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Gume Laurel III

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Born

in Weslaco, TX (Rio Grande Valley), The United States

Website

https://www.GumeLaurel.com

Twitter

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Genre

Young Adult, Gay and Lesbian, Fiction

Member Since

November 2013

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Gume Laurel III is a Texan, native to the Rio Grande Valley on the southernmost border. For the past decade, he has dedicated himself to crafting literary works that promote inclusion and showcase diverse characters with intersectional identities. The bulk of Gume’s writings are focused on underrepresented groups, especially those from the communities he is a part of: Latine and queer.

When he isn’t writing, Gume can be found getting lost on a hiking trail with his dogs Blu and Mouse. For more info on what he’s up to, check out GumeLaurel.com and @TX.Author on Instagram.

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Book #4 Out Now!

I originally meant to finish writing this book last year, but I only completed it in July. I intended for it to be available for purchase at the beginning of 2015, but here we are at 2015’s end, and it’s just now being released.

It seems that there were daily hurdles along the entire way of getting this done, and I was out of breath from the start. Never before have I put so much work into one of m

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Average rating: 4.44 · 258 ratings · 167 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Samson & Domingo 4.34 avg rating — 73 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brujos of Borderland High 4.44 avg rating — 57 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Final Diadem 4.55 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosts Aboard Starlight 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingdom of Abel - A Journey Not Their Own (Kingdom of Abel, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind in Justice 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Kingdom of Abel - Song of the Silent (Kingdom of Abel, #2) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captive in Truth 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.”
― Gume Laurel III, Blind in Justice

tags: accepted, coming-of-age-quotes, heart-broken, rejection, secure, teen-quotes, unstable, whole, young-adult-quotes

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“There are moments when we all step away from the light...”
― Gume Laurel III, Kingdom of Abel - Bathed in Shadow

tags: darkness, depression, giving-up, hopeless, shadow

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“We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.”
― Gume Laurel III, Blind in Justice

tags: coming-of-age, friends, friendship, growing-up, hanging-out, hangout, hangouts

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“The world is full of assholes. What are you doing to make sure you're not one of them?”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

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“The simplest answer is to act.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

tags: inspirational

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“They don't know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first.”
― A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants

tags: love-and-hate

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