Hee! It’s always exciting to win an award but it’s almost equally exciting when you get the trophy in the post. Which is what happened to me today with my Swirl Award for best Fantasy/SF novel featuring an interracial/multicultural romance. It was really nice to win this particularly since my LGBT romance was up against…
Basically that’s all I’ve got to say. I thought I would try to see if I could figure out my way around Tumblr because when I tried first I utterly failed even to put up a user icon. But after a week or so of trying to use it regularly it became the only thing…
Q&A: Why did you choose to go indie rather than going for the traditional publishing route? For me, self-publishing was the quickest way to put my book under the eyes of the natural judges of all written work – actual paying readers. It meant that I didn’t have to wage months and years of battle…
I’ve never been so well dressed since I started getting all my clothes second hand. Never in my life would I have dreamed of spending the amount of money it would have cost me to buy a pair of Doc Martens new. But look what turned up in a Cambridge charity shop as I was…
Today I’m handing over to Shira Glassman who I ‘met’ through Tumblr, where she runs one of the most interesting blogs on there, and helps me to remember how important it is to make sure there are always interesting women in my stories. When you’re writing m/m it’s sometimes easy to forget the girls….
I’m not quite sure what this meme is supposed to achieve, other than to make people feel bad if they somehow fail to live up to the standard of writerly purity expected. But I’m sure the standard to be a ‘professional writer’ should not be something that I achieve effortlessly just by being lazy and…
Hurray! I got a lovely overall B review from Dear Author for The Crimson Outlaw: http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-b-reviews/b-reviews/review-the-crimson-outlaw-by-alex-beecroft/ Except for having m/m, action, and m/m action, this was a real change of pace from the previous Beecroft novellas I’ve read, all of which were Regencies. Impressively, not only is unusual setting beautifully realized, but the entire tone…
To say I’m pleased with this one would be an understatement. Particularly as I know how hard the artist worked to get something that was in-period, when I kept sending the mockups back. “It’s lovely, but they didn’t wear plate armour in those days.” “I love it, but I’m sorry, we can’t have a castle…
Is lucky number 13. Who is… let me go and trawl through the comments to find out… It is Carolyn, who was sensible enough to leave me her email address, so I will also email off list to tell her she’s won 🙂 Congratulations Carolyn!
Here I am, baring my soul on the Saucy Wenches’ Book Club Neither saucy nor wench are words I would normally apply to myself, but I greatly admire Nanny Ogg, who I’m sure was the sauciest of wenches when she was younger, so I was honoured to be allowed to tag along for the day….
