There’s no white Christmas at this Vermont inn—just two pining country music stars trying to write themselves a happily ever after. Country music star Ryan Winslow hates corny Christmas songs, so he’s not sure how he let Jesse Arlyn, his on-stage partner and off-stage best friend, talk him into writing a Christmas album. Oh right, it’s because he’s desperately in love with Jesse, the man who saved his life when they were in the Peace Corps together. He’ll do anything Jesse asks, but unfortunately Jesse will never ask Ryan for the one thing he wants most to give—his heart. When the unexpected appearance of an old Peace Corps buddy throws their friendship off balance, Ryan decides to finally come clean about his feelings. What better way than writing a corny Christmas song to the man he loves? If he can write the perfect holiday love song, maybe Jesse will finally be able to see Ryan as more than a friend, and they can create a brand new harmony together. Fans of Lucy Lennox and Annabeth Albert will enjoy this stand-alone, medium heat, feel-good, friends-to-lovers gay Christmas love story!

Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL's impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. The author explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader regional trends across Asia where the economic potentials of female and queer fans are becoming increasingly important. Baudinette ultimately argues that the center of queer cultural production in Asia has shifted from Japan to Thailand, investigating both the growing international fandom of Thailand's BL series as well as the influence of international investment into the development of these media. The book particularly focuses on specific case studies of the fandom for Thai BL celebrity couples in Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Japan to explore how BL series have transformed each of these national contexts' queer consumer cultures.

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