Beyond the Binary

July 14th was International Non-binary People’s Day. As I checked posts out online, some of the stories made me think about how that can be reflected in my writing in the M/M genre, and in my reading and reviewing. As Read more

And… Action!

  Anna Butler here today, totally incapable of a philosophical, thinkery type of post. All the w-t-f-ery going on in the world makes my head hurt, so I’m concentrating instead on things I can control. I’m at the climactic ending Read more

What We Do Matters

Antarctica - Pixabay

I’m a writer because I need to write. I have things to say, and I wasn’t gifted enough (or maybe in the right way) to express them through acting or art or music, and so I write. Most days, writing Read more

Market or Muse?

When looking at writing as a business rather than a hobby, one of the first things you hear over and over is the phrase “write to market”. What does that mean exactly? It’s simple, look around at what’s popular and Read more

Sex positivity and M/M

One of the things I like about the M/M genre is that it provides a place to shed some of the double standards we have about sex— our celebration of sexiness but our disdain for people who have too much Read more

Confessions of a Lazy Reader

I’m not ashamed to say that I’m not one of those people who can read a book or a series so filled with characters that it makes my head want to explode. This is just me of course. I know Read more