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July 4, 2019
Throwback Thursday | The Maddest of Men
Argh, another neglected series! In November it’ll be three years since The Maddest of Men was published. I actually wrote it for an open call where they asked for an MC who did bad things for a living but longed for something more…or something along those lines, I don’t really remember. It doesn’t matter, they didn’t want Grayham so he got a life on his own.
I don’t read a lot of sci-fi or post-apocalyptic stories, though I pick them up a lot more frequently than I used to. Some days I just l...
July 2, 2019
Summer/Winter Sale
It’s July…again!
Every year, Smashwords has a Summer/Winter sale. It’s the 11th in a row and it lasts from July 1 to July 31. Both Beaten Track Publishing and JMS-Books are participating in the sale, as am I with my self-published titles.
[image error] This is a great opportunity for you (and me) to check out some new to you authors or pick up a few books from those you already know and love.
You’ll find all M/M books on sale here. Or I shouldn’t promise all. The Maddest of Men didn’t show up here, and I...
June 25, 2019
Who Moved My Holepunch?
Who Moved My Holepunch? by Anne Brooke…I need to read more by Ms Brooke. I thought I had – I have read Tuluscan Six and the Time Circle and Tommy’s Blind Date, loved them both – but I thought I’d read more. But it’s these three stories, and they all had me smiling all the way through and laughing quite a few times LOL.
Darren is a Senior Timetabling Officer and when I read that I felt like I’ve missed my calling – that’s what I’m supposed t be doing. See I went to the university and became a...
June 20, 2019
Throwback Thursday | Trapped
Today I’m gonna talk about Trapped.
Trapped is not my usual kind of book, part of that was deliberate, part of it just turned out that way. Back in 2017, I was talking to Debbie McGowan, I can’t really recall what was said, but together we decided the world needed more stories featuring 50+ characters – and it does, damn it!
One of the biggest reasons I’m writing gay characters is that I believe we need more diversity in our books. I most often write M/M and I know some will sneer at that, cl...
June 14, 2019
Are you up for a challenge?
It’s pride month and I’m going to assume everyone who drops by here likes to read, so what better way to celebrate than to read a rainbow?
I’m gonna be perfectly honest and say I didn’t read all these books this month, not even this year. But I was bored and tired, and what I do when I’m bored and too tired to write is play around with photoshop.
So, it all started with a look at a rainbow flag and me wondering how many book covers I could fit in one row and have it look like...
June 12, 2019
A Rose is a Rose
Today it’s National Red Rose Day, and I ended up reading A Rose is a Rose by Jet Mykles – I didn’t mean to re-read it, I didn’t. But I listed it in a post not long ago and I was scrolling through my books and saw it there. The cover is hard to miss.
In many early cultures, red roses were used as decoration in wedding ceremonies and as time went by the red rose has become a symbol of love and romance. I wouldn’t call my husband a romantic, not by any means, but I do get roses quite often.
But...
June 6, 2019
Author of the Month at My Fiction Nook
[image error]Today, you’ll find me over at My Fiction Nook. For quite some time now, they’ve been running an Author of the Month event, and for June, that’s me!!!
Back in December (I think) I was sitting by our kitchen table having a cup of coffee with my sister. She was about to show me something on my iPad when she saw I had a message from Sandra over at My Fiction Nook.
It was just a short message, Sandra asking me if I wanted to be part of their Author of the Month programme. Sis gave me a flat look,...
June 3, 2019
The Lumberjack and the Omega
Yeah so… LOL.
The thing is, I feel like I should know a little about M/M lumberjack stories since I’ve written a few. It’s not often I see them around, though, so when I was scrolling through Amazon and spotted The Lumberjack and the Omega by Canis Blackfang I stopped.
My expectations weren’t very high. It says it’s an M-preg story and while I think everyone has the right to read whatever pleases them M-preg is one thing I just don’t do – sorry. But there was the lumberjack part and I do love...
June 1, 2019
Jaeger’s Lost and Found – A Soaked Vampire Kind of Story
*drum roll*
[image error]Today’s the day when Archibald Jaeger and Gael Murray step out into the rain and leave the old book shop behind to face the world. It’s not an ordinary world they’re facing, no it’s a world where it never stops raining, a world where humans and non-humans are living in different districts.
Archie is a finder, though a rather crappy one. His best friend Edie is part nagi and therefore shunned by the non-human world. Together, Archie and Edie run Jaeger’s Lost and Found, and their l...
May 29, 2019
My Partner the Wolf
I was in the mode for a shifter story and My Partner the Wolf (Shifters and Partners #1)
by Hollis Shiloh has been on my kindle app for ages, so I figured perhaps it was time to read it.
Something about this book had me keeping on reading despite not really wanting to – Sean probably, or the wish to see when Tom grew a pair – but for the most part, this book annoyed me.
Most of the focus is on the relationship between Sean and Tom, not so much on the cases they solve or the werewolf stuff, an...
