Safe Harbor by Elizabet...

One of the most fascinating things about being a writer, for me, is exploring the way small changes lead to big ones. I wrote a story, a number of years ago, about a boy who grew up to become a thief. It was a very dark and disturbing story, leaning closer to horror than the fantasy it...

New Amsterdam by H.J. R...

The name and description of the setting for the New Amsterdam series has me immediately adding it to my TBR list. Here’s how it all started….   Hello, everyone! It’s good to be here. I’m H. J. Raine, and Kelly and I have series of books set in New Amsterdam,...

Songs in the Key of For...

    Today Ellis Carrington tells the story behind this wonderful story! Authors get asked often about the inspiration for their stories. For me, as I would guess for a lot of writers, it’s a combination of real-life inspiration and a very rampant imagination. And then, there’s...

Coming soon: Blast from...

Starting on or around April 17 (Tax Day) I'll be hosting a fun event on my LJ and my author blog. A bevy of LGBTQ guest authors will be talking about their older releases, rather than just announcing new titles. Stay tuned to hear about some books you may have forgotten about, or...

[GLBT Fairy Tale Week] ...

The inimitable Kilt Kilpatrick is the author of “Handsome and Grateful,” which appears in both Bednknobs & Beanstalks and Rumpled Silk Sheets Fairy Tale Anthologies. Read on for why… I know all good fairy tales hearken back to a long ago, never-never magical past,...

[GLBT Fairy Tale Week] ...

Shanna Germain is the author of  “The Princess of Silk and Pain” in my Rumpled Silk Sheets anthology. She’s not talking your usual princess by any stretch of the word.Mirror, Mirror… I am the girl in red, singing, leaving the proper path. I am the wolf, saliva...