Author: Filigree

Artist and writer living in the Southwest USA.

Web: cranehanabooks.com/blog

July 1, 2014 by Filigree

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotic Writers blog hop Day 9

Happy first day of July! Karenna Colcroft interviews Kimber Vale today here, where they discuss sushi, alcohol, wingdings, and M/M romance. *** Here’s an early excerpt from Moro’s Price, picking up after the last one, as Val and Moro begin to set the parameters of their, ah, experiment… *** The youth winced. “I know. The…

June 30, 2014 by Filigree

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 8

Wow, we’ve made it this far, folks. Today, Kate Lowell interviews Karenna Colcroft here. I have no idea what they’ve cooked up between them, but it’s sure to be fun and spicy. While you’re over there, make sure to register for Kate’s Rafflecopter giveaway. Remember, if you’re into jewelry, I’m still running my own giveaway…

June 29, 2014 by Filigree 10 comments

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 7

Today, I bring you LGBTQ erotic romance author Kate Lowell. You very nearly had a very silly bogus interview between me and her squirrel shifter character, so be thankful Kate answered the call, instead. Author’s note 7-14-2014: I am so out of it I didn’t realize until today I had the wrong book. And Kate…

June 28, 2014 by Filigree

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 6

Hi, everyone! Gail Bridges interviews me today at her blog. Because I have no snippets for you today, have some cake. Or at least the recipe for a good one. *** Gluten Free Coconut White Chocolate cake ½ cup light olive oil ¼ cup softened unsalted butter 2 eggs or egg equivalent 1 tsp real…

June 27, 2014 by Filigree

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 5

There is no more hilariously inappropriate way to start out today, than with a picture I just took of a double cherry. Yes, it will go into my cereal later. But now posterity can admire the posterior… Over here, catch Zoe Rider’s interview with Gail Bridges (she of the sex-as-Olympic-sport novel America’s Darlings).

June 26, 2014 by Filigree 2 comments

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 4

Day Four of the AW Erotica Writers blog hop dawns with the usual levels of snafu and triumph. Thanks for alerting me to broken links; they’ll be fixed as soon as possible. Today, Scarlet Day interviews M/M author Zoe X. Rider here. If you like your M/M with an edge of hard rock, blue-collar angst,…

June 25, 2014 by Filigree

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 3 (adult content advisory)

Welcome, welcome, step right up! Day 3 begins with Emily Veinglory interviewing Scarlet Day. Emily is a powerhouse erotic romance author, published through several houses – I know her for her great M/M fantasy novels. Scarlet’s made a name for sizzling shifter menages in vivid tropical settings. Check out the interview, then browse Scarlet’s book descriptions…

June 24, 2014 by Filigree 2 comments

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop Day 2

A little later today, Anais Morgan will be interviewing Emily Veinglory here. Be sure to check the authors’ blogs outside their scheduled interviews, excerpts, shameless pandering, and smack talk: you never know what extra content people will share! Being erotica writers, this group is a very sharing bunch…

June 23, 2014 by Filigree 2 comments

AW Erotica Writers Blog Hop Day 1

I mentioned something about a necklace being one of my giveaway prizes for our 2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers blog hop. That would be this thing: Details: ‘Garnet Dusk Necklace’ is part of a line of semiprecious beaded necklaces I make for gallery sales. This one is 18″ worn as a choker, and 36″ when worn…

June 22, 2014 by Filigree 4 comments

2014 AbsoluteWrite Erotica Writers Blog Hop 6-23 to 7-7

Tomorrow 6-23-2014 is the big day, ushering in the next two weeks of excerpts, interviews, insult contests, and shameless pandering that is the 2014 AW Erotica Writers Blog Hop. (Thanks to Ana J. Phoenix for the lovely header!) If you haven’t visited the AbsoluteWrite Water Cooler (link to the left), it’s part of a massive…

June 21, 2014 by Filigree

Good enough should not be good enough

I hang out online with writers: whether they are aspiring, inspiring, chaotic, orderly, or jaded, these folks show a world’s range of approaches to their craft. On a couple of different forums, our conversations turned to revisions and self-editing. When to stop, when to keep going, when to enlist fresh assessment from beta readers or…

June 20, 2014 by Filigree

Brick By Brick, from Maryn Blackburn

M. Crane Hana: Today, Blue Night is hosting my fellow Loose Id author and AbsoluteWrite member Maryn Blackburn. Her debut erotic romance novel Brick By Brick was released this week. Maryn: Thanks for having me, M.C. (My mom would be so pleased I remembered my manners.) I’m Maryn Blackburn, author of Brick by Brick, a…

June 13, 2014 by Filigree 2 comments

Twitter pitches in publishing

Twitter is a wonderful tool for writers. It creates interactive communities and allows extremely customized newsfeeds. Twitter also opens doors between authors, agents, and publishers, through intermittent pitch contests like #pitmad (Pitch Madness), #AdPit (Adult fiction pitches), or #SFFpit (science fiction & fantasy pitches). In general, contests like these allow participants to post their novels’ short…

June 5, 2014 by Filigree

Current manuscript list

Listing my writing projects reminds me I’m not just doing this for myself anymore. Not only are a plaintive agent and a few editors counting on me, I actually have a few hundred readers waiting for me to get my act together. Writers stop or pause writing for all kinds of reasons. For me, over…

June 4, 2014 by Filigree

I love my fans

…especially when I find out that some anonymous, enterprising soul has just read and given me kudos on my old, obscure fanfiction pieces on AO3. Most of ’em. Maybe around 20 of them. Stuff I haven’t even looked at in years. Dude/Dudette/Dudeperson, I totally adore you right now.

June 2, 2014 by Filigree

Kirith Kirin, by Jim Grimsley

In 2000, the same year Meisha Merlin published Grimsley’s Kirith Kirin, they also published the anthology containing my first-ever pro short fiction sale. In another universe, Meisha Merlin would have survived and possibly published my debut novel (whichever one that turned out to be.) MM had a rep for taking on daring, quirky books that…

May 31, 2014 by Filigree 2 comments

Badger bolo tie

The bolo tie (bola tie, or shoestring tie) is a crazy, wonderful invention from the American Southwest: a braided leather cord with decorative metal tips, threaded through a slide-tension lock with an ornate bit of metal or stonework on the front. I’ve seen both men and women wearing them. I’m biased because I grew up in what…