#PrideReads Day One – A Queer Novel I’d Like to See Written

Edit: I'm dropping out of this theme for the month. The short reason is this: It's hurting and excluding people I wanted to include in the first place, and that's not okay. I thought I could patch-job. I can't. The longer reason is: The original idea happened super-quickly. It jumped from brainstorming to being posted without any …

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Of Echoes Born — Art for “There & Then”

Every now and then as a writer someone does something so above-and-beyond thanks to something you've written. This happened to me yesterday. Matthew Bright, the skill behind the brilliant Inkspiral Design (who did the cover for Of Echoes Born and In Memoriam), came to the Bold Strokes Books UK meet in Nottingham, and he picked up …

First Echo

Yesterday, I was having a kind of off day. It was snowing (still, again, relentlessly) and I realized just how many books I needed to finish reading, and soon. I'm lucky enough to get ARCs for a lot of titles, but I'm falling behind, and it makes me feel guilty when I've agreed to read …

Sunday Shorts – “More Than Anything,” by Eden S. French

I'm still a little sick today, but after the events of the last couple of weeks in the world of romance, I put myself on a self-imposed deadline of today to start being once again vocal about awesome queer reads. Luckily? I'd read three awesome queer reads on my recent vacation. The first was Yolanda …

Sunday Shorts — “Peripheral,” by Jeffrey Ricker

One of the wonderful things about this lovely internet age in which we live is that I can connect with authors I adore through newsletters and blogs and updates so I don't miss things. Except, of course, I then miss things because I'm trying to keep up with newsletters and blogs and updates. It's a …

Sunday Shorts — “Shoots and Ladders” by Charles Payseur

Something a bit different today for Sunday Shorts, in that I'm here to chat about a story I found online, Charles Payseur's "Shoots and Ladders." Click the title right there to go read it. I'll wait right here. Now, I bumped into Charles Payseur via twitter (he's at @ClowderofTwo) and he's a force for good …