I thought it would be fun to talk a little about the settings of my books. In a previous post, I shared how I came up with the setting for the Ignite series. Today, we’re looking at The Foster Brothers series. In 2021, my son and I did our second cross-country trip and drove from […]
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No Shame in a New Look
It’s been over three years since the No Shame Series took on their current look, and it’s time to give them a refresh! I have always been holding out hope that I would be able to find a cover model that represented what Indy looked like to me. But that hasn’t happened. I don’t think […]
MM Romance Tropes: Gay for You – Does it Exist in Real Life?
When I started reading MM romance, one of the most popular tropes was called Gay for You, abbreviated as GFY. It featured one or more characters who had always thought they were straight but ended up falling for a man (or more than one, in poly MM romances). They weren’t attracted to other men and […]
The Setting Behind the Stories: Ignite Series
I thought it would be fun to talk a little about the setting of my different books, and we’ll start with the Ignite Series. In 2018, my son and I did a cross country trip, taking four weeks to drive from Albany, NY to LA and back. We hit some fantastic sights along the way, […]
Do You Know the Crucial Difference Between Gay Romance and Gay Fiction?
Every now and then, the discussion pops up again: gay romance isn’t realistic. MM romance authors don’t show what life for gay men is really like. They’re misrepresenting the reality of the struggles and challenges these men face. And sometimes, people who say this express a wish for more stories that show real life. A […]
How Realistic Should Sex Be in MM Romances?
Let’s talk about sex, baby. Let’s talk about you and me. If you just sang that in Salt-N-Pepa style, we need to be friends. I’m old school, and that song was the biggest ear worm ever. Also, it was banned in my family so obviously, I knew it by heart, haha. So yeah. Let’s talk […]
The Book that was Supposed to be a Standalone
Many of us MM romance authors love series, and I’m no exception. In fact, some of my series became much longer than I had planned, the Irresistible Omegas being the prime example. Originally, I’d planned three books…which turned into ten and now the spin off already has five books as well. I have some series […]
One Reluctant Dom + One Eager Sub = One Kinky Story
I know, I know… It took me way too long to write No Rules, book two in the No Regrets series. After all, book one, No Surrender, has been out since April 2021. Let’s just say that a lot happened since then and I got a little distracted… But now No Rules is here, and […]
Have You Spotted These Easter Eggs in my Books?
We all know the physical Easter eggs, but do you know what literary Easter eggs are? In books, they refer to surprises the writer has left for the reader to discover. It can be an inside joke, a reference to pop culture, a link to previous works of the same author that are not in […]
Travel Tour Continues
Day 3 of my WWII Tour We started the day in the radar museum, located at the location of the main German radar station in Normandy. They sent intelligence to Berlin and to Hitler in Berchtesgaden. And by the way, they did pick up on the invasion but because the square mileage of the invasion […]
A Three Week Tale
I’m in the middle of a three week treck to visit historical sites, museums and more of WWII. One of my best friends and I have been planning this trip forever! I wanted to share some of the adventures with you, and if you’d like to see more photos you can join my reader group […]
New Series and Cover Reveal
[UPDATED] Now that The Foster Brothers series is done, it’s time to announce the new series I’ll be writing this year. I’m almost giddy with excitement, not kidding. I’ve been plotting this for a while, and now I can finally share. Please welcome… Forestville Silver Foxes Forestville is a small town in Washington, about an […]