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Notes of the Kindred–A Request From Laddie

Laddie from Scent Pig Fame has asked me to post this here. As a writer with a character with bipolar and over the course of my interviews and research with people dealing with bipolar, I was excited and honored to post this request. I hope many of you will share your stories. Project Notes of […]

Fat-hate, Fiction, and Silencing–A Guest Post by Emma

Another Installment of the Reader Guest Blog Posts. Welcome Emma! Recently another Goodreads member, whom I’ll call Q, raised some interesting issues around my condemnation of author Scott Sherman because of the fat-hating language in First You Fall (2008). This is a light-hearted mystery novel, with a gay protagonist, and what I described as “vile […]

Scent Pig – Guest Post By Laddie

This is the third in the Readers Guest Post Series. Welcome Laddie! I’ve read all of Bobby Michaels’ books but when I think of his work there are two words that come to mind: Jock Dorm. The Jock Dorm series is what Michaels is best known for and there are two reasons for that. 1.) […]

Hop Against Homophobia Winners!

Thanks all for participating and for all the lovely comments =) Winners are as follows and have been notified. T-shirt winner = AshleyE Choice of books winners are: Janie Klaus Marleen Kindle edition from Lenore: Sylvan Congratz to you all and I hope you enjoy! Thank you so much for participating. <3 On a side note, I […]

A Note About Reviews

I have several posts planned in the next week (two weeks?) One that I actually started writing two weeks ago after asking for ideas from the comm and one that someone else has asked to write for the blog and that I’m eager to post/read. But something has been on my mind lately. I’m going […]

Hop Against Homophobia – Day 4

I promised an intense post and I meant it. Intense for all of you who came by and read my first post. I did two days of angst, one of fun and now we’re going to have another of fun. Today is the last day of the Hop Against Homophobia and I’m giving away lots […]

Hop Against Homophobia- Day 3

Had enough angst? Good! Today I’m going to just share a funny. Because what separates LGBT people from the world is the perception that we’re so much different than everyone. We’re not. We have just plain stories that have nothing to do with being gay or transgender. In 2006 I got married. A big wedding […]

ACT UP! Hop against Homophobia – Day 2

In 1983, I met my first openly gay man. His name was Paul and he owned a hair salon in Denver and rented an apartment from my parents. I was really young then, very young, and very much a “tomboy”. My mother, in her never-ending quest to make me wear girly things, sent me to […]

Hop Against Homophobia – Day One

I have a pretty intense post planned for the 20th (International day against Transphobia and Homophobia), but for now, I’d like to post something that I’ve kept in the wings and thought everyone should read. If you read stumblingoverchaos.com, you’ll see that there’s a linkity every Friday–great posts, food ideas etc that lead to some eye opening […]

Been there. Done that. Beaten It to Death With a Dildo–By Marleen

Welcome Marleen our second in the series of reader guest posts! Been there. Done that. Beaten It to Death With a Dildo The average fantasy reader can read hundreds of books about teenage boys that rise from poverty to be the most powerful wizard/warrior/king/jedi in the world. Het romance readers can read thousands of books […]

Trade Publishing vs Self-Publishing vs Idiot Publishing

Forgive me ahead of time, because this is going to be more of a rant than an actual post with coherent flow. I’m really ticked off and while a lot of things tick me off, few of them make me so angry that I don’t step back from the computer and think before posting. I […]

Full Circle–Abandoning M/M for Slash

This is the first of what, I hope, will be many reader guest posts. Welcome Kate! One of my GR friends pointed out that I was mostly reading free fiction these days and asked how I was liking it. My answer: Wow! I’ve found so much good stuff out here. A lot of people know […]

Shattered Glass Now In Paperback!

After three failed proofs, Shattered Glass is now available in paperback! BUY A COPY I had a lot of fun creating the cover for the paperback–even more fun than the eBook cover. I need more practice, but I still love it! This is the printer’s copy: And here’s the book sitting on my table! (yes I […]

Artistic? Cover Creator? Want to be?

If you haven’t read In the Company of Shadows (better known as ICoS around these parts), you need to do so. It’s one hell of a story (WIP). Go here and read it! You’re welcome =). And then you’ll be prepared for the best contest EVER. I’m sure most of you know that I’m […]

Open Platform For Readers

You know, with everything happening, I realized something. It seems the most people with input, the ones with the biggest voices, are the authors and the reviewers (the “professional” reviewers). But there’s a voice missing. How about just you readers? Would you like a platform to write a blog post? When I purchased this blog, […]

Foot-In-Mouth Disease

I’ve tried for days to move past my emotional reaction to things that have happened recently in the m/m community. I’ve thought a lot about feelings and how anger bubbles forth and breaks down communications. Rather than write in anger, I thought I’d post a story of my own humiliation. It is not a good […]

7th and Final Revision–Available Now Everywhere

EDIT ADD’L INFO: According to another site ( a commenter here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1513602&postcount=3) says that if there is no “update” option available, you can email directly to amazon and ask them for an updated version of the book. I had no idea they didn’t allow that already >8(. What a hassle. And since the edits are minor, […]

Editing and Self-growth

Weeks ago, I wrote an article about editing and how important I thought its role was in the m/m community. I was asked to write a deeper article with for chicksndicks.blogspot.com and thus I did. It ended up being an article on my own growth as a writer and how editing played a major role in […]

Retreat

I am not one of those people at all comfortable in telling people about their personal problems. But I think, in this case, I’m going to have to mention it just to allay some of the fear that comes from what I’m going to say. I need a few days away from blogs and comments […]

Why You May Want to Wait to Update your Kindle Version of SG

I know everyone who bought Shattered Glass through Amazon received a letter today to update that version. Unfortunately, they were a little slow reviewing my request in regards to sending the email. The notice they sent was from an updated version a few weeks ago. There is going to be one final updated version available […]

I’m so excited

It’s been a dream of mine for a long time to join the RWA. When I first published my novel, I was excited to learn there was even a gay romance chapter! I have butterfies right now as I type that I printed out the application for RWA. I can’t send it in until I […]

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