Category: Blog

• Prince’s Tide Coloring Page

  

  I’ve been hanging onto this for a long time. When Prince’s Tide release happened, I thought I’d print off this coloring page of the characters for folks to have. As with a lot of things during release time, this ended up on the don’t-have-time pile. So, in an effort to make at least one post…

• Odd Rituals & Excuses for Self-Love

  

  Odd Rituals & Excuses for Self-Love I always found February to be a strange month. Lunar new year, the sports-bowl show, presidents day, and a weird little twenty-four hours where everything is literally some shade of pink, purple, or red. Proudly proclaiming, at least in the western part of the world, that love rules for…

• SEO & Book Titles

  

  SEO & Book Titles SEO → search engine optimization. Some days I wish I didn’t know anything about this, but as a self-pub it is something you have to be aware of, at least on a surface level. Last year was the year of figuring out how to do that. I’ve been fixing a lot…

• November 2023 Reads & Recs

  

  Coming full circle, as I stated in a previous post, I had a TRB I wrote up that I thought I would finish in January of 2023. That didn’t happen. More books happened instead ( I am staring at five stacks of physical books, that’s not to mention the ebooks I have downloaded too.) So,…

• 2023 Reads & Recs

  

  Some of you might remember that I started a challenge back in December to read fifteen books from my TBR while I was on vacation. What I found out is, I read from an eReader much faster than I read a print book these days. (Though it did take me almost two weeks to read…

• Copaganda & Spoilers

  

  If you know any Gen X folks, or you are one, you might know that we grew up in a time when the PR machine for police was at an all time high. If you don’t believe me, check out The Marshall Project. One of the best sources for digging into the history and machine…

• “GAY SEX” does not exist

  

  “GAY SEX” does not exist One bone I have to pick is the idea that there is “gay sex” when it’s all just SEX with people and various body parts either inserting or rubbing them on one another. Say it with me – IT’S SEX! It’s naturalIt’s chemical (let’s do it)It’s logicalHabitual (can we do…

• Identity Journey

  

  Identity Journey In an odd way, finding your readers and discovering what genre you write is a tiny bit like trying to figure out your sexual and/or gender identity. Some authors, if they are lucky enough to win the query-agent-publisher lottery, have a lot of help in this department. However, some of that luck is…

• Influences & Continuity

  

  Influences & Continuity Interesting things about influences, you never quite know where things come from until they show up. Some of my biggest influences to my writing came much later in life, when I read Ursula K Le Guin, and Octavia Butler. However, Jacqueline Carey had a massive influence on me as well. What they…

• Mythical Desires Universe Primer

  A Mythical Desires Universe Primer The MDU (get it – I’m a comic book geek what can I say?) is a multi-species fantasy universe where our myths and legends are real and thriving in the present day. Shifters of all kinds. Dragons. Vampires. Mages. Witches. Sentient familiars. They all exist in the open and magic…