What if you killed someone, then fell in love with them? Vera Nazarian’s amazing fantasy Cobweb Bride has just been released in print and Kindle, and already has broken the Amazon 4-digit sales barrier. Not only that, it has garnered some sweet reviews. Here’s what Black Gate has to say: “…her just-released novel, Cobweb Bride,…
Read More Cobweb Bride release newsDepending on which online outlet got there first, today and tomorrow (July 23 & 24) mark the one-year anniversary of my debut novel Moro’s Price, from Loose Id LLC. I still can’t look at the cover without getting a small jolt of startled unfamiliarity: “Wait – that’s mine!” I can’t look at the buy links…
Read More A year of being Really PublishedI write about things that cannot possibly exist in this universe, as passionately as if they did. I make art that directly references myths, folktales, and alternative beliefs that I do not believe in. And then I sell that art to people who, presumably, do. They and I have one certain link: our appreciation for…
Read More Little rituals and mind-mapsI was going to name this one ‘Male Objectification’, but that’s wrong. For one thing, it follows the standard practice of somehow ignoring bi and trans* issues, in favor of a strict dichotomy of ‘straight’ vs. ‘homosexual’. The truth of human experience, and thus the grist for writers’ extrapolations thereof, is rarely that simple. I’ve…
Read More Objects of Desire, or Girl Cooties, Part 3 (adult content advisory)A little signal boost for some fellow AbsoluteWrite.com authors. Kate Lowell is interviewed today on Top2Bottom Reviews, where she dishes about life as a Canadian pony wrangler…and some great new books in her future. SA Meade has a free M/M sweet romance story up on Goodreads today: ‘That Good Earth’, a historical set around WWI.…
Read More An interview, a free story, and new releasesI’ve talked about this before, but not in so much detail. By now we’ve all seen the ‘girl cooties’ issue from the POV of the old guard of male Science Fiction and Fantasy authors. The old guard was about ‘business as usual’. Their opponents argued that female characters were marginalized for decades. That female authors…
Read More Love By Any Name, or Girl Cooties, Part 2 (adult content advisory)I don’t know how many readers are familiar with the art phenomenon that was Bob Ross. Love him or hate him, the guy made painting accessible for millions of hobbyists around the world, with formulas that relied on brushwork tricks, simple colorways, and solid composition. Cheesy as they were at best, Ross paintings of trees,…
Read More In praise of happy trees