Oh God, I’m so tired of this. Why is it that the moment you’ve calmed down from defending yourself against the ‘straight women who write m/m fiction ought to be ashamed of themselves for exploiting gay men‘ debate, you get hit with the ‘women who write m/m fiction ought to be ashamed of themselves for…
I keep coming back to this because it keeps being something I am asked to justify. But I was browsing Metafandom on LJ this morning and I discover in this post about fandom’s skeevy behaviour towards GLBT people that rm has already answered it fully and completely. I will be adopting this answer myself in…
Bad puns aside, I got a package through the door on Monday, and it was 8 little ‘imps’ of Black Phoenix Alchemical Laboratory (BPAL) perfumes and one full bottle of the like. Courtesy of Snakey who was selling his stash to finance a trip to the USA. I’ve heard so much about BPAL, and the…
Maybe it’s a case of ‘separated by a common language’ again, but how hard can it be to find a single decent picture of an Oxbridge young man in summer flannels (preferably lounging against a wall)? I’m looking for something like this: And I’ve tried Brideshead Revisited (as a sort of theme), Maurice (theme), EM…
Anyone interested in coming along to, or helping to organize a writer’s conference in the UK? If it sounds like something the UK has been missing for years, and you would be very interested in seeing something like that get started, please join us on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writingconference2010/ and we’ll try to hammer out exactly what kind…
I got this birthday card from Kirby Crow this morning and thought you would all enjoy it 🙂 Highly recommended! Thank you Kirby! LOL!
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…
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!!!…
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…
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…
