a little fantasy * a little sci fi * a little love
My husband told me I can use any part of our own relationship in my books. While all my books do include a love story, they are not traditional Romance novels. But somehow, if you write about romantic themes as a gay author, this is how you are often caterogarised. At a recent forum, I …
Continue reading "When Romance Rules! (Guest blog by Hans M Hirschi)"
Me and my husband had to watch this after it was reviewed on Foxtel's review show, Screen. Self proclaimed butch dyke, Abby McEnany, is the creator, executive producer and star of this endearing series. Oh, and she's a comedian. Her character, also named Abby, suffers from depression, but trust me, this is not a series …
Continue reading "Why we love the TV show ‘Work In Progress’."
A father and daughter team were on the radio the other morning. Like me, dad obviously enjoyed the house party days of the nineties. He told his daughter (and us) about the Primal Scream track, 'Loaded'. Hearing people still affectionate about that decade is why one of my WiP's is set in that era. I'm …
Continue reading "Getting a manuscript ready for submission"
These days, that's more that I usually do. But this manuscript is special. This story, The Midnight Man, took me a year to finally start as I was revisiting my earlier works for a new publisher at the time I came up with this story. And while I'm more efficient in my writing these days, …
