Stepping Outside the Comfort Zone with Shira Anthony

Experience. Confidence. You probably know the feeling. You’ve spent months, maybe even years learning a skill and you’re finally at a place where you can take a deep breath and enjoy all your hard work. I don’t mean slacking off, Read more

Musings on Writing, Acting, Music, and other “useless” careers

While sitting over the age-old table of musings (at a drinking establishment) with a colleague who is wrestling with her future… the inevitable came up. “I just… wonder sometimes if I shouldn’t do something that MATTERS to the world. Like Read more

Sue Brown: STOP!

Good morning world! It’s Monday morning. I know, it was only Monday last week and here is it again. This month’s post is on stopping. STOP! Whatever it is that’s stopping you at the moment, stop doing that. Wait, does Read more

How Stories Grow: a Lou Sylvre post with an excerpt from WIP, Blackmail and Roses

Hi! Lou Sylvre here, back again for my August appearance on Love Bytes. Last month I talked about how characters drive a story. This month I want to ramble a bit on the subject of how, for me, a story Read more

An ordinary man.

My anti-MC, I have found over the years reading M/M romance that there are a quite a few MCs that are policemen, firemen, doctors, military, millionaires, etc… but not many ordinary guys. Granted, these are the pinnacle of masculinity. The Read more

Series: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Or not. Whenever I begin a series, I start with a general idea of what it’s about: the uniformed men of Las Vegas dealing with unusual antics specific to the craziness of that city, a secret men’s BDSM club set Read more