Thank you for coming to my Web site. Please take a look around, think about ordering some – or all – of these books, and pass the word on to others who might be interested.
My most exciting news is that The Haworth Press has just published two more of my books. A new novel, my fourth, called A Few Hints and Clews, is off the presses and available for ordering. This book traces “the loves and lives of two men, their families, and what it means to be gay in America in the Twentieth Century.” To read what people are saying about this book, please go to the Clews section of this Web site. You can ask your local bookstore to order a copy, or you can order directly from The Haworth Press.
The other new book, a paperback version of my second novel, All We Have Is Now, was published in November 2006 by The Haworth Press and is now available from your bookstore or from Haworth. Quotes on the cover call this book “immensely moving and beautifully written,” “heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting,” and a story that “probes the human heart and the very nature of love.”
My third novel, Whose Eye Is on Which Sparrow?, published by The Haworth Press in the fall of 2004, is still available as well. This book won the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Award for the best book of the year with a gay or lesbian theme, including both fiction and nonfiction. It was also named the “Best Gay Romance of 2004” by the InsightOut book-of-the-month club and was featured in their January 2005 “Best Books of the Year” catalog.
In addition to more information about these already-mentioned books, you will also find on this site two other books: my first novel, The Innocent (Fithian Press, 1997) and my collection of short stories and a novella called Revelation and Other Stories (Puckerbrush Press, 2002), both of which are still available and both of which are still extraordinarily timely.
Please look in particular at The Innocent, a novel based on my experiences as an Army Intelligence officer in Vietnam in 1966-1967. Echoes of our current catastrophe in Iraq are throughout this book. It should be available on Amazon, or you can reach the publisher at dandd@danielpublishing.com or at 707-839-3495.
I hope you will also want to read a talk I gave here in Oberlin in the spring of 2005, called “A Vietnam Veteran Looks at Iraq,” published in the Summer/Fall 2005 issue of The Puckerbrush Review, based in Orono, Maine. This essay is a powerful indictment of our current war, from my own perspective as someone who served in Vietnam at the height of the war there. At the time the talk was given and the essay was published, few people in the media were willing to examine the connections (which could not have been clearer to me) between these two wars. Now, of course, such thoughts are everywhere. My essay, however, I believe, remains an important contribution to this debate – and to the cause of peace and sanity. After you have read it, I hope you’ll want to share it with others.
The novella, “Revelation,” which comes at the end of my short story collection, explores the anguish and indecision a young minister faces when he suddenly, out of nowhere, falls in love with a member of his congregation, a young man who teaches third grade. Their painful journey through bigotry and hatred toward some kind of understanding is, sadly, still as current as recent headlines. You can reach the publisher, Puckerbrush Press, at sam_hunting2004@yahoo.com or 207-866-4868.
One more thing: I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage is an anthology published by Suspect Thoughts Press in San Francisco, to which I contributed an essay called “The Story of an Almost Marriage.” This book won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for best nonfiction anthology of the year.
At other places on this site, you will find a biography, a calendar of readings and other appearances (please try to come whenever I’ll be near where you are), and an email link that allows you to be in touch with me directly. I hope you’ll want to do this, to tell me your reactions to these books and to ask any questions you may have – about the books, about the writing of them, about writing in general, anything you might want to have a discussion about. I will answer each message as quickly as I can. I’ve made some wonderful long-distance friends through this process.
Thank you again for the interest that brought you here. Come again!
Happy reading,
