(Nope, don’t look at me. I didn’t enter this year. Moro’s Price came out last year, and I didn’t even know what the Rainbow Awards were at the time.) But several fellow authors from Loose Id are on this year’s honorable mentions list, and may be finalists when the formal announcements are made tomorrow, October…
Read More 2013 Rainbow Awards honorable mentions are out! (Adult content advisory)I just found out that one of my fiber art pieces has been juried into the wonderful new show Eco Editions, which will be seen at my friend Laura Russell’s 23 Sandy Gallery, in Portland, Oregon, from November 15 – December 28, 2013. I’ve been in 23 Sandy shows before, and they’re always beautiful and thought-provoking examples…
Read More Art and the Animas River…steal words from other people. Now, hold on there, pilgrims. I know that most artists ‘steal’ from each other. Most of the time we try a little finesse, taking bits here and riffs there, and sewing it up into a recognizably different package. There are only a few basic plots, after all. But with the…
Read More What to do when you can’t write…(adult language advisory)Use every pre-made tool you can, but learn how to make your own tools and components. I have mixed feelings about assemblage art: collage, stampcraft, scrapbooking, 3-D mixed media, and similar techniques. I love them. I’ve made money from them both in the corporate art world and in freelance work. I benefit enormously from the…
Read More Craft credo #2 (adult language advisory)(Beginning an intermittent series about making stuff. These are my personal philosophies about art and craft. As such, they are guaranteed to piss off some people. Please don’t feel singled out, and please feel free to answer me with your own thoughts on the matter.) Credo 1: The more we call some artifact or process…
Read More Craft Credo #1 (adult language advisory)“Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone,” runs the quote from poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Maybe not. The NY Times Bestseller list almost always has at least one example of ‘Misery Literature’. Misery memoirs (and their cousins family histories and autobiographies) have been made into major movies and won significant literary awards. And…
Read More Misery Memoirs and Pay-to-Play PublishingErotic romance author Kathleen Tudor also writes M/M erotic romance as D.K. Jernigan. To celebrate her upcoming Circlet Press editorial retreat, Kathleen is hosting an author giveaway over on her blog and Facebook page. Up for grabs is a paper copy of the sizzling Storm Moon Press M/M erotic romance anthology Dracones, with a story…
Read More D. K. Jernigan author giveaway (adult content advisory)Like many writers, I do lots of other creative things. I’m a gluten-free cook always looking for the best and most affordable ingredients (there will be posts on that later, I promise). I’m a costume and props maker. As a fiber artist, I’m under contract to provide award ribbons for a major twice-yearly regional art…
Read More My art for sale onlineAnother AbsoluteWrite member has a M/M erotic romance novella being released today: Roughing It, by Holden Wells. To be honest, I’ve only read part of this 35,000-word book – but that part was seriously edgy and hot, with lots of emotional content as well as a convincing M/M perspective. It’s on my order list. From…
Read More Roughing It, by Holden Wells (adult content advisory)