Yesterday I logged into 'Gay Fiction, Gay Lives,' a forum hosted by Jerry L. Wheeler for Bold Stroke Books. It's an interesting time for publishers. I applaud this initiative by Bold Stroke Books as there is a large audience sitting at home looking for distractions, and a whole weekend of discussions and book readings is …
I signed a new book contract.
The week before writing this blog I signed a book contract. It was for an eBook titled Winter Masquerade. At one stage I wanted to expand this book but after reading it for editing, I liked its pace. I didn't want to bloat the story. Someone asked me during the week which of my novels …
The cliff hanger
Do you round up your chapters or add a cliff hanger? This was a question posed by someone using the #writingcommunity hashtag on Twitter. My answer is that I initially rounded up chapters until an editor made me stop. Her reasoning was that if you round up your chapters into neatly self contained stories, then a …
Plotting love affairs and break ups
One WIP has been submitted, one is on the back-burner and one I've just started plotting. I'm taking my time with this. With my other two works in progress I found I plotted too quickly, then went back and tried to expand them. One of them paces well, so I changed my mind and submitted …
Finding my way home – Guest blog from Harry F. Rey
A week ago a tweet came into my feed. It promoted a free ebook of poetry by Harry F. Rey. I downloaded it and a few days later started reading. Instantly I fell for the surreal imagery. Each poem hit me with its honesty about gay life and in some instances, the heartache attached. So …
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Nate and Cameron
This blog was published in 2017 to coincide with the release of the paperback featuring both short novellas, Nate and the New Yorker and Nate's Last Tango. Both novellas are also available as ebooks (the first is only 99c). I'm writing this blog several weeks before its release because something has already fascinated me as …
Having no time to write.
My current work in progress is suffering. Well, maybe I'm being melodramatic but this has been a year of less time to write. First off I had to step into a new role at work meaning my luxurious three day working week changed to four sometime during March. Monday is currently my only day to …
Guest Blog – Christian Baines
I'd like to welcome back Christian Baines to my website. When asked to join the team of authors sharing their thoughts on writing, Christian took a unique approach, and I'm glad he did. Today he offers perspective as he calls for certain characters in gay fiction to be fleshed out more honestly. Plus he'd like to offer one reader …
Writers Tips – ‘Nathan Burgoine
This week's Writer's Tips comes from a Canadian writer who has guest blogged here before. Last time he spoke about the importance of speaking up. You can read that post here. I first met him at the Saints and Sinners Festival in New Orleans, but due to my jet lag I didn't get to socialise …
Writers Tips – Technology with Nic Starr
Last week we met Nigel Bartlett, an author who resides in Sydney that I met at Melbourne's Queermance Festival. Nic Starr also lives here in Sydney and I met her at the same event. Nic dips between indie releases and romances for Dreamspinner Press, but I'm not going to say too much more about her …
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