Comments on: A Portrait of Dorien Grey http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-portrait-of-dorien-grey-2/ Published Author Beth Anderson Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:11:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dorien Grey http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-portrait-of-dorien-grey-2/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Dorien Grey Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:47:53 +0000 http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-portrait-of-dorien-grey-2/#comment-275 Interesting points, Pat. GLB's publisher, Bill Warner, has spent his life fighting for gay rights, and for that we all owe him a debt of gratitude. But he has his own intractable ideas of exactly what it is to be a "real" gay man. I am not, in his opinion, one of them. As a publisher, he cannot make a writer think as he does, but he can refuse to publish books which do not agree with his vision. Thus the refusal to publish any more Dick Hardesty mysteries under the GLB banner. I do hope to find a home for Book #11 of the series on which I am now working. Interesting points, Pat.

GLB’s publisher, Bill Warner, has spent his life fighting for gay rights, and for that we all owe him a debt of gratitude. But he has his own intractable ideas of exactly what it is to be a “real” gay man. I am not, in his opinion, one of them. As a publisher, he cannot make a writer think as he does, but he can refuse to publish books which do not agree with his vision. Thus the refusal to publish any more Dick Hardesty mysteries under the GLB banner. I do hope to find a home for Book #11 of the series on which I am now working.

]]> By: Pat Brown http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-portrait-of-dorien-grey-2/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Pat Brown Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:57:52 +0000 http://www.bethanderson-hotclue.com/blog/2006/07/29/a-portrait-of-dorien-grey-2/#comment-274 I find it curious that Dorien claims his publisher didn't want future books because his characters are monogomous and that just isn't done in gay books. I read a great deal of gay mystery fiction and MOST of the books I read feature a gay protag who is in a single partner relationship - both of Mark Richard Zubro's series, Lev Raphael's Nick Hoffman series, Michael Nava's Henry Rios series featured him in two monogamous relationships, even Greg Herren's Scotty books have him 'settling' down with one man. My own newly started series has a solidly monogamous relationship that I assure you will continue through the series, and the publisher (Alyson) knew this going in. So I'm puzzled who his publisher is thinking about when he makes a statement like that? Does he even know the field at all? I find it curious that Dorien claims his publisher didn’t want future books because his characters are monogomous and that just isn’t done in gay books. I read a great deal of gay mystery fiction and MOST of the books I read feature a gay protag who is in a single partner relationship – both of Mark Richard Zubro’s series, Lev Raphael’s Nick Hoffman series, Michael Nava’s Henry Rios series featured him in two monogamous relationships, even Greg Herren’s Scotty books have him ‘settling’ down with one man. My own newly started series has a solidly monogamous relationship that I assure you will continue through the series, and the publisher (Alyson) knew this going in. So I’m puzzled who his publisher is thinking about when he makes a statement like that? Does he even know the field at all?

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