How to talk about love in three sign languages
Learn how to sign about love and romance in Dutch Sign Language (Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGt), German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache or DGS), and American Sign Language. … Read more
Sign languages
Post about sign languages and characters who use them.
Rainbow Snippets: Why is it that people avoid the people they’re crushing on?
Here’s another snippet from Reading the Signs, a romance starring Theo, a Dutch master’s degree student in sign language linguistics. Theo’s been avoiding the object of his affection, but then one day … … Read more
Rainbow Snippets: Dutch culture shock in New Mexico
Here’s another snippet from Reading the Signs, a romance starring Theo, a Dutch master’s degree student in sign language linguistics. Here, we learn about his feelings of displacement while studying in New Mexico, which is so different from home. … Read more
Romance comes in all languages—including sign languages
Here’s a snippet from Reading the Signs, a romance between Theo, a Dutch master’s degree student, and Alfonso, an older American professor of linguistics. … Read more
Rainbow Snippets: Six Sentences from “Pacific Rimming”
Enjoy this NSFW excerpt from “Pacific Rimming,” a romance about a married gay couple who unexpectedly fall in love with a younger man. The story is available for free through Monday.
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Rainbow Snippets: Six Sentences of LGBTQ+ Fiction from “What Marriage Is About”
My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme is a snippet of conversation between the two main characters in my short story “What Marriage Is About,” featured in the pansexual Sexy Little Pages anthology Silence Is Golden. In “What Marriage Is About,” a Deaf couple confronts the scars of institutional abuse as they explore bondage and domination for the first time. This scene happens toward a few minutes after an argument about sex:
Talking about sign languages with Nic Starr
I had so much fun writing about sign languages for today’s Friend Friday on Nic Starr’s blog. In addition to American Sign Language (pictured above with the words “friend” and “Friday”), I talk about several languages from outside the US and where you can learn them. Is your country included? (And if you know … Read more
Rainbow Snippets: Six Sentences of LGBTQ+ Fiction from “Reading the Signs”
My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme is a snippet of conversation between the two main characters in my short story “Reading the Signs,” featured in my recently released MM/gay/bi romance anthology Falling Hard: Stories of Men in Love: “How do you say ‘what’ in Dutch Sign Language?” Alfonso asked one afternoon as they finished … Read more
Rainbow Snippets: Six Sentences from “Pacific Rimming”
My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from “Pacific Rimming,” my new, short m/m/m romance about a married gay couple who unexpectedly fall in love with a younger man while vacationing on Canada’s Vancouver Island. This scene takes place just before their first meeting. … Read more
New Release: Silence Is Golden
I had three releases this past week! I wrote about the sci-fi erotic romance “Far From Home” in a previous tumblr post. The second story, “What Marriage Is About”, came out over the weekend as part of an erotic anthology called Silence Is Golden and is very different. It’s a contemporary story about a … Read more