Secrets – novel – first draft finished, editing: Done 28th April – added new scene of 1,321 words, which doesn’t show up as progress, but it is! Done 29th April – added mostly complete new scene of 1,069 words – will try to finish the scene tonight. Done 30th April – finished writing scene between…
Oh, squee! Val Kovalin has reviewed my short story ‘Insubordination’ on her wonderful review site ‘Obsidian Bookshelf’. It’s always a total delight when you read a review from someone who really gets under the skin of what you were trying to do with a book or story, and Val really has the gift for that. …
I blogged in a serious sort of way over on The Macaronis, on the topic of research for writing historical fiction. The whys, whens and hows of research, along with a list of the wheres 🙂 So if you’re thinking your next/first book might be a historical, or if you’re just interested in what goes…
Just a quick review of ‘Man Oh Man: Writing m/m fiction for kinks and cash’ by Josh Lanyon Though ‘review’ might be putting it too strongly – ‘squee’ might be closer 🙂 If you go back through my posts on this LJ you’re bound to come across one where I gushed mightily about how wonderful…
Eeeee! I have a fantastic new review for ‘Captain’s Surrender’, and it’s from Ruth Sims, author of ‘The Phoenix’, which is one of my favorite m/m books. It’s extra specially wonderful to get a review from someone whose own writing I admire so much; I get to be honored as well as squeeful! 🙂 the…
I have a short story out as a free read. It’s set somewhere in the middle of ’Captain’s Surrender’, though it’s more of an erotic read than the book itself. Some comments had lead me to believe that some readers saw Josh as a natural ’bottom’, so I wrote this in reaction 🙂 By: Alex…
says _ocellot_ on livejournal She’s talking about this article on the science of love in Canadian Living.com magazine, which gives an interesting summary of latest research on brain states in love, interspersed with quotes from romance novels. The whole article is worth reading, but I’ll just quote the conclusion, for obvious reasons 🙂 “Passion needs…
