Hee! I am honoured and a bit staggered to find out that Captain’s Surrender has been short-listed for the Dear Author Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors (DA BWAHA for short). Why am I honoured and staggered? Well… (a) it’s Dear Author and they don’t take any prisoners 🙂 and (b) I’m up against people…
Hee! And would you believe it, it’s from the Salt Lake City Weekly in Utah 🙂 After Transgressions, (review under the link) the folks at Running Press have sent us another “M/M romance,” False Colors, a story populated by many strapping sailors (oh, yes, we like the sound of this!) More Waistcoat-ripping!!! He seems…
Raw first draft excerpt of ‘Boys of Summer’, as written yesterday, complete with note for today:
In the long saga of the new tooth, I’ve just been to the dentist to have an impression taken of the bone of my upper jaw and the metal post sticking out of it, so that they can make the tooth to fit. They vaporized my gum with a medical laser, which smelled horrible, and…
Because my Advance Review Copies of ‘False Colors’ arrived in the post this morning:
Comment to this post with ‘comment!’ and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. My subjects were: Saxons Tolkien was responsible for getting me into the Saxons. Way in the mythical age, when I was a teenager and read…
I had a terrible time finding pictures of anything even vaguely naval related. Plenty of tall ships, lots of cartoon pirates and little kiddies in tricornes, but nothing of people actually fighting the ships. I did find some great pictures by the Historical Maritime Society, and asked if I could use some, but…
for the I Do anthology 🙂 I like to think that our high standards are showing, as both reviewers remarked on what a pleasant surprise it was to find an anthology in which all the stories were good ones 🙂 From ‘Dear Author’ “I finished each story, whether it was long or short, feeling that…
I don’t know if anyone here is also on Facebook, but, if you are, you might want to go and look at their new Terms of Service. If I’m reading them correctly, they are claiming that users license them in perpetuity to do anything they like with any content posted *to* Facebook and also any…
The anthology gets a wonderful exhaustive and intelligent review by Val Kovalin of Obsidian Bookshelf: Review of I Do, an Anthology in Support of Marriage Equality, edited by Kris Jacen. And is no.1 in Amazon.co.uk’s anthology chart already! (1 customer review) Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,371 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these…
