I’ve talked before about a wonderful fanfic-writer-turned-agented-commercial-author, Alis Franklin. Time for a bittersweet update. LIESMITH has a great sequel, STORMBRINGER, which you can read. And what looks to be a couple of brilliant follow-ups, which you can’t (not yet anyway). You can find out more about her writing here. Out of respect for Alis and…
Read More Alis Franklin: Books of the WyrdPlaying with bits of art I’ve collected or created over the years, to give myself another visual image-set for THE PURIST, a big fantasy novel currently out in Queryland.* Yes, this is SINGER IN RHUNSHAN revisited, massively revised, and (I hope) getting closer to being fit for outside reading. For now, I’m so happy the…
Read More ‘The Purist’ mood board 3So, since I didn’t get Singer In Rhunshan into PitchWars (and knew it would be a longshot), I’m back to the revisions on Moro’s Price. For those of you who didn’t know, the latter is a big space opera-ish M/M erotic romance set against a futuristic but by no means scientific background. When wrote it…
Read More Valier, digital pastel, 8-26-2016So, this is going to be really embarrassing for a good friend from long ago. Too bad. The summary: SleepsWithCoyotes is porting her fanfiction over to Archive of Our Own. My first reaction: fall over, giggling things like YAY! and OMG! My second reaction: adding her to the top of my Fanfiction Recommendations list. The…
Read More I cannot contain my joyA debut novel from a fellow M/M writer over on AbsoluteWrite. I’ve been watching the seeds of Bad Magic develop for a little while, and I could tell early on it would be a fun read. When she sold it to Dreamspinner Press, I cheered. Here’s the blurb: Morality is relative. At least that’s what…
Read More Evelyn Elliott: Bad MagicIn 2000, the same year Meisha Merlin published Grimsley’s Kirith Kirin, they also published the anthology containing my first-ever pro short fiction sale. In another universe, Meisha Merlin would have survived and possibly published my debut novel (whichever one that turned out to be.) MM had a rep for taking on daring, quirky books that…
Read More Kirith Kirin, by Jim GrimsleyA year after I outlined it, I’m starting the first actual writing on a new standalone M/M fantasy novel or novella: Mask of Falling Stars Nearly-blind expert maskmaker Parril Morni ignores his better judgment and travels to the city of Altenlida to help his aunt secure the winning bid on some very important festival masks.…
Read More Mask of Falling Stars – begins!