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August 12, 2016
A Summer’s Day anthology – author interview #7 – Asta Idonea
And today A Summer’s Day, the anthology of Shakespearean tales with a twist is finally available. Buy links are at the bottom of the post.
Author Asta Idonea is here today to help me celebrate. Welcome Asta and thanks for answering my questions.
What led you to pick your source material for your story?
Tom Hiddleston. Just kidding… well, in part. I saw his marvellous Coriolanus during the cinema screenings. 
Interrupting for essential image because a] Tom and b] the mixed messages of the knife...
August 11, 2016
A Summer’s Day – author interview #6 – Kathy Griffith
My guest for today is Kathy Griffith, a new-to-me author of whom I’m sure we will be seeing a lot more.
Welcome, Kathy and thank you for answering my questions.
What led you to pick your source material for your story?
I always had a soft spot for the tragedies, so I had to select one that would allow me to switch things up a little and give it an HEA while staying as true to the source material as possible. I gave the play a quick readthrough, then struck some of the minor characters out and...
New Release – Dawn to Dusk by Alina Popescu
Title: Dawn to Dusk
Series: Lover’s Journey, Book One
Author: Alina Popescu
Genre: Gay Romance, Contemporary
Length: Novel (over 50000 words)
That first encounter with Robert in rural Romania at eleven. A summer spent together in the same setting a year later. Their first text exchange in high school. The first sexual experience. The first heartbreak—the second and third and fourth chance. The point of total breakdown and the despair of failing. More love than anyone could have warn...
August 10, 2016
A Summer’s Day anthology – author interview #5 – Rian Durant
My guest today is one of the driving forces behind the Summer’s Day anthology, Rian Durant.
Welcome, Rian, and thank you for answering my questions.
What led you to pick your source material for your story?
The idea to write an MM version of a Shakespeare play has been nagging me for a long time and when the idea of an Anthology struck me I already knew which would be the play. I can’t say it’s my favorite per se but there are lot of things which fascinate me in there. Like the character of...
August 9, 2016
A Summer’s Day – author interview #4 – Nephy Heart
Today, I’m delighted to welcome the next author to be featured in the A Summer’s Day anthology – Nephy Heart who is not only a fantastic writer but also a lovely person.
Welcome, Nephy, and thanks for answering my questions.
What led you to pick your source material for your story?
I chose to write about The Taming of the Shrew. Why? Because I have a bee in my bonnet about the way Petruchio treats Katherine. When this anthology was suggested, I first thought about my three favourites – Macbe...
August 8, 2016
A Summer’s Day – author interview #3 – Dianne Hartsock
Author interview number three for the A Summer’s Day anthology, shakespearean stories with a twist, which will be available very soon. Please don’t forget that all proceeds will go to the It Gets Better project!
My guest today is a very old friend – well not old in herself but one of the first authors I met when dipping my toe into the balmy waters of LGBTTQ fiction – and a very lovely person.
Hi Dianne!
Thank you Elin for hosting me today!
Hi everyone. I’m Dianne Hartsock, one of the autho...
August 7, 2016
A Summer’s Day – author interview #2 – Louise Lyons
Here is the second of my author interviews with authors who have contributed to the fantastic anthology, A Summer’s Day – Shakespearean stories with a twist.
My guest today is Louise Lyons, a fellow Brits whose previous works I have really enjoyed.
Welcome Louise.
What led you to pick your source material for your story?
The first Shakespeare play I studied in school was Romeo & Juliet, which I loved, and I also love the movie, Letters To Juliet, so this was the first idea to pop into my...
August 6, 2016
A Summer’s Day author interviews #1 Rory Ni Coileain
I absolutely love Shakespeare and am always pleased when his work is taken as a starting point for other fiction. So this week and next I’m delighted to be hosting th authors who contributed stories to A Summer’s Day, an anthology of Shakespearean stories with a bit of a twist. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, all the profits from sales of this book will go to the It Gets Better project!
I’ll be taking the authors in the order in which their stories appear in the book so today I’m pleased t...
August 5, 2016
Cover Reveal – A Summer’s Day, a Shakespearean anthology, with a twist
Release Date: 12th of August
Cover Art: Jay Aheer Simply Defined Art
Genre: MM Mixed*
We have modern retelling of some plays, interpretations of others and one of the sonnets, and delightful referencing of anything Shakespeare.
There is gentle YA romance next to very hot 18+ stories and all kinds of relationships – first love, May/December, interracial, second chances, happy endings and even a tragic one.
We’re travelling from Ancient Rome through Renaissance England to modern day UK, Veni...
August 1, 2016
OMG – Eleventh Hour is out today
This is the book I thought I’d never finish! It’s one I REALLY wanted to write about someone I really wanted to write about but when I started it I’d never actually heard the term gender fluid, I just honestly felt there ought to be such a thing. Anyway, here it is and I honestly hope I haven’t got Miles too wrong. Neither of us intend to offend. If I did, please let me know and I’ll promise to do better another time. But I hope you enjoy it too.
ELEVENTH HOUR
Borrowed from the Secret Intell...
