They say time flies when you're having fun. That must explain how it's been 5 years since The Way Back was first published. Can you believe it? My confused little "Riley-ho." I do love him. The greatest surprise of my life is that a lot of you loved him too--even if you wanted to slap him down for being such a dumbass. :) 

One of my inspirations for Riley. That stomach!For those of you who haven't read The Way Back or its sequel Fire & Rain...


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00KQFU5Z9HJust for fun, here's a bit of a guest post I wrote to celebrate the one-year anniversary:

Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I’m a little bit…quirky. Hey, you try having a bunch of hot gay men in your head, jostling with each other to tell their stories and see how quirky you become! One of the quirks that I fully embrace is my love for, and the influence upon me of, music.

My older sisters like to tell the story about how, as a three-year-old who couldn’t read, I could unerringly bring them the 45 RPM records they requested. Somehow I could distinguish between “Island Girls,” “Running on Empty,” and “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart.” I’d like to think I was a boy genius, but if that’s true, what the hell happened to me?

As Trisha Yearwood sang in 1993, the song remembers when. So it shouldn’t come as any shock that the writing of The Way Back was greatly assisted by music. You know that one scene where Jason does that thing he didn’t mean to do? Thank Melissa Etheridge’s “Similar Features.” Or that lunchtime [censored]?