News, new release and Queer Romance Month
It’s all about the exciting news this week.
First we have the release of gay historical romance anthology Another Place in Time. This is a collection of six stories put together by the lovely Susan Lee, ranging from Knights Templar to 1940s America, written by a selection of some of my favourite historical authors and also me. It’s being published to coincide with the US LGBT History Month, and all monies raised go to All Out. What I’m getting at is, go spend some money. The first reviews are in and stellar.
a consistently high quality anthology, not one of the short stories was less than a 5 star rating for me and I can honestly say I absolutely loved every single one of them (Sinfully Sexy)
My story, ‘The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh’, is my first foray into Regency. I’ve always loved Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances and had immense fun writing one of my own, with a hungover black sheep, a dangerous gambler, and a game of cards for very high and just slightly kinky stakes. I had to learn how to play ecarté for this story, dammit: the least you could do is read it. (This one is very high on the sexytimes, incidentally. Because I felt like it, that’s why.)
Second: October is Queer Romance Month! A group of authors decided to put queer romance front and centre, and this is the result: a full month of posts, flash fiction, recommendations, giveaways and chat about all aspects of queer romance, by a bewildering variety of authors. I’ve been uploading posts all morning, which took ages because they’re too interesting not to read. Check out my introductory post on Love is Not a Subgenre here, and return daily through October for all the goodies. (And follow us on @queerromance too!)
Thirdly, of less import to anyone but me: I’ve made the leap. As of last week I’m now a full time writer and freelance editor. So, uh, more books from me (hopefully), and I’m at kjcharleswriter[at]gmail.com for anyone looking for development/line editing who hasn’t been scared off by this blog. Get in touch!
And finally, book 3 of A Charm of Magpies, Flight of Magpies, will be out at the end of the month. Stay tuned for a giveaway mid-Oct.
That’s it for news, unless you want to hear how my cat’s doing. (Eating craneflies. Bet you’re sorry you asked.)
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It’s exciting to me to hear that you’ve gone full time because, like you said, more books! ^o^
Congrats on the release, and can’t wait to get my paws on Flight of Magpies. Will definitely have to check out Another Place in Time, although I think I’ve already got it marked to read.
Cheers! And congratulations again!
Thank you! It’s exciting/scary but I’m enjoying things so far…
Please, please tell me I can get Another Place in Time somewhere besides Amazon. I don’t have a Kindle, and I don’t care for the kindle app, but I really want to read this.
Good luck on the freelancing!
Yes, it’s on ARe and Smashwords too! Enjoy, and thanks. 🙂
Love the new digs! Also, that is NOT a salad. That is clearly some sort of biological weapon, possibly of alien origin.
Of course it’s a salad. I distinctly saw beansprouts, and anything with beansprouts is a salad 🙂 Nice new site!