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What the Heck Do You Blog About?

This blog post is related to one I wrote earlier this year, What the Heck Do Authors Do? Half the year has passed, and it was time for me to turn a page in my bullet journal. I have a spread, not a fancy or artistic one as many you see out there, but one that gives me an overview of what I have scheduled and what I need to write. 

As I write this, WordPress tells me that I have published 107 blog posts, the average word count per post is 1.100 words, and I’ve written a total of 117.705 blog wor...

Fridays at Ofelia’s | Bring Him Back, Jack

Hi, Holly here, stealing a spot again! I wanted to tell you about a story I’ve written for (National) Different Coloured Eyes Day. It’s called Bring Him Back, Jack and it’s about Ivan and Malik. 

Ivan is a shadow walker, which means he can melt into walls and stuff. That’s the cool part. The not so cool part is that there are a lot of evil wizards who believe he’s a bridge between the living and the dead and that by using his blood in a special kind of rite they can gain immortality. 

Ivan has ...

Update | Staying on Track

Don’t get sidetracked by people who are not on track.

It’s update time, and I have no idea what I’ve been doing. Last month, I wrote that I’d written 36k in May. In June, I wrote 16.055 words. That’s quite a lot less. I’m currently 56.6% done with my yearly goal of writing 250.000 words, so still on track, I’d say. 

July is Camp NaNo month, and I signed up to do 20k. I’m nearing the end of Holly’s September story, so to write those 20k, I need to start a new one – bummer, right? LOL. New stor...

Release Day | Remember Us

It’s release day! I fear there will never be another year when I get to write those words as many times as I have this year LOL. Today, we have Remember Us. 

Remember Us used to be Trapped, but since there already was a book titled Trapped in the JMS Books catalogue, we changed it to avoid confusion. It gets a little confusing on my end, but I’ll get used to it  

This story is not your traditional romance. William and Charlie have been together for more than forty years, they’re married, and th...

Fridays at Ofelia’s | A Roll of the Dice

Today, fellow JMS Books writer, Ellie Thomas, is on a visit. Welcome, Ellie!

Thank you so much, Ofelia, for letting me be your guest today! I’m Ellie Thomas and I write Historical Gay Romance. In this blog, I’m chatting about my latest story with JMS Books, released on July 10th. It’s a Hot Flash entitled A Roll of the Dice.

It can be uncanny how inspiration comes out of the blue from an unexpected source. The idea for this tale started when watching an excellent three-part tv documentary on th...

July Giveaway

It’s giveaway time! I have a hard time grasping that half the year has gone by already and that this is the seventh giveaway we do. 

If you haven’t been around before, I do a giveaway at the beginning of each month where I give away an ebook copy of the books that have published during the current month previous years. So that means, this month, I give away a copy of those of my books that’s been published in July. 

I’ve messed everything up by re-releasing books, so the dates are all messed up...

Wrap-Up Wednesday | June

I can’t believe another month has gone by. How am I ever going to catch up when time flashes by like this?! 

Here we’ve had some really hot days, in Swedish measurements, and the kids are off school for the summer. This means less time on my own, which means less time for quiet writing sessions or spent curled up on the sofa with my phone in hand reading.  

Scrolling back to see what I’ve read this month, we have six titles. I get the feeling I’m forgetting a story, but no matter how much I try ...

Guest Post | Flowers Under My Pillow by Nell Iris

Hello everyone! I’m glad to be back to visit the lovely Ofelia again, it’s been a while since the last time. Today, I’m here to talk about my brand new release, Flowers Under My Pillow, a contemporary story infused with some of the Midsummer magic of the olden days.

The idea for the story came from old Swedish folklore that says if you pick seven kinds of flowers on Midsummer’s Eve and put them underneath your pillow, you’ll dream of the man you’ll marry. I tried this more than once when I was ...

Release Day | The Snowflake

It’s release day!!! Today, The Snowflake will be available in the shops again.  

This book, I know you shouldn’t write books like this if you’re a romance writer, but… Welcome to my crazy world. I love this, I loved writing it, and I told my husband while I read through it again now before publication that I’m a f*cking genius LOL 

It’s a bit bloody, a little gory, a tad insane, the ending not quite a HEA and yet hopeful from the character’s point of view. 

I know, I know, you shouldn’t behead ...

Cover Reveal | Remember Us

And we have another cover!!! Remember Us used to be Trapped, but there already was a Trapped in the JMS Books catalogue, so JM asked if I was okay with a title change. Remember Us may be a better title for the story considering one of the characters suffers from dementia and doesn’t remember the present. 

I wrote this story for an anthology called Never Too Late. It’s an anthology about LGBTQIA+ characters who are a little older. I never meant to make mine as old as I made them, but… 

This story...