Friends, Romans, Influencers...why I'm done with you
What modern social media looks like to me.I am SO TIRED of social media.That's possibly not a surprise to anyone who knows me, as in actually knows me as opposed to being my 'friend' so...
Audiobooks
I'm delighted to bring to you these stories in audiobook format - more to come in time...
Click on the covers to visit the Beaten Track listing for each book where you'll also find the links to Audible and Amazon.
Alternatively, search for 'Debbie McGowan' on your audiobook vendor of choice.
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down •
The Great Village Bun Fight
Of The Bauble •
When Skies Have Fallen
Checking Him Out Series
Checking Him Out is LGBTQIA romance (Books 1–3 inclusive: M/M romance; Book 4: bi/queer romance), so fair warning is given here about the sexual content in most of the instalments. If you prefer contemporary, non-explicit stuff, Hiding Out and The Making Of Us are both non-explicit, or why not try Hiding Behind The Couch?
Checking Him Out - book one - is available for free!
Checking Him Out For the Holidays - a short festive novella
Hiding Out - a novella - George, Josh and Libby from Hiding Behind The Couch
meet Matty and Noah from Checking Him Out
Taking Him On - book two - Noah and Matty's story.
Checking In - book three - More antics with Sol and Adam.
The Making Of Us - book four - Jesse and Leigh's story.
Seeds of Tyrone Series
Seeds of Tyrone (co-written with Raine O'Tierney) is a series of gay/bi romances, so again, fair warning is given here about the sexual content.
Leaving Flowers - book one - Patrick and Aidan's story
Where the Grass is Greener - book two - Chancey and Seamus's story
Christmas Craic and Mistletoe - book three - Paulo/Harrison's and Tom/Michael's stories
HIDING BEHIND THE COUCH is a series of novels and short stories about a group of nine friends - The Circle - who first met at school.
They've been described as the literary equivalent of 'Take That' - there's a character to suit everyone.
Why not dip into the story and see what you think?
Fiction
I write character-driven stories, and I don't like to stick to one genre. Thus, you'll find mostly CONTEMPORARY FICTION with/without romance, a little SCI-FI FANTASY of the amateur quantum physics (time travel-ish) variety, and some HISTORICAL FICTION too, all with strong LGBTQ+ representation (i.e. it's about people, people).
Not Fiction
I'm a social scientist, interdisciplinary - identity politics, gender and sexuality, social/political psychology; ethnographer, deconstuctionist, discourse-analytical...free-floating, unapologetic in-betweeny.
It's my fence, and I'll sit on it if I like. (The personal is political.)
From My Blog
Gray Fisher Trilogy - one volume paperback and Kindle Unlimited
Three years after his partner’s death, Detective Chief Inspector Gray Fisher has finally made the break from the police. With a new place to live, a new job and his PhD underway, Gray...
Review: Penumbra by Dan Ackerman
Penumbra is a clever novel and not what I was expecting based on the previous books by Dan Ackerman that I've read, which admittedly is not their full back catalogue, although I'm working on it. The...
Spotlight
Checking In
What Adam did, essentially, was rip the door off my closet, sling me over his shoulder and cart me off while I kicked and screamed blue murder. Not literally. I don't think I'd ever screamed in my life. In my old life, that is.
What a terrifying prospect it was, to leave the past behind, let go of my grief, my fear, the sanctuary of Elise, face up to my mother. I loved Adam, but I'd thought I loved Calvin and he'd left me; I'd loved James and he was gone. I wasn't strong enough. But I loved Adam. I wasn't strong enough.
So I ran, and Adam chased me, and he kept chasing until his patience finally gave out, and he delivered an ultimatum. Stop running or lose him, too.
I stopped running.