Leavin’ on a Jet Plane….

To start with, a quick update on my contemporary, non-murdering WIP? I have a little scoresheet on the corkboard in my office, and it’s now been 30 days since I murdered a fictional person. Only five since a misdemeanour, but Read more

Where this writer has never gone before…. with Shira Anthony

Hey! Shira Anthony here. Gay romance writer. Total geek. Weaned on original Trek and Harlequin romances. So it makes total sense that I’m writing my first story for Dreamspinner Beyond, Dreamspinner Press’s new line. Think Harlequin meets “Paranormal Activity.” Contemporary Read more

Fear and Living

Dame Judi Dench is perhaps, the greatest living actor in my opinion. A woman with astonishing talent, winner of academy awards, SAG awards, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and dozens more spanning her sixty year career. Judi says, that she lives as Read more

Kim Fielding on Alternative Facts

ALTERNATIVE FACTS This is not, I promise you, a post about politics. No, what I want to talk about today is the delicate art of entwining truth and lies. Still not politics! I’m talking about writing fiction. Now, some stories Read more

Lou Sylvre asks for directions—enter to win a $10 GC! (And here’s a little excerpt…)

Hey! Here I am again, Lou Sylvre. This is my first post on Love Bytes for 2017, and I’m grateful to be starting another year here. My thanks to Dani and the Love Bytes crowd, and all of you readers. Read more

Adventures in Co-Writing

I’m currently sitting in a hotel room in the lovely town of Springfield, Illinois, badgering Piper Vaughn about writing her next chapter so that I can read it. We are having a writing retreat for our work-in-progress, “Off the Ice”, Read more