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BOOKS > Works in Progress > Fantasy Worlds
Color sketch by Jade: early development work for the character
of Heath Rogan in the massive gay fantasy series, FLESH AND STEEL.
Discover the Gay Fantasy tales...
Only recently has Mel Keegan begun to be recognized as a writer of
gay fantasy books as well as nuts-and-bolts SF (with a gay spin) ... but things are changing.
MK is becoming known as a major contributor to the genre, with vampyre,
'post-holocaust' and classic fantasy works.
 THE SWORDSMAN is widely recognized as the first out-and-out Keegan fantasy,
though there are broad fantasy elements in WHITE ROSE OF NIGHT,
and of course BREAKHEART had appeared in
SWORDS OF THE RAINBOW (an Alyson Publications title, 1999).
Next came NOCTURNE,
a huge opus which opened up a new phase in DreamCraft's gay publishing list ... the book was by far the longest
work we had handled to date. In NOCTURNE, the reader steps into the astonishing world of the vampyre and their
beloved changelings. That first novel only begins to tickle the surface of what is possible in the realm of
gay vampyre fantasy.
Then ... TWILIGHT, the sequel to NOCTURNE, which brought the characters and scenario
forward by fifteen years or so, into the dawn of the twentieth century. It was just as dangerous to be gay, and
easily twice as dangerous to be a vampyre or changeling! Technology has begun to lick into the lives of these
characters, and of humans...
A little later came
WINDRAGE, which is very definitely a gay fantasy — in fact, it's
a 'gunfighter versus the outlaw badguys' gay western, mounted on super-bikes, in a South Aussie location
some years after the world was hit by an asteroid! This one has already become a reader favorite, since
it was published by DreamCraft in 2007. Another story about these characters is in the works ... more about
that later!
MK's gay fantasy writings are vast, and as yet almost none of them have been published. For example, there's a
single-volume work, THE EYES OF NIGHT, which is something in the nature of 700pp of close-pack type; we'll get
to it in due course ... there's not one gay fantasy and SF trilogy, but several, and rafts of shorter pieces
telling stories of Celtic fantasy, the occult, and much more.
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