Quick one this week with an update on my audiobook narrating journey. So far, I’ve taken a couple of short courses on audiobook narration and watched a TONNE of youtube videos from voice actors and narrators for tips and tricks. Then, as a practice run, I recorded and edited a short, short story I wrote […]
Author Blog Hop – Writing My First Novel
I am excited to be participating in a new blog hop initiated by author A.E. Radley, along with a host of other lesfic authors. I can’t wait to see what topics this blog hop throws up. The first one is Writing my first novel. A great first topic to break the ice with. Plus, it really […]
The Invisibility Cloak of an LGBTIQ YA Author
I’m preparing to give my very first author reading in a few weeks, which means I’ve been spitballing ideas on what to talk about that won’t bore the pants off people and maybe, hopefully, even convince them to buy a book or two. After asking for advice from friends, thinking about the books I write, […]
How catching a mouse taught me a lesson about writing
My wife yelled out “Got’im!” in the middle of the night a few days ago. No, she wasn’t dreaming. I was though, until that moment. She’d been listening to a mouse run around our bedroom until finally, it found the food we’d left for it in the trap she’d set. She’d heard it go off […]
Here’s how you can help people find queer fiction
I was procrastinating catching up on twitter news when I saw this tweet by Malinda Lo: It’s becoming ever more clear to me that many books with queer female characters are published with little to no marketing around queerness, especially when those books are genre fiction that don’t revolve around coming out. I want this […]