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    Thanks! I love the Tales of the City series, totally inspired me!
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    “So I have a date tonight” James said, breaking the silence in the office. It had been a fairly quiet morning so far, and too much quiet started to feel awkward. Adam looked up and smiled. “That’s awesome man. So you can totally get over that girl from the bar”. Ahh. The girl from the bar. Nancy. He never told Adam what happened. Probably never would. He hadn’t said much the following few days though, so Adam seemed to have assumed nothing had happened. The truth was,
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    Daniel was running home. The streets around him everywhere looked dark and deserted. It must be the early hours of the morning. He couldn’t even remember where he had been tonight but he needed to get back to the safety of the flat. There was somebody following. He couldn’t be that far from home, but the city suddenly looked unfamiliar in the dark, and the figure following him was getting quicker. He picked a direction and ran full pelt. He turned a corner and a few seconds too late real
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    Being free to date was the best thing about being single. Well, ok, being free to have casual sex with hot strangers was the best thing about being single. Within the first week of arriving in Manchester Adam had signed up to the dating website, Gayzer, an online fairground. He had quickly stumbled across the profile of a swimmer called Matt, who had a friendly face, big biceps and an extremely toned body. The pictures of him in very small trunks at the pool were particularly distracting.
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    Thomas took his seat at the long cheap table in the familiar sterile basement room. The only natural light coming in was from a tiny envelope window at the top of the wall. Month after month, this was his prison cell. Behind him people were making tea and irritating small talk. He sat impassively and stifled a yawn. Last night had been another late one at the laptop. “Order then. Order people” came the thudding Lancashire voice of Gordon Stead, leader of the Manchester Liberal Democrat g
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    James was sitting at his desk in the solitary office at the far end of the third-floor corridor, idly flicking through the online news stories on Canada Today. He could hear his boss Angie’s voice on her way down the hall. This must be the new guy getting the typical ten-minute induction. Because obviously the university had recruited a new guy. There was barely enough work to justify his own role, so to remedy the situation of course they would recruit someone new to help him out.
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    So he got turned down by a twentysomething. It was no big deal. He didn’t even want to date a twentysomething. They were always so needy, so eager to prove themselves, so unnecessarily excitable. He didn’t need dating. At just 35, he was the founder and owner of Delaney Architects, a local Councillor and a one-time hero of the Gay Village. One-time hero. Thomas sat at his antique walnut desk, and stared at the 19-year old figure with eyes full of sexual mischief on his laptop screen.
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    Adam was in two minds whether to stay or go as Ali disappeared across the room and away for the evening. He decided he would probably just finish his pint, then head off. Cameron came back across as soon as there was a lull in customers. “So you staying on for the evening fun?” the barman asked wryly. Adam looked at his glass with a third remaining and back up to Cameron. “I’ll get you a fresh one, on me” Cameron said, answering the question for him. “And let me welcome
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    Two floors down from the dinner party, Ali was pacing the flat, preparing agendas, pens and papers for an emergency meeting of the University environmental group, and at the same time desperately trying to remember the name of the guy her flatmate Daniel was dating. Daniel was lounging on the L-shaped sofa, half-watching some documentary about the Italian Renaissance. Their flat was almost identical to every other flat in the block, populated with the same generic modern furniture. It was
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    Thanks, glad you're liking the start! It's all drafted now, so going to try keep posting a chapter per day.
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    Fuck, it felt so good to be free. A cheery middle-aged waitress brought across an ice-cold lager and put it down on the table. Adam took a gulp and sat back in the metal seat, looking out across Piccadilly Gardens. For the last few months in that prison of a house in the middle of nowhere, the dream of Manchester had seemed so far away. He had whiled away hours thinking of it. When he lived in Manchester he was going to start shopping in those fancy menswear shops in the creative pa
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    Manchester 2009. Adam, 25, has just broken up with his long term boyfriend and moves to the city despite knowing nobody and nothing about city life. He dives into his new-found independence and experiences the highs and lows of drinking, dating and dealing with his unusual flatmate, his emotionally troubled workmate, his environmentalist neighbour, her sexually frustrated roommate and a local Councillor who was once the hero of the gay village. The story unfolds through the eyes of each of the six characters, as their lives weave in and out of one another, with political ambitions, sexual exploration, personal demons and unearthed secrets.
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    Thanks Hunter, that's pretty much what I thought. Couldn't see it being a brilliant route!
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    Thanks all, some useful links here. I've also been advised to look at self publishing on amazon. Anyone had any experience / heard any stories about that? Not sure how well it'd work for me?
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    Hi, Not sure if anyone can help, but i've recently finished drafting a book, and spent a long while editing and honing, and am keen now to share it with a publisher and see if there is any interest. Only thing is, i'm not sure where best to start. It seems that gay fiction publishers are on the decline at the moment, especially in the UK (and its very much a UK based story so I think that is definitely the preference) Does anyone have any views on this? Or if there is anyone with more experience on working with publishers / knowing what they'd expect, i'd really appreciate some input on whether the story / writing quality etc is likely to be up to standard / who I might best approach? If anyone can help out, please get in touch, Cheers, Stuart
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    Thanks Drew, let me know if you like it. x
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    Thanks, look forward to getting comments back!
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    So about 5 years, 27 chapters and 95,000 words later, i've got a full draft of my book which i'm quite happy with. Just going through chapter by chapter now, but i'd really, really appreciate having thoughts of others feeding into this, if anyone would like to read it through. Any comments very gratefully received, the link is here: https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/story/stuyounger/lostinmanchester Thanks, Stuart
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    I live really close to Sackville Gardens in Manchester, where there's a statue of him, very close to Canal Street. Great man
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    I'm currently only about 40% of the way through writing my first book, but I can imagine I will feel amazing when its all finished (and even more so if eventually it gets published). Imagine there will always be a part of me thinking some bits could have been better though.
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    I loved the Wire, but West Wing probably edges it. Just working through Six Feet Under now, and am enjoying that too.
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    Amazing
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    Ah, Prince Harry, what a national treasure I don't think its really done him any harm!
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    Hi, am new onto here, and just wondering if there are many UK writers here, or is it mainly American, or others? Think there are some interesting differences in gay literature from different countries, so it'll be interesting to explore. Have a story in progress, so looking forward to hopefully being able to post it up and get some feedback from gay-lit conoisseurs! Stuart x
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