A self-confessed science fiction and fantasy devotee, Mel Keegan is known for novels across a wide range of subjects, from the historical to the future action-adventure ... but certainly MK is best known for the NARC series, featuring iconic characters Jarrat and Stone. Mel lives in South Australia with an eccentric family. From 1989 to 2001, GMP Ltd. in the UK issued the Keegan titles, and released eight original novels plus numerous reprints. In 1999, GMP was bought out -- twice! -- and the final owner of the old company was a magazine publisher (Millivres Publishing Group) which had, essentially, no interest in continuing the old paperback list. In short order the editorial staff was laid off and the writers were set free... You'd be surprised at the writers who were suddenly adrift without anchor or rudder! Keegan, Josh Lanyon, David Patrick Beavers, Chris Hunt, and others. Some of us have clawed our way back and are rebuilding careers which were badly damaged by the demise of GMP. Regrettably, others have vanished. Here's Keegan's current backlist (all titles published via GMP and Alyson, plus those in-the-works with Millivres at the time of the shut-down, plus all titles issued to date by DreamCraft: In GMP and Millivres: ICE, WIND AND FIRE NARC #1: DEATH’S HEAD (abridged) NARC #2 EQUINOX FORTUNES OF WAR STORM TIDE WHITE ROSE OF NIGHT AN EAST WIND BLOWING AQUAMARINE Breakheart (in Swords of the Rainbow, from Alyson) In DreamCraft: HELLGATE #1: The Rabelais Alliance HELLGATE #2: Deep Sky HELLGATE #3: Cry Liberty HELLGATE #4: Probe HELLGATE #5: Flashpoint HELLGATE #6: Event Horizon NARC #1: Death’s Head, complete and unabridged NARC #2: Equinox NARC #3: Scorpio NARC #4: Stopover NARC #5: Aphelion The Vampyre #1: Nocturne The Vampyre #2: Twilight Legends #1: The Winds of Chance Dangerous Moonlight The Deceivers Home from the Sea The Swordsman The Lords of Harbendane Mindspace More Than Human (with Jayne DeMarco) Tiger, Tiger Umbriel (with Jayne DeMarco) Windrage White Rose of Night (reissue) Fortunes of War (reissue) Aquamarine (reissue) Storm Tide (reissue) Shorter Stuff: Callisto Switch Breakheart (unabridged) Crimes of Passion Shadow and Flame Non-fiction and Poetry: The Hellgate Companion The Future According to Keegan Worms in the Big Apple Mel Keegan: 20 Poems During 2009, all titles are being made available in every possible ebook format, as well as paperback and hardcover. Visit MK OnLine or The World According to Mel, to join our mailing list ... we'll keep you posted!
Jayne DeMarco is still a new(ish) name in the world of m/m publishing, but she has been writing in other genres for many years. She made her m/m debut with DreamCraft in mid-2010, with the short novel Painting Stephen, and later in the year co-wrote the phenomenally successful Umbriel with Mel Keegan. Coming Out in Cooper's Crossing is her third m/m work, and a fourth title is due out in early 2011 -- More Than Human, an SF tale also co-written with Mel Keegan. The author describes herself as an inveterate traveler who has lived in England, Australia, Canada and the US, and is equally at home in any of those regions. This becomes immediately obvious to one who has read her stories. Umbriel is set in England, Painting Stephen in the American northeast, and Coming Out in Cooper's Crossing is the tale of a young lad growing up gay in a flyspeck town in rural Australia. If Jayne has one abition, she says, it would be to stop being the last of the procrastinators, get to work and finish the rafts of her m/m stories, which have been drafted out and are at the moment lying fallow. She's made a good start with DreamCraft in the last year or so, and has plans for some longer works ... in the fullness of time. She like traveling, animals, old TV shows, and has eclectic musical tastes, being as likely to listen to Doctor Hook as Debussy -- depends on the moment. At this moment she lives in South Australia, but has no plans to stay put forever. New Zealand interests her strangely, and upstate Ontario is beckoning. "Mind you," she says, "with the world economy the way it is right now, it might take a little while to get there!" In the meantime, she's working on several more m/m pieces which you'll see issuing from DreamCraft as we cruise through 2011 and 2012.
