It's My Party And I'll Write What I Want To... by Adara O'Hare
The question is: Why do I want to write in this genre? Particularly when it seems to be oversaturated with authors and stories.The simple answer is: It makes me happy. It's what I want to read. It's...
View ArticleJust Like Starting Over... by Anne Tenino
I have a new book, Too Stupid to Live, coming out Monday. The book tells the story of Sam (secondary character in my novella Whitetail Rock, available for free in many places, including my website) and...
View ArticleWhy Did This Chicky Cross The Road? by Seymour James
To get to the LBGTQ side of course!I have been asked many times what path has brought me to writing m/m fiction. Truthfully? I love romance and I love men. Put the two together and voila! I’m as...
View ArticleCreative Resolutions... by Kate McMurray
Six or so years ago, right around the holidays, a friend of mine dragged me to a concert of a community orchestra in Greenwich Village. She knew one of the cellists and remembered that I had played...
View ArticleA Superstar But He Didn’t Get Far by Josh Lanyon
The question posed to me by the talented gang at Chicks and Dicks was How To Stand Out in This Oversaturated Genre, and I had to bite back a facetious, Get here five years ago! That’s not even true....
View ArticleThe Nemesis by Amelia C. Gormley
Twenty-four years ago I sought to sign up for my high school’s Creative Writing class. This was actually sort of a big deal. The class was composed of entirely juniors and seniors. Occasionally, the...
View ArticleAsking Why Not by Z.A. Maxfield
For as long as I can remember, my mother kept a carefully cut out quote on the wood paneling of the cupboard over the breakfast bar in the kitchen. It said, “He who deliberates fully before taking a...
View ArticleNew Beginings, New Challenges by Geoffrey Knight
For as long as I can remember, January has always been my favorite month of the year. It’s a fresh start, there’s lots of promise in the air, and better still, down here in Australia it’s summer and...
View ArticleWhat Exactly Is Romance? by Lily Grace
Yup. You read that right. I’m supposedly an author of M/M romance, and I just asked for a definition. I can almost see you arching an eyebrow, but bear with me. When someone picks up a book that falls...
View ArticleFalling in Love is so Hard on the Knees by JP Barnaby
I spent my nineteenth birthday at a hospital in Ill., next to the bedside of my ten-day-old daughter as she fought for her life amidst tubes and machines the likes of which I’d never seen. By then,...
View ArticleScope for Authors Attending GRL 2013
We apologize for any confusion we may have inadvertently caused with our newsletter update. We’re hoping the full details will clear up any open questions. Finally, please note that invites have not...
View ArticleUnwise Things by Amelia C. Gormley
I recently finished writing a book that I feel was the most amazing thing I’ve ever written.From the very first moment I began typing, this story drove itself. In fifteen days, I wrote over 92,000...
View ArticleZombies = Festival of F-U-N by Kari Gregg
Be the story slapstick/campy zombies or the most gruesome of undead apocalypses, zombies are just plain FUN. Think about it. No more mortgage, no more credit card debt. Say farewell to PTA meetings and...
View ArticleSo We've Been Quiet...
Hello everyone! As I'm pretty sure you all have noticed, we haven't kept up with the site for quite some time. 2013 has been an extremely busy, complicated year for the Chicks and Dicks, and it's only...
View ArticleGrand & Pitt... by Damon Suede
Worldbuilding my way to Horn Gate...On one level, my new paranormal novellaHorn Gateexists as a racy comic book written by a character in another one of my books.The thing is, I'm nearly finished with...
View ArticleThe Non-Linear Story by Amelia C. Gormley
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere at various times, with each book I write I try to challenge myself to do something new, particularly something which requires using a skill I might not necessarily have yet....
View ArticleFirefirghters Get Us A-Burning
What draws our eyes and our imaginations to the repeated fantasies of firefighters? Why are they always taking center stage in our internal sensual musings? I believe it is what they embody that takes...
View ArticlePLAGIARISM – VIOLATING AN AUTHOR'S SOUL by JP BARNABY
Authors, please. File your copyrights on all your work. Protect yourself against things like this:As I sat staring at the screen, reading my words with an unfamiliar name attached to them, the world...
View ArticleAuthor Spotlight: Nessa L. Warin
All Shawn Neale is looking for when he stumbles into All Corked Up on Christmas Eve is some wine recommendations. What he finds is an instant attraction to Royce Wilkinson, the shop’s owner. After a...
View ArticleAlbert Kennedy... by Daniel Kaine
If you don’t already know the big news, I’ll tell you now. My latest book, ‘No Angel’, is out on August 26th from Dreamspinner Press. It’s the story of an eighteen year old boy called Josh, who finds...
View ArticleCould This Be Love? by Edmond Manning
Lost and Found - OriginsSince the 1970’s, GLBT crusaders have passionately argued ‘OUR LOVE IS REAL LOVE.’ Back then, the argument was a tough sell because the larger society found that love...
View ArticleWhen Authors Steal From Authors by Erica Pike
*This is a repost. To read the original article and comments on it please visit Erica's website.It's horrible, isn't it? In an ideal world, theft of manuscripts and ideas wouldn't happen, but this...
View ArticleBad Idea: Excerpt and Cover Reveal... by Damon Suede
Bad Idea By Damon SuedeBlurb: Some mistakes are worth making. Reclusive comic book artist Trip Spector spends his life doodling super-square, straitlaced superheroes, hiding from his fans, and crushing...
View ArticleGood Boy by Anne Tenino
Hello there! Welcome to the Good Boy blog tour. Good Boy is a short story, and the fourth volume in the Theta Alpha Gamma series, which began with the novel Frat Boy and Toppy. The happy couple in...
View ArticleKick Starting it with Josh Lanyon
The Dangerous Ground Reboot~ KICK START ~When the time came to begin work on the 5th book in the Dangerous Ground series, I had to give some thought as to where the next four books would be headed. The...
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