I got this birthday card from Kirby Crow this morning and thought you would all enjoy it 🙂 Highly recommended! Thank you Kirby! LOL! Read the rest of this entry »
Birthdays are always a bit fraught past 30ish, at least for me. Will anyone remember? Will I have to remind them and then feel miserable because I had to remind them and therefore they would have forgotten if I hadn’t? Where is my cake and ice-cream and party? Some years the day passes in a sort of blur of bad tempered disappointment that nobody – including myself – thinks my birthday is important any more.
However, I’m pleased to say that this year has been a good one. I have cards, and presents, and birthday wishes from many more people than I could ever have expected. I’ve also finished my first draft of Blessed Isle, so I feel a weight off my shoulders there. My children may have forgotten, but my friends on the internet did not 🙂 *Hugs*
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This review of False Colors made me giggle so much
M/M Romance through Yaoi Goggles #1
by zehavit_lamasu
Then when scrubbing in vinigar doesn’t help chase the gay cooties away – he finally succumb to the fact that he is, indeed a hopeless sodomite … who threw the love of his life away … FOREVAAAAR!!! *angst*. He also manages to be abducted and tortured by PIRATES (ok… can this actually get ANY BETTER? yes it CAN!)
I’m really indebted to her, because sometimes with all the politics and worry floating around–should straight women write gay romance? When will m/m romance be treated as an equal by the romance community? When will the romance community be taken seriously by the rest of the world? Can women really understand men at all? Are m/m writers full of internalized misogyny? Blah blah blah– it’s so easy to forget that the main reason I was writing was because it was fun and I wanted to create something that people would enjoy.
This review reminds me that yes, I’m not really writing great literature. I’m writing the kind of stuff that I would like to read because that kind of stuff makes me squee. Naval fangirl squee! It’s not a lot different from Yaoi fangirl squee, and I’m very glad about that 🙂 Thank you so much [info]zehavit_lamasu !
Just a bit swamped with writing Blessed Isle and doing pre-new-release edits on Captain’s Surrender. So I’m not being very chatty. I did find some interesting links though:
RWA stats on Romance and romance readership. Some of the best bits – the genre is growing like a russian vine. And, good news for authors, don’t worry about switching sub-genres: 70% of your readers will follow you to the new one.
Also, I got interviewed by the Baltimore City Paper, who wonder who could possibly be brave enough to read m/m romance. Zipper Rippers: Women write gay male romance novels for women.
(Which won’t exactly be shocking news to anyone on my friends list!)
I’ve noticed that names are very different in the UK and USA. One of my lovely beta readers for Boys of Summer pointed out to me that, to her, the name “Tony” sounds lower class and probably Italian. To me it sounds posh British (short for Anthony).
I would like my hero to have a name that sounds both posh and British, so I thought I’d better ask what everyone thinks, to make sure:
1. Does ‘Tony’ sound posh and British to you?
2. Would ‘Alec’ be better?
3. If you don’t like either, can you suggest a different posh-sounding shortening of the name of someone famous for ruling vast tracts of land? (EG Tony is from Marc Anthony and Alec from Alexander the Great.)
Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?…
7 High-Brow, -3 Violent, -11 Experimental and -7 Cynical!
Congratulations! You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Romantic! These concepts are defined below.
In the UK, civil partnerships are currently not legally permissible in religious buildings or
buildings used primarily for religious purposes. Some faith groups (for
instance, many Quakers) are open to civil partnerships but are unable to
perform legal partnership ceremonies under the current restrictions.
An on-line petition has been raised on the Downing Street website, asking
for the churches to have the freedom to decide for themselves. If you’re a British citizen, please consider going to sign the petition here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/gayfaith/
In personal news, I’ve had three days and nights of random, sudden, sharp pains in my upper back, which the doctor says might be pleurisy or might just be the beginnings of shingles. I’m not so sure, as I don’t think he understood about the randomness of it – the fact that it wasn’t constant. But it’s very annoying, as I can’t sleep, and the fact that it doesn’t seem to have a pattern makes it like water torture – I’m always on edge waiting for the next one. I do feel pretty rotten though.
Your result for The Despot / Small Woodland Creature Test…
62% Brutality, 19% Wackiness, 26% Playfulness, 81% Strength, 38% Kindness, 43% Agility and 71% Intelligence!
Take The Despot / Small Woodland Creature Test at HelloQuizzy
So, like everyone else, I’ve been reading lots of Nu!Star Trek fic recently. I’m a Spock fangirl, so I’ve been reading about him: Kirk/Spock, Uhura/Spock, and Kirk/Spock/Uhura (and if there’s good Spock gen out there, please point me at it! I love gen, but I find it difficult to locate.
Anyway, thought I’d pass on this gem of Kirk/Spock/Uhura
Bang and sequel Aftermath by vaingirlfic
for what seem like perfect characterizations and a Kirk I can believe in. I still don’t like him, but in this one I find him (heh, it’s contagious) fascinating 🙂
The book foxes have been foxing my book! And I’m very happy about it 🙂 In fact I’ve got a lovely review over here
from Anne Brook, author of the haunting ‘A Dangerous Man’ and ‘Painting from Life’. I really love her stuff, so when she said she was reading False Colors, I was rather worried that it might not come up to her standard. But fortunately she seems to have liked it 🙂
“Let me nail my colours to the mast (sorry, couldn’t resist that one …) and say first off that this book is a total and absolute pleasure. And I say that as someone who doesn’t even usually go for historical seafaring novels,”
She’s also got some interesting things to say about the Running Press series as a whole, and the curious fact that “there’s a significant minority of us GLBT book fans who appear to be women connected in some way or other with the church”
I’ve noticed this myself – Charlie Cochrane, Z.A Maxfield, Anne herself and me, and those are only the people in my immediate circle of friends. I suppose it’s not many, but when you’d hardly expect any, it’s odd.
On other news, my husband has been home most of the week with kidney stone (again). This time in the other kidney. And I was right about the importance of getting Blessed Isle finished because I was expecting edits – I had my first lot of edits on Captain’s Surrender today, prior to its relauch as a Samhain title. So life is a little busy at the moment, and as usual I’m running late with email replies. Sorry!
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