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I'm Coming Out...as Straight

It's true. I can't hide it any longer: I am a straight man pretending to be gay. That's me and the wife, above,  at Pike Place Market. Isn't she hot?

Why? Why would you do that? You wonder. Well, I'll tell you why. One, because as a gay man I could write gay books and everyone knows that books with gay protagonists, no matter what the genre, are hot sellers, the darling of the NY publishing scene, and adored by top shelf critics like those at the New York Times Review of Books. By pretending t...

Romance Writer Charlie Cochrane on Why She Writes

Charlie Cochrane writes good romantic fiction, really good romantic fiction. But why does she do it? Read on and find out...

I could be flippant and say that, like O'Brian's Dr Maturin, I'm a serial obsessive and writing is my latest 'thing'. However, it's gone on too long to be just a passing fad – I stared in fanfic (yes, shoot me now) about five years ago and haven't stopped penning stuff since.
So why do I carry on when the time expended doesn't equal the financial reward gained?
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WIN A FREE COPY OF THE BLUE MOON CAFE

For contest details, read to the end of this post.

And if you're ready to buy your copy, go here.

This release, at least for me, is something to really howl about (I can hear you groaning, but c'mon...it is a werewolf book, after all). But why am I excited?

First off, I have sort of been writing two genres for the past several years: horror and romance. Often there's an element of each in my work, but with The Blue Moon Cafe, I think I managed to successfully combine both genres in one book.  Th...

NEW RELEASE - THE BLUE MOON CAFE

Win a FREE, signed copy of The Blue Moon Cafe just by leaving a comment below (with contact info so I can notify you if you win). Bonus points if you send out a link to this blog to your social networks or tweet about it!

And if you're ready to buy your copy, go here.

This release, at least for me, is something to really howl about (I can hear you groaning, but c'mon...it is a werewolf book, after all). But why am I excited?

First off, I have sort of been writing two genres for the past several ...

The Reviews for BLUE MOON CAFE Are Rolling In!

Reviews for my new gay werewolf story are coming in and I am pleased and relieved that so far, they are all uniformly positive. Here's a sampling of what's been said so far:
"The Blue Moon Café...combines paranormal horror and romance into a story about love and family and choices…and werewolves...a blend of the believable and the fantastic, and the werewolf that preys on Seattle is as frightening as any that I have encountered recently."Bookwenches (Read full review here).
"unnerving...

Gay Panic--No, It's Not the Latest Dance Craze

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A few days ago, I was having dinner with friends in West Seattle. One of my friends had a sister who had happened to appear on the Jenny Jones show (remember her?) back in the day. Her sister was on a makeover program called something like, "Don't Mean to Be Rude, But You Look Like a Dude"...

NEW RELEASE - THE BLUE MOON CAFE

This release, at least for me, is something to really howl about (I can hear you groaning, but c'mon...it is a werewolf book, after all). But why am I excited?

First off, I have sort of been writing two genres for the past several years: horror and romance. Often there's an element of each in my work, but with The Blue Moon Cafe, I think I managed to successfully combine both genres in one book.  The Blue Moon Cafe is as much a romance as it is a chilling horror novel. I think (hope) that it w...

LAMMIE Finalist Dan Stone on Why He Writes

Recently, author Dan Stone's debut novel, The Rest of Our Lives, was among the finalists announced for the 2010 Lambda Literary Awards, in the gay romance category. Listen as he tells us how he does what he does...

I used to hear my minister father talk about his feeling that he had been 'called' to preach.  He passed along to me a desire to find a place and a work in this world that was uniquely mine.  It was presented as both a gift and a challenge to be called, to hear and to respond t...

Rave From RAINBOW REVIEWS for THE BLUE MOON CAFE

Hi All,

Woke up to a great 4-star review this morning from Rainbow Reviews for my gay werewolf love story, THE BLUE MOON CAFE. In part, the review said:

"...Not only will the suspense keep the readers enthralled, but the author's ability to bring across the terror in such vivid detail is sure to remind readers of authors like King and Koontz...."

Read the whole review here.

Check out an excerpt and get your copy here (print version should be out this week).

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The Blue Moon Cafe Gets Its 1st Review--A Rave!

That first review is always one that I am afraid to peek at.

But this first review for my gay werewolf novel, THE BLUE MOON CAFE, from Literary Nymphs is a "five-nymph" rave. Whew!

The review says, in part,

"The Blue Moon Café is a dramatically potent suspenseful story illustrated with an unnerving realism. This is a dark fierce murder mystery, interwoven with the emotional turmoil of the frightening unknown danger, in addition to an unstable relationship. This is an exhilarating macabre f...