I will have to post this on a Thursday. Slightly embarrassing though it is, here is an excerpt of the first ever novel I actually finished. I hit on the cunning plan of telling lots of short stories – because I knew I could finish a short story – and then linking them together to…
It’s been a long dry spell since Shining in the Sun came out. In fact I’ve been writing more than ever before, but as it’s all been going into Under the Hill, I haven’t had anything to show for it yet. However, I can now proudly announce that I’ve just signed a contract with Carina…
I’ve noticed a pattern among my friends who are new authors. They almost always start off reviewing books. Even if they don’t write reviews for a review site, they write up what they think about the books they read and post them on Amazon or on Goodreads. There’s a good reason why so many writers…
I’ve blogged over on the Samhain blog today on the subject of research for historical novels and why it’s really not as horrible as it sounds: http://samhainpublishing.com/blog/2010/09/30/research-a-perk-of-the-job I think I should perhaps do a follow-on blog about “fascinating people I’d never heard of (but really should have.)” 🙂 The main drawback of research, as far…
There’s a bit of a trainwreck feeling about this, though I’m still hoping to be able to divert the engine into a siding before it falls off the broken bridge into the canyon.
It seems very few newspapers or magazines want to run reviews of False Colors and Transgressions, but quite a lot of them want to talk to us about this interesting phenomenon of women writing m/m fiction. I had an interview over the phone the other day with a journalist from Columbus, and I’m never at…
It’s nice to see people’s sales ranks returning even in far flung regions of Amazon such as Amazon.co.uk. It meant that I could turn to worrying about pleasanter things like how well False Colors was doing. Today has even had a lot of squee in it, after the large doses of OMG!WTF of the weekend. …
I always wonder which to start with, but it would be churlish not to start with the good news in this case. Late last night I got a gorgeous, intelligent, insightful and above all positive A grade review for False Colors from Dr. Sarah F of Dear Author: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/09/review-false-colors-by-alex-beecroft/ “Rarely, oh so rarely, I’ll read…
Technorati Tags: m/m romance,women writing m/m romance First of all, I ought to make it clear that this is titled ‘answers for the men’ not because these answers are somehow less true than the answers for the women. That isn’t the case. There is just a difference in emphasis, depending on who is asking the…
I know Amazon ratings don’t mean a lot, but it did give me a thrill this morning to find False Colors in the top 100 of Historical books on Amazon. Actually making a slight impact outside the ‘gay fiction’ lists. LOL! Just for the moment, False Colors by me is above its namesake, False Colours…
