According to this week's guest author, Trent St. Germain, he is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe and enjoys the gym (not hard to see that his efforts are paying off ;~j), running, other outdoor activities, and reading when he isn't writing. He is also a self-proclaimed "pop culture nerd," and warns us not to …
Writing Tips – The Carter Seagrove Project
About a month ago author Alp Mortal wrote a guest blog about the joys of collaboration as part of the Carter Seagrove Project. You can read that post here. The project is a collective of mostly writers who have also extended their creative tentacles to include a photographer, a filmmaker, and anyone else in a bid to explore …
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Writing Tips – J.P. Bowie
This week we have more tips from an author, this time from J.P. Bowie. He began writing seriously in 2000, self publishing a series of books featuring a young artist living in Laguna Beach. The series was successful and since then J.P. has been published by TEB Press, a UK based publishing company, Wilde City, …
Writing Tips – L.A. Fields
Welcome to the next in our series of special guest blogs from authors sharing their writing tips. This week we hear from L.A. Fields. She lives in Dallas, Texas and her short fiction has appeared in anthologies of horror, erotica, and academia. She's also the author of The Disorder Series, the short story collection Countrycide, the Lambda …
Writing Tips – Elaine White
Welcome to the second guest post from authors sharing their writer's tips. This week meet Elaine White. Her bio tells us that she grew up in a small town on the east coast of Scotland and writes paranormal romance, crime and MM romance. Fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be …
Writing Tips – Max Vos
Last week I posted a blog about a lunch I had with Max Vos (who's in Australia taking a holiday) and with Nic Starr. In the post I talked about how it's important to share knowledge when it comes to the craft of writing. This week Max does just that. Welcome to a new series …
Lunch with Writers
This is really a post about self-publishing versus traditional publishing, but saying I caught up with my favourite dirty old man and one of the few mm romance authors who lives down-under, well, it just sounds better as a blog title. Max Vos is one of self-publishing's successes, writing gay male erotica for an eager audience. …
The joys of collaboration (Guest Post)
Meet The Carter Seagrove Project, four authors who have come together to collaborate and find a larger audience. I met them through Twitter and at first was taken aback by how many followers they had. Then I looked at their webpage and found that they also dip their collective toe in film projects. To me, …
That Flat Earth Theory
There's something romantic about the ancient idea that the world is flat. A thousand stars watch us through a veiled curtain that shields us from the unknown. That curtain is shaped like a dome that traps our dreams for other people to tap into and see the visions we once saw. Then there's the sun and …
Plotter or Pantser?
I was asked this question for an author interview recently and had to look it up, even though I worked out what it meant without quite knowing how pantser worked into the concept. For those still uninitiated, a plotter plots their books before they type a single letter, and a pantser flies by the seat of …
