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Patrick Doyle

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I began writing mysteries, took the off-ramp to sci-fi, and then settled into plain old storytelling. Now I'm back with an adventure. Fiction about gay men tends to be slotted into two categories: literary or romance. My novels, I hope, fall somewhere in between. I make no pretence of being the next Stuart Douglas or Ocean Vuong, but neither do I write with pre-fab characters or tired tropes. But I do write about romance, otherwise known as love. The absence of love, the yearning for love, and the achievement of love are at the core of these stories - seasoned with wit, sex and adventure.

I live in Montreal with my partner and not far away from the child we raised. I live in French, write in English, and work in both. I try to bring that exp
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Average rating: 4.3 · 220 ratings · 150 reviews · 9 distinct worksSimilar authors
Pierre & Bill: A Love Story

4.59 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2021
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Seeing Sean

4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2023
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Pierre Before Bill

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Van Alone

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Pierre & Bill Now

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Beau's Dilemma

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Tony's Dream

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Catching Hanif's Eye

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New for fall 2025

Catching Hanif's Eye by Patrick Doyle After hanging around with Pierre and Bill, I've decided to move on. New story. New characters. New genre. Same preoccupations: the ties that bind. Catching Hanif's Eye: a mystery, a romance, an ocular adventure. Coming fall 2025. Read more of this blog post »
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Patrick Doyle and 1 other person liked Brian's review of Run Away with Me:
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"Run Away With Me is beautiful, ethereal, and sometimes otherworldly, but it's also cute and sweet at the same time. And then there's the cover art, which is simply stunning."
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A drink and good company wipe out the worries of the morning and afternoon, hard fact gives way to a happy feeling.
We follow David Win - a queer, half-Burmese man, as he recounts his life from early childhood days at a private school in rural Eng" Read more of this review »
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I discovered Gengoroh Tagame just a few months ago with another book called Nos rendez-vous gourmands (Our Tasty Meetings, more or less). It blew me away. My Brother's Husband did the same. This review does not reveal the story. That pleasure should ...more
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The other day I read a review of a book (not one of mine) where the reader expressed surprise that they were enjoying it despite not liking the main character. This gave me hope because, after the Pierre and Bill stories where love conquers all, I've ...more
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"This ripped my heart out at the end, the pacing was really nice and I really got transported to the world even through vague descriptions. "
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The other day I read a review of a book (not one of mine) where the reader expressed surprise that they were enjoying it despite not liking the main character. This gave me hope because, after the Pierre and Bill stories where love conquers all, I've ...more
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“Bill rolled his eyes. “The MM book with the guys on steroids on the cover, okay? I saw it.” The picture was imprinted in Bill’s memory. How two such bulky individuals could possibly contort their bodies so wildly boggled the mind. They didn’t even look like they could bend over, although he assumed they could.”
Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill: A Love Story

“Two caregivers accidentally meet and decide to trade their charges. It was like something from a Hitchcock movie.”
Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill: A Love Story

“Pierre was an excellent liar, although the word was much too sweeping to describe his occasional reticence to divulge. Rather than lie outright, he’d fabulate. He’d tell a story or change the subject or say something funny. Like a magician, he’d distract. For years, Bill had watched him nimbly extricate himself from someone else’s demands. It was very entertaining except when the other person was him.”
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“Pierre was an excellent liar, although the word was much too sweeping to describe his occasional reticence to divulge. Rather than lie outright, he’d fabulate. He’d tell a story or change the subject or say something funny. Like a magician, he’d distract. For years, Bill had watched him nimbly extricate himself from someone else’s demands. It was very entertaining except when the other person was him.”
Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“He was thinking back to his own encounter with his biological family. His father was barely in the ground when some strangers had shown up thinking they could just take his boy. As if they owned him. As if he’d been out on loan. They kept touching him, fondling him, patting him as if he was a trophy they’d come to claim.”
Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“He’d played all his cards. He’d said all his words. What was he supposed to do now? State his intentions? Make a declaration? Ask him out on a date? He had no idea what anyone would say in this situation. They’d connected. They’d disconnected. Were they connecting again? So, he was unprepared when Anton leaned over and kissed him. Contact was light and quick but when he pulled away he didn’t go far.”
Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“They weren’t wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. Each had a life before they’d met with everything that living entailed. Experience is precious but it comes with a price.”
Patrick Doyle, Pierre & Bill Now

“By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.”
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message 2: by Patrick (last edited Sep 05, 2025 07:05PM)

Patrick Doyle Kyle wrote: "Hi Patrick,

Thanks very much for the friend request!"

My pleasure!



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Kyle Hi Patrick,

Thanks very much for the friend request!


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