Clancy Nacht's Blog, page 15
October 2, 2013
Black Gold 2: Double Black a 2013 Rainbow Award Finalist
Looks like it’s going to be a bumpy road to get one of the big awards, as the competition in Gay Contemporary Romance looks stiff, but I am so thrilled to be a finalist with Double Black (Black Gold 2)
. Part of the Black Gold
series! The final announcement won’t be until December, so that gives me a couple of months to bask in great company and to raise a glass to my fellow combatants colleagues for a game well played.
Filed under: about clancy, award, promo Tagged: awards, black gold 2, loose id, rainbow awards, thursday euclid
October 1, 2013
Please vote Clancy Nacht and Thursday Euclid for Author of the Month
In recognition of the positive review we received at Mrs. Condit & Friends Read Books for You’re Welcome. Love, Your Cat
reviewed in September, we have been nominated for Author of the Month!
If you have time today, please stop by and give us your vote. If you have more time, check out the other awesome authors we’re listed with. It’s a real honor!
Vote now
Filed under: award, Loose Id, promo Tagged: award, contest, loose id, m/m, promo, you're welcome love your cat
September 24, 2013
No Tea, No Shade out now!
Art by P.L. Nunn
Get it now from Loose Id
When Hank’s father catches him in a not-so-innocent childhood embrace with the neighbor Hank’s older brothers refer to as “Ladyboy Lindsey,” he forbids Hank ever to see his best friend again and sends Lindsey home in tears. Later, despite landing on opposite ends of the social and sexual spectrum in high school, neither can forget the boy who gave him his first kiss. While Hank becomes a sports star and bully, Lindsey throws himself into an elaborate sexual game played from afar for Hank’s benefit. When Hank’s football scholarship takes him away to college, their tenuous bond seems severed for good.
After Lindsey finds his calling as drag diva Miss Anne Thrope, embracing both his male identity and the natural androgyny of his intersex body, he’s finally in control of his world…until the night his first love disrupts Miss Anne’s show after a decade of silence. Hank’s dysfunctional behavior, crazy father, and their bittersweet history together threaten to destroy their fragile new romance before it’s truly begun. Should they let go of the past, or is this unique love one worth saving?
Filed under: books, Loose Id, promo, published, writing Tagged: drag queens, erotic, football, glbt, intersex, loose id, m/m, no tea no shade, promo
September 20, 2013
Read an excerpt from No Tea, No Shade
I’ve added “No Tea, No Shade” to the excerpts!
Story set to release September 24, 2013
Art by P.L. Nunn
Filed under: promo, writing Tagged: drag queens, intersex, m/m, no tea no shade
September 11, 2013
No Tea, No Shade out September 24!
When Hank’s father catches him in a not-so-innocent childhood embrace with the neighbor Hank’s older brothers refer to as “Ladyboy Lindsey,” he forbids Hank ever to see his best friend again and sends Lindsey home in tears. Later, despite landing on opposite ends of the social and sexual spectrum in high school, neither can forget the boy who gave him his first kiss. While Hank becomes a sports star and bully, Lindsey throws himself into an elaborate sexual game played from afar for Hank’s benefit. When Hank’s football scholarship takes him away to college, their tenuous bond seems severed for good.
After Lindsey finds his calling as drag diva Miss Anne Thrope, embracing both his male identity and the natural androgyny of his intersex body, he’s finally in control of his world…until the night his first love disrupts Miss Anne’s show after a decade of silence. Hank’s dysfunctional behavior, crazy father, and their bittersweet history together threaten to destroy their fragile new romance before it’s truly begun. Should they let go of the past, or is this unique love one worth saving?
Ooh and just as I was about to hit post, Detox my Spirit Animal has spoken…
Filed under: books, Loose Id, promo, published Tagged: cute boys, drag queen, intersex, loose id, m/m, no tea no shade, novella, romance, viva
September 6, 2013
A Certain Pressure in the Pipes Re-release only 99 cents!
Conrad Lloyd’s father, Governor of an old west town, wishes his son wasn’t so interested in inventing, or men for that matter. It isn’t until Conrad meets Ezhno, a Native American inventor, that Conrad thinks he can find sexual and intellectual fulfillment all in one man. Will they find their way together despite the societal and familial divide that threatens to keep them apart? Or will Conrad have to satisfy himself with his steam-powered Pleasuring Machine?
Filed under: about clancy, books, promo, published Tagged: a certain pressure in the pipes, erotic, m/m, noble romance, novella, steampunk
September 5, 2013
Double Divas Interview: "The Gift to Give Lift"
When I asked Lifetime's "Double Divas", Molly Hopkins and Cynthia Decker, why they went into the lingerie business, Molly responded, "Cause I got big jugs." And thus my lively and delightfully honest interview with the owners of LiviRae Lingerie began.
I love this show. It's so body positive. Almost every episode has my eyes wet as you see someone whose life is touched and not through cruelty like you see on so many "reality" shows or body-shaming weight-loss shows. It seems like in spite of itself, Lifetime has put something on the air that actually helps women.
September 3, 2013
New cover! New Price! Tricky only 99 cents!
Received my rights back on this so I’ve created a new cover (cover art by moi) and it is now available on Amazon
and All Romance Ebooks.
