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# Chris Delyani

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- [Blog](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/events/) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]this is a test[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
- [I'm On a Winning Streak](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2020/05/17/im-on-a-winning-streak/) - I find out whether I've won the Lambda Literary Award for best romance novel on June 1. (Check out the announcement on Oprah's Magazine website here: https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a31261320/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-2020/) In the meantime, I just got word that "Best Man" was named a runner-up for a 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award for LGBTQ literature. The official announcement
- [Best Man at Martuni’s - Thursday, July 25, at 7 p.m.](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/07/14/best-man-at-martunis-thursday-july-25-at-7-p-m/) - I’m really excited to have been invited to read and sign copies of BEST MAN at Martuni’s in San Francisco on Thursday, July 25. Hope to see you there.My last reading, a solo presentation at Book Passage bookstore in the San Francisco Ferry Building, was an experience I’ll never forget. It was my first solo
- [Author-Only Event - Book Passage - Monday, July 8](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/06/30/author-only-event-book-passage-monday-july-8/) - Thanks again to Folio Books and the Odd Mondays series for featuring me for their Pride Month reading event. It had been a while since I'd read in front of an audience, but still I enjoyed sharing my work aloud. My next event is a momentous one for me: an official launch party where it's
- [Event - Folio Books - June 17](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/06/09/event-folio-books-june-17/) - I'm flattered and excited to be reading and signing books at Folio Books (in San Francisco's Noe Valley on Monday, June 17, at 7 p.m. I'm one of four readers to have been invited to read at the bookstore's Odd Mondays series for LGBTQ Pride Month. You can read about all of Folio Books's June
- [Best Man - Here At Last](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/06/02/best-man-here-at-last/) - After countless edits over the past several years, I can finally announce that my third novel, Best Man, has made it to the light of day. This is the story of two roommates who fake being boyfriends to attend a wedding: the first is in love with one of the grooms, while the other has
- [Best Man - Now Available for Pre-Order](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/03/10/best-man-now-available-for-pre-order/) - Howdy all, the reviews are coming in for the advanced review copy of Best Man. Thanks to everyone for showing an interest in my book and for taking it so seriously. The book will be available for free on NetGalley until May 26, available here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/160184 Best Man is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
- [Save the Date: June 1](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/02/23/save-the-date-june-1/) - I'm as pleased as my cats Buster and Willie to announce that the publication date for BEST MAN is set for Saturday, June 1. Just in time for wedding season. Let the bells ring! An advance review copy should be available on NetGalley within the next few days. I'll let you know when it's up
- [Best Man -- Coming Soon!](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2019/02/03/best-man-coming-soon/) - I'm dashing off this note to let you know that my third novel, "Best Man," will finally be out this summer. Right now I'm combing through the manuscript and making final edits. In the next couple of weeks or so I'll be putting it up on NetGalley before making it available for sale on Amazon
- [First Drafts and Food Porn #amwriting #MondayBlogs](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2015/11/22/first-drafts-and-food-porn-amwriting-mondayblogs/) - I volunteered to serve Thanksgiving this year. It’s long been my favorite holiday—a simple day to relax and eat and feel thankful for whatever you want to be thankful for. The only stress of the day boils down to a simple but fun question. What to cook? Luckily for me, the not-to-be-outdone staff at the
- [Out of the Shadows #amwriting #MondayBlogs](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2015/11/16/out-of-the-shadows-amwriting-mondayblogs/) - I’d previously posted that I intended to publish my third book by 2015. Well, here it is, November 2015, and no book is in sight. I regret to report that I won’t be publishing this year. But I promise, the new work is on the way. A lot of this tardiness has to do with
- [Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards Winner!](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/10/14/writers-digest-self-published-book-awards-winner/) - I'm happy to announce that You Are Here won first place (mainstream fiction category) in the 21st Annual Writer's Digest Book Awards. When they contacted me last Friday to tell me I'd won, I waited all weekend for them to write me to say they'd made a mistake. Instead, they gave me this nifty little
- ["You Are Here" Radio Interview](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/08/09/you-are-here-radio-interview/) - I've always hated hearing my recorded voice talk back to me. So I haven't listened to my latest radio interview, in which I talk about myself, my life as a writer, and some of the ideas that went into "You Are Here." Click the link below to download the interview; it's about 15 minutes long.
