It's been awhile...

Yes, I am still working with Bayne & John. I want perfection. I want people to see that love between men is...still love. Perhaps I am asking too much of myself and of the general population, but I demand it just the same.
I feel as though something important is added with each pass. I feel as though the love is stronger with each touch. There is pain, death, and drama in nearly every chapter - but I also demand love and beauty. I want human emotion and artistic prose.
I want a novel.
I hope to be done by May 2012. Beyond that, I am just dragging my feet and experiencing artistic denial. Here is a "snippet" from the book, for your entertainment :)

“Feel guilty?” Bayne murmured against my still closed mouth.

“Yeah…” I sighed, and finally parted my lips to him.

“Don’t, John...” He said, and then sucked my bottom lip sharply between his own lips, and nipping lightly, before having pulled away just enough to speak again. “...do you honestly think that we are the first two men to have ever kissed?”

Bayne

As promised - here is the first of three character introductions. This is Bayne - Samuel Bayne. He's not our main character, but my "trusted-reader" has informed me that he is quite "love" worthy!

Samuel Bayne is 35 when we meet him. In the first half of the story we find out that he is very much a gay-Richard-Gere from Pretty Woman. He is smooth, suave, and sexy as hell. He is gay and very comfortable with that fact. He has many regrets in his life, but his sexuality is not one of those. He finds himself quite taken by one of the junior-architects, John, of the team that is working on his latest mega-property. While his name is Samuel, he prefers just Bayne, as he should - it's a bit of a paradox, just like the man himself. He turns 36 shortly into the story, but for reasons that you will learn later - we miss this. Bayne, while trying to help John come to terms in his life, will face a number of personal demons that he'd tamped down early on in his life. Bayne will find himself, for the first time since having left California, in a position of vulnerability. The epitome of control, Bayne will win you from the moment that he steps into the spotlight.

What it is

The whole reason for this blog is the book that I am attempting to write. It is a gay romance novel and its inspiration came from the song I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At the Disco. Now, the tale has evolved some since its inception, but I think that when (if *crosses fingers*) you read it and listen to the song...well - you'll see the connection! 
The first eleven chapters have been reviewed by a trusted reader who I would say that the m/m or gay romance genre is not her normal dish, but she has an open mind and enjoys a good story. That's what matters. In her high praise I quote: "...depending on the cover art, this is a book I would purchase in the store."
Folks, it doesn't get much better than that for an aspiring writer.
To Bayne! (*raises glass in a toast*)