It’s a Dirty Job: Defining Categories and Subgenres Hello again! Thank you to Larissa for letting me bring in this month’s edition of Killing It – Writing the M/M Mystery a few days late. The last couple of weeks have been, cough, murder. 😉 After reading over the last month’s comments, I thought it might
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Hello, all! Thank you so much for joining me here today for a chat on creating compelling characters. For those of you who may not know me, my name is Charlie Cochet and I write several subgenres of gay romance including paranormal, mystery, suspense, contemporary, historical, fantasy, urban fantasy, and science fiction. I’m probably most
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Welcome back to BookWinked! On the last time of the month – a little later than planned – is this month’s Author Articles. This month’s guest is RJ Scott, who is here to talk about dealing with plot hole. “In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the
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Welcome to a new feature on my blog. Which is where different authors talk about anything and everything to do with writing. Today we welcome multi-pubished author and well known for her wonderful books in the lgbtq-genre. Her book Tournament of Losers won the 2016 Rainbow Award for gay fantasy. She’s here to talk about world-building in
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Give a warm warm welcome to J. Johanis. She’s here to talk about her own favorite books, read in 2015. The floor is hers! This year has been exciting for me. In addition to publishing my first m/m novel, I went to GRL in San Diego where I met a lot of great people and
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Who needs a passport? I love writing stories set in Australia. I don’t have to worry about things like getting regional lingo or locations right, because it’s what comes naturally to me. And when I started Exchange of Hearts, it was nice to set the story in familiar locations, with familiar education systems. I just
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Forever in the Sun (Sapphire Cay #6) by RJ Scott and Meredith Russell Today is the release of Forever in the Sun. A joint venture between RJ Scott and Meredith Russel. Today they are over at BookWinked with an exclusive excerpt from the book. There is also a giveaway at the end of the post
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Summer… Can you feel it? You’re sweating all the time, your skin is scorched and feels like it has shrunk a size or two. Creepy insects are crawling around on the ground, or droning about in the air, or getting tangled up in your hair. Your ancles look like giant raspberries due to the mosquito
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A Guest post by Lillian Francis Would you care to share my bredie? According to the research I did on South African cooking Bredie is a slow cooked stew, generally using mutton, flavoured with tomatoes and fragrant spices. It is thought to originate from the Dutch settlers. Despite Eric being fresh off the plane from
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Guest Post for Silent Woods by Ofelia Gränd Ladies, gentlemen, and variations thereupon! Do you wanna marry Harry? Are you longing for a new season of Beauty and the Geek? Are you counting the days to the next episode of the Bachelor? Or maybe you prefer Bachelor in Paradise? Why wait? I’m here today to
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