Library Journal’s Best Indie Ebook 2017 for A Queen from the North
Best Bisexual Romance Rainbow Award 2017 for The Art of Three
Bi Writer of the Year 2017 Finalist for The Art of Three
2018 Imadjinn Awards Best Romance Novel Finalist for A Queen from the North
Category Archives: genre talk
Writing, rankings, and ratings: The problem with keeping score
When I was a kid, my parents were pretty strict about acceptable additions to the decor in my room. While I was eventually allowed to get a cork board where I pinned pictures of crush objects and party invitations, the … Continue reading
Podcasts, sales, and more!
This past Friday, Erin and I recorded for the Written on the Edge (WROTE) podcast, formerly known as the Three M/Musketeers podcast, which rebranded to be more inclusive to all forms of LGBTQ+ literature. We had a long, hilarious chat which will … Continue reading
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Eight things Hamilton taught us about writing romance
Despite still being in the U.K. and having a creepy run in with the fae (pro-tip, if you’re near Avebury and a sign says to please close the iron gate, close the iron gate), Erin has now listened to all of … Continue reading
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Tagged books, broadway, genre talk, hamilton, musical theater, romance novels, Writing
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Six things Pride & Prejudice taught us about the romance genre while also ruining our lives
In our not quite yet a tradition of watching new-to-us romantic comedies and seeing what they can teach us about the romance genre, Erin and I recently watched the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. Although to be fair, it’s not really … Continue reading
Adjunct Hell and our ongoing fascination with age difference narratives
Like many of our stories, “Adjunct Hell” is, among other things, an age difference story. Our interest in writing relationships with age differences comes from a lot of difference places. Sometimes, it’s just fun (and sexy) to write stories about … Continue reading
Adjunct Hell: Why We Love Mixed-Orientation Anthologies (And why you should, too!)
One of the things that has Erin and I looking so forward to reading the Young Love, Old Hearts anthology is that it is a mixed-orientation anthology with both M/M and F/F stories. These mixed-orientation anthologies often seem to us … Continue reading
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Tagged f/f romance, m/m romance, supposed crimes llc, universal adjunct hell, young love old hearts
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Room 1024 and the Pleasure of Process
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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But how do you write… that?
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
Room 1024: A Book With an HFN
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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Writing sex work in your romantic and erotic fiction
Last night, as I was tweeting about my general dismay at Pretty Woman, Shira Glassman struck up a conversation with me. Not for the first time; her LGBTQ books have a heroine with celiac disease, which I have, so we’re … Continue reading
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