Fiction

• Glove Puppet (1998)
  Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and tenuous future. Born Johnny to a drug-addicted prostitute, Johnny becomes Vaslav when, at age seven, his mother dies of a drug overdose and a passing stranger befriends him and brings him to Australia to pass as his own, recently deceased son. As Vaslav, he lives a comfortable life as the well-loved son of a prominent gay man, but when he becomes a teenager he realizes that "Johnny" still lurks inside him. With the seeds of his own destruction sown deep within, Vaslav initiates a forbidden love affair, one that threatens to destroy him and all that he loves. Glove Puppet is a brilliant novel where love and transgression, sex and manipulation, collapse upon each other, and where the best intentions yield the worst results.

• Pussy's Bow (1999)
  Three gay men-friends and roommates in an Art Deco mansion-find their lives have taken a chaotic turn when one of them is attacked by a gang of gay-bashing teens. When the other two roommates arrive, one basher is killed in the ensuing scuffle, leaving the roommate with a body to hide and a big secret to keep. Meanwhile, the dead teen's pregnant girlfriend shows up at their door seeking her beau; a handsome and nave houseboy arrives on the scene; and their next-door neighbor turns out to have appetites of her own. When passions run riot in a house that hides too many secrets, it isn't long before everyone's had it up to pussy's bow, and something disastrous is sure to happen.

• Quill (2000)
  A novel in two parts:

  Part I: Je Louse, 1999

  "Beware of ex-lovers with quills", warns the preface of Elliot Bernard's new novel Je Louse.

  Blaise spent six torrid years with the world-famous novelist, but left him for Woodrow. Now it would seem that Elliot Bernard lives happily with another man in New York. But could the author be seeking revenge upon his previous lover in his latest "roman à clef"?

  Blaise feels compelled to read the book -- however painful it may prove to be -- and his jealous lover doesn't like it one bit, no sir-ee. But neither Blaise nor Woodrow know what lies in store for them. Sometimes books can change your life forever; some can even blow your mind. Je Louse is going to do a nice job of both.

  Part II: Gridiron, 2004

  Seventy-year-old Rose Elliot sits in her son's apartment contemplating the release of his autobiography. Rose never wanted to be in a book, but like it or not, she's in this one. She's a simple country woman who never quite fathomed why the Lord blessed her with a son like Elliot Bernard. Cake baking and needlepoint are much more her forte.

  "I think Gridiron was his greatest achievement", someone says with a laugh. Rose overhears and wonders what they're talking about. She couldn't remember a book with that title, and Elliot always hated sport as a boy. Having a son who wrote books like Elliot's has not been an easy thing for Rose. Still, she'd like to know more about Gridiron. Be careful Rose -- there are some things a mother has the right not to know. Gridiron is one of those things.

• Izzy and Eve: An Erotic Thriller (2006) -- Winner 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Science/Fiction/Fantasy/Horror; Finalist, 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Male Fiction
  Gay Izzy is an erotic cartoonist; his best pal Eve makes exotic jewelry and works as a receptionist in a whorehouse. She collects clippings of unsolved murders of women and has flashes of psychic ability, and he’s an aging party boy who’s been getting more and more into metaphysical reading and exploring heightened states of mind through S/M sex clubs and a drug called SILT that’s permeated the gay community. SILT causes a "shift," which takes one to a different reality. When gay men start disappearing without a trace, and Izzy joins the ranks of the missing, Eve embarks on a mission beyond anything she’s over dreamed or imagined. Part edgy thriller, part ghost story, Izzy and Eve is a witty and unsettling joyride through Drinnan’s acid-etched world.

Travel

• The Rough Guide to Gay & Lesbian Australia (2001)

See also:

• Best Gay Erotica 2002 (2002) Selected by Neal Drinnan, Edited by Richard Labonte
  Each year, guest judges selected from the queer literary world review the year’s best erotica and choose the final collection that makes up Cleis’s successful series representing a wide range of styles and voices. Best Gay Erotica 2003 features a list of writers on a par with J.T. LeRoy, Felice Picano, Alexander Chee, and M. Christian, among others, whose work appeared in earlier editions.