Author Dave Hughes Offers Complimentary Short Story ‘Cruise Virgins’ for New Subscribers
I’ve been both a friend and fan of Dave Hughes for quite a few years now. He’s the founder of RetireFabulously.com, a recurring guest on my One Thing or Another Podcast, and now a fiction author with an upcoming release, Maybe Next Year:
“Bryan and Chris are high school juniors who have been inseparable best friends for three years. Now, they are discovering that their feelings for each other run much deeper than mere friendship.
Chris, whose open-minded family is completely supportive, is ready and able to live his life out and proud. For Bryan, whose father is the pastor of a very conservative mega-church in a Kansas City suburb, being gay simply isn’t an option. Bryan hopes that maybe next year when they leave Kansas to go to college together, he will be able to live more openly. In the meantime, they must learn how to navigate their conflicting family dynamics and boundaries if they are to fulfill their dream of spending the rest of their lives together.
Everything changes when Bryan is outed. His father will stop at nothing to force Bryan to “leave the homosexual lifestyle,” requiring Bryan and Chris to make some very difficult choices.”
As a Thank You for new subscribers to his email list, Dave is offering his short story, Cruise Virgins, that centers on two of his main characters from the planned series. Two young men, Ryan and Ted, experience their first gay cruise … and possibly their last chance at love. I’ve read it and can’t wait to find out what got them there, and where they go from here.
Just sign up for Dave’s email list and start reading!
You can listen to my podcast interviews with Dave HERE and HERE, and stay tuned for a new chat in March about his journey from ace retirement advice columnist to novelist.
Dave Hughes is an author whose first gay fiction novel, Maybe Next Year, will be released in April, 2022. Maybe Next Year is the first in a series of seven books in various stages of development.
In addition to fiction, Dave is the author of three retirement lifestyle planning books, Design Your Dream Retirement, Smooth Sailing Into Retirement, and The Quest for Retirement Utopia. Dave created the website RetireFabulously.com, which enables readers to envision, plan for, and enjoy the best retirement possible. In addition to writing hundreds of articles for RetireFabulously.com, Dave’s writing has appeared on US News & World Report, lgbtSr.com, Medium, Yahoo! Finance, CNN/Money, Next Avenue, Tiny Buddha, and others.
Dave resides near Phoenix, Arizona with his husband Jeff and their dog Maynard.