Four intriguing questions
The irrepressible Cody Kennedy honored me by requesting my participation in this blog chain by answering four intriguing questions. Here goes:
1. What are you working on now?
Currently I am putting the finishing touches on Promised Land, an action/adventure novel involving a deeply closeted tax attorney and the young street hustler who sets him free. They have been rejected by their families and that provides a basis for deepening affection. Then the attorney discovers what the boy's handler plans to do with him on his eighteenth birthday and gets plunged into a shocking criminal enterprise struggling to save the boy he loves.
Additionally, my beloved editor will soon begin the process of editing Whipping Boy, a political thriller involving a struggle over the line of succession to the throne in a province lying in a vastly changed future America.
I am starting a fantasy novel called The Wielder and the Spark about magic users who need a mate to provide the energy they need to use their magic. They are only "called" when the spirit of their world senses danger. The new Wielder is a socially awkward engineering genius who detests people in general and his Spark in particular.
2. How is your current WIP different from other works in the genre?
My work tends to blend genres, or at least fails to abide by any genre's constraints. The story leads and I follow. I know many people believe that a M/M romance should not contain any het sex. However Whipping Boy contains some fiery het sex as well as M/M sex between the main characters. There's a healthy dose of hurt/comfort thrown in for good measure.
Promised Land strays down extraordinarily dark pathways with harsh criticism of the religious right.
3.why do you write?
Because my head will explode if I don't. Seriously: I have wanted to write my entire life but I couldn't find a story. Suddenly, in my late fifties after discovering fan fiction, words are gushing out of me. It's as if I needed M/M to remove an obstruction from my imagination. I feel more grounded and serene now because I can siphon my cistern of anger into my work.
4. How does your writing process work?
Not very consistently. Typically an image will pop into my head and a flood of questions follow. For example, The Wielder and the Spark started with the image of a young man whistling contentedly while surrounded by adoring drones seeking his attention. I immediately needed to know, why all the drones? Why do they make him happy? What is he doing? What does he want? Detail leads to detail until, voila, I have a fully developed world and interplanetary economic system in place to put in peril. Where does the initial image come from? I have no idea.
Thanks for reading my rambling and I wish Cody and all the readers and fans of M/M fiction a great 2014 full of wonderful discoveries and fulfilling endeavors!
1. What are you working on now?
Currently I am putting the finishing touches on Promised Land, an action/adventure novel involving a deeply closeted tax attorney and the young street hustler who sets him free. They have been rejected by their families and that provides a basis for deepening affection. Then the attorney discovers what the boy's handler plans to do with him on his eighteenth birthday and gets plunged into a shocking criminal enterprise struggling to save the boy he loves.
Additionally, my beloved editor will soon begin the process of editing Whipping Boy, a political thriller involving a struggle over the line of succession to the throne in a province lying in a vastly changed future America.
I am starting a fantasy novel called The Wielder and the Spark about magic users who need a mate to provide the energy they need to use their magic. They are only "called" when the spirit of their world senses danger. The new Wielder is a socially awkward engineering genius who detests people in general and his Spark in particular.
2. How is your current WIP different from other works in the genre?
My work tends to blend genres, or at least fails to abide by any genre's constraints. The story leads and I follow. I know many people believe that a M/M romance should not contain any het sex. However Whipping Boy contains some fiery het sex as well as M/M sex between the main characters. There's a healthy dose of hurt/comfort thrown in for good measure.
Promised Land strays down extraordinarily dark pathways with harsh criticism of the religious right.
3.why do you write?
Because my head will explode if I don't. Seriously: I have wanted to write my entire life but I couldn't find a story. Suddenly, in my late fifties after discovering fan fiction, words are gushing out of me. It's as if I needed M/M to remove an obstruction from my imagination. I feel more grounded and serene now because I can siphon my cistern of anger into my work.
4. How does your writing process work?
Not very consistently. Typically an image will pop into my head and a flood of questions follow. For example, The Wielder and the Spark started with the image of a young man whistling contentedly while surrounded by adoring drones seeking his attention. I immediately needed to know, why all the drones? Why do they make him happy? What is he doing? What does he want? Detail leads to detail until, voila, I have a fully developed world and interplanetary economic system in place to put in peril. Where does the initial image come from? I have no idea.
Thanks for reading my rambling and I wish Cody and all the readers and fans of M/M fiction a great 2014 full of wonderful discoveries and fulfilling endeavors!
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