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It's official

Alike as Two Bees is up on Amazon UK and US this morning.

Thinking about it, I'm more scared than excited. After writing stories for 50 years I'm finally taking the giant step of tethering one out in the open to bleat until something big with teeth comes along. That is a very scary prospect and the most comforting thing I feel I can do is avert my eyes from it and carry on with the next story.

Fabulous few days for gay lit!

It must be spring because there are so many new books out or available for preorder that I'm not sure what to get first!

Charlie Cochet's The Amethyst Cat Caper is released today. It sounds like a super noirish adventure with a tough cop and an Englishman abroad. I've been looking forward to that.

Becky Black's Higher Ground is out today as well.Speculative fiction with a lovely m/m twist

Alike As Two Bees

I got the cover art this morning. Isn't it warm and - honeyed? Yes that's the word. Strength, skill, beauty, spiced olives and honeycomb under a forever sky.

I'll do an offical post with the proper blurb and excerpts in a few days. *gulps* It's not long now. March 2nd. I only hope anyone who reads it enjoys it as much as I did writing it.

A challenge

Sue Roebuck, bless her, has challenged me to finish my pirate novel, On a Lee Shore, by the time she comes back from the UK next week. I'm not sure whether this is because she wants to find out what happens or because she's sick of me belly aching about it. It NEEDS to be finished - there's a lot of redrafting to do and I'm beginning to get annoyed with it. Once it's finished I can set it aside for a few months and do something else. then I'll come back to it and give it some ginger on the 2n...

Get out, you're barred

This is a phrase heard quite commonly in the rougher bars in the UK. Basically, if customers misbehave, have misbehaved in the past or seem likely to misbehave the owner of a business, usually but not necessarily a pub, is entitled to refuse to serve them. People fighting, arguing, making racist or homphobic comments, causing damage or getting so drunk they puke on the floor can be barred. I think most people would agree that this is a reasonable reaction for a business owner with the best in...

Hold these dates!September 14th – 16th 2012 will see t...

Hold these dates!


September 14th – 16th 2012 will see the third annual UK Meet for readers/writers/reviewers/fans of GLBTQ fiction.

There will be a full day of programmed events on Saturday 15th, plus social events on Friday evening and Sunday morning.

Full press release, with details of where, what and how to book, goes live Friday 24th Feb.

Call for submissions for linked anthology "

Hold these dates!September 14th – 16th 2012 will see the ...

Hold these dates!

September 14th – 16th 2012 will see the third annual UK Meet for readers/writers/reviewers/fans of GLBTQ fiction.

There will be a full day of programmed events on Saturday 15th, plus social events on Friday evening and Sunday morning.

Full press release, with details of where, what and how to book, goes live Friday 24th Feb.

Call for submissions for linked anthology "Lashings of Sauce" goes live Friday 2nd March.

UK Meet team (Jo, Jamie, Clare, Alex and Charlie)

Also - brand new s...

Three weeks

That is three weeks until my novella, "Alike As Two Bees" [so glad they kept the title], is released by Etopia Press.So far it has been a very interesting process with content edit and copy edits to deal with - mercifully nothing too scary - and a mock-up of the cover to look at. The business side of things is far scarier. I thought I'd have longer to get my ITIN sorted but I'll have to try and fit in a trip to London soon - a horrible prospect for someone who gets uncomfortable at the though...

Celebrations

Congratulations, Erastes, on Muffled Drum being runner up in the Love Romance Cafe vote for best Historical Romance of 2011! Very exciting to see a M/M romance doing so well in competition with ALL the romances.Also *bounce* my story "Alike as Two Bees" will be released by Etopia Press on March 2nd. More news later!

I have until Tuesday to condense approx 2000 years worth ...

I have until Tuesday to condense approx 2000 years worth of history into about 3000 words, keeping it factually accurate, making it entertaining and adding a special section about the importance of women.
Writing fiction is SO much easier!
Speaking of which, I haven't done much lately due to a combination of Christmas, cold weather and the hostile takeover of my office by my daughter and her minions. That'll teach me to keep it tidy! Over the weekend I'm going to make it really messy, that sho...