Boutique Books for
Unique Book Readers
The cover (and title) of each book links to a page on this site with more information on the book. Each description includes a link to that book’s Print On Demand partner.
Books via Blurb
December Roses
December Rose” contains 60 images from the Whetstone Park of Roses taken on 12/01/10 (World Aids Day). The book is available at our Blurb shoppe. Printed on Premium paper, available as a paperback or with a premium ‘imagewrap‘ hard cover.
I donate $20 (approximately 90% of my royalty) from the sale of each copy to HIV/AIDS research organizations in the USA and Canada.
Toronto Pride Parades
Toronto Pride Parades: 2006, 2007, 2008 Over 60 photographs (many full-page) from Toronto’s annual Pride Parades offered in this over-sized (13 inch by 11 inch) hard cover 40 page book make this a great gift.
Cover Options at our Blurb shoppe include a Hard Cover with printed paper Dust Jacket or an ImageWrap Cover: the image is printed directly on the hard cover.
This Future Is No Gentle Trophy
My small chapbook of poetry from the 1980s (On Pursuit of a Dream) is no longer available. Most of the contents of that book, along with 8 pages of new material, are now available as This Future Is No Gentle Trophy from our Print on Demand production partner Blurb.
Here is the description from the web-site:
Born near the end of the ‘Baby Boomer Era’, Brian grew up in rural Ontario. Living in a village of 1,000 people in the ’70s he knew he was ‘different’. Moving back to Toronto (his birthplace) as quickly after graduation as he could, he did more than his fair share to celebrate life as a gay person and promote ‘sexual rebellion’.
But some nights he found his pen mightier than, well, his sword. He doesn’t claim to have found answers there to all the ‘big questions’; but offers these writings as notes on his journey.
Moving On
Growing up gay in rural Pennsylvania, Jason adopted a ‘Goth’ appearance to survive high school. Mourning the loss of his father to cancer just as he entered his teen years, Jason wrote out much of the material collected in this volume during the 1990s. Available through Blurb with a hard cover or as a paperback.
Of his work he says:
“everything i have written tells a story of who i am; if you read these poems and you find they hurt your feelings that wasn’t my intention.”
Books via Amazon
Adulting Is Balance and, sometimes, Compromise.
I’ve had a life-long struggle to find an ethical approach to consumption capitalism. Not sure how close I am to finding that at age 67. As part of reducing my Amzn footprint I have de-listed all my titles there- except for 1 Out of 10– at least until I’m able to re-format the original files to match some other Print on Demand bookshop.
1 Out of 10
This book includes 44 selections published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of R&P’s first musical appearance in 1982. Get your copy through Amzn.
Pioneers of the gay folk music scene, Ron Romanovsky & Paul Phillips began their career at San Francisco’s Valencia Rose Cafe as the musical break for Gay Comedy Open Mic Night. Over the next two decades they toured across the nation as well as abroad and released a number of albums which are available again at their Official Web-site.