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Coming Soon – BAQWA Presents: Horror Show 2021

Are you all getting in the mood for the spooky season now upon us? I hope so. Today I’m thrilled to share that the local writing group I belong to, the Bay Area Queer Writers Association (BAQWA) is putting out our first anthology: BAQWA Presents: Horror Show 2021. This is a follow up to last year’s highly successful Bay Area Queer Writers Association - Halloween Radio Hour 2020. If you haven’t listened to last year’s creepy story time, give the radio show a listen here.

This year we have ten stor...

What I Look for When I’m Judging Books for Book Awards.

Happy Wednesday everyone. I hope your week is going well. Over the past several years, I’ve been a book judge for multiple contests and believe me, I’ve read some outstanding books, sadly I’ve also read some not so great novels. Based on this experience, let me share with you what I look for when I’m judging books for a contest (this is completely different from reading for pleasure or even research).

To start, each book competition will have their own criteria for judging book entries. So, my su...

Book Reviews: Corpses and Cognac, The Rising Tide, & The Shoreless Sea

Happy Wednesday everyone. I hope your week is going well. This week I thought I would share a couple of books that I’ve finished reading (Corpses and Cognac, The Rising Tide, & The Shoreless Sea) and my reviews. I hope you enjoy and please do check out these authors and their stories they are amazing.

Corpses and Cognac (Deadly Drinks #2) by Dorian Graves ...

Audiobook Update

Happy Wednesday Scribblers, today I am providing an update on my all my audiobooks. Yes, you heard that correctly. I will soon have more than one audiobook available and today I wanted to share the update with you as well as the samples from the stories. I’m so thrilled to have Steve Connor back again to narrate The Reunion (find the short story here). Also, I can’t wait for folks to hear the wonderful narration from Amanda Vargas who will lend her talents to A Dragon for Christmas (learn more a...

Ten Things About A Match Made in Spain by Rochelle Merrill

Happy Wednesday everyone. How is your week going? I hope you are all doing well. This week, I’m thrilled to have fellow BAQWA (Bay Area Queer Writers Association learn more here.) writer Rochelle Merrill over to share ten things about her new book A Match Made in Spain. Let’s jump in and see what Rochelle has to share.

Big thanks to M.D. Neu for sharing the news about my latest release, A Match Made in Spain. I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of this book and hope you will all take a vicar...

Top Ten List-What’s Your Tribe?

Happy Wednesday everyone. I hope you’re having a wonderful week. Today I’m pleased to share with you fellow NineStar Press author Eddie Newton. Eddie lives in Florida and enjoys few things more than the beach. An accomplished author, he received the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Best First Short Story. Eddie’s newest novel Truth to Light is available now everywhere books are sold. His new novel, Truth to Light, reveals everyone on Earth isn’t necessari...

Slipping Between Genres Guest blog by Kevin Klehr

SLIPPING BETWEEN GENRES

Guest blog by Kevin Klehr

First off, I’d like to thank M.D. Neu for inviting me over to talk about my new novel. But before I do, I want to discuss an issue some gay authors face.

Recently, a friend asked me what I’d been up to and I told her I’d been writing. She knew I had several books out and said, “You write erotica, don’t you?” I could feel the irritation rising inside me, but I remained poker faced and replied “No, I don’t,” then continued to calmly tell her what I’d ...

New Audiobooks Coming Soon

Happy Wednesday Scribblers, have I got some exciting news to share this week. As the subject says, I have, not one, but two, new audiobooks coming out in the next couple of months. First, coming out in time for Halloween is my highly received short story, The Reunion. And returning to provide his voice to this story is the wonderfully talented Steve Connor (find him here), who did the audio narration for T.A.D.-The Angel of Death (find the audiobook here and the book here). The Reunion was the v...

NineStar Press

Happy Wednesday Scribblers. I realized this week that I talk a lot about writing and the writing process, but I have spoken little about the publishing house that publishes a majority of my novels. Today I want to talk about my publisher, NineStar Press.

About NineStar Press (taken from their webpage):

Count the first nine stars you see on nine consecutive nights, and on the tenth day, you will find your love…

Welcome to NineStar Press. We’re a boutique publisher of quality LGBTQA romance, erotica,...

More Vloggers I Follow (Part 2)

Happy Wednesday Scribblers. Today I thought I would follow up my Top Ten Vloggers I Follow with More Vloggers I follow. These are shared in no particular order.

Minty Comedic Arts: As a lover of Cinema and general Pop Culture I peel back the layers of some of our most well-...