Category Archives: books

The Appeal of May/December and summer romance

Posted on July 16, 2015 by erincmcrae

The May/December trope is one that Racheline and I keep coming back to. Sometimes, it happens almost accidentally; as cowriters, we are sixteen years apart in age, and having characters with a large age gap between them lets there be … Continue reading →

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Summerstock: Fantasy vs Reality

Posted on July 15, 2015 by erincmcrae

Midsummer is an M/M May/December gay-for-you summer romance, set at a summer stock production of deep in the Virginia woods. Racheline and I often write stories about how stuff works behind the scenes, so we’re particularly excited about this backstage … Continue reading →

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Location, Location, Location

Posted on July 14, 2015 by erincmcrae

In most of our books, Racheline and I set the action in real, tangible places. Often, we write with Google Maps open in one tab and Wikipedia in another, double-checking street names and population demographics. For Midsummer, our process was … Continue reading →

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Midsummer interview with Tempeste O’Riley

Posted on July 13, 2015 by erincmcrae

Tempeste was kind enough to interview us on her blog about Midsummer. We had a ton of fun talking about our books and our process. What makes your stories different from other authors out there? Everything we’ve written to date is … Continue reading →

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Personal connections to the BDSM culture

Posted on July 11, 2015 by erincmcrae

When I suggested writing Room 1024 to Erin, I thought it would be easy. After all, I’m intimately familiar with both BDSM activities and culture, and, despite being a chick, had a lot of mentors in the gay leather scene … Continue reading →

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New to BDSM? Room 1024 might be just the book for you

Posted on July 10, 2015 by erincmcrae

My cowriter, Racheline Maltese, has a lot of first-hand experience in and around the BDSM community. I, on the other hand, have exactly zero. Which meant that, while we were writing Room 1024, she spent a lot of time sending … Continue reading →

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Room 1024 and the Pleasure of Process

Posted on July 9, 2015 by erincmcrae

Today Erin & I are celebrating the release of Room 1024 our novelette set at a gay men’s leather conference. Promoting this story is a little weird — if we lead with “responsible non-monogamy” that leaves out some key elements of the … Continue reading →

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Getting in over our (and our characters’) heads

Posted on July 8, 2015 by erincmcrae

Room 1024 is about two couples negotiating their lives and partnerships within the familiar — to them — structure of BDSM relationships. But as much as BDSM provides Cam and Noah, and Lou and Stephen, a framework for their responsibilities … Continue reading →

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But how do you write… that?

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Racheline Maltese

One of the questions Erin and I get a lot is how on earth do we know how to write gay sex? Since we’re women, and all that. Now, aside from the obvious answer (which is research), I just want to … Continue reading →

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Room 1024: A Book With an HFN

Posted on July 6, 2015 by erincmcrae

Most of what my co-writer, Racheline Maltese, and I write can be pretty fairly classified as an HEA. We like finding new and creative ways (and subverting some old ones) to give our characters their well-earned Happily Ever After. Which … Continue reading →

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