Chatting

I just finished writing my latest m/m s/f romance last week, "Details of the Hunt" for LooseId and I was going to spend this week relaxing. Well, that lasted about one day! Several opportunties to do chats and promo days on a number of net sites popped up and I've beem chatting and posting and meeting all kinds of new people. I even had the opportunity to venture a novel proposal to a publisher during one! Cool, huh?
I'm spending next week working on a screenplay and a piece of fiction I pormised to a zine. I think I'll have to work by night and not check my email to get anything done!
And Ecateromance just changed their policy and now accept m/m romances for review. I sent them two of mine. Let's see if they like them, now! I'm drumming my fingers in anticipation on that one.

Naked Drummer Boy logo

I had a new logo designed to go with my catch phrase "writing to the beat of a different drummer' and this is what the artist Sinammin created for me. I'm putting it on my site and on totes and coffee mugs for interested readers and for giveaways during contest! I like it. I keep wondering how it must feel to have the drum vibrate against his skin when he plays!

Magazines and new releases

Yesterday was a terrific day for me. Not only did my new release from Torquere Press, a m/m romance titled 'A Bit of Rough', come out a few days early, but my sweet little f/m short story 'Reconnecting' was published in the New York based magazine BUST and I got the issue in the mail! That was so exciting to see my name in print in a National Magazine! So cool! Even my husband was impressed! They even included my website url at the end of the article, which was so very kind of them.

BUST magazine is a great, uninhibited magazine for the modern woman. It has lots of articles, features and fun stuff. Even the ads are cool. Look for at www.bust.com!

Caught in the Middle

Well, it seems being a straight woman who writes m/m erotic romances definitely makes me the odd woman out. RT refuses to review my novels because they are 'homosexual fiction' and a gay bookstore just decline holding a booksigning for me because I'm a straight female. Damned on both sides of the coin!

Well, cool for ME! I'm unique and different and hard to define! Yes, it's a bit of a problem when trying to find a nitch to snuggle down into with my writing, but hey, if I can't be accepted, at least I'm getting a lot of attention! LOL!

Really, it's kind of sad that neither one refused based on the quality of my writing. They pinned a label on my work or on me and that was the end of it. Pretty poor response from two supposedly 'professional' businesses.

More walls to scale and hurdles to jump. Where did I hide my track shoes?