Once Andreas completed his degree, the couple moved to Germany. Such misunderstandings are the foundation of Jay’s novels, with the volume turned up. Jay wrote him a “Dear John” letter expressing his chagrin that their affair was over, but Andreas misunderstood, thinking that Jay meant “over for the summer.” At the onset of the fall semester, Andreas reappeared, having decided to pursue his masters degree in industrial design at the University of Kansas (KU). Jay met his partner at a Lawrence, Kansas, bar’s “gay night.” Three months later, Andreas’ student visa expired, so he returned to Germany. After moving to Germany and getting married, Jay found himself desperate to communicate the feelings of alienation, adventure, and love that surrounded this decision, and has been putting pen to paper ever since. At that moment, beer and pretzels became the most important thing in the world. Jay Bell never gave much thought to Germany until he met a handsome foreign exchange student. Something Like Summer, Something Like Autumn and Something Like Winter are soon to be followed by Something Like Spring (estimated publication date early 2014). No man would describe the color of his shirt as 'champagne.'īell’s fans are eagerly awaiting the final installment of this quartet of gay romance novels. Most of us can relate to many of the situations in Bell’s books, and the first three of his “Four Seasons” quartet of novels take a set of characters through more than a thousand pages of adventurous, bumpy romance. Bell has the literary chops to deliver full-fleshed characters in plots that engage the reader. Most gay romance novels are little more than same-sex soap opera scripts (the great majority of them written by women*), but Mr. His German-born husband Andeas is an artist and industrial designer who provides the cover art for Jay’s novels (example below), and at present the couple resides in Germany. 1977) won the 25th annual Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance for his novel Kamikaze Boys (Kindle and other e-book formats).

Kamikaze Boys by Jay Bell