Riding Heartbreak Road ...

Years ago, in what I refer to as the Stone Age of my career, back when I was laboriously chiseling words onto a rock slate via a Mac G4, I wrote a book that people either loved or hated. There was no gray area, no straddling the fence on this one. After reading it, the reader either put...

Series, and why I like ...

    I love series, it’s no secret. I love them in books, movies and television. Long ago and far away, when I started writing, it came as no surprise to me that my writing default was set to creating a series. The first book of my Sentries series, Marked Yours, was published by...

Shira Anthony Dreams of...

I’ve always been a sucker for a good story about magical beings—sorcerers, wizards, witches, genies, and the like. So when I started writing gay romance, it was pretty much a no-brainer that my first book would incorporate both the magic and the romance. But I wanted to do something...

When the Titanic was bu...

Turn the clock back one century with PD Singer. Her book Maroon tells the story of two Irish shipbuilders who work on the Titanic. Here’s a taste of their world, in fascinating details that make Dublin in the era of luxury liners come alive again! If we stepped back a hundred years...

Lola Dances by Victor J...

I’m thrilled to have Victor J. Banis as a guest here today. He is a household name in gay fiction, author of over 150 books, even some het romance under a pen name! Here’s how one of my favorites, Lola Dances, came about. Even if you think you don’t like historicals,...

Making HIStory HERstory...

It was Georgette Heyer who addicted me to Regency romance, and my first Regency-set romance was dedicated to her. But I have also always been fascinated by the strong women of history. In a time when women had almost no rights at all, every now and then a woman overcame every obstacle to...