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Just discovered Mel Keegan? You can always contact DreamCraft for help, but before you do, take a glance through our FAQ. There's a good chance your question has been answered! Is MK available in ebook form? Naturally -- and in the popular formats of epub, Kindle and PDF, as well as luscious paperbacks which are the perfect gift solution when birthdays and Christmas roll around.  RICH FULL COLOR COVERS ON EVERY TITLE Your experience of any book, gay novel or otherwise, starts with the cover. All DreamCraft books have full-color covers, and our artist, Jade, continues to produce amazing work. Every cover has been redesigned over the years. See Books In Print to check out the new jackets. And if digital art fascinates you, our resident artist, Jade has a page here on-site as well as a separate gallery. Enjoy!  DELICIOUS HEROES! Every Mel Keegan book is strong on gay heroes (also, often, on gay villains), and some of these heroes are the most delicious in fiction: Jarrat and Stone from the NARC series, Bill Ryan and Jim Hale from THE DECEIVERS, Neil Travers and Curtis Marin from Hellgate, and many more unforgettable characters. Because Mel's books feature the male/male gay relationship, the partnership at the core of each book is integral: this is the relationship driving the story, and it can be very powerful indeed. "Unputdownable," as HIM Magazine said of Death's Head (the first novel in the NARC series). SO, THESE ARE SPECIFICALLY GAY BOOKS? Yes and no! Depends what you mean by 'gay books.' To many readers, a 'specifically' gay book concerns gay characters doing gay things, speaking gay dialog, addressing gay issues, for 300pp. Mel Keegan's novels tend to be a little different. They concern gay characters doing extraordinary things, which may have a gay connection or not; delivering dialog that ranges from the poetic to the technical, and may be gay — or not, depending on context; and while the novels certainly address gay issues (especially the historical novels, which get to grips with what it meant to be gay in other centuries), there is very much more in them than 'only' gay issues. Simply stated, MK novels range across the whole spectrum and are about everything ... including being gay!  NARC — Jarrat and Stone ... the cult-classic! Some stroke of inspired genius got into Mel back around 1990, and the NARC "universe" was the result. Two books were done in quick succession, DEATH'S HEAD and EQUINOX, featuring Mel's two most unforgettable heroes, in a "universe" that is consuming, and storylines that don't let you go, not even to sleep, till you've turned the last page. This are the ingredients for a "cult classic," and the two NARC books would have been eight or ten books by now, if the publisher in the UK had not suffered terminal problems. GMP was bought out by Prowler and later became an even smaller part of the Millivres-Prowler Group, in a double-merger which almost erased the original GMP and its old fiction list). You can read the full story of the real-world publishing fracas online, in the Keegan Speaks! section ... and you can soon catch up with the growing cult of the NARC Universe. Now Mel Keegan was with DreamCraft, and the long, long awaited continuation of the series was published in 2006, with STOPOVER and APHELION. At the time of this site update (late 2011) we can tell you that another novel is in the works. Note: The NARC sub-site is currently under redevelopment and will be online as soon as humanly possible. Browse the books title by title: 
 
  
SO WHAT HAS MEL KEEGAN WRITTEN, AND WHEN, AND FOR WHOM? "Mel Keegan" is a pen-name which has appeared on around 30 assorted titles to date, with four more titles due in quick succession. This writer has also worked in genres other than gay male fiction, but on the website here, we're focused on these novels. You can catch up with Mel's publishing history, what's in print, and where to buy them, on-site right here. And remember, when you get Mel Keegan books directly from this website, you get much more than just a book. On-site here, you can get inside the writer's mind, share the thinking behind the novel, review it yourself, share your thoughts with the publisher and writer, and other readers. Alas, we can't offer you signed copies any longer. For the first seven years of publishing with DreamCraft, the books were manufactured here and Mel would sign every copy. In late 2007, we made the change to using the printshops serving Amazon (which are in the USA/Canada, UK/Europe), and obviously MK can't be signing copies now. From 1989 to 2001, MK was with GMP, the Gay Men's Press, in the UK. Following the takeover of GMP by Prowler, which was subsequently absorbed into MPG (The Millivres Publishing Group, which concentrates on magazines), the old GMP paperback list was closed down. MK entered a partnership with DreamCraft Multimedia, in South Australia, in 2001, and in 2011 we're expanding into offshore manufacture. Once again, the Mel Keegan books will be manufactured in the northern hemisphere. Eight novels were published by GMP and Millivres, and the novella, Breakheart was published by Alyson Publications, in the SWORDS OF THE RAINBOW anthology, in 1999. Browse through the booklist to see which titles have been published by whom. At this time, every old work on the "Mel Keegan" byline has been reissued. Since 2001, DreamCraft has reissued all of the nine paperback Keegan titles, and published more than twenty new titles. Many more are due inthe future. MK has no plans to stop writing anytime soon! So, what KIND of novels does Mel Keegan write? Every Mel Keegan novel is an adventure or thriller, though it might be set in the past, present or future, and they're all between 90,000 and 210,000 words in length. Each one has a strong romantic element: there's at least one relationship at the core, driving the plot ... and the "twist" or "spin" to the Keegan novels is, without exception, it will be a gay (male) relationship. With the exception of Ice, Wind & Fire and White Rose of Night, the books are not what the modern market would term hot, but they can be deliciously spicy. When violence occurs, it is also realistic. Many of the Keegan novels concern paramilitary and military across the centuries, from the distant past to the far future. The books are not recommended for young readers: they were not written for the younger reader! Due to gritty themes (the drug war, armed conflict, realistically portrayed situations, and romantic liaisons), we won't knowingly supply them to young readers. Be aware when ordering of the gritty themes and same-gender relationships at the core of these novels.
     
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