Nina, Pretty Ballerina - a short story
Part of Play On... A FREE Valentine’s Day collection of short stories, poetry and prose, inspired by the songs of ABBA.Nina, Pretty Ballerina© 2019 Debbie McGowanI didn’t like her. Not at...
Audiobooks
I'm delighted to bring to you these stories in audiobook format - more to come in time...
Click on the covers to visit 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, but they can be about ANYTHING and I don't like to stick to one genre. Thus, there's some CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC FICTION that's LGBTQ+ (i.e. it's about people, people!), plus a little SCI-FI FANTASY of the amateur quantum physics (time travel-ish) variety and a little HISTORICAL FICTION too!
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
Highlights - a short story
HighlightsThe one where Notes from Boston’s Amelia Roberts takes a much-needed vacation to England and runs into Shaunna Hennessy from Hiding Behind The Couch—a fortuitous meeting for...
To all the books I wrote this year... (2018 roundup)
In 2018, I wrote 214,592 words. :)That's not a bad total word count for the year, but it's my lowest since 2012, and the six years since are in almost perfect negative correlation with the output of...
Spotlight
Goth of Christmas Past
"You're my dad," she said. "When I said real, I didn't mean it like you're not, you know?" She put her fork down and fake-sobbed into her hand. "I'm so messing this up."
"You so are," Kris agreed.
"Sorry."
"Missy."
"Forget I said anything, OK?"
"Missy, look at me."
Turning half towards him, she shut one eye and grimaced.
He sighed and shook his head. "Real dad or not, I know you're mine when you only open your mouth to change feet."
"You're not mad?"
"I'm not mad."