So, Maureen Johnson had a fun idea, what if folks took their book covers and redesigned them as if the author were the opposite gender? (Her original post on the subject is here.) As she writes: 1. Take a well-known book. (It’s up to you to define well-known.) 2. Imagine that book was written by [...]
Posts under ‘writing talk’
I.J. Miller has a thoroughly BDSM-flavored retelling of Wuthering Heights
Some of you may have noticed that more books with BDSM elements are landing in the bookstores these days. You may have also noticed a trend I quite enjoy, the post-modern re-examining of the classics through retellings. Sure, there are the zombies and such, but I’m thinking more of books like Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of [...]
Slow Surrender: Video Tour of Manhattan at Night
In the free sample of Slow Surrender (my erotic romance novel just published by Hachette/GCP/Forever Yours) I posted to my website earlier, at one point our female main character, Karina Casper, is walking from the bar where she works and talking to our male main character on the phone. Wait, you haven’t read the sample? [...]
Streaming video chats: advice? ideas?
So, Slow Surrender is going live this coming week, and I’m trying to get my act together on an online chat. Should I do it with Google Hangouts, Livestream, uStream, or a service like Shindig? Shindig is offering to host me, but my publicist says they’ve been disappointed so far with the technology not working [...]
The publishing nitty gritty: all the hoops to self-publish or publish
OK, folks. A lot of people have been asking me for advice in recent years about either how to publish or how to self-publish. In the past year alone I’ve had four conference calls and half a dozen “coffee/tea” dates with people asking the same questions again and again, and I find myself telling the [...]
Aspiring writers: some calls for submissions!
Three anthologies are currently open for submissions at Circlet Press: Charming: Modern Gay Fairy Tales — we read for this over the summer/fall, but just didn’t get quite enough. Deadline March 1st. Details: http://www.circlet.com/?p=3045 Erotic Shakespeare — come on, you know you want to! This anthology is being co-edited by Nikola Klaus with yours truly. [...]
Guest Post from Amber Rose Thompson!
Today’s blog post comes from erotic romance writer Amber Rose Thompson, the author of Tied To Passion and Take Bi Love, both from Renaissance eBooks. Take it away, Amber! Amber Rose Thompson Amber Rose Thompson: By day I am a librarian, by night an erotic writer with romantic overtones to my work. I wish there [...]
Anne McCaffrey: One of My Role Models
I just learned that the last of the three authors who influenced me most as a child has died. Rest in peace Anne McCaffrey. My three writer role models were Roger Zelazny, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and McCaffrey. Oh, of course I also read Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle, and Frank Herbert. But Zelazny, Bradley, and McCaffrey [...]
Google Analytics on the Daron’s Guitar Chronicles web serial
Here’s a post for those of you interested in how weblit and serialized fiction work on the Internet. So, now that August is over, I’ve been looking at the Google Analytics stats on the Daron’s Guitar Chronicles website, because it’s interesting to me to speculate about visitors and patterns and what brings people to the [...]
