The Boundaries of “Romance”

One of the things I’ve been doing this past month is helping get the Queeromance Ink book-link site up and running. And in the process, I stumbled across an old question. When is a book really “Romance” and when isn’t Read more

How do we support the writers we love to read?

 This has been a rough year for authors. We’ve seen multiple publishers closing their doors. Some, like Amber Quill and now Wilde City, have done their best to reduce the impact for the authors they published. Others have dragged it Read more

Awards: the ups, the downs, and coming together

This time of year, our genre has a lot of awards and best-of lists going on. The Rainbow Awards, so wonderfully organized by Elisa Rolle, are perhaps the most prominent, but groups ranging from Goodreads M/M Romance Members’ Choice Awards Read more

Books Matter

I had a hard time blogging this month. My emotions and energy have been sucked into the disaster of the US election, and the fears in its wake. But this is not the venue for those details, for the thoughts Read more

Creating Distinct Character Voices

In the last 5 years, I’ve published 59 main character guys (an odd number because of having three in Changes Coming Down) … oh, and Sam, in The Family We Make. So sixty men. One of my biggest challenges is Read more

Book Review: Unsafe Exposure (Hidden Wolves #4) by Kaje Harper

Reviewed by Vicki   TITLE: Unsafe Exposure SERIES: Hidden Wolves #4 AUTHOR: Kaje Harper PUBLISHER: MLR Press LENGTH: 393 pages RELEASE DATE: September 9th, 2016 BLURB: Stepping out of the closet as a gay man may be a walk in the park, compared to coming out Read more