Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Hi, and welcome to the blog tour for The Bells of Times Square! This book is close to my heart -- if you read the extra front and back matter in the story, you will see that I drew inspiration from my grandparents and their roles in WWII. There was a lot of research involved here... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone, and welcome back as we make our way to the middle of December! It’s hard to believe we’re getting ready to bring 2014 to a close with our “The Year in Reviews” choices. For now, though, here’s what we have waiting for you in the week ahead. Monday – Z.A. Maxfield kicks off... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone, and welcome back as we make our way to the middle of December! It’s hard to believe we’re getting ready to bring 2014 to a close with our “The Year in Reviews” choices. For now, though, here’s what we have waiting for you in the week ahead. Monday – Z.A. Maxfield kicks off... Continue Reading →
(Totally Awesome)Title: Butt Babes In Boyland Written by: Kage Alan, J.P. Barnaby, T.C. Blue, Shae Connor, Jevocas Green, and Kiernan Kelly The Blurb: The holidays are a time for visiting with family and friends, and sharing tales of peace, childlike innocence, and good will towards all mankind. These are not those stories. This year, the... Continue Reading →
I am so excited to talk about my new release from Samhain, A KING UNDONE. It’s the first of my Noble Pleasures series, which I would describe as being a classic historical romance—with a huge male/male twist. Imagine….say, Lisa Kleypas or Julia Quinn or even Jane Austen. But in an alternative world where men can... Continue Reading →
GENRE TALK with Carole Cummings Hullo, everyone! Lisa and the gang at TNA have kindly agreed to allow me to come natter once or twice a month about genre fiction within the LGBT spectrum, so I'll be dragging the DSPP authors along with me to answer a few questions and talk about their genres and... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
The most common question I get, as a writer, is “where do you get your ideas?” I suppose that many writers would say the same thing. In the case of my Christmas story Matches, the inspiration came from two places—the wonderful, yet often poignant, fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the plight of the... Continue Reading →
The Flower Courting Ritual When I wrote The Fifth Son, I wanted to include a courting ritual, but I had no idea what shape that would take. I wanted something different from our traditional exchange of rings. Something different meant Googling... for hours, because it's so easy to sink into the quick sand that's Google.... Continue Reading →
Does size really matter? Get your mind out of the gutter, folks! I’m talking about the length of your holiday stories not wieners!! LOL So back to the question, does the size of a holiday book effect whether or not you purchase or read it? Do you like short stories, novellas, or novels? All of... Continue Reading →
Jagdschmuck. To my American ears, that word sounds like an awful insult. Can’t you just hear it? “Ugh, she's such a Jagdschmuck!” But the word in German describes the long tradition of setting small hunting trophies such as the teeth, antler, or tusk of certain legally hunted animals into jewelry which is then worn by... Continue Reading →
First of all, thank you for having me here at The Novel Approach. I appreciate you giving me a chance to talk about my books. My newest book out is Barefoot Dancing, book six of my Rags to Riches series. It’s the last one (so far) of the series and features Kendall, who we met... Continue Reading →
Cheers, everyone, and many thanks for stopping by to see what's coming up this week. We've got lots of great guests and giveaways, as well as reviews, interviews, and cover reveals in store for you. Here's what we've got on tap in the week ahead. Monday – Mary Calmes is kicking off the week with... Continue Reading →
Cheers, everyone, and many thanks for stopping by to see what's coming up this week. We've got lots of great guests and giveaways, as well as reviews, interviews, and cover reveals in store for you. Here's what we've got on tap in the week ahead. Monday – Mary Calmes is kicking off the week with... Continue Reading →
Finding Common Ground Sometimes when I write books it's obvious what draws each character to each other. They have a common ground—that something which makes them a good match. Other times it's not so obvious even if characters have common interests or things like that. I love doing either type of story and it's up... Continue Reading →
Holidays, don’t you just love holidays? The warmth, the abundance of food, the traditions, the love. That’s maybe the most important thing—the love. Holidays bring friends and family together,everyone is basking in the warm acceptance, the understanding, the unconditional love. No? No, I dare say that’s not always the case. For Simon in From All... Continue Reading →
Line? What Line? I Don’t See No Freakin’ Line First of all I want to thank the Novel Approach for having me here today. Yay!! I’m so excited to be on this site. Everything’s so shiny. –touches everything- -breaks a vase- I’m totally going to pay for that. Promise. Anyway. When I talked to Lisa... Continue Reading →
Firstly, thank you, Lisa, for having me on your blog today. The final book in my fantasy trilogy has just been released, and though the story ends here for Nykin and Ryneq, I’ve had such a great time writing them. The Torsere series follows Ryneq, ruler of Torsere, and Nykin, a dragon rider in his... Continue Reading →
Miracle on Mistletoe Lane is an enchanting tale of the magic of Christmas, but when I first conceived the idea of this book, it wasn’t going to be a story about the holiday season. The main characters of Joe Koehler, his son Joey, and Sidney Maier were pretty much well defined when I set out... Continue Reading →
One of the subplots in Sleigh Ride revolves around Arthur’s nephew, Thomas, who is six years old and has a doll. Thomas appeared in the story after I’d been writing for a month. Something seemed to be missing, and then one day when revisiting the opening, Arthur started talking to his nephew, which was delightful—and... Continue Reading →
My new novel Semper Fi is about Marines who go from friends to lovers after WWII. Interestingly enough, the vintage photos I’ve found of gay servicemen from the first half of the 20th century have all been sailors. (Hmm, I guess the Village People were onto something!) Here are a few of the shots that... Continue Reading →
I enjoy BDSM stories—like really, really enjoy them. However, more specifically, I enjoy SM/Ds stories. There’s something about the relinquishing of power, particularly when it’s mixed with discomfort, that I find nearly intoxicating. The source of the discomfort/pain is rather irrelevant; it can be as benign and uncomplicated as orgasm denial, or a bit more... Continue Reading →
I enjoy BDSM stories—like really, really enjoy them. However, more specifically, I enjoy SM/Ds stories. There’s something about the relinquishing of power, particularly when it’s mixed with discomfort, that I find nearly intoxicating. The source of the discomfort/pain is rather irrelevant; it can be as benign and uncomplicated as orgasm denial, or a bit more... Continue Reading →
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