Perry Brass's new novel, Carnal Sacraments, goes beyond the usual stuff of gay lit
Submitted by TLaine on Thu, 2007-09-20 15:34.Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future. A futurist Faustian pact: 2075. Jeffrey Cooper, Alabama-raised design superstar in Americanized Germany, is 78 but looks 40 years younger due to the perks of his stressful job. Meeting an impulsive, gifted man will destroy the life he has painfullbuilt for himself, but allow him to reclaim his own soul. Hot, political, and real. Great book.
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I wanted to say more about the limits of gay fiction, and it does seem to have a lot of limits due I guess to the economics of publishing. But Perry Brass has gone beyond those limits for years. He's a prolific author--14 books + numerous things in anthologies--but he always surprises me with what he has to say and the way he says it. I'd love to hear from other readers about their favorite writers, gay or not, and why they read them. I think that reading is a great way to enlarge yourself, be a part of the world, and understand the human heart and mind in a way that TV or the rest of the media, clogged up by corporate greed, does not allow us to. Reading is one-on-one, and beautiful!
ahh, the link kept popping back to here.
I think the only limits a writer faces are the one he imposes on himself when he is targeting a specific genre for audience. This is great for marketing.
But i think this whole genre thing is getting silly,
there should be fiction and non fiction, fantasy, crime, horror, romance etc, but this whole gay, black, fat people, skinny people,.. ahhh
for me I often forget to look at the authors name, I either liked the read or not
He didn't enter "http://" when he typed in the link.
Rat's Reading - http://reading.kingrat.biz/
Fixed it. You would think on a site about reading, people would read the instructions. At least that. Oh well...
BTW what's up with people posting obvious author promo stories as something other than author promo?
That is a good question: I guess when you like an author, it's author promo, and when you cut an author down, it's not author promo? As W.H. Auden wrote: "In the prison of his days/ teach the free man how to praise."
I wouldn't go that far TLaine, but posting a link to an author's own homepage is definitely Author Promo. There's actually a definition given when given when you post a story. it's: "Promotions for authors such as links to original work, author's personal sites, sales outlets and fan sites."
I'd say this link falls into that category.
Hans
Pardon my ignorance. I guess I got a little carried away with my own enthusiasm. I guess that is an offense in this world where if you aren't buttoned up into your cubicle or hole, you're promoting something, like an author who's had little promotion in the big-ticket press. I'm for little guys, myself.