If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. At least that’s what Brody tells himself. But even though he thinks he’s happy, he’s never forgotten John, his first love. Fate gives the two lovers a second chance; will either one of them be man enough to take it?
Filed under: books, promo, published Tagged: hustler, m/m, rentboy, rerelease, tricky
August 30, 2013
Identity Crisis
Obviously Clancy Nacht is a nom de plume, chosen for personal as well as professional purposes, but it’s what I chose to encompass my “professional writing.” Charlotte was my fandom writing name and though I’d considered using it moving forward (and lamented at times that I didn’t because I was basically starting over) there seemed to be compelling arguments for splitting the two and I’d gone with it.
In a new wrinkle, another very popular m/m author has suggested that sales have improved on re-release of their m/f work under a different name. It’s not shady, they’re very open that it’s the same person and the name change was simply for branding purposes, but I guess for me, that’s the interesting part. Branding purposes. Author as brand.
As Charlotte, I wrote WAFF, angst, horror, squick, whatever. I didn’t really care about a brand, I wasn’t selling anything. I write what I feel like and I never thought to segment the identities. Or did I? I’d toyed with writing YA and recognized the need for a different identity because you don’t necessarily want to cross-pollinate those audiences until they’re old enough to Google. Or something. I dunno. I didn’t write anything YA, so besides trying to be the Amelia Bedelia of author names (I was playing with Charlotte Scarlett) I didn’t do much.
Now, spoiler alert for book 3 after Double Black (Black Gold 2), but I was going to include characters from my m/f A Model Boyfriend
in the story. I mean, the guys are in NY, Andy and Brandon are there, why not? I like when authors sort of tie their worlds together, personally. But in that case, it wouldn’t make much sense for me to rebrand my m/f as another author name.
But. I do write some horror. Erotic horror, usually, but horror it is. I’ve completed a short story and I really love it. The problem is, it’s inspired by Hannibal
and that, uh, shows. Clancy Nacht is sort of a goth/horror name and I’ve released horror under this name, but I dunno. Is it worth busting out a whole new name? With a full-time job and lots of writing, I barely keep up with this second identity. But I can’t ignore that at GRL people get whiplash going from the writing I do with Thursday Euclid and how sunny that can be to my solo work which…can be sunny but can be really dark.
For me, an author is a brand to an extent. I expect good writing out of them though I don’t know that I’ve expected that they stay in one genre. But I wonder if it damages my brand to have someone come in after reading Tricky to wonder, “what the shit, Prozac?” after Black Gold. Or vice versa. I hate thinking of myself as a brand, though. I am an author. I have big thoughts that I often transfer into people/words/scenarios that I’m trying to work out. Part of me already feels segmented ala Billy/Goldie and I was hoping that as I moved towards solvency as a writer alone that I could merge that. This sounds like more segmentation and I’m not entirely sure that will benefit me as a person, though it may well work for me as a writer.
Just what’s on my mind today. I’m making no sudden moves.
Worst case scenario.
Filed under: about clancy, writing Tagged: black gold, black gold 2, marketing, personal, thursday euclid
August 21, 2013
Goodreads, trolls, and let’s all agree rape is bad
I was up in the night, excited about an interview this morning (which I aced, go me), when I caught wind of a new author’s struggles with Goodreads. It’s the classic story: Girl writes book, decides to self-publish, promotes it on Goodreads, and before it’s even out, someone’s giving a 2 star review.
To be fair, I thought I was going to read more whining about how m33n Goodreads readers are from yet another author who hasn’t figured out that Goodreads isn’t actually your one-stop marketing shop. I only read my own reviews when I’ve got on my flame retardant clothing, and I sit still because trolls’ vision is based on movement.
And look, I’ve gotten some really pointed reviews there: Some spot on that gave me food for thought and some that I roll my eyes at. I don’t get upset because, you know, I’ve been a troll as well as a reader of books. Sometimes outlandish rage is my reaction to a book that could’ve been better. And sometimes I’ve had so little going right in my life that giving someone else a hassle was the only way I could act out because I wasn’t in a position to give the middle finger to whom I really wanted.
So, you know, personally, I take it all with a grain of salt. If someone read my book and it gave them great enjoyment to tear it to shreds, that’s what it’s there for. If they didn’t read it but don’t like women who write m/m, well I’ll take that on, too. I mean, enjoy your side of enforcing the patriarchy, you little worm, but I’ll take it. With a sharky smile.
But when people cross the line into threats, someone needs to take action. And I get that they weren’t direct threats. It didn’t look like anyone was saying, “I will rape you.” But “needs to get raped”? Sodomy? I mean, that’s not even that bad, sodomy. I like sodomy. Why you gotta threaten people with it?
Oh that was YOUR tail? Oh Um. Crap. Hi!
Letting those tags stand–not taking those things seriously–is a huge black eye for Goodreads. If their goal is to be the book readers’ 4chan, by all means. That site has been around for years and is as popular as it is notorious. And maybe that’s just a fact of life for Goodreads.
I feel bad for the new author, but getting some notoriety and a quick fanbase for her work? There are worse things. One would hope the modern age doesn’t mean that suffering triggering online traumas is the only way to get noticed, though, well, we’ve all got our row to hoe.
But can we at least take rape threats off the table?
Filed under: blog, political Tagged: gender feels, goodreads, rant, rape, safe spaces
