Matt Cain

Dec 31, 2024 | theguardian.com | Matt Cain

I am thrilled that in the new year honours list I am being made an MBE. I know some people disapprove of the honours system and others will be outraged that I am accepting an award in the name of the British empire. But I welcome the opportunities I’m hoping the award will bring. I am being honoured as a writer and broadcaster for services to LGBTQ+ culture, but when I was growing up in the 1980s there was hardly any queer culture, and what we had was pretty much underground and undiscussed.

Jul 17, 2024 | booksofmyheart.net | Matt Cain

Becoming Ted by Matt Cain on January 19, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Romance Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover Source: Giveaway Goodreads Amazon,  Audible,  Libro.fm,  Barnes & Noble,  Apple If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors made by his family’s company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla—sweet, inoffensive, and pleasantly predictable.

Jun 15, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Matt Cain

What starts out as an "ideal Sunday" at their home in a coastal village in northwest England turns into something of a nightmare when Ted Ainsworth's husband, Giles, turns to him and announces that he has met someone else and is moving out. Immediately. Ted and Giles have been together for 20 years, and now, at the age of 43, Ted isn't sure who he is anymore without Giles by his side.

May 26, 2024 | bookriot.com | Matt Cain

Some of the most valuable friendships I’ve ever had are with those a few decades older than me. I appreciate listening to their insights on challenges that I might be facing for the first time but that they have encountered before and can see from a more long-term perspective. Hopefully, I also give them a unique take on subjects that friends of their own age might approach in a different way. Stories about intergenerational friendships, too, have plenty of wisdom for readers to gain.

May 24, 2024 | thebookseller.com | Matt Cain

I am proud to say that my latest novel, One Love, is my queer-est yet. And it includes my first-ever gay sex scene—the first gay sex scene a publisher has let me write. But I had to overcome a nervousness that still exists in the industry about representing authentic queer experiences in commercial fiction. I believe we need to get over this and stop trying to sanitise queer fiction in an attempt to appeal to the mainstream.