About the only thing familiar about this June is the hot weather that has been ushered in these past few days. In a month that is usually packed with Pride events every weekend around the world, just about all of the parades and parties have been canceled for this year for safety reasons due to the Coronavirus. Without a doubt, there is no way of social distancing yourself at an event with thousands of people around you.

As the saying goes, “April showers, bring May flowers.” This has never been as true as it is this spring. With a ‘Shelter in Place’ order implemented around most of the world and the social distancing mandate due to the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic, March and April may have been pretty dark months for some. Let’s hope for the flowers in May!

From the multi-published Rainbow Award-winning author and a Lambda Literary and International Book Award Finalist, Bryan T. Clark comes the most anticipated book of the year!

My new book, FAR AWAY, is finished and set for release on May 1^st. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover for my newsletter readers ONLY.

I am absolutely positive you’re going to love this book! The story is of two boys, one summer, and a love so grand that, in their adulthood, neither can forget the day they met. An imprint made so strong on their hearts that, even with all that life threw at them, it kept their love alive.

As James A. Baldwin once said:

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is growing up.”

Once upon a time, I was a huge fan of Valentine’s Day. Some thirty plus years ago, when my husband and I first dated, we were just two young boys sitting on a rock along a river bank. I knew so little about love: the depths in which one can love, the complications of love, the power of love.

Wow, 2019 had to have been the longest year of my life! Good and bad, much has happened over the last twelve months in our household. I would have to say that my high may have been the most successful book release of my career. Escaping Camp Roosevelt, released in May 2019, has sold more copies in its first year than any of my other books during their first year. With 100% of the first year’s royalties being donated to Larkin Street Youth Services/Homeless Shelter, in San Francisco, California, I couldn’t be more grateful to everyone who purchased the book! One book can make a difference in someone’s life.

Last month my husband Brian (Yes, his name is Brian also) and I celebrated our thirty-five-year anniversary. I truly can’t believe we’ve been together for thirty-five years! It seems as if it was just yesterday that we were teenagers, sitting on a rock by the river, getting to know one another.

It’s finally September and although we probably still have two or three days of over one hundred-degree temperatures left here at home, I know this is the end of summer. For starters, I no longer have to search for a vacant treadmill at the gym now that all the kids are back in school! Just in the past week, night-time temperatures have dropped enough to now allow me to turn off the AC and sleep with my windows open. There is nothing better than that nice breeze coming through the window at night.

You may have read his monthly blogs, or read one of his many award-winning books, but do you know who Bryan T. Clark is?  Well, this month we get to know the romance writer behind the keyboard.

So, let’s begin and start with a light introduction.

Well, I think of myself as a funny, loving, family-oriented man and a proud member of the LGBTQ community.  After twenty-seven years in law enforcement, I retired a couple of years ago to focus on my writing full time.  When I am not writing, I love traveling with our horses, lying by a body of water soaking up the sun, and watching a good movie while snuggled up on the couch with my beautiful husband of thirty-five years, and our loyal companion Nettie, the Sheepadoole.

I received some exciting news last month which I want to share with all of you!

The International Book Awards announced the winners and the finalists of the 2019 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (IBA) on May 11, 2019. My novel, Diego’s Secret, is an Award-Winning Finalist in the LGTBQ Fiction category!

This news was especially gratifying to receive, as I never felt this book gained the attention that it so deserved. When I wrote the book, my intent was to reveal a love story between two opposites—extreme opposites, in this case.