In Rainbows Still Glow, return to the world of Camp Pride and the men who built it-Colin and Joshua, David and Nate, Trent and Jeff, and the kids who changed them all. This companion collection to Beyond the Rainbow follows the counselors, campers, and their found family in the quiet days after the campfire smoke has faded, when the real work of hope begins. From movie nights and wish jars to late–night talks that crack old fears wide open, these interconnected short stories trace the small, ordinary moments where healing takes root. Alex and Sophie carry Camp Pride's courage into their everyday lives. Colin and Joshua learn that mercy can be a habit as much as a calling. David and Nate wrestle with legacy, art, and the question of how to keep showing up when the world feels heavy. Trent and Jeff discover that loving their community sometimes means letting themselves be loved right back. Tender, funny, and deeply heartfelt, Rainbows Still Glow is a celebration of queer joy, chosen family, and the promise that what started at Camp Pride doesn't end at the lake's edge. The rainbow may dim after the storm passes-but here, it never stops glowing. My name is Janice Jarrell. I am a retired grandmother who lives in Seattle, WA. I have two children and three grandsons. I've been writing gay romance since I was twelve years old, only back then it wasn't called 'gay romance'. In fact, it had no name at all. It was the fifty's, and it was worth your life to admit to being gay, let alone confess to being a girl who constantly fantasized about relationships between gay men. Hell, I didn't even know what a homosexual was. I lived on a farm out in the sticks in a tiny Michigan village and I'd never, to my knowledge, even heard the word. I just knew I loved the thought of boy on boy romance. I just knew that there was something hot going on between Tom Corbett and his Space Cadets and all those guys on 'Combat'.I wrote slash fanfiction for 30 years, writing over 337 stories, some as short as 100 words (a drabble) some as long as a series which was over 119,012 words. I enjoy writing my stories. I enjoyed the feedback I received from my readers. It was a creative release I'd been searching for my entire life and I blessed the Internet for leading me to this artistic oasis for my spirit.Love's Magic was my very first step into writing my own characters. I will always be grateful the slash fanfiction community for nurturing the budding author until she was ready to blossom into a fully realized novelist. It's been an amazing thing to watch the gay community's growth over these past twenty years. My own journey has echoed theirs in many ways, and I'm grateful to all those gay activists who fought to give the gay community the rights and privileges they always deserved.I'm also grateful to the gay romance community, readers, authors, publishers and promoters, who are making these, my retirement years, the most creative ones of my life. When I'm not writing, I'm traveling, walking, hiking, knitting, crocheting, and weaving.I'm very excited about the upcoming release of my second contemporary gay romance novel, Love's Trials. Those of you who fell in love with Joshua and Colin in Love's Magic are in for a treat because they are the STARS of Love's Trials, though they may not thank me for it given the very difficult 'trials' they are about to face. Fear not though. I am a firm believer in HEA!!!
