Soliciting. Just your opinion, but soliciting for all that

Over on my blog, I'm asking for opinions on what to include, or not, in the Shield series. Do you want to be told when and where Bennet is, or do you like to guess, mmn?  Enquiring minds want to know.

Great Review for Happy Holidays

I love unexpected Christmas presents, and this one was delightful. A lovely review for Happy Holidays by Susan Laine at Goodreads. Susan rated the anthology as a whole with 5 stars and had this to say about Happy Holidays:

John Hogarth and Kit Lewis have been domestic partners as long as they’ve been working partners, running a small but growing design agency in New York. After fifteen years together, Kit wonders if they’re getting stale and takes a typically creative approach to inject a little romance and excitement back into their love life.

I swear, if I hear “Do you know what day this is?” one more time… Kit and John have been together for fifteen years, and then Kit comes up with something to keep things lively in the bedroom. Creative. While Kit is bursting with good ideas, John is at first confused, then happy to be lead around by his dick to wherever Kit wishes. This story had lots of humor and a wonderful established relationship, excellent writing and a good pace.

Yay!  Merry Christmas all!

The Gilded Scarab - Free download of Vignette Two

Gilded Scarab Vignette One - free to download

Over at my website, a short (very short!) vignette from Gilded Scarab is free to download

Click on the link below to download the Vignette

Vignette One

Enjoy!

Inching along...

Over at the website  I chronicle a little progress in the complete rewrite of Gilded Scarab...

On lightbulbs and epiphanies

Over at the website, I had my lightbulb moment this morning on why I am so dissatisfied with the current WiP, and why I'm finding it such hard going. I hope that I've found a solution, though what it mean is junking about 25,000 words... sigh. It'll hurt, but it's the right thing to do.

Writing as an organic process - or dammit, I *liked* those bits

Over at my website I ponder how all the best laid plans - or writing outlines, in this case - gang all agley when you actually start the organic process of writing.

Or, as I conclude the sorry tale : DAMN