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Was I Ever Really Gone?

I should play that song Don’t You (Forget About Me)…

I’ll admit, things have been quiet on the A.J. front this year. My first book came out in September, and then *crickets.* I hate that there’s been such a gap between books. Believe me, I’ve been writing. Unfortunately, not all writing is gold. I spent months working on a book that just wasn’t coming together. I don’t want to push something out just to have another book for sale. Quality, not quantity. I’ll give you all the details in an upc...

I’ll meet you in the quad

If you’ve stumbled upon my new site, welcome! You’re a little early to the party, though I appreciate the punctuality.

I’m working feverishly behind the scenes to get AJTruman.com all shiny and ready. (which includes learning the behemoth known at wordpress) Keep watching this site for updates and thanks for stopping by!

National M/M Month - Interview with Barbara Elsborg

Barbara Elsborg lives in West Yorkshire in the north of England. She always wanted to be a spy, but having confessed to everyone without them even resorting to torture, she decided it was not for her. Vulcanology scorched her feet. A morbid fear of sharks put paid to marine biology. So instead, she spent several years successfully selling cyanide. After dragging up two rotten, ungrateful children and frustrating her sexy, devoted, wonderful husband (who can now stop twisting her arm) she fina...

Thoughts on Publishing My First Book

OUT IN THE OPEN is officially available for purchase. But before I continue pimping my book, I want to tell a quick story about how I got here.

First, let me pimp my sexy cover quickly. Okay, good. I won't pimp again until the very end.

Last June, I couldn't breathe. 
I'd been reading about self-publishing for years. It was getting bigger and better and more writers were finding success. I got more and more interested...but I never took the plunge. I would read JA Konrath and Hugh Howey and...

Author Interview with Zoe Perdita

Today, I have Zoe Perdita on the blog talking about some of her favorite things. (Cue The Sound of Music...) Zoe Perdita writes shifter romances with an action/adventure twist. Her books are crawling with assassins, crime bosses and all manner of sexy bad boys. Her new book Omega in the Shadows (Lost Wolves Book One) is out now.



What’s your favorite movie?

I feel like I should say something deep and meaningful, like The Fountain. That is a wonderful film, and I love it, but it’s not my favorite...

Interview with Piper Kay

Today on the blog, I’d like to introduce best-selling author, Piper Kay. Piper is from Houston, Texas and the author of The Passion Series, Eight Second Cowboy, Twisted Cherry and both sets of The Naughty Box 1 and 2. Piper writes in the m/m genres of romance, erotica romance, LGBT drama and even a western mm. Welcome to the blog. So tell us:

How many books are in the Invicta Series? If everything goes okay, I plan on four or five at least. There are so many characters yelling in my head about...

OUT IN THE OPEN now on Goodreads

I can't believe OUT IN THE OPEN comes out in 3 weeks! I've been working on this book for so long, and I am so excited to share it with everyone. I've always been interested in writing a book set at college. I really came into my own during college, and it's 4 years I will never forget. 
Around the time when the new adult sub-genre was popping up in M/F romance, I kept waiting for gay new adult to become a thing. I mean, how many gay people came out of the closet during college? I did, and...

Interview with author Cameron D. James

I'm excited that my first blog post gets to be an interview with a wickedly talented fellow M/M author as part of National M/M Month. Cameron D. James is a writer of both M/M erotic romance and M/M erotica.  After getting started with M/M erotic romance novels, with both Autumn Fire and Silent Hearts released through Champagne Books, he branched into self-publishing M/M erotica short stories, with his free debut short story, Go Deep, downloaded over 9,000 times.  Cameron loves to wr...