Today, Evernight Publishing releases Anais Morgan’s new contemporary M/M erotic romance Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now. I read a beta version a few months back, and loved the story. Not just for the main characters, but the gritty reality of the Big-Box home-improvement store setting, and the triumphant resolution (and it’s not quite what you think,…
Read More Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, by Anais Morgan (adult content advisory)To celebrate Labor Day weekend and the end of summer (here in the States), I’m featuring a couple of new releases from fellow erotic romance authors. First up is C.P. Foster, with the sizzling second book in her Arcaneology series. I’m picky about vampire erotica stories, simply because there are so many of them in…
Read More Secret Studies, by C.P. Foster (adult content advisory)It’s an old love, going back to my discovery of silversmithing back in 1979. I first had to learn on copper scrap and wire. (Thank you, Hunt Brothers, for jacking up the price of silver back then. You taught me frugality when I started using the good stuff.) One of my earliest jewelry obsessions was…
Read More I love silverApplicable quote heard yesterday: “YouTube and Spandex are a responsibility, not a right.” Applicable parable (paraphrased from a kid’s book I can barely remember and can’t track down): There once was a vain and clever gaucho who won admiration at every festival he attended, for the intricate ponchos he wove and flaunted. But weaving was…
Read More Cosplay, Manufactured Drama, and the Lazy GauchoThe first title for this post comes from Berke Breathed’s amazing comic Bloom County, and this particular strip, seen here at Robots From The Future’s comic feed. The second title for this post comes from this quote by author Samantha Geimer, via a Publishers Weekly interview in which she talks about the fallout of her 1977 rape by…
Read More Offensensitivity and the Pressure to Be Damaged (adult themes advisory)I had meant to add this information to my earlier ‘Banned in Russia?’ post, but there was just too much going on. It needs its own post. The Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church are working together to hold power in a stalled if not decaying country – and they’re blaming homosexuals, ‘atheist scientists’,…
Read More Banning Russia, or why we shouldn’t look the other waySci Fi Con PSA! Phoenix area! Affordable and fun! Got your attention? For those of you in the east to southeast Metro Phoenix area this upcoming weekend, I’d like to point you toward CopperCon Revolution, a local science fiction and media convention with a long history – both with me and the SSF community. My…
Read More CopperCon RevolutionI’m not, yet. Not that I know of. But it’s only a matter of time. In June, apparently driven by pressure from the resurgent Russian Orthodox Church, Russia passed sweeping anti-homosexual legislation essentially making it a crime to even talk publicly about LGBTQ topics. It’s another ‘think of the children’ outcry, spuriously ignoring the many…
Read More Banned in Russia?One of the busiest groups I’m on in Yahoo is the Love Romances Cafe group, which seems to have a million members. (I won’t link directly because it is an adults-only group. Check out their blog instead.) There is always a party going on. It’s probably one of the best free marketing tools this lazy…
Read More Love Romances Cafe swag! (adult content advisory)