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Saturday Snippet
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…
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Tumblr Tuesday
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…
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My award award arrived!
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…
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Tumblr is eating my life
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…
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Guest Post from Gene Fournier, author of Now and Again
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…
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Charity Shop bargain of the month
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…
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Guest Post by Shira Glassman
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….
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Writerly angst meme borrowed from Julian Griffith
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…
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Dear Author likes The Crimson Outlaw
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…