Romance Lives Forever: Making the Most of a Crazy Day

Romance Lives Forever: Making the Most of a Crazy Day

Life is insane just by definition. Throw in a to-do list, real life, and deadlines, and it goes over the edge. Here's a concrete idea on how to make the most of a crazy day.

Sheesh! I moved, againnnn

This time I moved back to Tulsa, OK where I was raised. And this time I plan on staying. Like I haven't said that before. I got tired of living in residential hotels and being away from family. Have spoke to a couple of apartment managers. Both have vacancy. I've been accepted in the effecincy apt. bldg, but would rather move into the one bedroom where I once lived. It's across the street from a shopping center. The other isn't. In the other one I'd have to depend on the bus or my brother. Will let you know next month on where I move too.

A Woman Writing a Male Point of View



Pure Eye Candy

The first time I read the line, "women shouldn't write male/male romance" I blinked at the computer screen in confusion. I had no idea why anyone would say such a thing. For decades, if not centuries, men have been writing female characters, and females have been writing male characters. Why, suddenly -- in the 21st century no less -- would someone think a woman writing a scene with two heroes instead of one is improper, or worse -- that she simply couldn't do the story justice? Was prejudice rearing its ugly head in an environment that demanded equal rights for all?
Perhaps it was the objection to a woman using a man's penname. You know, the way women had to take men's names in order to be published back in 19th century. George Sand comes to mind.

I'm not here to argue the point -- I am a woman who has always found guy on guy sex incredibly hot, and wanted to write a book with that theme. I read a quote recently that it's impossible to discourage the real writers, because they're going to write no matter what you say. I think today's crop of female authors writing gay romance (male/male, m/m, guy on guy, or whatever you prefer to call it) are doing a credible job. Authors who come right to mind are Kiernan Kelly, Cecilia Tan, Ariel Tachna, Katrina Strauss, Alex Beecroft, Laura Baumbach, Jet Michaels, James Buchanan... I could keep going, believe me. Try out any of these authors and you'll find quality writing, hot sex, and totally realistic male points of view. Google, anyone?


Wulf (in back) and Luc


Jerry Race is definitely a man, a good writer, and a good friend. He joined a critique group I'd created for erotica and GLBT authors, and critiqued my first m/m book (Wulf). According to him, and another man whom I knew, I got it right on the money. The book was accepted a few weeks after submission (at Liquid Silver Books). Wulf, Tales of the Chosen was a hit with male readers as well as female.



2010 EPIC Winner Surrender Love



Last year, I attended Outlantacon as a guest speaker. It's a SciFi convention with a queer slant, open to the public. There was a late night pajama party where everyone gathered to hear some of the guests read. When I held up Wulf and said I'd be reading from it, a young man in the audience exclaimed, "You wrote Wulf?" When I said I had, he stood up,  rushed to the front, and said, "I have to hug you." Yes, three of my books have been nominated for Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, and another m/m, Surrender Love, was awarded the 2010 EPIC eBook Award for Science Fiction Erotic Romance (a national award - and the only GLBT book in the category) -- but that heartfelt hug from a young man who loved the story beat them all. I've never doubted since that I could indeed "get it right."

I plan to keep writing both male/female and male/male romance -- from the heart. Thank you Jerry, for inviting me to drop in. I hope to come by often, and bring some eye candy. The hottie at the top had nothing to do with the subject, but I got your attention, didn't I? *wink*

Who writes m/m erotic or erotica romance?

Have you ever wondered who writes male/male erotic or erotica romance? I always assumed men out numbered women authors of the genre. And I still do. However, I believe the answer could be a close 50/50 chance. But it's probably my luck women are the majority. Maybe wome enjoy writing the genre since they're capable of writing male characters better than men. They can add a lot of emotional qualities, maybe better than a male author.

What do you think the right answer is?

Please leave a comment. I'd love to learn your take on this post. Thanks in advance.

Jerry Race

Seductive. Sensual & hawt romance.

