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
Getting out of the doldrums Before I start this month’s topic, how many of you love words like ‘doldrums’? Words you don’t come across every day, words a little more esoteric and with a lot of history behind them. All 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
Well, whoever thought I’d be writing another monthly post for Love Bytes and we’d all still reeling under the impact of Covid-19? Yes, the most severe restrictions are being lifted, but many of us are still isolating, or 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