Perhaps 'agonise' is too strong a word. You see, I've gone back to work on the fifth draft of The Midnight Man, a novel I need to get right. I haven't been this obsessed with perfection since my first book. It's currently novella length and tells the story of Stan, a middle aged man in an …
For the hundredth time, I don’t write porn!
Okay, I've written one. That was as a dare from my friends and it always sells. But apart from that, all my books are, well, books. But there seems to be a misconception from the mainstream. Unless you're published by a major company then the novel with gay content you're writing must be dirty. This …
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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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How Gay does a GLBTQI book need to be?
Some time ago, author David Pratt wrote a novel named Bob the Book. In the story, Bob is a gay book. At a literary festival we both attended, David talked about the absurdity of a book being deemed gay. That's why he questioned the notion and came up with this character. This came to mind …
Writing ‘At Your Service’ – Guest blog by K.S. Trenten
Author K.S. Trenten has popped over to tell us who's the fairest of them all in her reinvention of the Cinderella story for the NineStar Press anthology, Once Upon a Rainbow, Volume 2. I’ve been thinking about desire, what makes a person desirable for quite some time. Certain images are used in the media, marketed …
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‘A Face Without A Heart’ by Rick R. Reed
I have a confession. Although this story is set in modern times, I kept picturing it set in the late nineteenth century. This is, after all, a retelling of an Oscar Wilde classic. When a modern prop like a g-string was mentioned my mind re-adjusted, but just as quickly all the characters were back in …
The characters who wouldn’t shut up!
I never intended to write a sequel to Nate and the New Yorker but it wasn't up to me to make that decision. Somehow, Nate and his friends demanded a second outing. Originally I wrote the first novella because my publisher at the time pointed out that, regardless of the books many of us like …
Meet the Devil
He'd been sitting inside my laptop for a very long time, but finally it came time for him to strut into the world. Friends, meet Preston. He's one of the characters in Drama Queens and Devilish Schemes, the third book in the Actors and Angels series. As you can see he's fond of a top …
Worldbuilding
Two decades ago I studied acting part time over three years. Fortunately, I secured a job in a creative industry before I completed the course, which probably saved me from many desperate auditions and a life of poverty. But there are important factors about that craft that shaped the books that make up the ‘Actors …
Adding Adult Themes
The second novel in the Actors and Angels Series is not like your usual sequel. This book is called Drama Queens and Adult Themes, and follows Drama Queens with Love Scenes. The idea for the plot of the second book came from the first - I know that's stating the obvious, but bear with me. The …
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