This time of year, there are all kinds of delightful holiday stories out. Some indie, some publisher – Love Bites is reviewing a different set of Advent calendar stories elsewhere. But I wanted to post about a freebie event – Read more
November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week. This is more important than ever, as trans people are increasingly being used as a scapegoat for scare tactics by conservatives around the world. In the US, more trans people have been coming out, Read more
Last week I read a book that will make my top ten for the year (Thrown Off the Ice by Taylor Fitzpatrick). The story, and subsequent reviews, brought to mind the issue of how the genre deals with stories that Read more
Book covers are complex things – they’re both a sales tool with clue to what’s inside, and an emotional piece of the book. Sometimes, for a favorite read, just looking at the cover makes me feel the pull of the Read more
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
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