Down the block follow-up

In a comment on the immediately preceding post, a reader said something nice and then said "though if you twist me up too much in the story, it might take me a while to get my head around it."

I hadn't really thought about it as the stories were being written, or indeed afterwards (in spite of the "not for me"/"I didn't understand" reviews or comments), but her perception of The Song and Surrender is, I think, accurate.

Both of them are kind of "brain-twister" stories, because, frankly, that's the only way those tales could be told. And they do require some special concentration that you don't always have to have with more traditional M/M romances, whether scifi, or paranormal, or just-hot-guys stories. (Well, I guess you can tell where my story reading preferences are. >g<)

NOTE: The above is not a "put-down" of more traditional stories, nor is it me trying to imply my two stories are somehow better because they aren't written in a more traditional story-telling vein. I apparently just have an inherently twisty kind of mind.

That said, I don't think The Meeting is at all twisty, although it is, like The Song, told from the alternating POVs of DarkFire (that warlord/crown prince/heir/magic sword kind of guy) and Jerril (the bard with the divine voice). Oh...and please "un-swish" that last phrase inside your head, and stop leering about DarkFire's sword...I heard you doing it, you know! >s<

Unbirthday Present? Yeah, kinda twisty, though the changes wrought from the beta reader's comments will hopefully make it, hmmm, more understandably twisty?

"no way out" (lowercase intentional) is a pretty straight (so to speak) forward love story set in Regency England. But I have no idea how soon it will be done. I have the opening chapter almost done, and the final chapter, which I really, really, really like. I know how to get from A to Z, but I haven't quite figured out all of the way(s) in which the obstacles to true love are going to work.

Guy-whose-name-I-haven't-finalized, is not a "type" of man I've seen in M/M romances before. On the other hand, Royce Alexander David Jonathan Henley, Marquess of Ireton, heir of the Duke of Stoneleigh, a/k/a, the “Iron Marquess” is more closely a traditional Regency romance aristocrat/hero. And I figure he's pretty heroic here, even if the readers don't find out about it for a while. Bottom line is, it will, I hope, ultimately be a kind of gay/erotic "homage" to Georgette Heyer and the other contemporary writers of really great M/F Regencies. With enough plot twists/turns to hold your interest.

NOTE 2: Nope, no way am I comparing myself to Heyer, or Quinn or Laurens or London, etc.

So hopefully you won't have too much Eric Alan "head-wrapping" to do between now and the end of the year...just (I can but hope) reading enjoyment.

Eric