My site: http://authorjerryrace.webs.com


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More Than A Stud

More Than A Stud, an erotic romance paranormal (vampire) GLBT m/m is scheduled to be released this January at Muse It Hot Publishing. MTAS is slated to be released August, 2011.

Here's link http://www.museithotpublishing.com

Jerry Race - Sensual. Seductive & hawt romance

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Nix Winter

Nix Winter is one of my favourite writers. She has a beauitful, almost poetic style, and a capacity for sensuality that takes my breath away. Her stories tend towards speculative settings, which she sketches with remarkable skill. Her worlds come alive, with just a few well placed words, and her characters... I fall hopelessly in love with them all.

Characters in Nix's fiction tend to be gorgeous young men, who are very into each other. Lucious descriptions and vast amounts of sexual tension are frequent features of her writing. She will make you yearn, and daydream and wish that you too could be a narrow hipped lad, falling in love with another man. Some of her tales - Blue Promises for example - are full of erotic tension, but not graphic. Others, like The Pet series are delightfully graphic, taking you to the heated heart of every sexual encounter. In some fiction - Knowing Curves springs to mind, there are BDSM elements. The stories themselves are engaging, and there is a lot more to it than the sex.

Nix is also a very talented cover artist, and is doing all of the covers for our Immortal Fire series. If you want to see more of her work, please do drop in to www.loveyoudivine.com and have a browse.

The Other Side of the Window

Let’s face it: I simply do not get it. I never have gotten it, and chances are I never will. I have spent my entire life on the other side of the window, watching life without really comprehending it.

There are so very many things I have never understood. The entire list is far, far, too long to lay out here, but here are just a few.

I’ve never understood organized religion. From everything I’ve seen, heard, read, or experienced, it has caused more human suffering than all the plagues and wars--many of which have been fought over religion--in the history of mankind. Despite the occasional notable exception, organized religion has consistently fostered hatred and intolerance and all the things it claims to be trying to counter. I have never been able to comprehend how simply and sincerely following the Golden Rule would not all but eliminate the need for organized religion. I find it infinitely sad that "Do unto others as you would have done unto you" has been corrupted into "Do unto others as you would have done unto them."

I’ve never understood organized sports. Enjoying the physical activity in the form of sports makes sense, and provides great exercise. Sitting on an overstuffed sofa or a barstool guzzling beer and scarfing down bowls of popcorn, peanuts, and pretzels while watching people you have never met and never will meet do what you’re too damned lazy to do totally escapes me. This week’s BIG GAME!!!! over which people seem to drive themselves into an incomprehensible frenzy, was preceded by last week’s Big Game and an endless string of long forgotten Big Games before that. It will be followed by an infinite string of others. And their point is…?

I’ve never understood computer spam. Do these cretins who so blatantly invade my privacy actually, seriously think for one second that anyone who has had a computer for more than two days is going to open a message whose subject line is: "Hi. Bedroom faucet rises the early..." or "We cure all disease" or, worst of all, those little strings of small squares with no text at all? And how could anyone with the intelligence of a hamster actually respond to a letter from a "Barrister" in Nigeria informing you that a billionaire relative you have never heard of has died tragically in a car accident and named you sole beneficiary to his (interestingly, it’s always a "his") estate. But they do, and I truly despair for humanity.

And I’ve never understood heterosexuals. Never. I’ve lived among them all my life ("Why, some of my best friends are heterosexual"), but have always felt totally apart from them, as though I were a different species. I love my family—heterosexuals all—, am deeply fond of my straight friends, and I like and appreciate many others, but I have never really understood them, and never fail to be mildly infuriated by the automatic assumption of heterosexuals that everyone is heterosexual…or should be.

But the primary thing I do not understand, and which has caused me more anxiety, frustration, and grief than all my incomprehensions listed above, is why I am not—and no matter how hard I try, can never seem to be—the person I so desperately want to be. But I take some small consolation in the thought that maybe I’m not the only one standing on this side of the window.

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