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yakalskovich) wrote2009-03-08 03:24 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2009-03-08 03:24 pm
LJ is for writers...
... and another of my favourites has found his way here! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mkeegan is an Autralian who writes gay genre novels -- action, SF, fantasy, historical -- with one important point: story comes first. They are rather mainstreamy stories in their genres, but with gay protagonists. And he plots and writes damn gripping stories!! I have been reading what I could lay my hands on since the late 1980s and that Jamaican story, 'Ice, Wind and Fire'...
For example -- my personal favourite is 'Storm Tide', which is simply good a old-fashioned action yarn! It'se about two blokes that get embroiled in illegal goings-on off the Australian coast while on a boattrip to save their relationship which is a bit on the rocks. It takes place within 24 hours, includes the catching of modern-day pirates operating out of Papua New Guinea, and does not let up for one second -- there is action every moment, the narrative does never take a break! And of course all the danger reminds them why they come first to each other so they decide to stay together -- but they also catch the criminals, get help from a tough female merchant captain, and generally go through an action story that could be a solid Hollywood movie from the go -- apart from the protagonists being gay.
I think Mel Keegan lost his publisher when Gay Men's Press went belly-up in the UK; dunno when they did that, but I remember that I tried ordering the one about the crusades from Amazon.de and finally being told that I couldn't get it any more because of blah; that must have been when the publisher folded. Mel Keegan, though, seems to have found alternative ways of publishing stuff and seems to be writing at full tilt still.
Go, look at his LJ, poke his links, read his stuff, enjoy the stories.-
mkeegan is an Autralian who writes gay genre novels -- action, SF, fantasy, historical -- with one important point: story comes first. They are rather mainstreamy stories in their genres, but with gay protagonists. And he plots and writes damn gripping stories!! I have been reading what I could lay my hands on since the late 1980s and that Jamaican story, 'Ice, Wind and Fire'...For example -- my personal favourite is 'Storm Tide', which is simply good a old-fashioned action yarn! It'se about two blokes that get embroiled in illegal goings-on off the Australian coast while on a boattrip to save their relationship which is a bit on the rocks. It takes place within 24 hours, includes the catching of modern-day pirates operating out of Papua New Guinea, and does not let up for one second -- there is action every moment, the narrative does never take a break! And of course all the danger reminds them why they come first to each other so they decide to stay together -- but they also catch the criminals, get help from a tough female merchant captain, and generally go through an action story that could be a solid Hollywood movie from the go -- apart from the protagonists being gay.
I think Mel Keegan lost his publisher when Gay Men's Press went belly-up in the UK; dunno when they did that, but I remember that I tried ordering the one about the crusades from Amazon.de and finally being told that I couldn't get it any more because of blah; that must have been when the publisher folded. Mel Keegan, though, seems to have found alternative ways of publishing stuff and seems to be writing at full tilt still.
Go, look at his LJ, poke his links, read his stuff, enjoy the stories.-