Book Review: “How to Write A Sizzling Synopsis” by Bryan Cohen

Writing a synopsis has typically been my least favorite part of writing. It’s a necessary evil, of course, because you’ve got to be able to succinctly describe your book to potential readers. It’s difficult boiling thousands of words down into a...

Book Review: “The Successful Author Mindset” by Joanna Penn

I’ve been a fan of Joanna Penn for some time and I credit her with my 2015 mindset shift. It was after reading Business For Authors: How To Be An Author Entrepreneur at the end of 2014, that I began  treating writing as a business. Yes, I love doing it, but...

Contractural Matters

First off I should offer a million apologies that I haven’t been blogging more. With Jeff & Will’s Big Gay Fiction Podcast on the air, I feel like I’m giving updates weekly–but they don’t all land here. That’s bad of course....

Good Times at Dreamspinner Author Conference

Last weekend Will and I were in Orlando at the 2016 Dreamspinner Author Conference and it was a great time. Despite the fact I’ve been a Dreamspinner author since 2009, this is the first time I’ve been to the conference and I’m glad to have finally...

Reading Outside the Gay Romance Genre

This week on Jeff & Will’s Big Gay Fiction Podcast, our special guest, author and publisher J.M. Snyder, asked “What’s your favorite read outside the m/m genre?” While I do focus the majority of my reading in the gay romance genre–not only...