title: Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists
author:  Richard Canning 
description: <i>Hear Us Out</i> is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,<i>Gay Fiction Speaks,</i> a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book.... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work. (David McConnell <i>Lambda Book Report</i>)<br /><br />Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews (Christopher Hennessy <i>The Gay and Lesbian Review</i>)
zlib_text: Copyright © 2018 J.D. Light
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  Chapter One
  How many times did I have to tell this old asshole that I wasn't interested in signing on with his
  publishing company? I could almost guarantee he hadn't read one single word of any of my books. He
  no doubt had people to do that.
  The first time he'd called, he'd said something about as a man writing romance novels, he was
  surprised I wasn't queer.
  First, I was queer. Second, if he'd read my romance novels, he'd know that. And third, though I found
  it endlessly amusing that one of his underlings was going about trying to get gay romance novels
  published through the bigot's company without the man even knowing, I didn't want to have to speak to
  the man, so I was out on that one. Self-publishing was working just fine for me.
  And now, for him to show up at my not job, in a room full of men who loved other men, to try to talk
  me into something I'd already told him no to, at least ten times? Well, that was pretty fuck