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
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Bridge Across the Ocean
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Uprising: The Suspense Thriller
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The Devil Inside: The Suspense Thriller 

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Welcome to my world

My Psychotic Little Pulp Novel

"A psychotic little pulp novel about Kordell Christie, a square gay businessman who becomes part of a mystery that involves mind control and a place called the Facility where there are drug-enhanced masturbation machines."

—Unzipped Magazine
on The Devil Inside
Now available as an eBook

Randy Boyd's eBooks at Barnes & Noble

Journey over the Bridge Across the Ocean, or come face to face with the Devil Inside like never before with Randy Boyd's ebooks, now available at the Barnes & Noble online store.

Both novels were Lambda Literary Award Finalists. Now both novels can be downloaded and read on digital devices, including your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry or nook.

Your on-the-go, summer reading options just got better with the heartwarming Bridge Across the Ocean and the suspense thriller Devil Inside, now available as ebooks!

Could the Right Be Right About Gays?

"This is everything the Right needs to put gay culture in the grave. The National Enquirer couldn’t make up a story more ridiculous if the whole staff smoked crack at the next editorial meeting.

To paraphrase REM, it’s the end of the gay world as we know it. We might as well all take a shot of extra-strength HIV and die within 48 hours of this story breaking.

How could we ever recover from something like this? How could we ever convince ourselves that they were not right about us all along?"

—from The Devil Inside,
the Suspense Thriller
by Randy Boyd

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Sci Fi/Horror
A Gaylactic Spectrum Awards nominee for Best Sci Fi Novel

A psychotic little pulp novel." Unzipped Magazine

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Catch Him by Surprise

... the creaky sound of the front door opening. It was Sal. Alone. She had a worn look on her face and a bag of groceries in her arms. Her hair was uncombed, her posture battle-fatigued. A mother in the midst of a major life crisis, the kind they didn’t prepare mothers for.

She labored toward the kitchen to get rid of the groceries she had been in the middle of paying for when she got the emergency call on her cell phone. She dropped the bag on the countertop and shook her head. Should she even concern herself with putting away the perishables?

She heard a noise. Paranoia? No, there it was again, a creak. In another room, the hardwood floor had creaked.

What now, she thought, I’m being robbed?

She grabbed a large butcher knife from the dish rack and exited the kitchen. The noise had come from one of the bedrooms, she decided. Heart racing, stomach churning, she made her way down the hallway, creeping and cautious. It was dark, but she didn’t dare turn on the light or make a sound. Catch him by surprise. Slice off his nuts. See if he fucks with a pissed-off Latina ever again.

—from The Devil Inside,
the Suspense Thriller
by Randy Boyd

Black Album

Once upon a time, the artist who will always be known as Prince had a Black Album. It was full of darkness, violence, anger. It also went unreleased, except to bootleggers, for years. Being an obsessed Prince fan at the time, I had a bootleg copy of the Black Album--what was it?--within 48 hours of its canceled release date, December 7, 1987.

The “unofficial” story had something to do with Prince canceling the release of his dark dreams because he had seen the light, more or less. Still, several years later, the Black Album was released and on the shelves of the last of those old record-turned-CD-music stores.

Instead of the Black Album, Prince's next release was Lovesexy, a joyful romp, the opposite of dark. He appeared nude on the cover, which caused an uproar. Some stores only carried an altered version of the CD cover.

Cut to 20 years later. The violence in rap music has far surpassed that of Prince's Black Album, while celebrities, both male and female, pose nude every chance they get. Many of them are babies of the Purple Rain-ed on 80s.

The Devil Inside is my black album. Not the literal journey, nor the literary themes. The identification comes from the artist's descent into the darkness of his world, which is to say the world around him.

For me, that world was the gay world and the dark side of existing in a somewhat safe sovereign nation within the United States, where men can be with other men and women can be with other women, while simultaneous living in an overall nation that demonizes gays as perverts and child molesters.

Kordell, the main character in The Devil Inside, is a successful black gay businessman. His business caters to families and kids. He's well-respected in the community and seems like the perfect catch. That is, until a pure evil enters his life.

For 72 hours of Kordell Christie's life, I put him through all kinds of hell. This once proud man faces demons real and imagined, as he ultimately asks, “Do all gays have the devil inside?”

Like Prince, my follow-up work was a joyful journey, the romantic Walt Loves the Bearcat. No nude artist on the cover though. Just flying football stadiums and a teddy bear. In novel number four, I saw the light and in it, better dreams.

But for novel number three, I went dark, so dark Unzipped Magazine called The Devil Inside, "a psychotic little pulp novel.”

I just call it my third child, and my black album.

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The Devil Made Me Write It

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The Devil Inside

Perfect Catch or Pure Evil?

What if you had to figure out if your next date is the perfect catch or pure evil?

Kordell is a respected businessman. Mario is a childhood friend who reappears out of the blue.

 The two get along great, but Mario's memory is a little hazy, his behavior a little strange, and his dark secrets linked to a bizarre world that could become the gay community's worst nightmare (if you haven't read it, don't ask. If you have read it, don't tell).



Is Mario a dream lover or date from hell?

Should Kordell risk his business, his friends and his life to unravel the mystery?



They both have 72 hours to figure out who has the devil inside.
A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Science-Fiction
A Gaylactic Spectrum Awards nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel

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Critical Praise for The Devil Inside

"A wild ride into the thicket of political issues and psychological thrills. Boyd juggles his over-the-top plot with energy, glee, and ease. A highly satisfying roller-coaster-read of a book." Q Syndicate Book Marks



"Boyd carves out his characters like a sculptor. An excellent mystery from a terrific writer." 365Gay.com

"A taut thriller, loaded with fantastic twists, turns, and a cast of characters you won't soon forget. A page turner that will keep you guessing right to the end." The Texas Triangle



"A riveting, Hollywood-style thriller. The most refreshing part? For a change, the two heroes aren't white. Kordell is an African-American with AIDS, and Mario is, of course, Latino. A third major character is Japanese. Quite a nifty twist to your routine gay male adventure novel, making this a must summer read." The Letter (Louisville, KY)



"A psychotic little pulp novel about Kordell Christie, a square gay businessman who becomes part of a mystery that involves mind control, a bad man named Pizarro, and a place called the Facility where there are drug-enhanced masturbation machines." Unzipped Magazine