A Twitter friend of mine - a very talented writer by the name of Jacinta Horgan - put me on to a book called The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven. This Young Adult novel is as powerful and…
Category: reading
My words!
For research, I have been reading rather a lot of erotica. For research purposes. I don't do it to enjoy myself.Here's my take on a good erotic short:1. Reasonably credible plot and characters. The characters have to have reasons to…
For all love
There are writers, and there is Patrick O'Brian. In the wake of C S Forester and his popular Hornblower series of Napoleonic naval fiction, there were several who explored this area. Battles against the French, the weather, the times, and…
Crash test smarties
Yesterday I spoke about finding and hopefully fixing a major problem in my writing strategy, I think I've got it covered, but that just came out of the blue at me.I don't know yet what I'm doing wrong. Only yesterday…
A library in my pocket
I am allowed ten books at any one time on my Kindle Unlimited shelf. Perhaps my appetites were bigger than my eyes, because I found that I reached that limit very quickly, and if I saw another book that looked…
Goodreads, good writes
Yesterday I talked about reading Katrina England's book "Writing and Publishing Erotica" and how I'd written down some of the things she advised for new authors. I'd already joined Goodreads, which is a site I heartily recommend to anyone interested…
Reading allowed
I'm now well into expanding Coding by Candlelight beyond The Hot Bits - though rest assured are some very steamy scenes to be added - and I wanted to see how it would read aloud. That's a handy trick to…