- [Huffington Post Blogs](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/06/09/huffington-post-blogs/) - I haven't been blogging much on the website lately because I've been working hard on my latest novel as well as contributing blogs on gay issues at the Huffington Post. But if you happen to stumble on this page and wish to check out my contributions to HuffPo, the links are below. For my first
- [Yoga, Writing, and The Next Big Thing](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/02/23/yoga-writing-and-the-next-big-thing/) - I started taking yoga classes in the late summer of 2009, a few weeks before my 41st birthday. I had just recovered from a debilitating back spasm and was determined to strengthen myself against future back spasms. More than three years later, I've become addicted to the classes at Flying Yoga, my neighborhood yoga studio run by
- [Glacier Blue](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/01/08/glacier-blue/) - As the ship crept along the Beagle Channel on the approach to “Glacier Alley,” I realized only then that I didn’t know what a glacier looked like. I guess I was expecting something that looked like one of the ice cubes from my freezer, only larger and dirtier. But what surprised me, ultimately, wasn’t the
- [The Bottom of the World](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/01/05/the-bottom-of-the-world/) - At around six-thirty the next morning I woke up to the pitching and the creaking of the ship. We parted our stateroom curtains to reveal a dark, greenish-brownish mass of rock slide past us. Right on schedule, the ship was creeping toward the southernmost part of our journey, indeed the southernmost part of the world
- [The Road To Ushuaia](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2013/01/02/the-road-to-ushuaia/) - Thanks to the rearranged travel schedule, the ship slid into the dock at Ushuaia – the most southernmost city in the world -- several hours earlier than planned. This gave us plenty of time to explore the town as well as take a too-brief land tour of Tierra Del Fuego National Park, followed by a
- [Water, Water Everywhere](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/12/30/water-water-everywhere/) - Sailing south of Puerto Madryn, we were supposed to turn into the Strait of Magellan for a day of scenic cruising and then dock in Punto Arenas, in Chile. But high waves and gale-force winds compelled the captain to deliver the bad news that the ship couldn’t turn into the strait without tipping
- [For The Love Of Penguins](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/12/26/for-the-love-of-penguins/) - Two days later our ship docked early on a cold and windy morning in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, about 825 miles (1,330 kilometers) southeast of Buenos Aires. From there we took a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride across the empty Patagonian plains to one of our most anticipated destinations of the trip: Punta Tombo, a nature reserve where
- [Kitchen Secrets](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/12/18/kitchen-secrets/) - One of the many illusions -- perhaps the biggest illusion -- that a cruise offers is the constantly available food. We'd wake up in the morning, walk up a short flight of stairs, and there the food was waiting for us, ready to be put on our plates by smiling servers. And so it went all
- [Montevideo](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/12/17/montevideo/) - A night of sailing down the Rio de la Plata brought us to our first port of call, the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. The morning was as bright and as placid as the sun that adorns the Uruguayan national flag. Until that morning, Montevideo meant not much more to me than as the answer to
- [Buenos Aires On Foot](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/12/11/buenos-aires-on-foot/) - Our time in Buenos Aires was unluckily short: we got there on a Sunday, and left on the ship on Tuesday. But we did have the good luck to get there in time for Sunday's bustling, carnival-like San Telmo flea market, where amid browsing through the many booths and shops, I got my first glimpse of
- [The End As The Beginning](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/12/10/the-end-as-the-beginning/) - I'm so glad to be back home after a fun, interesting, and badly-needed vacation to South America. Dan and I flew to Buenos Aires on Sunday, Nov. 17, and spent two nights there. Then we got on a cruise ship that took us down the coast of Argentina, around Cape Horn, and up the Chilean
- [After The Sweep](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/11/12/after-the-sweep/) - The election already seems like a long time ago, doesn't it? All that worrying over whether voters would deny same-sex marriage rights in the states of Maine and Maryland and Washington? When I was writing last week's blog, I told myself, but didn't dare say out loud, that I'd be satisfied if pro-marriage equality won in
- [Four More Years](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/11/05/four-more-years/) - It's been four years since I woke up on the Wednesday after Election Day, 2008, to learn that California voters had approved a consitutional amendment to deny marriage rights to same-sex couples. I remember how hollowed-out I felt on that day and the days that followed, and even now I still can't believe it. When Dan and
- [Sex, Art, & Film](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/10/29/sex-art-film/) - As I was saying last week, I've learned that for reading from your work at an open mike, it's important to put yourself out there. So last Wednesday, at the Magnet event in the Castro, I stepped to the mike and read a passage that included the following gay love-scene passage. (Warning: it's tame by Internet
- [Smack Dab](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/10/22/smack-dab/) - Last Wednesday night, on a night so unseasonably warm that I drank a cold lemonade at an outside café beforehand, I took a turn reading aloud from my work at Smack Dab, the open mike hosted by the inimitable Larry-bob Roberts and Kirk Read and held at Magnet, the Castro-based health clinic. I owe both
