· Only Make Believe, Mackle's sequel to It Takes Two brings us back to Florida in the early s when a post-war culture is struggling with racial equality and when gay rights is not even on the roadmap. Dan Ewing is managing the exclusive Caloosa Club with his usual aplomb, providing ‘undercover’ entertainment and pleasures to those willing to pay for it.4/5. · Only Make Believe is dedicated to Ensan Case and Mackle says Case’s underground classic, Wingmen, first published in and recently reissued by Cheyenne Publishing, “has been a huge influence on my fiction.” Katherine V. Forrest is a friend and mentor and Mackle says she “taught me to pare down every bit of dialog to the most essential points.”. Only Make Believe ebook By Elliott Mackle. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library Author. Elliott Mackle. Publisher. Elliott Mackle. Release. 07 October Share. Subjects Fiction Literature Mystery LGBTQIA+ (Fiction) Search for a digital library with this title. Search by city, ZIP code, or library name. Learn more about precise.
Mackle could be describing some of the denizens of the Caloosa Hotel and Club, the setting for the action in It Takes Two and Only Make Believe.. The Caloosa is a "discreet hideaway" that caters to an "open-minded, sophisticated" clientele that prefers 24/7 liquor service, poker, Cuban boleto, call girls, blue movies and stud waiters, as well as an integrated front-of-the-house staff. Only Make Believe. Book Lovers: Ban This! The Novels of Elliott Mackle by Dick Smart Octo Romance Read the full story. GunnShots: Fall by Drewey Wayne Gunn Octo Features Mystery Read the full story. Subscribe to our newsletter *. This website is maintained by Elliott Mackle, author of "Welcome Home, Captain Harding," "Only Make Believe" and "It Takes Two." Elliott Mackle - Contact icon caret-left.
Elliott Mackle served four years in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam era, achieving the rank of captain. He was stationed in California, Italy and Libya, the latter the setting for Captain Harding and His Men () and the multiple-award-winning Captain Harding’s Six-Day War (). Only Make Believe. A sequel to "It Takes Two," set in Fort Myers, Florida, about two years after the conclusion of the earlier tale. Captain Harding and His Men. Continuing the adventures and misadventures begun in Elliott Mackle's award-winning "Captain Harding's Six-Day War." Captain Harding's Six-Day War. Elliott Mackle has been called ''the Tom Wolfe of gay fiction'' and ''a gay Pat Conroy.'' His first novel, It Takes Two, was compared to the work of Christopher Bram and Carl Hiaasen. Only Make Believe is a sequel, set two years after the conclusion of the earlier tale.
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