It’s that time again, when even procrastinating authors like me are thinking about writing something for the holidays. (The smart authors are already finished and laughing at us.) Personally, I can’t think Christmassy thoughts when it’s sweltering hot outside. (Although Read more
I was totally unable to come up with a blog post for this month. Somehow, my brain is bouncing between fiction, and politics, with no stops in between for something appropriate. So I thought I’d just post one of my Read more
I’m starting to think about a holiday story for this season, and I keep waffling about one issue. Do I write about last Christmas, with the setting options familiar and untouched by the pandemic. Or do I try to extrapolate Read more
Some readers love them, but I’ve never been a huge fan of serial stories, (or cliffhanger endings in general.) I waited to buy some of the excellent serials in the genre— like Amy Lane’s Beneath the Stain or Leta Blake Read more
One of the things that pulls cis het readers into M/M romance is the deep unfairness that the stories expose, as readers experience how the world treats same-sex love and relationships. Knowing this discrimination exists is different from experiencing it, Read more
I enjoy books where one of the two main characters is a different species, alien or paranormal, something other than vanilla human. I particularly love it when that species is shown to have a different culture, different goals or expectations, Read more