Taking a break
This is going to be my last post on Love Bytes for a while. I’ve had a huge amount of fun writing these, and it’s been a lovely opportunity to chat, but I’m having to cut down on my commitments Read more
Author: K.J Charles
How to Write a Story: Schools Version
I will shortly go into my kids’ primary school to tell a class of children about my career as a writer. Before anyone starts looking up the Childline number, let me add that this is not my career as KJ Read more
Words and Pictures: fan art and fan fiction
One of the more astonishing features of being an author, aside from the ongoing miracle that is people wanting to read my stories enough to pay for them, is the existence of fan-created material. That is: Someone is sufficiently inspired Read more
KJ’s Top Ten Romances(ish) for 2015
For my last post of the year, I thought I’d share ten of my favourite romance reads of 2015. They’re not all queer romance, and they’re not all strictly romance as such, and it’s not precisely ten either, come to Read more
How to Write a Smoking Hot Sex Scene
As an author of sexy romances, I’m happy to let you into the secret of creating a smoking hot sex scene of the kind I’m writing right now. Every writer has a different approach and different circumstances of course, but Read more
Short Stories, At Length
So, I’ve just finished writing a set of Regency stories m/m stories based around a little group of gay/bi gentlemen. As I have mentioned, this came about because I wrote a Regency card-game gay-Heyeresque story, ‘The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh’, Read more