The Blue Night Blog

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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…

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Aside

Haiku for fallen idols:

 

Gold crown in sunlight,

A distant beacon; come near

To see tarnished brass.

 

 

 

 

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Anyone who doesn’t follow the FIFA World Cup (soccer, to Americans) will not know what those numbers mean. The rest of us do. 100 minutes of pure adrenaline. Unbelievable goals and heroic defenses. An underdog team against one of the legendary Group of Death teams. And the US players won. Pardon me for grinning foolishly…

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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…

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…has really been going on since Wednesday night, for a lot of people. I plan to be there sometime tomorrow, Saturday June 7. I’m not on panels, I’m not pitching my book, I’m not in the dealer’s room. I’m just going for fun. Here’s the main page:  https://www.phoenixcomicon.com/page/1 So, it’s not as huge as San…

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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…

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…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.

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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…

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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…

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