month" and I just started talking about a novel! I'm breaking my...
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May.29.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
When I was in New Orleans for Saints and Sinners, I bumped into Chelsea Station, via Jameson Currier. Chelsea Station is a new magazine (two issues thus far) which of gay writing. It's not limited to fiction, or even prose - it features poetry, memoirs, essays,...
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May.28.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
Saints and Sinners is over for another year, and as always, I loved it.
The first year there was a Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest, I sent in a short story called "Last Call." It was an urban paranormal story with a magic-wielding detective trying to figure...
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May.27.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
Leaping through the stories two-by-two in SWEAT has brought me to the finish with this entry. Grab a towel so you'll be ready to mop your brow once the last two tales are done.
Joseph Baneth Allen's "Goran's Run" is a wonderful story with a sweetness to it I wasn't...
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May.26.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
A little like yesterday, the next two stories reminded me of another often shared experience of gay men - the awkward "is-he-or-isn't-he" stage of longing for someone. Is the object of your crush gay? Are you completely wasting your time? Is that wink for you? That...
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May.25.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
One of the things that I think most gay men share is the memory of that adult in their life upon whom they had their first crush. The father of a friend, the teacher - someone who snuck into their fantasies and was in a very real way forever associated with that...
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May.24.2012
May is "Short Story Month."
So here's the thing about hockey. One of the two stories I wrote in this anthology is about hockey. I thought that as a Canadian residing type fellow, I should probably represent hockey when it came time to spin a tale for SWEAT. Turns out hockey players are well and...
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Burgoine’s characters are as sharp as the points on their teeth and their dialogue snaps like breaking spines.”
—Out in Print Queer Book Reviews
About Nathan
‘Nathan Burgoine grew up a reader and studied literature in university while making a living as a bookseller—a job he still does, and still loves. His first published short story was “Heart” in the collection Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction. Since then, he has...
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Nathan’s Favorite Books
It Had To Be You (Timothy James Beck), Straight Lies (Rob Byrnes), A Coventry Christmas (Becky Cochrane), Murder in the Rue Ursulines (Greg Herren), Practical...