I’m so proud and, I must admit, slightly baffled by this — this is such an incredible feeling! “Adorably guileless heart candy… The real story is an old-school one of a grand love and a whole community that comes together to support it, with a happy ending that gives the reader a moment of escapist grace.” […]
Month: February 2015
Today’s a day for catching up on all the paperwork and running around I haven’t had a chance to do while doing book promotion. It feels….good. It’s all things that I don’t particularly enjoy doing, but it feels good and responsible and like it will help in the long run, like how sore your muscles […]
Go Down the Rabbit Hole: A Writer’s Manifesto
#AmWriting, #AmResearching, #AmDistracted
I am working on Book Two (which still has no tentative or working title. It’s named ‘New Book’ on my computer…how boring) and am elbows deep in research of all sorts and generally just happy as a clam. I need a particular setting for a particular scene, so I’m researching to augment what I remember […]
Last day of my book tour!! Last chance to enter to win my book!
My book is featured over on Sharing Links And Wisdom today — head on over to read an excerpt and enter to win a $25 gift certificate!
#AmWriting
Final day of my book tour, which has been an absolutely lovely experience. It’s been nice to be able to “talk” with readers who are interested in my book. The weather is absolutely gorgeous here today here in Alps — brilliant sunshine and warm. My family back in New England is facing sub-zero temps and […]
Book tour, day 9: On writing realistic fantasy vs fantastic realism
…there’s nothing to say that it -couldn’t- have happened as it does in the book. Men in love with each other is not a modern concept. Surely somewhere, somehow, two men figured out how they could be in love and live their lives together, if in a bit of secrecy. Surely some of the so-called […]
LGBT FICTION CON DURING MUNICH’S PRIDE WEEK!!!
I am so very excited to see the announcement of this con — I am desperately trying to figure out a way to be there. Munich is one of my favorite cities in the entire world, and I’ve heard really great things about Pride Week there. This sounds like an amazing opportunity and I really […]
In the Hollywood adaptation of Right Here Waiting, who would play your main characters? Why
As my book is written as a love letter to Old Hollywood, I’m going to go with the classic Old Hollywood movie stars I had in the back of my mind while I was writing the novel. For the dashing and genial bomber pilot, Pete Montgomery, I would cast Gregory Peck: lanky and rawboned, but […]
Q. People say write what you know. Do you think that is right or even important?
A. I think it’s both right and important. I think it’s impossible to write competently about something that you know absolutely nothing about. There’s always an element of your reality, or a fragment of yourself in anything you write. It doesn’t mean that every single character is an exact copy of yourself, or that you […]