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E.L. James did not invent BDSM and other discussion topics
Authorly thoughts here…. As I watch the reviews for Acceleration come in, I’m finding it interesting that there are no comments on the reviews. Nor are my books being talked about in general discussion...
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An anniversary and a year in review
As of yesterday, it has been one year since I self-published my first book, Inertia. I will be the first to admit that I went into publishing all wrong. I had no idea what it was about. A friend told...
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Two weeks until “The Laird’s Forbidden Lover”
Two weeks from today will be the official release date for The Laird’s Forbidden Lover, which means of course that if you order it on the Riptide site, you can have it in 12 days. If you haven’t...
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One of those moments in life
Boychild – Six days old (June 2007) Tomorrow will be the six-year anniversary of the day my five-and-a-half-day labor ordeal ended and this little guy entered my life. Just a few minutes ago, I went...
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Personal ramblings: Mercury retrograde? Or just enough is enough?
The last six months–well, nine, really–have been challenging for me on the interpersonal front. First things first. I’m a Libra. I like harmony. I go to great lengths to keep from making waves. But...
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A warning about fair warning
So today, a popular review site posted a predictable and very, very tired rant about girl parts in m/m romance. Over on my Tumblr, I responded with my own rant calling them out on trans*phobia,...
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Some clarification on what is offensive about yesterday’s brouhaha
Okay, before anyone comes at me with the old “it’s so-and-so’s site, she can review what she wants” battle cry, misrepresenting what are the issues with this entire debacle over female-bodied-sexuality...
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Ups and downs: from knee-jerk anxiety to reasoning and back again.
I’ve been trying to most of the morning to figure out how I truly feel about the GRL2013 debacle. I woke up this morning feeling fairly upbeat, for all that I’ve been quite ill and feeling physically...
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Turning the day around — Look what a year has done!
So, as mentioned in my previous post, my day had a rocky and rather craptacular beginning in which a lot of my anxieties got triggered. Things seem to have calmed down and improved now, and as my less...
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The (Very Belated) Next Big Thing – The End of An Era and Moving On
So, back in mid-December I was supposed to participate in the Next Big Thing blog hop. I’d been tagged by Anne Tenino and I had tagged Leta Blake. I failed miserably at it because the week that I was...
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Writing a novel in three parts: Let’s get some things straight
As I’ve said in the past, though I often refer to Impulse as a trilogy for the sake of simplicity, it’s actually more accurate to call it a novel in three parts, much like The Lord of the Rings. Which...
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More on “Giving an Inch”— the project I never saw coming.
As I mentioned in my last post, yesterday morning I signed two contracts with Riptide Publishing. The one for the Highland story, I had been expecting for a couple weeks, but the second one (which was...
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The futility and frustration of waiting
(Disclaimer: I’m going to be talking about specific frustrating situations in this post. I won’t be naming names, but the people involved or in the know will know what I’m talking about. This is not...
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A carrot vs stick imbalance
So I’ve spent the last week, since my huge whinge-fest in my last post, trying to find the momentum to begin moving my various projects forward again. I think at least part of why I’ve been having such...
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Maintaining Visibility: How Often to Publish?
Reblogged from dreaminginfinity: Conventional wisdom from authors attending the Gay Romance Northwest meet-up covered the subject of how often an author should publish in order to stay on the readers'...
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My books are not a PSA #bdsm #unpopularopinions #50SoG
Okay, so I’m a pretty social-justice conscious person. I’m well-aware of my cis-het white privilege, try to keep it checked as much as I can, try to boost the voices of my LGBT and POC friends to get...
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Humiliation #kink–getting the appeal #bdsm #amwriting #mmromance
So, apparently this is my week for rants. No, Mercury is not retrograde. Nor am I PMSing. I have no idea WTF is going on, but be warned. I’m gonna come right out of the gate saying this: I don’t...
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Interneting while Female: women and online harassment
Let me tell you a little story. Actually, let me tell you a few of them. Let me tell you a little about Jennifer Hepler. She was a writer for BioWare, a gaming company known best for their Star Wars,...
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My final word on content warnings #unpopularopinion #publishing...
There’s a disturbing trend in fiction today, particularly genre fiction published by smaller, niche presses. Is it the prevalence of objectionable content? The normalization of the unacceptable? The...
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Some weeks there’s so much to say that you can’t say anything
So, last week I was mostly offline except for blog tour stuff. Nothing going on, I just felt the need to crawl into my hole for a while, and then my kid had Friday off as well as Memorial Day so it was...
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The Cult of Masculinity
Okay, folks, I’m going to the ranty place. Buckle up. So, one of the latest bits of misogyny to make feminists on social media see red (and for good reason) is this commercial: For the moment, let’s...
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Leftist ableism, misinformation, #GamerGate, and the deliberately constructed...
If you followed me on Tumblr you know that a pet peeve of mine lately has been progressives using ableist language when making their points. You would also know that several times recently, I’ve had to...
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So much ethics: An anti-GamerGate rant @Veeren_Jubbal @INeedDivGms...
Today, CypherofTyr, who started the #INeedDiverseGames tag on Twitter and eventual blogs and groups on various social media and gaming sites, posted this to Tumblr: Please keep Veerender Jubbal in your...
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Yet another author misrepresenting themselves kerfuffle
Everyone knows my name isn’t really Amelia C. Gormley, right? Right. There. Now you know everything anyone who reads my books or has any knowledge of me through the world of m/m romance will ever need...
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In Memoriam: Niki Massey, aka Nicole Forcine, aka feminace
I first met Niki in 2013 at GRL in Atlanta, GA, where she was doing video interviews with authors and publishers for her vlog and video book club. Here she is interviewing me with Anne Tenino: I...
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