Russell J. Sanders has been an educator, a musician, an actor, a director, and now, a writer. Teaching high school, he says, is like a roller coaster ride—sometimes scary, sometimes bumpy, but always a thrill. And you get to share the ride with emerging minds and emotions. This experience gave him a unique perspective into the psyches of teenagers.
And that perspective was widened by his being a proud gay man. Each teacher sees the job through his or her own eyes; being gay (in a world that is only now finally, and slowly, accepting gay teens) let him see his students, especially his gay students, with deeper insight than his straight counterparts. And that not only made him a different kind of teacher, but it has also made him a different kind of writer.
Russell lives in Texas with his companion of many years who has been his husband since July 24, 2014, whom he describes as, “the wacky, supremely talented love of my life.”

Russell's second novel Special Effect was released by Harmony Ink Press on May 8, 2014.

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Russell's novel The Book of Ethan has been released by Harmony Ink Press.

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Russell's fourth novel Colors is now available.

https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/colors-by-russell-j-sanders-1543-b

Watch for All You Need Is Love, to be released in March 2017

To find out more about Russell, visit him at http://russelljsanders.weebly.com/

Follow him on Twitter @russelljsanders