I have a fallback for blog post ideas; my friend Jeff Adkins. He started this neat little Facebook group for bloggers to generate ideas to write about and also to do so at least once a week. Consistency is a wonderful thing. And once everybody is up to speed doing it once a week, they […]
OMG! It’s… Naa, We’ll Save That For 2014
I vowed many years ago I would never work with another author on a book again. This included co-authoring or doing an anthology. Yes, the experience was ‘that’ negative at the time. It’s lessened a bit over the years, but it’s a rule I remained steadfast about up until last year. Writing—to me—is personal. It’s […]
Where To Shove That Opinion
Alright, I’m admitting that I’m absolutely certain I may possibly be climbing on a soapbox with this post. Or I may not be. The jury is still out, but it’s nice to be so positive about my standing on this. See, here’s the thing. I’ve spent the better part of my life as the underdog […]
If Buying Book Reviews Be the Food of Sales, Pay On
A previous job I had involved assisting clients with their web site in terms of SEO (or Search Engine Optimization). This essentially means that if they were a local business focused on a specific product or service, I made suggestions and rewrote parts of their site using specific keywords so that the search engines would […]
Snark Smackdown! Authors Gone Wild
Is it naïve to think that there are enough decent people in the world who aren’t intent on screwing over or creating drama for the rest of the population? It’s a struggle each and every day not to give in to the chaos and just say “the hell with it.” I’ve worked in the automotive […]
The First Entry in My Jedi Journal at Age 13
It’s not fair. My husband’s birthday is coming up and he’ll be back at work and away from home again on that day. He’s typically either in Hong Kong for it or he’s away. However, his father has been moved to a rehabilitation facility, so the latest crisis should be over. Should. Am going to […]
Proof For My Hubby I May Have Written Something People Read
So I was in a bit of a panic last night when I realized at 8 p.m. that I hadn’t written something brilliant yet—or at least a blog post—for today. Ralph turned to me and asked “Well, what did you write last year that people liked?” It received a loud “huh?” from me, which then […]
A Grand, Exciting, Phenomenal and Borderline Orgasmic Writing Experiment!
The Following Blog Post Trailer Has Been Approved For All Audiences: (cue dramatic announcer’s voice) In a world full of deceit, empty spaces on the shelf where Twinkies used to be sold, juvenile sex jokes, and Publisher’s Weekly nauseating authors the world over with their naming of E.L. James as Person of the Year for […]
A Kristoffer Gair Mystery: Would You Like A Kumquat With Your Asian Erotica?
I had a rather intriguing conversation last week with someone who contacted me and asked if I wrote intimate scenes in my books. Provided I did, he wanted to know–since I’m in a relationship that could be described as multicultural–how I described those scenes and if they also happened to be multicultural. That’s quite a […]
Giving And Taking It In The Comedic Way
A huge number–usually one or two people, typically the same number of people who’ve read one of my novels–have in the past come up to me and asked “Aren’t you that gay author who makes fun of people and takes it up the bum from that extraordinarily cute Asian guy? What makes you laugh?” It’s […]
