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Writing is Weird.

 I’ve said this before. Writing is weird. I mean, a writer grabs words out of the air and arranges them like she’s hooking up train cars to an untested engine. This word must appear before this word, and then this one should come next. THEN that writer must roll that word train out there for everyone else to see if the […]

I’m going to do IT.

I am going to do it. IT. That thing I didn’t think I’D EVER DO. That thing I’ve been asking myself about for years, playing the pros and cons out in my head. I think I’m going to create a “street team.” These would be people I can count on for possible beta reading, social media buzz, […]

Blue Fire is BACK!

Re-release of 2009 novella – Fire cost Jared Kenny his home and all his memories of the man he’d loved for over half his life. But it also brought him firefighter Adam Collins and the purest blue eyes Jared had ever seen. Despite the best efforts of his department, Adam had to watch with Jared […]

Nano WHY Mo–

So… It’s the last day of NaNoWriMo, and once again, I have to face the truth. I did not “win”. Or… did I? If my narrow definition of win is writing 50K in one month, no… I did not win.  But you know me. I have no narrow definitions for anything. I’m the perennial optimist. It says […]

For the Stuffing Ball recipe –

You can go to Love Bytes Reviews and read my guest post, where I impart the magical, mystical secret to my oh, so delicious but decidedly pedestrian Stuffing Balls. It’s stuffing. Shaped like BALLS. Because everything is funny when mentally, you’re still a twelve-year-old. Get the recipe, and more information about my holiday than you’d care […]

Mourning Moon – some thoughts on Thanksgiving

I guess a Mourning Moon is the last full moon before the winter solstice. We’ve had some awesome moons lately, moons with rockstar names like the “Blood Moon,” in September, and “The Supermoon,” in October. The Mourning Moon on the eve of Thanksgiving ushers in a time of cleansing and making ready for winter. In some traditions, […]

Just when I swear I don’t…

Just when I’d swear on that big stack of religious tracts people leave stuck in my door that I don’t read reviews, I go and do it. We’re not supposed to have favorites among our kids or our books, but I have an almost favorite. I have written a few romance novels and I love […]

Useful information…

You know what? I’ve been using Scrivener for a really long time. I’m an early adopter of cool technology, and I’m an optimist that I’ll be able to figure stuff out, so I’ll get interested in something like Scrivener and hop on it right away. Anything that will help me write, right? So I’ve had […]

GayRomLit Retreat 2015 – a debriefing.

Wow! This was the view from Belinda’s (McBride) and my room, although this tiny picture doesn’t do it justice. From our balcony, we could see the bay, and the steamboats, and also everyone coming and going from the lobby. Which was kind of handy when we needed to find people. We were right next door to […]

Guest: PD Singer – Who’s Shifting Now?

When I started writing the otter shifter story that became Tail Slide, and that later spawned Otter Chaos, I had no idea that “otter” had a particular meaning in gay lingo. I just knew that I wanted an animal built for fun. Everything about an otter, from his humpy running gate to his snootful of […]