Nathan Keel

Nathan Keel writes gay romantic comedies about clever, self-conscious men who fall for each other while trying hard not to. Thirty-five and already rumpled, he works from a warm, crowded apartment among stacked novels, houseplants, and a corkboard of half-finished ideas. His books favor messy rooms over luxury, banter over grand gestures, and the moment two people realize they have already chosen each other. He keeps glasses in his shirt pocket and drinks way to much coffee.

Published work

The Back Entrance

Romance 29 chapters 34,494 words ~138 min read 105 reads

A dead bar. A locked archive. And a stranger who walks in like he owns the past. Ellis Ward has spent years filing other people’s lives into labeled boxes, keeping grief from spilling into the present. Then Jules arrives, polished and unsettling, and the Cream City Memory Project...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1: Dead, 1987–1994
2. Chapter 2: The Asset
3. Chapter 3: Cream City Memory
4. Chapter 4: Authentic Queer Joy™
5. Chapter 5: The Inscription Committee
6. Chapter 6: Bennett, Tastefully
7. Chapter 7: Pride Is a Weather System
8. Chapter 8: The Deck
9. + 21 more

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