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The Rescued Pages from GLBT Bookshelf: a Quicklist

When we knew the Bookshelf was "going dark, we gave members plenty of forewarning with a message to this effect on the homepage:

Greetings to all from ARICIA GAVRIEL, standing in for Mel Keegan who, due to personal matters, will not be returning to the Bookshelf. Please read this important message!

As a member you need to be keenly aware that (and this is rather sad) the intention is for GLBT Bookshelf to go offline on its seventh birthday, which falls (somewhat arbitrarily) on May 31, 2016.

We've had a terrific run, and it's been a lot of fun, but all things come to an end at the right moment ... and for us, that moment has arrived.

FOR EXISTING MEMBERS: If you have material online at the Bookshelf, and you don't have a copy elsewhere, this is the time to rescue your stuff. You have three full months to do this ... we're not pulling the plug without plenty of advance warning.

Please feel free to make use of Bookshelf services -- however, use all due caution regarding an investment of significant amounts of time, because the site's remaining lifespan is short, and the clock is running down.

…and of course, the clock did indeed run down, and the Bookshelf “went dark” on time. However, the core group who provided the driving force behind the site decided to rescue our own material. Here at DreamCraft (a domain now owned by Mel Keegan, since Jade and Dave formally retired) you’ll find a wide range of pages, from book reviews to feature articles and author pages, featuring Mel himself, Aricia Gavriel, Jade, Jayne DeMarco, Sara Lansing, Rhonda C., and Buckeroo Bonsai -– who all, at some point, invested time and talent in the site.

Scroll down for a quck-access menu of all the rescued content ... quite a stroll down memory lane!


The Author Pages...


Mel Keegan

Jayne DeMarco

Sara Lansing

Aricia Gavriel

Jade

Rhonda C.


The Feature Articles...


Agent Burns - Sara Lansing

The challenge of marketing gay books online -Mel Keegan

Denouement: two takes on a historic event - Sara Lansing

Details, Details, Inspiration and Details - Sara Lansing

Ebook formats and reader devices: what's right for you? - Mel Keegan

Finding Customers, Making Sales: where ebooks turn into income - Mel Keegan

From Manuscript to Book: a route map to get you there - Jade

Gay books rock -- but who's reading them? - Mel Keegan

Gay ebooks, freebooks, and the future of the industry -Mel Keegan

Gay Science Fiction: Mel Keegan takes a fresh look -Mel Keegan

Gay Science Fiction comes of age with a vengeance -Buckeroo Bonsai

Literary History Repeats Itself, for $2 a Pop -Mel Keegan

Making Headlines ... for the wrong reasons! -Mel Keegan

Monetizing Lesbian Chic -Sara Lansing

Smashwords: what is it, how does it work? -Buckeroo Bonsai

Writers, Inspiration and Recycled Ideas -Mel Keegan


The Book Reviews...


Reviews posted by Mel Keegan:

The Actor and the Earl by Rebecca Cohen

Blood and Rain by Shira Anthony

The Body on the Beach by L.J. LeBarthe

Dr.a.g by Christopher Logan

Duty to the Crown by Rebecca Cohen

Frost Fairby Erastes

Gordon the Giraffe by Bruce Brown

An Impossible Dream Story by V.J. Petretta

Stud by Brigit Zahara

A Violin's Cry by Joseph Cox

Reviews posted Aricia Gavriel:

BUCCANEER, THE by MS Hunter

CRY TO HEAVEN by Anne Rice

DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT by Mel Keegan

THE FANCY DANCER by Patricia Nell Warren

THE FRONT RUNNER by Patricia Nell Warren

FATAL SHADOWS by Josh Lanyon

THE GHOST WORE YELLOW SOCKS by Josh Lanyon

GLAMORPUSS by Christian Mclaughlin

JACKAL IN THE DARK by David Patrick Beavers

THE JADE OWL by Edward C. Patterson

LEATHER + LACE by A.B. Gayle 

THE LORDS OF HARBENDANE by Mel Keegan

MORE THAN HUMAN by Mel Keegan and Jayne DeMarco

NOCTURNE and TWILIGHT by Mel Keegan

THE SWORDSMAN by Mel Keegan

BESIDE THE DARKER SHORE by Patricia J. Esposito

TARNISHED GOLD by Brita Addams

SHAMROCK GREEN by Jackson Cordd

THE DREAM OF A THOUDAND NIGHTS by Shira Anthony

FUN WITH DICK AND SHANE SERIES by Gillibran Brown

Reviews posted by Rhonda C.

A Modest Proposal by Felicitas Ivey

Storm Season by Nessa L. Warin

The Heracian Affair by by Liv Olteano

Reviews rescued from the OLD Rainbow Reviews...

Dangerous Moonlight at Rainbow Reviews

Ground Zero at Rainbow reviews

Ice, Wind & Fire at Rainbow Reviews

Nocturne at Rainbow Reviews

The Swordsman at Rainbow Reviews

And also...

Nocturne by Mel Keegan, reviewed by Yancy Carpentier

Nocturne by Mel Keegan, reviewed by Patricia Esposito

Breakheart by Mel Keegan, reviewed by Yancy Carpentier

The Fire Dragon by M. Kei, reviewed by Jade

Tiger, Tiger by Mel Keegan, reviewed by Buckeroo Bonsai


The Freebie Fiction...


Don't Go Away by Jayne Demarco

Unity Squared by Sara Lansing

Out of the Night by Sara Lansing

Shadow and Flame by Mel Keegan

Redemption by Sara Lansing


The Interviews...

Talking with the Bookshelf's Own Mel Keegan (Fireside with Lichen Craig)

Red Haircrow talks to Mel Keegan