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January’s Favorite Covers — Joyfully Jay

January’s Favorite Covers — Joyfully Jay.

I know January and February and March and April were filled with snow up here in the Minnesota tundra, and I was also up to my eye balls in writing and editing my trilogy, but how could I have missed this?!?

My book’s cover was the big winner on Joyfully Jay’s Favorite Covers in January.

I think this is the coolest thing ever, because I love that cover. TL Bland did an amazing job!

Filed under: My Novels Tagged: covers

Half Way There to a Dozen!

I feel like I just ran an marathon. I had so many ups and downs with the MN House marriage equality hearing that I’m exhausted. When Rep. Tim Kelly tried to tack on an amendment to reduce all marriages to civil unions just so he wouldn’t have to vote for or against marriage equality, I about went through my screen. Then my representative got up there and agreed. We will be having words the next time we see each other! Thankfully, that amendment was quickly defeated.

Then, they got to the meat...

Name Tag Peek-a-boo

I’ve never been good with names. I’ve tried all the tricks that name experts tell you about, but until it clicks, I stumble. Some click easier than others, because maybe that person reminds me of a childhood friend with the same name or it’s such a quirky name that I love it to death and it gets burneddeeplyinto my grey matter right away. Name + Visual = Posy getting it easier.

So, it came as no surprise that when I went to the Dreamspinner’s author’s workshop, I felt overwhelmed by all the ne...

I write Male/Male Romance because…

“Why do you write that?”

I know I’m not the only female M/M romance writer to get that question. I’ve gotten it from super close friends even more than people who barely know me, though I recently even got it from my seat mate on a plane too.

It’s not an easy answer, at least not one that can be thrown out with a sassy quip, as much as I wish it could be. That would mean I didn’t answer the question truthfully.

“Why not?” is the answer I often hear from other M/M female writers. It’s quicker tha...

Get Words Down

I’m shifting gears in my current manuscript, and I feel like I need a mental break. What a great time to write a blog post, right? I think so.

Over the years, I’ve purchased many journals. Some are leather, some bound in corrugated cardboard, but my favorite journal has been the Moleskine. Moleskine journals are expensive, but I like the cream colored paper, and the paperboard cover feels less intimidating than leather. Leather feels more permanent, and I often feel as if I need something real...

How I Keep My Butt in the Seat to Write

I have some tools of the trade most people don’t think of as writer’s tools, but when I sit at a computer for extended periods of time, I find I need some things to keep my butt in the seat. That usually means comfort items. So here’s a list of some unconventional tools of mine:

A footstool -I use a footstool to elevate my feet when I sit at my desk. It’s comfy and it also reduces swelling if it’s hot outside.
A nursing stool – What?!? Yes, for those times I don’t want my feet up or on the grou...

What Old People Think About Gay Sex

This is all sorts of adorable.

Filed under: Inspiring, LGBTQ Tagged: funny, video

Edited to Near-Insanity

Used with permission from Debbie Ridpath Ohi at Inkygirl.com.

A few weeks ago, my friend J.P. Barnaby shared this cartoon with me on Facebook and tagged me in it. Yes, I’m that blonde lady wanting her manuscript back for just one more read through.

It’s sort of an illness, I think. Perhaps not an illness, but it sure does slow down my submission speed, and all because I think that one more tweak of a word or phrase will solve everything.

Sometimes that’s true. I’ve improved some stories on that...

Social Solitude

In many ways, I’m not that typical writer living a quiet life of solitude. I’m quite social. Well, I’m social at times. I have an extremely social job where I’m paid to talk and spark great discussions in my parent education classes each day. At the end, I’m often exhausted and more than happy to shut up and go back inside my head to live surrounded by the dull roar in there. I like that noise better. My characters are also easier to deal with… most of the time.

Alone in a Crowd by Dennis Mint...

Save Money. Save a Tree.

Dreamspinner Press is offering 20% off all ebooks and audiobooks today on this Earth Day. Maybe you need to fill up your ereader for those moments where you sit and wait, or maybe you need something to get you through this never ending winter. Oh, maybe that’s just us living in the Midwest. Winter storm Zeus is headed my way, and just the name is making me quake in my insulated boots a little. I’d much rather be wearing Thomas’s Docs today.

And if you haven’t read Fall Into You yet, you can bu...