My rant on rape porn, social justice, and misogyny in Garth Ennis THE BOYS
So, this blog post is motivated by my recent reading of Garth Ennis’s THE BOYS Vol. 1: The Name of the Game (graphic novel, compiling issues 1-6 of the co...
Category: writing talk
I went to BookExpo and met Grumpy Cat (photos)
My photos from my BookExpo America are compiled below the cut. Yes, I met the actual Grumpy Cat (aka Tardar Sauce) and R2D2, and got a Smaug “The Hobbit” tote b...
On My Way to B-E-A, aka BookExpo America #BEA13
Okay, so, BookExpo America, in all its grandeur complete with internal capitalization, is taking place in New York City right now. Why am I going, you might won...
#Coverflip ! Reversing the gender on the cover of Slow Surrender
So, Maureen Johnson had a fun idea, what if folks took their book covers and redesigned them as if the author were the opposite gender? (Her original post on th...
I.J. Miller has a thoroughly BDSM-flavored retelling of Wuthering Heights
Some of you may have noticed that more books with BDSM elements are landing in the bookstores these days. You may have also noticed a trend I quite enjoy, the p...
Slow Surrender: Video Tour of Manhattan at Night
In the free sample of Slow Surrender (my erotic romance novel just published by Hachette/GCP/Forever Yours) I posted to my website earlier, at one point our fem...
Streaming video chats: advice? ideas?
So, Slow Surrender is going live this coming week, and I’m trying to get my act together on an online chat. Should I do it with Google Hangouts, Livestrea...
The Next Big Thing
So, I’m “interviewed” below as part of a blogroll going on among writers all over the Internet, wherein I have been “tagged” with ...
The publishing nitty gritty: all the hoops to self-publish or publish
OK, folks. A lot of people have been asking me for advice in recent years about either how to publish or how to self-publish. In the past year alone I’ve ...
Aspiring writers: some calls for submissions!
Three anthologies are currently open for submissions at Circlet Press: Charming: Modern Gay Fairy Tales — we read for this over the summer/fall, but just ...