Author Spotlight incl Guestpost & Giveaway: Max Vos

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT  MAX VOS   Oh, Dani, how I’ve missed you. Thank you for letting me do a post here. I was given several prompts to choose from for this post, and I’ve decided to pick none of them. Big Read more

Books invisible at Barnes & Noble and how to fix that

Attention M/M readers who use Barnes and Noble You may go looking for an M/M book and not find it. What B&N has done is silently installed a new erotica filter, and put a lot of randomly chosen M/M behind Read more

Why did they change that?

Sometimes an author changes a book title or series name. There can be a host of reasons. Usually it’s about appealing better to readers. Sometimes it’s about avoiding a ban-hammer from Amazon. But sometimes, we come up against words and Read more

Go real or go cautious?

Should my character drink a Coke or a generic soda? Should they play for the New York Rangers or the nonexistent NY Gladiators hockey team? Are they shopping in Macy’s or my fictional Diffenbacher’s Department Store? When we write contemporary Read more

Sharing the Carnival of Mysteries

. This year I tried a new kind of shared worlds writing – one common paranormal element. I loved having Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries tying the series books together. In these stories, the magical, mystical carnival moves between worlds, Read more

Flash Fiction for Fun

What does a writer do for pure enjoyment? For a palate cleanser? To get past a block? For me, the answer to all three is Flash Fiction! Or at least, my version of it, which ranges from a few hundred Read more