Testing, testing

was a good day for me.  I wrote 2,605 words and finished chapter 18.  (As you can tell from this single sentence, I’m not doing NaNo properly.  I’ve got 110,000 words of this book written already, and this is just giving me the push I need to get over the ‘I don’t really want to…

I’m definitely not much of a collector of anything, except for odd socks.  However, a year or so ago I found a book called “Rodney” by David Hannay for sale on abebooks, and as I’m a bit of a fangirl of Admiral Lord Rodney, I bought it, only to find that it was published in…

And it’s a good one 🙂  More than that, it’s a good review from Victor Banis, who is one of the founders of the gay romance genre, a legend in his own lifetime, and a real gentleman.  Hurray! From Examiner.com I finished Alex Beecroft’s Blessed Isle (set in 1790, the British Age of Sail) convinced…

Introducing Porthkennack, A New Shared World Series! Welcome to Porthkennack, a charming Cornish seaside town with a long and sometimes sinister history. Legend says King Arthur’s Black Knight built the fort on the headland here, and it’s a certainty that the town was founded on the proceeds of smuggling, piracy on the high seas, and…

My new novella, ‘Waters of the Deep‘ is coming out tomorrow. It’s a gay historical supernatural murder mystery set in the 18th Century, and I’ve noticed that when I say this to people they generally reply “oh, right; the Regency period.” While I would certainly like to read Pride and Prejudice, the GBLT version –…