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
Sometimes you just don’t know what to write. I mean, the pandemic was all-consuming enough, but now a long-overdue reckoning for racial inequality is happening around the world and J.K Rowling decided to interrupt the publicity tour for her cute Read more
Greetings from Yorktown, Virginia, right off the Chesapeake Bay, where the newly-minted United States won the decisive battle of the Revolutionary War. I’m here aboard our catamaran sailboat, Prelude, and my husband, my dog Sirius, and I will be spending Read more
As part of my day job—I’m a university professor—I’ve been recording interviews with some really interesting people. I’ll be sharing the interviews with my online class this summer. One interview was with a pair of filmmakers who made a documentary Read more
I’m shocked to realize I haven’t posted here on Love Bytes since January. That’s half a year. How could this have happened? I miss deadlines and end up flaking on things I mean to do occasionally, and though I browbeat Read more
Happy Pride Month Love Bytes fam! I thought I’d help celebrate by sharing some of my favorite things that are LGBTQ inclusive or themed. A book, a movie and a song, as well as a fun giveaway exclusively for Love Read more