- [The Card-Sharper With The Gift Certificate](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/10/16/the-card-sharper-with-the-gift-certificate/) - Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing a few of my favorite details from "You Are Here," and I can't think of a better way to start than the novel's beginning, where the hero, Peter Bankston, who works the register at a fictional coffee shop, is standing on a stepladder at a chalkboard, trying to draw an
- [My First Event](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/10/09/my-first-event/) - I just wanted to extend a warm thank-you to everyone who stopped by my ironing board at the Temescal Art Hop last Friday night. (I got word from my husband that the lead actor from "Entourage" was there, but I never saw him.) I had gone into the event thinking I'd be happy to sell even one copy,
- [Meet Miles Bettencourt](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/09/30/meet-miles-bettencourt/) - Although I wrote the first draft of You Are Here in the late 1990s, I didn't really kick my writing into full gear until 2008-2009, the novel's final time setting. As any good gay marriage historian knows, 2008 is the year that a slim majority of California voters shamefully voted to amend the state constitution
- [Meet Peter Bankston](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/08/26/meet-peter-bankston/) - One of the strategies I employed while revising You Are Here was to read the entire book aloud to myself. (I didn't do this for The Love Thing, and I regret it.) If anything sounded unnatural to my ears, I rewrote it -- or, more often, I took the awkward-sounding words out. Even still, I
- [Sydney Carton, The Beginning](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/08/13/sydney-carton-the-beginning/) - While I wait to hear from the publisher about my own book, I now have time to give a shout-out to my friend and fellow indie author Eileen Granfors, whose novel, Sydney's Story, has been published in paperback this past week. Over twenty years in the making, Sydney's Story, a prequel to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, recounts the
- [Surprised By Joy](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/05/13/surprised-by-joy-2/) - Last Friday I went to my neighbor Clive Matson’s house for his monthly Poetry Saloon. (I’ve written about Clive before; he's a poet and creative writing teacher whose website is here.) In past months I’d gone with samples from “You Are Here” to try out on Clive and his other guests. But since “You Are
- [100-Day Novel Writing Challenge:  Lessons Learned](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/05/05/100-day-novel-writing-challenge-lessons-learned/) - In the end, there wasn't much suspense: the 100th day of my 100-day novel writing challenge came and went on April 25, even though I managed to finish the project on April 15 -- on day 90. I want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement. Best of all, I'm excited about the
- [Day 90:  The Job Is Done](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/04/15/day-90-the-job-is-done/) - It's a holy mess and I don't remember half of what I've written. But it's a 102,000 words long, it has characters I love, and most of all, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. I am very happy to announce I just finished my novel draft. Of the 90 days of this novel-writing
- [You Are Here ... Is Coming!](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/03/27/you-are-here-is-coming/) - I've now completed ten weeks, or 70 days, on my journey to write a novel draft. I had given myself 100 days to write it, but since I've managed to write without missing a day since I started the journey on Jan. 17, I should be on track to finish the job by the end
- [100-Day Novel Writing Challenge:  Week Eight](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/03/13/100-day-novel-writing-challenge-week-eight/) - Before I met my partner I was never good at writing lists. When I lived alone I'd try to remember what I needed to buy at the supermarket, and if I forgot something, I'd just run to the supermarket and get it. I found myself eating the same things, week after week, to have to
- [Seamus and the Art of Repetition](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/03/09/seamus-and-the-art-of-repetition/) - "I don't know if I ever mentioned this," Gail Collins cheekily wrote in her New York Times op-ed column yesterday, "but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car." I've been reading Gail Collins for years now , and every time I see that the column is
- [100-Day Novel Challenge:  Week Seven](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/03/08/100-day-novel-challenge-week-seven/) - For the past few weeks my writing day has started not with actually writing, but with my usual rounds on the Internet: checking my Facebook page (no new messages), checking out my Twitter feed (no new followers), checking out my Goodreads page (no new adds to my book), and checking my Google account (no new
- [An Interview with Eileen Granfors](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/03/03/an-interview-with-eileen-granfors/) - A couple of weekends ago I attended the 2012 San Francisco Writer's Conference, where among a crowd of talented writers I had the pleasure of meeting author, blogger, and Top 500 Amazon reviewer Eileen Granfors. An enthusiastic writer and reader with energy to spare, Eileen managed to fit time into her busy schedule to answer a
- [100-Day Novel Challenge:  Week Six](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/02/28/100-day-novel-challenge-week-six/) - In his 90-Day Novel book Alan Watt advises not to revise anything, just write and write and write and worry about the editing later. But that's not something I've ever done. I'm used to turning on the computer, looking at what I've written, and fiddling with the last few lines I've written before daring to
- [100-Day Novel Challenge:  Week Five](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/02/22/100-day-novel-challenge-week-five/) - If I fail write a draft of my latest gay novel by April 25, I'll donate $100 to an anti-gay marriage charity. How am I doing?
