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 …
Writing Tips – Nigel Bartlett
This charming author resides in my own city, Sydney, but I met him in Melbourne. It was during the Queermance Literary Festival, a small event for us gay themed writers down-under. He also has the sexiest website for a writer I've seen so far. It's perfect! Everything you need to know is on one page. Meet …
Writing Tips – Historical Fiction with Michael Jensen
I met Michael Jensen online. He was part of a trio who organised a unique promotional opportunity for gay themed writers like myself. It was a fiction giveaway which resulted in gaining subscribers to our newsletters (so as a bit of shameless self promotion, feel free to subscribe to my newsletter - click here). But …
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Writing Tips – Erin Quinn
You meet a lot of people through social media. Whether you ever meet them for real is another story, but this week's author sharing writer's tips is someone I know through Twitter. And she's a fan of a romance novella of mine so I know she has taste. Meet Erin O’Quinn (Bonita Franks), a writer of …
Writing Tips
Last year I had the pleasure of inviting several authors to my blog to share their writing tips. We began with erotic author, Max Vos, and finished with a post that summarised the best tips from all the guest bloggers. This year we're about to do it all again and we'll even include tips for writing historical fiction, …
Farewell Wilde City
Curiosity led me there. Back in 2014 I wanted to know more about fellow Australian author, Christian Baines, so I googled. I discovered he had a short ebook titled The Prince and the Practitioner. What struck me first was its cover. I'm a visual person and the quality of the artwork sparked my interest. Who was the publisher? Art …
Slipping between genres.
"You're mixing genres." This wasn't said to me as a negative. It was an observation from an editor when I had the initial draft of my first novel assessed. At the time, I didn't realise this was such a big deal. Cinema had made an art of combining genres for a long time. Surely, literature was equally as experimental. But …
Cleaning out the closet.
A friend of mine is big on numerology. She told me that since my last birthday I have entered a year where I'm going to be more proactive. She's right. Something has definitely changed. If you're familiar with my blogs you'll probably know two things. The first is that between each draft of any of …
Editor, take a bow.
Back in 2011 I worked with my first editor. It was my book, Drama Queens with Love Scenes, which had not only been professionally assessed three times when I scored my initial publishing contract, but had been developed over eight drafts over as many years. This is not uncommon for first novels. I was assigned erotic writer and …
A Scriverner Newbie
For my birthday I treated myself to Scriverner after an author friend raved about it. For those who don't know it, it's software for writers. I'm still a newbie, but I can already see that Scriverner and IÂ are going to be great friends. In the past I'd find photos to represent my characters and write …
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