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Autumn road show

Late September is Goldilocks weather in Asheville, North Carolina — too late to be hot, too early to be cold. Peak leaf season in that part of the Blue Ridge Mountains won’t happen for another couple of weeks, but there ought to be a good range of color, since we’ve had a relatively dry summer. […]

If this were fiction …

I had an idea for a political novel but real life stole my plot. It’s just as well. If I wrote about a candidate whose best descriptor was an anagram of both racist sins and crisis tans, you’d accuse me of going over the top. Characters are supposed to be believable. (Says who? Polls…all of […]

My GCLS conference hangover

Thank goodness for all the photos GCLS attendees posted on Facebook to chronicle our five days in DC. If I had to rely only on my memories, the entire conference would be nothing more than a blur of hugs, laughs, shivers, buffet lines and ominous signs telling us our time was up. With the GCLS […]

The 2016 Golden Crown Literary Selebration

GCLS is no longer creeping up on us. It’s bearing down like a freight train, like an F5 tornado, like a roomful of lesbians on a box of Tim Tams. I know this because my suitcase is down from the attic and I’m starting to pay attention to what I can’t wear this week because […]

We aren’t afraid of you

To Omar Mateen and all others who plot violence against the LGBT community: We aren’t afraid of you. We know real fear. For many of us who grew up lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, our greatest fear was never your automatic weapons, your fists or anything else born in your depraved heart. Real fear was […]

Another lively Lammy night

I’m back from New York, where we celebrated another year of excellence in LGBT literature. If you’ve never made it to a Lammy ceremony, I urge you to put it on your calendar. Whether you’re a finalist or not, a winner or not, you can’t help but be swept up in the excitement of the […]

Love letter from North Carolina

As you probably know, North Carolina recently passed a “screw you” law against the transgender community, House Bill 2, known colloquially as the “bathroom bill” because it limits use of state bathrooms in government buildings (including schools) and rest areas according to the gender on one’s birth certificate. Not without irony, HB2 started a pissing […]

Trial by Fury — download it today

Exclusive! That’s how most marketers launch their new products. You know the drill by now … that gadget you’ve been waiting for, that you’ve seen advertised on TV — it’s available only at the Apple Store, only at Target stores, only at Macy’s, etc. And so it is with new releases from Bella Books. Paperback […]

Some thoughts about Chapter One

I’ve recently begun a new, as-yet-untitled romantic thriller. The story has been rattling between my ears for a while, but it’s a departure from a girl-meets-girl romance, since it opens with a couple who have been together for several years. I finally worked out the ragged spots and managed to outline 80% of the plot. […]

Get an advance copy of Trial by Fury

Could I tempt you to be the first on your block to read Trial by Fury? Theatre professor Celia Perone brings a campus case to celebrity women’s rights attorney Theo Constantine. The case is a sure loser, but Theo can’t turn it down because Celia’s determination touches a nerve. Though I usually do two books […]