- [Foreign Affairs](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/02/13/foreign-affairs/) - “On a cold blowy February day a woman is boarding the ten a.m. flight to London, followed by an invisible dog.” So begins a wonderful Valentine’s Day book and one of my favorite romances, Alison Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs. I remember when I first bought “Foreign Affairs,” more than twenty years ago now, at
- [Fight, Washington!  Fight!  Fight!  Fight!](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/02/11/fight-washington-fight-fight-fight/) - As if I needed any more reason not to see my book-wager money to fall into the hands of the anti-gay marriage crowd, I now learn that the forces of evil have vowed to undo the work of the Washington State legislators who bravely voted this week to extend full marriage rights to all its residents. And
- [The Purest Treasure Mortal Times Afford](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/02/04/the-purest-treasure-mortal-times-afford/) - So about this challenge I'm in: The StickK website has my credit card information. On April 25 they'll e-mail me a certificate asking me if I've honored the resolution I launched a couple weeks ago, i.e., whether I wrote the first draft of a new novel in 100 days. If I report to them no, they'll deduct
- [100-Day Novel Challenge:  Week Two](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/30/100-day-novel-challenge-week-two/) - I'm now two weeks into writing my new novel from scratch. I still haven't come up with names for the characters -- they're still just letters of the alphabet. This is probably a good thing because writing their names out longhand would probably consume too much time. The book recommends writing the first notes in
- [A Draft by April 25 -- Or I'm Donating To A Charity I Hate](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/16/227/) - As many of you know, I'm looking forward to publishing my second novel, "You Are Here," by this summer. I now find myself itching to tackle a new project. But what to write? What characters, what plot to create? And can I really afford to devote another gigantic chunk of time to writing a third
- [100-Day Novel Challenge:  Week One](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/24/100-day-novel-challenge-week-one/) - I’m now a week into the challenge of writing the first draft of a new novel. If I don't have it written by April 25, I've pledged to fork over $100 to an institution devoted to denying gays and lesbians the right to marry. Needless to say, putting money on the line like this has
- [Thank You, Clive Matson](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/14/thank-you-clive-matson/) - If my new novel gets off the ground, I'll owe part of the success to the generosity of so many Bay Area writers who have provided me with an open forum in which I can read drafts of my work aloud and edit out what doesn't work. One of these writers is one of my Oakland
- [Spam Spam Spam ](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/11/spam-spam-spam/) - Since I've started adding posts to this blog I'm now getting inundated with spam -- over 200 just yesterday. It feels like such a waste to throw it all out. Luckily, my friend Dan Cohen, a.k.a. The Sixty-Second Gourmet, has published a helpful, 90-second video on how to convert spam from your e-mail to spam you can
- [Best Sweet Potatoes Ever](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/09/best-sweet-potatoes-ever/) - Readers of “The Love Thing” can probably guess that one of my passions is food. I had originally planned to make all the recipes Greg attempts in the book, but as Greg’s ambition began to grow, he left me behind. So for the food I’ll occasionally be writing about on this blog, I’ll be sticking
- [The Importance of Reading Aloud](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2012/01/04/206/) - While editing the new book I've been doing something I wish I'd done more of when I was editing "The Love Thing" -- reading the work aloud. Luckily for me, the Bay Area, where I live, is home to at least three places (or at least three places that I know of) that host an
- [Where To Begin?](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2011/12/31/where-to-begin/) - I call myself a writer, but whenever I see a blank page, or blank screen, I find myself wanting to do anything but write. I suppose that's why I've resisted starting a blog for over two years. How to introduce myself? How to say anything that hasn't already been said a million times over by people
- [New Interview on Dorothy's Closet](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2011/08/03/new-interview-on-dorothys-closet/)
- [First Post Ever](https://www.chrisdelyani.com/2009/10/26/first-post-ever/) - This is a test. This is only a test.

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