Surprisingly enough, although we’re sort of partners, (running mates?) in the launch of Running Press’ new line of m/m romances, I hadn’t actually read Erastes’ Transgressions and she hadn’t read my False Colors, until now. But we had a brainwave and decided to swap ARCs, so over the weekend we each got to read the…
You know how sometimes your characters decide to do something you had not foreseen and certainly hadn’t planned for? You sit there being gobsmacked at further evidence that you are not as in control of their lives as you thought, and thinking ‘so this is why people believe in the muses’. Boys of Summer is…
Raw first draft excerpt of ‘Boys of Summer’, as written yesterday, complete with note for today:
Who has been the biggest influence upon your work? I’ve been writing since I was a little kid, but until the past two years, I’ve kind of cyclical. I’ll write, then I won’t. So I would say that if we’re just talking about this current cycle, which I feel is really my strongest and final…
I’ve written a post for Jeanne Barrack’s ‘Sweet Flag’ blog on the subject of historical ghost stories, which might be worth checking out if only to see how someone with no real authority on the subject gamely pretends to know what she’s talking about 😉 Alex Beecroft – Writing the Historical Ghost Story
We’re talking to Eve today on the eve 😉 of her new release, ‘Slave of my own Desire’. What upcoming project of your own are you most excited about? I’ve done contemporary, I’ve done science fiction, so I guess it’s time to move on to historicals. Two periods in history have always fascinated me: Ancient…
Thank you to everyone who chipped in with suggestions as to how to turn the flappy bits into a workable garment. It took me almost the whole day, but I have got there 🙂 This evening I sew the buttons on and make button holes for the fly (and lace the back), and then tomorrow…
Wages of Sin – novella – written So that’s the first chapter done. I’m planning to have about 11 chapters in total, each somewhere around 2500 to 3000 words long. In this one I have introduced the hero, knocked him down with a carriage, half suffocated him and killed his father. Next time I plan…
The past. From my (admittedly not very extensive) experience of reading historicals and watching historical movies, I get the impression that for many people the past is conveniently grouped into four or five basic blobs which serve as settings for the majority of historical fiction: You’ve got ‘prehistoric’, inhabited by cavemen who may or may…
The English Imagination This is by way of a musing on Peter Ackroyd’s book Albion: The Origins of the English imagination. In which Peter Ackroyd attempts to discover whether there is a national character when it comes to the imagination of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and if so, what it is. I’m not…
