Tracey Shellito is the author of the Crème de la Crime novel Personal Protection as well as e-book titles including Red Skin and The Scantlebury Demon. Aside from appearing in acclaimed anthologies such as Vamps, Locked and Loaded, Periphery and Best Lesbian Erotica...
I love public transportation. Lately I don't have many opportunities to use it, but I've always had a fondness for subway trains, buses, trolleys and such. I learned early in life how to navigate the oldest subway system in America, back when the subway cars had...
"Gay rights" appear to have progressed much further in Canada than in the U.S. Yet the cultures of the two countries are similar. Is Canada now a haven for gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered refugees from everywhere else? If so, why? While the public visibility of a...
If I had a quarter for every time I got into a discussion about gay marriage over the past ten years or so...I'd have lots and lots of quarters. It's been one of the hottest hot-button issues over the past decade, and I've gotten into it with everyone from the...
In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't managed to do any new novel writing since my last column. I'll blame vacation, back-to-school shopping, and a few unseasonably hot days in the Bay Area that reduced me to lolling around like a sun-doped lizard. I would be...
Some writers are capable of creating vivid descriptions. Others can forge exotic, erotic sex scenes that bristle beyond the page. There are others who can weave incredibly tight plots which maintain a perfect balance between entanglement and enlightenment. And then...
Bear with me a moment, gentle readers, for it is not my intention to hold forth on things political; there are enough commentators on politics already, actually, more than enough. But allow me to make an observation on a "movement" gathering much media interest in the...
My Lovely Wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary last month. Nineteen happy years of marriage to each other. (At this point, if I were a comedian, I’d add that we’ve been married twenty-four years, but that little joke would earn me a sock on the arm and a...
In 1933, Judge William Washington Callahan of the Alabama Supreme Court was appointed to retry a young man, Haywood Patterson, who had already been sentenced to death for participating in an alleged gang rape in a freight train in 1931. Judge Callahan had this to say:...
Ever the dreamer, I'd hoped that cooking up a second novel would be easier than writing my first, because, well, I could simply repeat what worked the first time, avoid the parts that didn't, and sail smoothly onward to those most wonderful words for any novelist "The...