Okay one question though. Is the book your writing gay?

It sure is! It’s a direct spin-off of Johnlock, strongly based on Against the Rest of the World (at least at the beginning) and carrying on into fix-it territory. The main character, Thomas, (aka Sherlock) is an MI5 agent based in London. He was abruptly transferred to what was supposed to be a brief (3-4 weeks) mission with the MI6 to the slight dismay of his flatmate and best friend, Michael. Thomas never comes back and Michael never receives confirmation of his death, but assumes that he must have died. At the point when the book starts, Thomas been away for two and a half years. Meanwhile Michael has been trying to move on, convince himself to propose to his girlfriend, etc, but he’s still grieving and it’s difficult for him to accept that the past is the past. Thomas’ first chapter (the chapters alternate POV) opens with him in a makeshift outdoor prison cell outside Antalya, Turkey. As he pursues and shuts down one terrorist ring after another, it becomes clear that someone has been pursuing him in turn. 

Sherlock fans, of course, will know precisely who that is, and a lot of shit will go down in the book. I’m up to three weeks before Michael’s wedding now. My plan, at least for the time being, is to finish the book and then start looking for a publisher. What I’m doing is marketing this as mainstream literature, rather than gay/lesbian interest only, which is definitely the riskier way to go, but I hate it that fiction is segregated this way. But it means that I’m just writing the approach to the relationship very carefully, since one can’t assume acceptance the way we can in a slash-reading audience. I want for the dudest of dudebros to be rooting for them so hard by the time they finally get together! I don’t know if it’s possible, but it’s a thriller with a romance built in and I want the romance to sell itself, you know? The sex will be tamed down some, but there will be sex. :)