luninosity

Got a few neat things to share! Lots of stuff happening all at once, as stuff tends to do…

First, my upcoming release, out Feb 15! It’s called “A Valentine for Violet,” an MM romance novella, and it’s one that I really love – brand-new characters, a sort of alt-Victorian English country village setting (no magic, but same-sex marriage is accepted), and paper-making and valentines! I hope you’ll all love it too – I had such fun writing this one!

It’s available for pre-order now here at JMS Books – and currently on pre-order sale!

Second, I’ve done a little author interview over at J. Scott Coatsworth’s blog! (Hooray for author-friends!) It’s got a lot of me rambling about sword-and-sorcery, writing scenes out of order, and what’s currently in my refrigerator! ❤

You can read that over here! It’s also got a picture of Miss Merlyn the Magnificent, to tempt you. 🙂

Third, it’s the February Blind Date with a Book event! Including one of mine…but which? Comment on the blind date posts, over the next two days, for a chance to win books that sound up your alley – winners posted starting Friday!

Fourth (oops, I guess there’s a fourth!), I sent off an academic essay I’m kind of proud of / nervous about, so I feel accomplished! It’s about Patricia Nell Warren’s novel The Front Runner and its influence on the genre of gay romance, and I inadvertently ended up making an argument about the importance of fuzzy genre definitions and implications of that, and also quoting myself as a romance author (I was asked to contribute to the book in part as a romance author), so it’s an odd little hybrid essay that brings together several of my selves, academic literature-analyst and queer person and queer romance author…so that should be interesting! I used first person and self-reflection far more than I normally do, among other things. I hope the book (a whole scholarly collection of essays on PNW) will be good; I feel like I might be an oddity, but the editor did specifically ask me to be, er, me, in all the multiple selves, so…we shall see! He did already tell me the draft was “wonderful,” so that’s nice? *being brave*