The new normal and my latest release

When I last visited Love Bytes, I spoke about the impact of being forced to stay at home and how my daily writing life had changed. I spoke about the impact on my productivity due to a house full of Read more

Selling My Soul. Or perhaps, penguins.

. I’m about to start on a new venture. Something I’ve thought about for months, but – as always – that I’ve procrastinated about actually starting. Book sales throughout this year have been astonishingly good. I published The God’s Eye, Read more

Getting Out Of The Doldrums

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

In search of equality…

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

Coping with the lockdown

  Odd, isn’t it, that not one apocalyptic or dystopian book or movie ever mentions mankind’s most obsessive, pressing concern when disaster strikes, and that’s “OMG! Zombie attack! Alien invasion! Meteorite hits Earth! Plague! Breakdown of society! Do I have Read more

Comfort reads for tough times

 These are scary times. It can feel difficult to put effort, or interest into something as trivial-seeming as writing fiction, when we’re in for a long haul of pain and loss, all around the world. But I’m a firm believer Read more