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A Sense of Place – part 2

Last week I started writing up my notes from the Queer Company sense of place panel and it all got a bit rambly so I decided to cut it up into bits. I posted the first bit here promising to follow up but that was on the 8th and all the world knows what happened next. I’ve had brains like scrambled egg all week so I apologise for the gap.

Description – too much of a good thing?

We can all probably remember those romances of the 70s and 80s – Judith Krantz is one of the authors who comes to mi...

Sunday Serial

Time for another bit of Joe Skidmore’s diary – 1869, east Texas, small farmers under trying circumstances.

February 9th

I haven’t written for a few days because we’ve just been too damn busy. There’s been so much rain that everything’s waterlogged, and the roof began to leak right over Isaac’s bed. Isaac being Isaac said he needed to sleep in mine since he has to do a full days work whereas I can loaf around at home on account of my bum leg. I guess we got a bit loud because Pa came in and,...

Queer Company and a sense of place

On Saturday November 5th I attended Queer Company 2, an event for authors and readers organised by the lovely ladies of Manifold Press. Thank you Fiona Pickles, Morgan Cheshire and Julie Bozza – and everyone else involved in the organising – you did us proud.

It was a BRILLIANT day with tea and cake and fabulous people to talk to, a new anthology to launch and exciting talks that I found hugely inspiring. Many thanks to Farah Mendelsohn, K J Charles, Chris Quinton, Julie Bozza, Ellie Musgrov...

Sunday Serial

Another snippet of a genuine old school YA western which, in the fullness of time, will have all the usual trappings and cliches plus the slightest tinge of M/M romance because why not?

This week, more of the cruel realities of life.

Feb 5th

A coyote got to the hens last night and killed two and injured one. He carried off the dead ones but the hurt one got up onto the roof of the pig pen.

She seemed okay at first but the coyote had ripped one of her wings clear off. I reckon it might have...

Today in the Comfy Chair – David Dawson

My guest today is an author that I first met at this years UK Meet, and I most most intrigued to hear about his first release, The Necessary Deaths, which came out on the first of November and which I, for one, am gagging to read.

Please join me in welcoming David Dawson.

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Hello, David. Can you tell me a little about yourself? For instance, do you have to have a day job as well as being a writer?

I work as a documentary film maker. I was with the BBC for about twenty years, firstly as a...

Sunday Serial

I’ve been very bad about updating this blog and this serial so I’m going to do a whole batch in one go so there will be at least something on a Sunday for a few weeks to come.

This serial takes the form of the diary entries of a young man called Joe Skidmore who lives in the eastern part of Texas in 1869. Joe has some problems and feels that life is passing him by. Later lefe will come and grab him by the scruff of the neck and he’ll go on an adventure but it’s early days now. Last time he wa...

Today in the Comfy Chair – B. G. Thomas

My guest today is a man I have known for over a decade – I even used to beta read for him way back in the dim and distant past before his first runaway successes in M/M romance.

Welcome B.G.

Elin: Can you tell your readers a little about yourself? For instance, do you have to have a day job as well as being a writer?

BG: I have an Evil Day Job! OMG! I’ll write a novel about the place someday. Let’s leave it at that and talk good stuff. I live in Kansas City—that’s Missouri and not Kansas—wit...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Alyson Pearce

Happy Thursday!
Today I have a brand new-to-me author in my Comfy Chair. Alyson Pearce is an American transplant currently living in London, where she works full time in publishing and as an author of M/M romances. She fell in love with romances after discovering her grandmother’s library and hasn’t looked back. As a member of the LGBT community, she believes that everyone deserves their chance at a happily ever after.

She has recently released a new series set in the Regency period that foll...

Sunday Snippets – after a break

I sort of lost the plot for a while – too much to think about – but I’ll carry on with these posts of excerpts from the diary of a young lad living in the Eastern part of Texas in 1869.

The last bit was here where Joe decided he needed to be honest about himself as well as about everyone else.

Jan 28th [Thur]

I don’t think I’ll write every day. What would be the point? Got up ate grits, fed hogs, fed hens, saddled horses, waved Pa and Jacob and Isaac away. That’s every day. I’ll write things...

And yet more blog tour!

I’m all over the place!

Today, I’m visiting those scrummy folk at Sinfully Reviews with a guest post about historical precedent in cross dressing for spies. And there’s another chance to enter the contest to win a copy of On A Lee Shore and a gift card.

Here’s the link!

On A Lee Shore is about pirates and treasure and features an uptight hero who is completely out of his comfort zone, a love interest who delights in keeping him off balance and a large cast of scapegraces, cut-throats, ne’er-d...