I recently attended an Al Stewart and Dave Nachmanoff concert at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in north Scottsdale. (Aside: Al and Dave are brilliant guitar players and polished singer/songwriters who not only craft songs with several-hundred-word vocabularies, they’re also wickedly funny in between songs. Come for the music, stay for the comedy.) It was one…
Read More A Tale of Two MuseumsI so wish my high-school English classes had featured things like this. Chaucer tweets the song ‘American Pie’. And Tom Weller’s masterful Godzilla vs Beowulf parody, which still makes me giggle to this day.
Read More Fun With Archaic EnglishAllie Ritch has allowed me to be part of the general havoc/hilarity that is ‘Hooked on One-Liners’. Again, be warned that we’re erotic romance writers. Following the link can take you to some fairly-explicit sentences, so if you’re underage or live in a place where that could get you in trouble, don’t do it. The…
Read More Hooked on One-Liners, part 2After some Real Life derails, I’m hard at work at both Leopard and on Moro’s Shield. The latter begins only a few hours after the end of Moro’s Price. Working blurb: On the run from two human empires, Moro seeks Sonta help for his damaged nervous system. Val must make amends for one of his teenage…
Read More Teaser for ‘Moro’s Shield’My friend Kate Lowell wrote a very thoughtful rebuttal to my previous post about aiming high in publishing. It’s good enough that I have to examine it in full. Bear in mind, my normal response to rejections is usually a mild obscenity, followed by a shrug, followed by 1) revision if I feel the editor…
Read More Pebbles, Pachinko, and Publishing, part 2This is a shameless re-direct to Allie Ritch’s blog, where she showcases the first group of one-line promos from some of our fellow erotic romance authors. It’s a quick and tasty derail: one sentence from a book, the author’s name, a buy link, and a website link. I’ll be in the second group in a week…
Read More Hooked On One-LinersToday a friend of mine wrote in an AbsoluteWrite.com forum: “…I have the choice to work my way up the ladder and let my confidence grow with my skills.” Well, yes and no. This is the foundation myth of many new writers, and of many lower-tier publishers: first submit to lesser markets and gain credibility…
Read More Pebbles, Pachinko, and PublishingTo the good and kind people who keep buying Moro’s Price: thank you. In between Real Life Dramas, I am working on the next installment, Moro’s Shield. I am also playing with a spin-off sci-fi M/M erotic romance novella provisionally titled Leopard’s Leap. If and when it finds its way to an outlet near you,…
Read More Teaser for ‘Leopard’s Leap’I don’t have a site counter on the Blue Night blog, so I don’t know how many people read it. That’s part of the fun. Really? You have never put a message in a bottle and thrown it into the sea, or tied it to a balloon? The law of averages says you’ll never get an…
Read More Fun With Spam, Part 2As a book artist and writer, I have to do a shout-out for the sprawling, insane, and wonderful Tucson Festival of Books. Held on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, AZ, 2013’s event will run from March 9 to March 10. From its founding in 2009, the Festival has quickly grown to a beloved…
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