"Good Lord, a double suicide/murder involving a BL and his YF?!"

I think you were around the boards back when I was, right? So you should be able to recall which incident loosely inspired that episode in my novel.

"You certainly like to keep things exciting and dark"

I'm afraid so. :) All my stories are like that. But they're not just dark, as I'm sure you've noticed.

"I love the growing friendship between Johnnie and Milano. When Milano tells him that he loves him...you got it down about how that feels."

I'm so glad to hear that. Those were hard scenes for me to write, not having experienced BL love. But I figured love is love, so I just projected my own experiences onto them.

"So I gotta ask you...where am I?"

:). Probably mixed in their somewhere - all of you guys were an inspiration to me in writing this.