HAHA JUST KIDDING I'M JUST HERE TO HAVE FUN AND MAKE MONEY. No I'm not, this is publishing. I am here to write the damn stories I want to tell and share them with folks who will hopefully enjoy them too. So why did I write this one? Well. Short answer: BECAUSE I CAN. Long … Continue reading Queer Men Kicking Ass: What the Bulletproof Spy means to me
Category: On Writing
Own Voices; Cursed Boy and Demon Girl and the latest Top Secret Writing Project
I’m fucking terrified to write this book. But I realize I’ve been terrified to write a lot of books. ...lets start at the beginning. Back in August of 2017, I had A Book pop into my head. It’s not often an entire new series comes up and says HEY YOU SHOULD WRITE ME. I’m embarrassed … Continue reading Own Voices; Cursed Boy and Demon Girl and the latest Top Secret Writing Project
Weekend Writing: Back to the drawing board
How I knew it was time to step away from the words and return to Research Mountain.
Weekend Writing: The too convenient setting
I’m an angry writer. I don’t so much get Inspired to write something, as I do get angry and frustrated with tropes and constant mistakes. I wouldn’t call this topic a trope perse, but it is a mistake; one that I’ve encountered since I was a wee child reading my first urban fantasy novels. It … Continue reading Weekend Writing: The too convenient setting
Weekend Writing: male queer in adult fiction
When I was a kid, male gay characters in fiction did not exist. And when they did, they were all very much the same. They were effeminate, catty, fashionable, cowardly, self-centered, and very promiscuous. They did not get lead-roles, because they weren’t fully realized characters. Queer characters in fiction during my teenage years were deliberately … Continue reading Weekend Writing: male queer in adult fiction
No Touchy: Why I’m seriously considering self-publishing
I’ve never been nervous about writing before. That sounds...overly cocky, I know, but it's not cockiness. It’s lack of giving a fuckness. If I think the plot is sound and the characters are interesting, I write it. I don’t worry about marketability, or who to sell it to. I just write, and I put the … Continue reading No Touchy: Why I’m seriously considering self-publishing
Weekend Writing: 7 steps to writing mental illness
If there's one thing that's ticked me off over the years, its watching novels continually fail to portray mental illness accurately, realistically, and for the sake of character not plot. So, without further ado, here are your seven steps to getting mental illness right in your next story. How did they get here? You better … Continue reading Weekend Writing: 7 steps to writing mental illness
Creep versus Self versus the World: androgynous, writing to gender, and the great oatmeal disaster.
As a kid, I wrote a lot about girls and boys, but I kept being told “be a girl”, so I wrote more about girls. Even though it grated me to be called “girl” and I never understood why for the longest time. I mean, they were technically right. I was in fact a girl. … Continue reading Creep versus Self versus the World: androgynous, writing to gender, and the great oatmeal disaster.
5 Things I Learned From Winning NanoWrimo
I’ve been writing since I was 9. I finished my first novel at 14. I queried my second novel at 18. I have never, ever won at Nano. I have tried, for three years running, but it wasn’t until this year that I finally cracked it. And here’s the weird thing: I don’t feel like … Continue reading 5 Things I Learned From Winning NanoWrimo
You Just Gotta Full On Frank Sinatra That Shit – Writing your own damn way
I have some terrible news for you, friends. Sit down. Get a cup of tea. This one may hurt. Now, there's about fifty million billion books and blog posts all across the land about How To Finish The Damn Book. And a lot of them will tell you the same shit: you need to write … Continue reading You Just Gotta Full On Frank Sinatra That Shit – Writing your own damn way
An Andro Named Sue 