Browsing Archive: July, 2009

Time Out

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, July 19, 2009, In : New Books 
I just got back to the Bay area in time for the debut of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."  I suspect you're going to tell me that HP isn't gay, it's a straight as an arrow children's story.  And as for erotic, well, I'm sure its a matter of taste as to whether you find werewolves, evil and all things vaguely Wiccan erotic.  It's the last third of m/m erotic romance, I'm talking of. Yeah, the romance part. That, HP has aplenty in my opinion. What's interesting to me is its context. 

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Back on Track

Posted by Gary Martine on Thursday, July 16, 2009, In : New Books 
It's great to be back in San Francsico and the good ole' USA. The warm sun and cool breezes here in the Bay Area are unlike anywhere I've been in the world. I couldn't help but drive over the inviting Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County and steal a couple recouperatiive hours at the ocean at Point Reyes National Seashore. The golden fields passing by on both sides of my open-air MGB reminded me of the words of Katerine Lee Bates in "America the Beautiful" - "O beautiful for spacious skies, For...
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On The Way Home...

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, July 12, 2009, In : New Books 
My sojourn in the world of things feudal Japanese having come to an end, I'm now flying high over the Pacific on my way to my beloved San Francisco with a short stop in Honolulu, for a last Mai Tai, of course.  My otherwise mundane trip (compared to "LOST") livened up briefly when I joined a Sophia's m/m erotic romance author's discussion at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sophia_titheniel/. Fun and even more interesting when the lovely passenger sitting next to me looked over onto the screen o...
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Hawaiians Rocks (and North Korean Rockets) on the U.S. Fourth

Posted by Gary Martine on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, In : Hawaiiana 
Although immersed at the moment in things Japanese, I took a moment to write a short fictitious satire on The Fourth of July based on an experience I had there. I posted it to Frothing Authors and immediately realized it deserved to appear here also:

The Fourth of July is one of the strangest holidays in no-man's-land Hawaii.

On the outside, Hawaii looks very America, USA, thank-you-very-much: American streets, American stop signs and street lights, American police, American English. Well, that...

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If It's Sunday It Must Be Japan

Posted by Gary Martine on Sunday, July 5, 2009, In : Hawaiiana 
As some of you know, I left Hawaii a few days ago for Japan to completing the background research for my next novel, "The Sword of Kamehameha," set in 1260 feudal Japan and Hawaii. The last couple of days, I've been meeting with traditional Japanese sword-makers, learning about how swords were made in the 1200's. I was surprised to find that traditional Japanese sword-makers can recount the evolution of their techniques back over a thousand years. That means that the Sword of Kamehameha proba...
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Closer to The Edge of Madness

Posted by Gary Martine on Saturday, July 4, 2009, In : New Books 
There's something about walking a thousand year-old, tree-lined street of feudal Kyoto in the afternoon, then grabbing a bullet train to end the day at 3 a.m. in the glittering neon-crusted night streets of modern Tokyo that is so mind-boggling as to drive one to madness. Which reminds me of "The Edge of Madness" book I'm working on even now as I travel throughout Japan trying to catch a whiff of its flavor, over 800 years ago around the mid-1200's BCE.

Picking up where "Total Meltdown" (Wild...
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Gary Martine aka Raymond Gaynor is a reclusive writer, artist, photographer and videographer who, in his words, "lives and breathes" San Francisco.

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