Ryan Kelly, author of the Octagon Anthologies, and owner of Ryan Kelly Publishing, is seeking members of the gay community to participate in a new book project at the GbookEbook website. The project, Q&A New Voices, is designed to make full use of Internet, allowing gay men and women worldwide, the opportunity to speak out on the issues that they deal with on a daily basis. The idea for this project came from a book written in 1978 by Nancy and Casey Adair. Their book, Word is Out, contained twenty-six interviews with members of the gay community taken from a documentary film they had produced. “It’s time for an update, Ryan said, an update with a new twist.”

Most of the gay anthologies contain personal stories or interviews, and ask questions like, “When did you first realize you where gay?” and “Tell me about your first time?” Ryan decided to go beyond that discussion and speak to current issues that affect the lives of gays. While gay readers should enjoy reading the completed project, they are not the intended targets. Q&A New Voices will allow straight people the opportunity to hear the truth as told by those that live the truth. Participants will answer questions like, “How does being gay in our society affect your life?” and “What suggestions would you offer to better the gay/straight relationship?” Other topics include, gay marriage, the conservative right, and religion.

Readers will be able to watch a work in progress, as the entire book will be available to read online, free, during the production stage of the project. You can visit GbookEbook to participate or watch. Once completed, the book will be available in eBook format and trade paperback versions. All participants that complete the questionnaire will receive an eBook Version of “Octagon The Early Years,” Ryan Kelly’s first book. Participants whose entries make it into the printed version will also receive an eBook Version of “Octagon In The Middle,” Ryan’s second book. “I don’t believe an incentive is needed to get participation in a project designed to eliminate intolerance in our society, and consider the eBooks only as a Thank You gift.

Ryan Kelly is a writer, eBook publisher, and is involved in using the Internet to bring about change in our society. In addition to the GbookEbook website he also is involved in several Yahoo Groups designed to promote equality for the gay community. Links to the Yahoo Groups and his blog, Gay Insight, are available at the GbookEbook website.

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Posted on Thursday 18 of November, 2004 [22:52:46 UTC]

I've provided this journal to keep you up to date on Octagon and my other writings. I hope you'll check it out each time you visit. Just a little about me. I'm looking for gay writers that would like help getting their ebook created and online. I think Lulu is a great site for gettings your works online, and anyone that I would help would surely want to also have there works here. I published my firat book with another POD publisher and found absolutely no support for the money I spent. (And it was much more money than you would spend here.) So when I complete the second book in this series I will be using Lulu as my POD publisher.

Anyway, if you would like to find out more, visit my website at:

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You can Email Me here.

Posted on Saturday 12 of June, 2004 [19:26:35 UTC]