Too Many Fairy Princes is out today! I would be more enthusiastic about this if I was not (a) anaemic and (b) still sedated after yesterday (literally, I’m not yet legal to drive a car as it hasn’t worked its way out of my system yet.) So I’m afraid I cannot manage anything terribly upbeat….
What I appreciated the most is Kai’s characterization… there was a lot in his character I could relate to as sympathetic, decent and likeable, but there was always something in him that felt alien to me and I really liked that. I liked that he felt like being from another world, rather than just looking…
I’m still shuffling from doctors to hospital and back again while ingesting various chemicals and being scanned for things. CT scan yesterday, in which they tried to put a cannula in me in three different places and my veins played hide and seek. Back for another day of being sedated on the 4th of November……
Or at least, the publication day of Too Many Fairy Princes approaches, but I liked the grammar of the title better. I have a lovely early review from Publisher’s Weekly, calling it an “effervescently charming fantasy romance” http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-61921-742-3 but due to the whole ‘being ill since June’ thing I have not managed to arrange any…
Off to hospital tomorrow to swallow a camera so they can check whether this is a stomach ulcer or not. They sounded alarmed that I’ve been steadily getting more anemic even while I was taking iron tablets, and instead of going “Take this and come back in a month” they’re now going, “OK, next week…
So, this week I have gone from nothing to a rough plot plan of the next book I’m going to write. I say nothing, but I knew I wanted to write a Fantasy with queer heroes, so that was somewhere to start. I do like to have a little bit of m/m romance in there…
It seems I was a bit premature in claiming I was back, last month. All that happened was that my stomach ulcer returned, leading to another month of pain through the chest, exhaustion, loss of appetite and finding it hard to breathe. Forget exercise, I can’t even play the pennywhistle because the sustained breathing is…
Is wordbooker working again?
Here’s a quick snippet from The Crimson Outlaw in which Vali’s reaction to being captured by bandits is not 100% appropriate: Potentially triggery sexual threat situation, for those who are not quite as thoughtlessly invulnerable as Vali. ~*~*~*~ His hand went to his sword just as a man’s long arm snaked out of the darkness…
Just to prove I am active on the internet somewhere, here is a round up of a few of the interesting things I’ve found on Tumblr this week: Quiltbag issues Transgender teen’s survival guide Trans* Titles for Young Adults Christians for Gay Marriage Launch “Not All Like That” campaign. “Queerbaiting” on TV (When subtext ought…
