Posy Roberts's Blog

Muse, I’m over here!

I’m showing up for my muse in 2022 in a way I’ve never attempted before. I’ve not done a very good job of keeping myself open to inspiration, this guiding genius that had me scrambling for a pen and paper in the past.

My muse inspired me to write a 300,000-word piece of fanfiction that started me out on this writing journey in the first place and later a trilogy just as long over a summer.

My muse is powerful when she shows up.

Instead of listening to my muse, I’ve filled my days with a...

Holiday Romances

Home for the Holidays – Family Christmas Feathers From the Sky Author: Posy Roberts
Genres: Gay Romance, Holiday, LGBTQ Fiction, MM Romance, Novellas, Queer Romance, Stand Alones
Tags: bisexual or pansexual, coming out, established couple, family Christmas, family life, holiday, Minnesota, rural

And Cal is tired of the secrets and lies.

He came out as bisexual years ago, but his parents dismissed it as a phase. They don’t know he dated men. But his boyfriend, Philip, is on his way to ce...

Journals too Precious to Use?

I have a bookshelf filled with journals I was rarely use. Some I’ve never opened. They’re too precious to write in. Sound familiar?

After investing in all these beautiful journals and buying gorgeous fountain pens that make writing on paper a joy, I was determined to use these tools. I was blocked writing on my computer, but analog seemed to be breaking that block for me. Serendipity? I’d like to think so.

Then I ran across a class Rachael Stephen offered called the Story Toolkit Works...

MM Romance Hurt Comfort

Thirty authors are focusing on hurt/comfort romance this month. Books that make you ache. Books that make you cry or yell at characters or float with joy. No matter what, they will make you feel. And they reveal a side of humanity that we all need now more than ever: comfort.

Check out ALL the Books

Thirty MM Romance authors have joined forces to bring you these books. I love this trope. Anyone familiar with my books knows that. My contribution to this is Silver Scars, a story of hope,...

Paper Matters

When I got serious about writing fiction in 2009, I discovered words came to me at the most inopportune times.

In the showerWhile driving down the highwayWaiting for a red light to changeWaking me from a dead sleep and demanding attention

Becoming an author changed the way I organized my life. A passport-sized notebook went into my purse. I stashed another in my car. I slipped a reporter on my beside table and wrote notes in the dark so those ideas would still be there in the morning.

T...

Self-Edit with ProWritingAid

Over the last eleven years, I’ve used nearly every tool out there for writing, editing, and formatting that I could get my hands on. Grammarly, Hemingway, PerfectIt, Scrivener, Word, and more. But there’s one tool I took a leap of faith on without trying it first, and I’m so glad I did.

In 2018, I bought a lifetime license for ProWritingAid. It is the most useful tool for me as a writer once I hit the self-editing stage. It’s helped me tighten up my writing, and I swear it’s helped me be...

Writer Unthawed

After voting in November 2016, my best friend and I headed to a Mexican restaurant as we waited for polls to close and votes to be tabulated. We were hopeful, excited about the real prospect of seeing a woman in the White House, and we chose our cuisine that night as a wink to having a taco truck on every corner in the very near future. Yum!

Three hours later we’d moved to a bar so we could see the election results roll in. We had few glasses of wine, still in high spirits, and then everythin...

Silver Scars – Italian Translation

Cicatrici d’argento



translator: Christina Tormen

Una bomba ha distrutto la vita apparentemente perfetta di Gil Lemieux, avvocato di successo. L’esplosione gli ha lasciato cicatrici dentro e fuori e da quel giorno il disturbo da stress postraumatico ha preso il controllo della sua vita. Tornare a vivere con la madre dovrebbe essere una soluzione provvisoria, tanto quanto correggere bozze per una rivista medica. Ma due anni dopo aver vinto il caso sbagliato in tribunale, Gil vive ancor...

A Little “Break” in Routine

How I discovered what an avulsion fracture is and also that I’m a complete, uncoordinated klutz on crutches.

Last night I discovered a tear in a gel icepack, so I decided to put it in the outside trash; my first mistake. John held the doors open for me so I wouldn’t spill the gel, but as I was going down the steps, my ankle rolled.

Second mistake: I had put on Dansko clogs for the task. If you’ve ever worn them, you know once you start rolling, you have very little control. You’re better o...

School, Work, & Life…at Home

My house is different today. Very different. I work from home and even homeschooled for a year, but today is the beginning of something brand new.

John is downstairs on a call with his coworker doing what he does for his job. Poppy is across the hall in a sociology lecture. And Im in my office supposedly outlining a novel.

Instead, Im blogging as I wrap my head around this.

Weve never gone to work at the exact same time in the same space, and its just plain weird.

Last week was our spring...