Author of Contemporary Gay Romance
It has been quite the year and now it is being topped off with two of my books being nominated in SEVEN categories of the Goodreads M/M Romance Member’s Choice Awards. I am thoroughly flattered. Thank you! (You can vote for your favorites by clicking on the link M/M Romance above. Voting ends 12/31.) Connect with the M/M Readers’ Group. [Read more…] about Goodread’s M/M Romance Award Nominations
Anyone have one of those – a muse that does housework? No? Me either. In fact, when I get done from the real job I come home and look around and shake my head, (especially if I’ve been travelling). I wonder why my muse can’t at least do the laundry, or…some damned thing.
Instead, when I come in the door she’s all about “Oh no, we have to talk about this, that, and the other thing…And while you were out worrying about money (apparently a dirty word) I’ve come up with this great idea for…” [Read more…] about The Housework Muse
It’s Here! And ‘HOTTER than Afflicted I‘Or so I’m told.
Ladies are blushing. Gay men are…well, you know…
Find out for yourself!
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10% of the proceeds from this, and all Brandon Shire books, are donated to LGBT Youth Charity
In case you haven’t heard, the Rainbow Book Awards were announced and I am very proud to say that Listening to Dust tied for third place in the Best Gay Contemporary Fiction category.
The Value of Rain came in with an Honorable Mention in the same category at #7 and received and Honorable Mention at #5 for Best Gay Debut Novel.
Wayne Hoffman – Sweet Like Sugar
Ken O’Neill – The Marrying Kind
Lewis DeSimone – The Heart’s History
Next year seems like a million miles away in writing terms. Talk to a publisher, book marketer, or an editor and they turn and look at the production board and shake their head. All the work before the holidays – release dates, deadlines, where’s the effing MS you promised…
I am all of the above: the writer, the marketer, the chastiser, the deadline harbinger of doom. Don’t get me wrong. I have help on this end. I have an outside editor and I have the people who pressed me to publish. They have also been dragged along on this journey and as we put out book four (in 18 months) they are digging through other manuscripts while my muse stands behind me with a rather large whip wondering why I can’t type fast enough. Then there are the fans, who I greatly appreciate, but the “more, more” is making things feel a bit rushed, and from my perspective, it has left my writing not to the standard I usually set. [Read more…] about What’s Coming in 2013?
My fans have put together a group read over on Goodreads for Afflicted. Everyone is gearing up for the release of Afflicted II on Dec 6th.
The group is open to the public so you can stop by, leave a comment, or just poke around the place.
Quick Note: The print editions of Afflicted I & II will be out later this month.