Keeping Up Appearances

Hello from social distancing! I hope you're all doing as well as can be expected in these topsy-turvy times, and that life is giving you as many breaks as it can from this ongoing anxiety and pressure. If you're feeling a little down about the lack of conventions and Pride (totally valid to feel that …

The Post-Con Crash

I had a brilliant time in Nottingham, both at the Bold Strokes Books three-day writing retreat (of which I only blogged two days), the free day on Friday where Cari Hunter decided to show me how to live dangerously in the Peak District (another blog pending), and the two-day 9th Annual Bold Strokes Books UK …

Last Day! 9th Annual @boldstrokebooks UK Book Festival

I can't believe it's been a week already. Today is the last day of the 9th Annual Bold Strokes Books UK Book Festival here in Nottingham, and I'm stunned at how fast the time has flown by. My throat is sore from laughing and talking yesterday (ah, the life of an introvert) but I imagine …

Today! 9th Annual @boldstrokebooks UK Book Festival

It's here! In less than an hour, registration will commence for the Bold Strokes Books festival here in Nottingham! I've more-or-less recovered from my Peak District Walk with Cari Hunter yesterday (there will be more on that, I promise) and now it's time to shift into author mode alongside dozens of other BSB authors for …

Living the Life — @boldstrokebooks day two in Nottingham

Really, as Christian Baines pointed out, it was like a particularly stereotypical queer scene out of rom-com. We three queer fellows had left a room full of queer women talking the trade... To go shopping. Myself, Jeffrey Ricker, and Christian were standing in a Nottingham Marks & Spencer, and I was asking them to let …

Queer Spaces

The Bold Strokes Books retreat has begun, and the first morning has passed. I ended up trying a last-minute pitch at Pitchapalooza (where I was totally—and rightfully—the loser to Barbara Ann Wright's wizard with an exploding problem), absorbed some awesome knowledge from Cindy about POV, and then got caught up on the state of things …