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Anger is Not My Brand

Angry Ann by Josh Janssen Flickr creative commons

I’ve been thinking about this post for several weeks now, wanting to present a coherent essay instead of a random assortment of thoughts. The truth of the matter is this has been on my mind for some time.

Back when I first began publishing original stories, I came fresh out of the spill-your-guts school of thought when it came to creating blog posts. I’d spent years on Live Journal, where the anonymity of a fandom name lent to the fiction that...

Susan Mac Nichol celebrates Double Alchemy’s 2nd Anniversay!

Please welcome Susan here today as she celebrates the 2 year anniversary of the release of the Double Alchemy series! Be sure to check out the links–if you missed this series when it first came out, you’re in for a treat!

Double Alchemy

Release Date: March 24th 2014

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Powerful yet tormented modern warlock Quinn Fairmont must initiate the silver-eyed Cade Mairston into the world of witchfinders, Withinners, and what can happen when two men fall truly, madly, deeply in love.

THE WORLD IN S...

To KU or not to KU: That is the question…

To KU or not KU, that is the question.

For those of you who might not be familiar with the dilemma, I’m referring to the decision most indie authors face when they go to upload a new book for sale: do I make it exclusive to Amazon, and if so, do I enroll it in the Kindle Unlimited program?

This is rarely an issue for me because I don’t usually self-publish. While I love the idea of publishing on my own schedule, the time constraints of my job mean that my efforts are better spent writing the...

New Release and Giveaway: Broken Solider by Jamie Lynn Miller

I’m so excited to have Jamie Lynn Miller for an interview today, and to share about her latest release, Broken Solider!

I was fortunate enough to meet Jamie at Rainbow Con last summer, and it was like meeting an old friend! We share a lot of the same interests, including our love of sci-fi television shows and hot men in hot water. Be sure to check out the terrific interview, and leave a comment to be entered for a chance at one of Jamie’s backlist stories.

Without further ado, here’s Jamie...

New Release & Giveaway: Patience from Grace R. Duncan

Isn’t this a gorgeous cover? Please join me in welcoming Grace Duncan to the site, to share about her latest installment of the Forbes Mates series: Patience, now available from Dreamspinner Press.

Hello! Thank you to Sarah for giving me time to ramble!

This is the fifth stop on the Music Clues part of the blog tour. Links to all the stops can be found on my website at the blog tour page.

I’m a huge music fan and when I sat down to write Patience, I’d figured out pretty quickly that Chad w...

New release by AC Katt: Marking Kane

Welcome to author AC Katt here today, to share an extended excerpt of her latest M/M shifter romance, Marking Kane. I’m delighted to have her here today, so enjoy the excerpt. I recently had to remove my 18 over only warning on my website, as it was playing havoc with anyone’s ability to enter the site. That being said, the following excerpt is for mature audiences only. Thank you!

Buy Marking Kane

~Synopsis~ Gabriel Martin has hope. Three of the Alphas on the council have found mates...

Does Sex Really Sell? Genre and Reader Expectations to Consider

Today’s post was prompted in part by this insightful blog post on Sex Scenes by Theo Fenraven. If you haven’t read it yet, go check it out. We’ll wait here for you.

It’s also a topic that my fellow authors and I have been bandying about lately. How much sex is too much? Too little? Just right?

I confess right here, I agree with much of what Theo says about the boredom with reading–and writing–repetitive sex scenes. I was participating in a Facebook conversation the other day, and I mentioned...

The Cult of Anger: Which Wolf will You Feed?

There’s another bruhaha brewing in the M/M romance genre right now, one that seems to have escalated in a little mushroom cloud on Twitter in the last 24 hours.

I don’t know how it started. I know that I’ve seen statements that both anger and insult me. It feels in part like another attempt to tell women we can’t write in certain genres, but it’s more than just that, I believe. The statements and counter-challenges have been flying with the force and unpleasantness of monkeys throwing their o...

Pounds of mud on my shoes: overcoming self-doubt as a writer

I haven’t been in a good place lately. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been stuck at the house for too many weeks now, just me and the animals. Normally, I’m good with this, being the kind of person perfectly capable of entertaining myself and enjoying my own company, but with the frequent storms, I haven’t been as active and I’ve had a little too much time to brood. I’ve been indulging in too much comfort food and I’m seeing a number on the scale I’ve never seen before.

I suspect too, it’s the tim...

New Release by K-lee Klein “Lucky in Loveland”

Hi y’all and thank you Sarah for letting me take up some space for my new release. Lucky in Loveland comes out on February 13. It’s my first self-published book and also the first in a new series, Welcome to Loveland.

Loveland is a real city in Colorado and it is known for having a special connection to Valentine’s Day. Every year volunteers in Loveland help make over 130,00 Valentine dreams come true. Their re-mailing program allows people to send messages of love to with a special Loveland...