Showing posts with label Author Info. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Author Info. Show all posts

4/22/2016

Visit the NEW Randy Boyd's Blocks


If you're reading this, you've come across Randy Boyd's blog, version 1, the Google Blogger years. Also know as my original blog that ran on Blogger from 2007-2015.

For my newly remodeled blog (including most of the material here), visit RandyBoydsBlocks.com. That's where I'll be posting new blocks 'til death do me part. The software behind the new site is WordPress, a much more powerful publishing tool.

As for this Blogger site, I plan on leaving it up, seeing as how it's free and will, theoretically, live on as long as we have an Internet. That could be long after life after me, which is why I hope to archive my new blog material here as well. Someday.


9/15/2015

Randy Boyd's books, now available as e-books!


My books are like my kids. I'm happy with the way they turned out. I'm also happy to announce that all four of my novels are now available as e-books.

Each book is piece of myself set forth into the world, a reflection of my dreams, a part of my soul. The main perspective is that of a black gay man living with HIV/AIDS. Go figure.

Each book has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Each book has been Luccie'd every time. :-)

When people ask me which book to start with, I tell them: if you really want to know what it's like being me, go for Walt Loves the Bearcat. It's full of the most autobiographical nuggets and it’s also the book that inspired my next series of books.

But I'll let you decide. Hopefully, you'll get to know and love all my kids. Wouldn't that be cool?

Here's how to find Randy Boyd's books, now available in print and as e-books:

To see all my books on one page, go to:
Randy Boyd's books in Apple's iBookstore
Randy Boyd's Amazon.com author page
Randy Boyd's Smashwords.com author page
Randy Boyd's books at Barnes and Noble

To find individual links to my books, read on:

Walt Loves the Bearcat
Get print or e-book at Amazon
Get print or e-book at Barnesandnoble
Get e-book in Apple's iBookstore
Get e-book on Smashwords.com

Bridge Across the Ocean
Get print or e-book at Amazon
Get print or e-book at Barnesandnoble
Get e-book in Apple's iBookstore
Get e-book on Smashwords.com

Uprising: The Suspense Thriller
Get print or e-book at Amazon
Get print or e-book on Barnesandnoble
Get e-book in Apple's iBookstore
Get e-book on Smashwords.com

The Devil Inside: The Suspense Thriller 
Get print or e-book at Amazon
Get print or e-book at Barnesandnoble
Get e-book in Apple's iBookstore
Get e-book on Smashwords.com

Welcome to my world

5/07/2012

Hiatus

You may have noticed that Randy Boyd's Blocks has been inactive for some time now. That's because I've relocated (temporarily) to another planet. It's called TrikkeWorld, a new child of mine that requires a lot of attention.

Hopefully, once TrikkeWorld is a little more evolved, I'll be able to re-arrange my worlds (and better manage them!) and get back to building more blocks and writing more books.

Thanks for your patience.

3/07/2010

Meet the Kids

As a child, I imagined books and movies about someone like me. Rarely did I see images of people who thought like me, acted like me and with whom I could identify. And that was just in real life! On television, in novels and in the movies, I simply didn't exist.

Makes a brutha feel like Hollywood and the book world can't imagine someone like me being worthy of a plot.

Fortunately, they don't have to. I'm imagining it for them. Here now, my four novels to date. They're like my kids. I'm happy with the way they turned out.

A young black man living with HIV/AIDS dreams of an alternate life where he is HIV-negative and lovers with pro football's greatest quarterback. Or is that, a young black man who is HIV-negative dreams of an alternate life where he's living with HIV/AIDS and never meets pro football's greatest QB? Your ticket is your imagination. Walt Loves the Bearcat, a Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Romance.

A famous but closeted black pop singer tests positive for HIV and plots to assassinate a homophobic US Senator, while a straight white FBI agent goes undercover, as a gay activist, to stop him. Which side will you be on? Uprising, a two-time Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Mystery and Best Small Press Title.

An HIV-positive, black gay businessman must save his business and a friend's life by uncovering a sinister plot to demonize all homosexuals. The mind is a terrible thing to fuck with. The Devil Inside. A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, and a Gaylactic Spectrum Awards nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel.

A young black man tests positive for HIV, then escapes to Cancun, Mexico, where he meets two white teenage brothers who idolize him, not knowing he is living with HIV/AIDS. It's a friendship that will change all their lives forever. Bridge Across the Ocean, a Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Small Title.

Welcome to my world.

9/14/2008

Email Randy Boyd

Comment? Question? Friend? Media Request?

9/06/2008

Bio

Randy Boyd is the author of four novels, several short stories and many essays, all from the unique point of view of a black man who has been living with HIV/AIDS for more than half his life.

His novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards, including his latest release, Walt Loves the Bearcat, a Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Romance.

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Randy graduated from UCLA in 1985 and has been writing professionally his entire adult life.

His fiction has appeared in Blackfire magazine, as well as the following anthologies: Certain Voices (Alyson Books); Flesh and the Word 2 (Plume); Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries); Flashpoint: Gay Male Sexual Writing (Masquerade Books), MA-KA: Diasporic Juks (Sister Vision); and Freedom in this Village: Black Gay Men's Writing 1969 to the Present (Carroll & Graf).

His nonfiction has been featured in the Indiana Word, Frontiers, Au Courant, The Washington Blade, The James White Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The Lambda Book Report, BeyondChron.com and the anthology Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (Dutton). Randy is also a contributor to Outsports.com and the publications of the Black AIDS Institute.

An avid sportsman and fan of his hometown Indiana Pacers, Randy lives in Southern California and has a dog named Boomer, named after the Pacers mascot. Boomer is the inspiration for When In Doubt, Pet the Dog, a periodic blog column.