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The Weight of Secrets, the Air We Breathe: Why I Wrote A Secret in the Air
Every book I write starts with a question I’m too afraid to ask out loud. For A Secret in the Air, the question was this:What happens when silence becomes its own kind of survival?And what happens when love—unexpected, inconvenient, terrifying love—cracks that silence open? Set in a small Southern town obsessed with order, reputation, and
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Something Tender Survives Is Not a Love Story—It’s A Survival Story
Why I Wrote Something Tender SurvivesBuy it here When I first sat down to write Something Tender Survives, I didn’t know if I was building a novel or just trying to exhale. I’d written about trauma before—memoirs where I peeled back the skin of my past, bled truth onto the page, and called it healing.
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The Chapters That Deserved Volumes: Small Town Gayby: Rebirth Isn’t Painless
Amazon Link: Rebirth Isn’t Painless From The Author When I wrote Small Town Gayby, I called it a fictional memoir—a mosaic of truth and storytelling that pieced together the outlines of my life into something whole. At the time, I needed a way to tell the story in one breath, to get it all out,
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He Gave Me a Reason to Want to Live: The Trauma Bible
Read it Here📘 The Trauma Bible: My Queer Psalms📚 Author Page Some books are written with trembling hands. Some with defiance. The Trauma Bible: My Queer Psalms was born from both. This collection is a love letter to survival—not the glossy, “everything’s fine now” kind, but the quiet, messy, deeply queer kind. The kind of
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OIL AND GLITTER: WHEN CHAOS MET CONTROL IN A ROOM FULL OF SPARKLE
Amazon Link: Oil and Glitter on AmazonAuthor Page: Brandon Cloud’s Author Page Some books arrive in your imagination dressed for combat. Oil and Glitter showed up in sequins and demanded a spotlight. I wrote this queer rom-com as an answer to the question, “What happens when someone who lives by the checklist falls in love
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Texas, But Make It A Theocracy: The Warning Behind Salt and Static
I wrote Salt and Static because I was done whispering. I was born and raised in West Texas, where the gospel is louder than the truth and the heat will peel your skin and your dignity if you let it. I grew up gay in a culture that weaponized silence, shame, and scripture. I survived
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The Man, the Myth, the Misstep: Shannon Price Says She “Had No Choice” But to End Gary Coleman’s Life—Then Fails a Lie Detector
In a story that sounds less like a somber eulogy and more like a mid-season twist on a forgotten true crime docuseries, Shannon Price—the ex-wife, ex-roommate, and ongoing enigma of child star Gary Coleman—has emerged from the shadows once again. This time, she’s here to explain why she pulled the plug on Coleman’s life support
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The Sugar Rot: Why I Wrote The Bitter Aftertaste
The Bitter Aftertaste I’ve always loved zombie stories. Not just the blood and chaos (though, let’s be honest—I live for a good gore-streaked takedown), but the truth they expose. The way they strip people down to who they really are when the Wi-Fi’s gone, the power’s out, and the rules don’t matter anymore. But with
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Behind the Heat: Why I Wrote Suté & Solitude
There’s something about kitchens that always felt a little like churches—hot, reverent, chaotic. A place where you suffer beautifully in the pursuit of perfection. Suté & Solitude was born from that heat. But it’s not just a culinary novel. It’s a love letter to every queer person who’s ever tried to outrun loneliness by working
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A Fragile Armistice: Love, War, and the Prison That Doesn’t End
A Fragile Armistice “You shouldn’t care what happens to me.”“That’s the problem, Vane. I already do.”—Dialogue between Tillman and Vane Let me tell you where this story doesn’t begin:It doesn’t begin with a grand battlefield charge, or a sweeping Southern mansion, or patriotic speeches about freedom. “I don’t need forgiveness, Colonel. I need… I need