Sunday Shorts – “The Loft,” by Elizabeth Lister

Sunday Shorts has kind of fallen by the wayside a bit this year—mea culpa—but I'm going to play some catch-up. I've been reading short fiction and novellas with a full on clip this year, but the reviewing part? Well, as I said: mea culpa. I try to be the guy who owns up when I …

Romance in the Big O

It's been a couple of days since Romancing the Capital ended, and I've gotten my voice back (finally!) so I thought I'd sit down and try to give you an idea of what it was like (if you weren't there) and why I can't wait to go back, assuming Eve Langlais is willing to put …

Today! Romancing the Capital – Friday May 6th

Romancing the Capital's first full day is today! I'll be there all day (I have to go home during the dinners, alas, to take care of Our Fluffy Lordship), and if you're out and about, please do say hello. Specifically, today, I'll also be on a panel: The Many Shades of LGBT Romance Today, a …

Pseudonyms vs. Identities

Edit to add: I wrote this post a few years ago, and link back to it whenever I see discussions around "does it really matter if an author is X?" going around. So, even though the specific post below was originally inspired by multiple times women authors have pretended to be gay men, it applies …

Romancing the Capital 2015

I have no voice, a raw throat, and sore cheeks (from smiling and talking, pervert, get your mind out of the gutter). I couldn't be happier. This past Friday-Saturday was Romancing the Capital, a romance-centred reading convention hosted in part by Eve Langlais. I say hosted "in part" but I mean she organized the vast …