Best Overall Non Fiction (1° place): The Golden Age of Gay Fiction edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn

[elisa_rolle]

Comments

[vjbanis]

Yes, I too felt the love in this book. I'm very happy and proud to be a part of it

Victor

[elisa_rolle]

You are both an author named than an author who named... This essay is so much about you and all the authors like you. And you were so chic in all those covers for the CAMP books... because it was you them, wasn't it? Elisa

[jgraeme2007]

Thanks so much for posting this, Elisa. I'm enjoying reading through the review copy now -- so much in this one beautiful book. And the art alone is, as you say, amazing.

[elisa_rolle]

Oh, I DO so want some of those books, if only for the cover art! Elisa

Great review from a superb reviewer

[williammaltese]

Elisa. --It's always such a pleasure to see you review a book in which I appear (like this one), and/or one I've written (like those you've reviewed of mine in the past)! I do have to admit that it's always strange, though, to find myself suddenly an intricate part of a reference book. I remember it happening the first time when "The Advocate" did a retrospective of its articles most indicative of the particular decades in which they'd published, and there was one of mine. Shouldn't I be feeling older than "just" two-hundred-and-ten?! Ciao, baby!

Re: Great review from a superb reviewer

[elisa_rolle]

I so love that passage of your essay, I didn't know of the Advocate. I even loved when you talked of your dear lady friend, and how you wooed her with flowers and chocolate... lucky lady! Elisa

[pearly_dreams]

Oooooh... I'll admit it, I am one of those 'newbies' who thought it was a recent phenom (recent meaning... past decade.). Mostly because I haven't thought on it much. ><

But... wow. If (when! x.X) I ever write a book, I want cover art like some of that. So stunning!! And way nicer than some of the stuff today! (Plus it reminds me of the lovely old sci-fi covers. xP)

[elisa_rolle]

The Lord Won't Mind was out in 1970 and I think that was one of the first (if not the first) covers it had. And you are right it's way better than some modern covers. And in the essay they explained that it was also an innovation, since for the first time the two male "romantically" involved characters were looking in each other eyes, and they have a "physically" connection (holding hands).

Victor Gadino was also a reknowed "clinch covers" artist, and later he became an exhibited artist. I didn't find any updated info about him. I don't even know if he is still alive.

Elisa

[pearly_dreams]

1970? Really? xD

What is a 'clinch cover' might I ask?

[elisa_rolle]

Clich covers were those savage romance cover where usually the heroine was partially naked in the passionate embrace of a strong and very mainly hero. Elisa