Elin Gregory's Blog, page 76

Blogging!

Yes that’s what I’m doing! I’m blogging, like millions of other people. There are bloggers who write about their kids, or their cats. Other who post baby animal photos that are so cute they make your teeth ache. There are the bluff no-nonsense tech bloggers, men of few words and absolutely no sympathy for anyone who doesn’t speak their own particular esoteric language. Then there are the entrepreneurial types whose blogs sound as though they were written using this interesting little gizmo. B...

Romancing the Blog – hop winner, and an unusual set of armour

Using the traditional method [scraps of paper and pirate hat] I have chosen a winner from the commenters to my post for the above hop. Kaylyn Davis I’ll be emailing you a .pdf of Alike As Two Bees. I hope you enjoy it.

And to resume normal service – well I thought I’d seen all kinds of armour but this really takes the Bonio:

All I can say is, it would have to be a very well trained dog.

Composite armour – wood, chain mail, rawhide and fabric – probably made around 1800 for the dog of a high rank...

Six Sentence Sunday

Here we go again with another short and frustrating snippet for Six Sentence Sunday.

Six Sunday is a weekly blog hop where close to 200 authors post bits of published stories or WIPs as tasters. A few brave souls are even writing stories six sentences at a time! Go here for the linky list. It’s really good fun to see all the different styles and genres and awesome to contemplate the sheer amount of effort and talent boiling away there providing new works for the reading public.

Anyhow, if you’r...

So, this ‘romance’ thing

I think any discussion of Romance has to begin with some kind of definition and where better than that font of all knowledge Wikipedia?

Romantic love is a relative term, but generally accepted as a definition that distinguishes moments and situations within interpersonal relationships to an individual as contributing to a significant relationship connection.

So far so good. Ah but it’s a term that has a considerable historical pedigree and as a historical writer that has to be taken into consid...

What a week!

My feet haven’t touched the ground. Sheesh – plus my laptop is acting up something horrible. Sadly i didn’t get to comment to the Six Sunday posts – but I read most of them, guys - and wasn’t able to take part in last weekend’s blog hop, other than by making a post to show my support.

But today I have got the damn machine working so I’m pleased to say that I have done the drawing for the giveaway for the Rainbow Book Reviews Blog Hop.

The Gods of Fate, and my pirate hat, have dictated that the...

Not really SSS Again!

What can I say? It has been a busy week. I’ll have to tweet it instead. To make up for it I’ll post an excerpt of something below the cut.

But first, there’s a very big Blog Hop going on to celebrate Rainbow Books Reviews opening for business. If you like LGBT literature you’ll love this!

Just click – here- for a list of all participants and hop from blog to blog for a chance to win prizes [including a copy of Alike As Two Bees if you like you might like such a thing. My post is -here - just c...

Rainbow Book Reviews Blog Hop

Here it is – The Rainbow Book Reviews Blog Hop – just click on the picture for a list of all participants and hop from blog to blog for a chance to win prizes.

There are some terrific authors and some very generous publishers – Amber Allure, Bold Strokes Books, Dreamspinner Press, Less Than Three Press, Riptide Publishing, Silver Publishing, Torquere Press and

Untreed Reads – so it’s well worth having a bash.

But far more important than prizes are the blog posts on the theme “What writing GLBT m...

Something for the weekend, sir?

Many writers of M/M and LGBT themed work will have heard that Serena Yates and Lena Grey, esteemed writers and reviewers, have started their own book review site.

To celebrate Rainbow Book Reviews being open for business they have organised a blog hop with some fantastic prizes and over 70 fabulous authors, bloggers and publishers taking part and offering prizes. Just click on the picture to see what’s in store.

From August 24th to August 26th join me in hopping from blog to blog. All the posts...

Six Sentence Sunday

And another Sunday rolls around. Blimey where is this year going to?

For those who don’t know – which will be hardly any of you – Six Sentence Sunday is an authorial blog hop that gives one the opportunity to read a little of an awful lot of different works. It’s good fun and I’ve met some super people while doing it. You may find the links here if you want to poke around amongst them.

Here is my offering. Another bit of A Fierce Reaping. Winter is drawing in and Cynfal is worried about Aeddan....

Brilliant Blog

I have to admit, and this won’t come as any surprise to anyone who has read any of my work, that I find men an endless source of fascination.

I’m not talking in a ‘phwoarr, what I wouldn’t like to do to you’ sense – I’m not sure I’d remember if I was given the opportunity – but in a craft sense. How do I best go about portraying their thought patterns? How do I show what they find important in a situation and what they would dismiss? Not just as in the case of this photo, where a male observer...