Releasing August 30, 2025 from JMS Books! < Click for a link.
This title is releasing wide; more retailer links will be available in due course at the book page on Queeromance Ink. < Click for a link.
Three key things about ETERNAL SUMMER:
it’s a M/M lifetime-love story, beginning in 1937 and continuing to 1987 (with an epilogue in 1988).
it’s a coworkers-to-lovers story, featuring a Broadway writer and his acting, singing, dancing star.
it’s inspired in part by an anecdote I read in a biography of a very famous movie musical star.
and a bonus point:
it has a happy ending!
ETERNAL SUMMER was sparked by the experience of watching Fellow Travelers. It’s not the first time I’ve turned an unhappy source into my own fiction, the kind with a happy ending. In this case, to get to a happy ending I had to tell the whole story of a lifetime love, from 1937 to 1987. The research for this novella, though it touches on a lot of sad, scary times, was ultimately uplifting—because there has been a lot of successful LGBTQ+ love over the past century. And, lucky for me, many of those stories are out in the world to inspire us.
The title is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 18.
Dedicated to the memory of William Gaines, Arthur Laurents, Farley Granger, and all the others who made love work for the long term, despite everything society threw at them.