What’s a mystery without a sensational killer? Well, OK, not every fictional mystery needs a good murder, but every fictional assassin is almost always shrouded in a good mystery. So what makes a sensational killer then? Or, more specifically, an [...]
In 2014, the wife and I spent an evening with Val McDermid. Well, unfortunately, not only us three. We were only two among many listening to Val talk about her then new book, The Skeleton Road, at Norwich Theater [...]
Welcome to my world. I live in Victoria in a small seaside town, on the edge of 240 kms of awe-inspiring coastline called the Great Ocean Road. With its diverse coastal landscape of gorgeous golden beaches and towering limestone [...]
Lesbian romance novels cover a multitude of scenarios, themes, time periods, and galaxies, and the breadth of lesbian fiction widens every day. This is all fantastic news for our genre, and I love the variety of books now available [...]
By nature, we are a flawed species. No, I’m not Neil DeGrasse Tyson and I’m not about to talk about the Universe; it’s vastness and how people fit in. I am nowhere near as cool as him. I’m like [...]
So, this was Ylva’s first Young Adult/New Adult month ever! A lot of authors blogged for us about topics related to queer YA/NA. In case you missed some of the great posts, we collected all of them. In June, [...]
Fairy tales are the first place we learned as queer kids that we weren’t allowed to exist, that the people in charge of happy endings would rather create alternate realities where nobody was like us. I think this is [...]
It’s no secret to avid readers that we come to understand ourselves and our world through stories. Fiction changes us. But it also, on some level, must affirm us. If people turn to story for help comprehending our place [...]
Every story has already been written. If you have formal education in reading or writing you’ve probably heard this before. So, if every plot has already been written, why do we still write? We write to tell our version [...]
To celebrate the release of our book people anthology, Finding Ms. Write, we’re hosting a book tour—and we’re making it a virtual one so you can all join us. Every day for the next eleven days, our authors will [...]