The Companion Blog Tour Articles and Reviews
Since Friday I've had interviews and articles posted on fellow author blogs, part of my effort to get the word out about the release of The Companion. Thinking that some of those posts might be…
Release Day for The Companion!
July 23, 2014 -- release day for The Companion, coming to you today from Dreamspinner Press. You can read the first two chapters here. Well, I've got a great cover, an interesting (I think, anyway!)…
About Who Writes MM Romance
Fellow author Jamie Fessenden wrote a very thoughtful post on his blog recently, about women writing M/M romance, which you can find —here—. It’s well worth reading and thinking about. This is an issue that…
Gorgeous Cover for The Companion!
I'm so thrilled with the cover art for The Companion, finalized this week with Paul Richmond of the Dreamspinner art department! Original art by Dan Skinner. This is the back cover copy: Shepherd Bucknam hasn’t…
Essential differences in a gay Hero’s Journey — Part Two
So -- picking up from Part One: a straight hero grows up in an automatic level of belonging—whether it’s the idyllic Shire, or some other culture in which the hero belongs to an identifiable majority—that…
Essential differences in a gay Hero’s Journey – Part One
I'm developing materials for an online course to be presented this October under the aegis of the Florida Romance Writers, focusing on the differences in the Hero's Journey for a gay protagonist. I've been fascinated…
Painting the Equinox
At the Equinox, just for a day, the world is united in a way that has nothing to do with human agendas or ideology, nothing to do with environment or climate, nothing to do even…
An interesting reminder today
On this date Germany's Paragraph 175 was finally revoked. Originally adopted in 1871, Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code that made homosexual acts between males a crime. The statute was amended…
October is Gay History Month
Wilde City Press is celebrating Gay History Month with authors offering a series of posts. Here's mine... I celebrated enthusiastically with the rest of those who love equality when veteran basketball player Jason Collins came…
Another milestone…
Late last week I submitted my latest novel, The Companion, to Toby Johnson at Lethe Press. He'd said earlier this year that he wanted to see the full when it was ready, so off it…