Two weeks

All I want to post about is my book! I know, I know, this is bad blogging. It fascinates me, but perhaps not everyone in the world.

Still. I’ve been on the best seller list at My Bookstore and More for two weeks. And at number 6 for four days.

Okay, must wrack my blogging brain for something else. Hmmm. (Apart from my fear that Monster’s sequel, Zombie won’t fare nearly as well.)

Well, I’ve started something new. Not sure where it’s going yet and it will need more research than I’m used to. Which makes me nervous, but excited. I think it’s important to push myself a little with each new project. Otherwise I get bored.

I can’t seem to read fiction these days. I’m not sure why. I’m sure it won’t last, but since I have my months when I can’t read nonfiction and now I can, I should just take advantage of it and not fret. (Though I miss reading fiction, too.)

Number 6!!

I can’t believe it, but Monster has reached #6 on the best seller list at My Bookstore and More.

I’m a little stunned. I want to thank everyone who bought it!

New look

I’ve been redecorating. On the sidebar is my cover. Click on it and you will be taken to the book store.

Not much else new. Laura at Teach Me Tonight has a thoughtful post about attitudes towards homosexuality in romances. She mentions Suzanne Brockmann’s Hot Target and I have to admit her hero Jules is one of my favorite characters.

Sigh

I can’t tell you how much I loathe it when people conflate pedophilia and homosexuality. Makes me so angry.

Anyway, in case anyone has been hiding under a rock, apparently a certain Jan W. Butler has a letter in the latest RWR. I’m not a RWA member, but Kate Rothwell has reproduced the letter here, Smart Bitches has replied to said letter here, and elsewhere in the blogosphere people are unimpressed or scathing. And, in Kate’s comments, Nora Roberts ‘…couldn’t disagree more with [Butler's] viewpoint, on every possible level.’

I have little to add and part of me didn’t want to post because the topic riles me so. But I figure the well-articulated objections outweigh the letter itself which I despise. (Yes, yes, Jan W. Butler has a right to her opinion. And others have the right to treat that letter with contempt.)

On a lighter, if related note, in the Smart Bitches comments, Jane adds

Oh, I think the amensiac cowboy who falls in love with the sheik would be a fantastic story. If one of them is a virgin, all the better.

A couple of male/male reviews

Laura Baumbach’s A Bit of Rough gets another positive review here.

And Ally Blue reviews Willa Okati’s A Year and A Day here.

Nothing gets me right in the heart quite like angst and sadness followed by a happy ending, and this book fits the bill perfectly. It pulls you through a gauntlet of intense emotion, ending with joy and satisfaction.

Zombie Cover

It’s early but I have my cover for Zombie and I just wanted to share.

Zombie, book 2 of the Minders series, will be released November 28th and will continue Kir and Josh’s story which began in Monster.

Number 9

Okay, this may well be a brief stint, but I can’t help be proud that I’m #9 at My Bookstore and More.

Also, my book is up here, at Millenium Promotions.

So cool. Can you tell I’m a new author

Number 10

I am thrilled and honored to see Monster on the best seller list at My Bookstore and More.

It’s made my week!

Male/male romance

Brenda Coulters’s post at Romancing the Blog points to another blog, Teach Me Tonight. In it there’s a good post about male/male romance, referring to Queer as Folk and Brokeback Mountain, among other things.

Whoa! Big shock here, people! A certain segment of the straight female population loves romances between gay men!

This is something that is NOT a shock to anyone who knows anything about Slash fiction, which originated from a reference to the “/” punctuation between “Kirk/Spock” fan fiction written by and for women that depicted Kirk and Spock in a sexual and romantic relationship. This is also not news to the producer of Brokeback Mountain who told Ang Lee, the director of the movie about a pair of gay cowboys, that their core audience was not gay men, but rather straight women (although five years of experience runs between the makers of QaF and the producer of BbM, so hindsight is indeed 20/20). And male/male erotica (or m/m/f) is certainly the growth industry in the online erotica publishing houses.

Well, I hope that last line is true! The entire post and its comments are interesting to read.

Samhain Café chat

Tomorrow morning from 10-11 am, I’ll be chatting at Samhain Café, an email loop.

This is my first such author chat, so if anyone’s inclined, please show up!

There will be lots of other Samhain authors there tomorrow, too.