Bold Strokes Books by Len Barot Thank you so much for this opportunity tell you a little bit about Bold Strokes Books, Inc, an independent publishing company focusing on LGBTQ literature. First, a very little bit about me (the publisher). I am a former surgeon and university professor and, in addition to hands-on running the [...]

There’s this great scene in J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit where Bilbo is exchanging riddles with Gollum.  It’s Gollum’s turn, and once again, he has delivered a long, rich, poetic monologue–and Bilbo is stumped.  Gollum comes to eat him, as is their bargain, and Bilbo starts asking for more time.  He is so frightened [...]

  (Tara Taylor Quinn and Kelly Chapman) So here we are, stop four on The Chapman Files International Blog Tour.  We’re heading to Canada and Australia over the next few months, stopping in with the Australian Romance Reader Association blog, and stopping in England, too.  Kelly Chapman (for those of you who don’t know Kelly is the expert [...]

I just found out that my very first book, Champagne Rules, which was one of the launch titles in Kensington’s Aphrodisia line in February 2006, is out of print – meaning that it’s not available in print from either my publisher’s website nor any of the major online stores. As it turns out, the same [...]