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October 1, 2014
Summer Symphony Release Day!
Today Summer Symphony is available from all online retailers.
Martin Zoric had vivid dreams of fatherhood, of a small hand pressed to his, of pink dresses and girlish laughter. Then his wife had a stillbirth and his world fell apart.
He listened to the unwanted apologies, stood by his wife as was expected of him, and kept his façade strong and firm for the entire world to see.
But does he have the strength let go and really grieve?
When Ren Wakahisa landed in Croatia he was hoping to escape the c...
September 29, 2014
Meet me at Shira’s
[image error]I’m over on Shira Anthony’s blog talking about The Power of Music and how it relates to my new novel,Summer Symphony.
We all have a story about a particular piece of music, or a memory which istriggered when we hear that song. Stop by and share your thoughts.
Summer Symphony is available for pre-order from Amazon,iTunes and Smashwords.
September 28, 2014
The Writer’s Life – in GIF form
According to people smarter than me, there are five stages of writing. Actually, I think there are eight, but that’s just me.
1. Prewriting
The muse whispers in your ear… “I have an idea!”
2. Drafting
And the muse is suddenly on vacation…
3. Revising
Why oh why did I say yes to this mess?
4. Editing
Those suggestions from your editor…
5. Publishing
I’m an author!
6. 1st Five Star Review
OMG! New favorite author!
7. 1st One Star Review
“Bad writing. Bad Story. Why did I waste my money?! Don”t waste yours!”
8...
September 19, 2014
Summer Symphony…in the wild
I canfinallyhappily say that the ARCs are going out and Summer Symphony is available for pre-order from Amazon, iTunes and Smashwords. (Other sites are coming soon.)
Readers are already asking me to describe this book beyond the blurb. That’s hard.It’s a very different story and doesn’t really fall into any specific genre.
In short, a bisexual father grieves over the loss of his daughter to stillbirth and cannot find a way out of the grief until…
It’s an lgbt romance, and a story about a father’...
September 12, 2014
The Old Ball and Chain
Welcome Rainbow Award Winner Lewis DeSimone to the blog. I’ve been wanting to get him here since 2012, but our schedules have conflicted. He’s here today to give us a little of the story behind his novel, The Heart’s History.
Writing is a lot like love: it’s all about your degree of commitment.
For me, poems are basically one-night stands—capturing a moment in time. Short stories, requiring a longer gestation period, are more like boyfriends. But a novel is a husband. A novel is a ball-and-chai...
September 1, 2014
A Father’s Grief
There’s a stigma in many cultures about how men are supposed to grieve. This stigma is no more conspicuous than when it comes to a father’s grief over a child lost to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Common sentiments concerning male grief are age-old and deeply ingrained across many societies: Public tears are not condoned, and if they are permitted, it is only in the quietest moments of solitude, and then, only in the short-term. Grief should not interfere with work, with family, with supporting t...
August 29, 2014
It’s Erotica, so it’s … Badly Written?
Welcome Todd Young to the blog with an excerpt from his latest, Naked.
Todd Young’s first book, Corrupted, was released in 2010. Since then he has published five other titles, most recently, Angel, a companion to the “beautifully psychotic” Subject 19. His work sits on the borderline between gay erotica and m/m romance.
Essentially, I’m writing erotica, but I want it to be as engaging as any other type of fiction. I don’t see any reason why a book should lack in terms of storyline, characters,...
August 25, 2014
LGBT Music Monday – Shura – Touch (Video)
Based out of London, I really couldn’t find much on this artist, but… love her work on this. Check it out. You can connect on Facebook.
August 22, 2014
Second Chances
Welcome award-winning novelist and short story writer,Nathan Burgoine,to the blog with some insight into his writing.
When I wrote my first novel, Light, there was a bit of recurring feedback from some of the readers who knew my short fiction that made me smile: “I wasn’t expecting to laugh.”
That’s probably fair. I have a reputation for bittersweet when I write short fiction; my first published short story, “Heart,” continues to be one of the stories I get the most feedback about from readers...
August 21, 2014
Pre-Order Summer Symphony
It’s my pleasure to finally announce that Summer Symphony is available for pre-order from Amazon. This has been a long and difficult road into a subject that hits men and women in their core: the loss of a child.
In essence, this book is a love story, but it is also a challenge to the misinformed perception that men do not grieve when a child is lost through miscarriage, or in this case, a stillbirth. The sheer lack of information I found during the research phase of this book only attested to...
