Roger Kean

After careers in film, journalism, magazine publishing, and historical reference publishing, Roger M. Kean settled down to pen gay fiction. To date he has written FELIXITATIONS, THUNDERBOLT: TORN ENEMY OF ROME, and the “Empire Trilogy” of late Victorian action-adventure novels A LIFE APART, GREGORY’S STORY, and the mammoth HARRY’S GREAT TREK. In between battling through the deserts of Sudan, he wrote the 30,000-word novella about British Premier League football (soccer) WHAT’S A BOY SUPPOSED TO DO.

Both Felixitations and A Life Apart have been Goodreads.com M/M Romance Group Books of the Month.

Writing under the pen name of Zack, Kean’s “Boys of…” series extends to five full-length novels. The Adventures of American Gil Graham and Brit Mike Smith are set in the early 1980s, all published by Bruno Gmünder in paperback and ebook formats. By the same publisher also as Zack he has written BLOOD AND LUST, THE WARRIOR’S BOY, RAW RECRUITS and DESERT STUDS. Already published in the "Boys of Imperial Rome" series are DEADLY CIRCUS OF DESIRE and THE SATYR OF CAPRI, with THE WRATH OF SETH due in August and TWISTED BLADE IN THE ARENA in the spring of 2017. Under another pseudonym, Bruno Gmünder recently published Kean’s pulp fiction novels MISSISSIPPI HUSTLER and a story of 1950s Hollywood MULHOLLAND MEAT.

In his time Roger M. Kean has written about subjects as varied as the utilization of electronic publishing techniques for pre-press, video games, and gay life in London. His published reference books include histories of the Roman Emperors, Byzantium, Ancient Egypt, and pirates. Other fiction includes five mainstream YA adventure stories.

He lives in a medieval town on the borders of Wales with his lifelong partner.