NaNoWriMo: November Reimagined

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Since 1999, National Novel Writing Month has inspired aspiring authors to write a novel in a month. I started participating in the event in 2006, and did it every year until 2023. I did not participate in 2024, for reasons I discussed in my blog post of that year. In March 2025, the non-profit that ran the event shut down.

Which meant folks who relied on the seat-of-your-pants, self-motivated challenge were left in the lurch for November 2025. What to do? Well, there are alternatives, some good, some bad. Continue reading →

Excerpts: Westerman Extended with Bonus

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Continuing my blog series of Excerpts, for which reasoning and explanation see the first post, with an extended excerpt from my polyamorous Victorian erotic romance, The Westerman Affair. In this excerpt, our hero Charles is seduced by an unknown-to-him woman, who happens to be our heroine–and his eventual muse–Rosamund. Of course, the scene takes place in a library. I like to include sensual scenes in libraries in as many stories as I can.

This excerpt was originally published on the (now defunct) Residence 11 blog in 2021. It is an extended version of the excerpt I included with an interview for Gemma Snow’s blog. Continue reading →

Excerpts: Christoph in the Buff from Window Display

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Continuing my blog series of Excerpts, for which reasoning and explanation see the first post, with an excerpt from my contemporary seasoned romance short story “Window Display”. Our heroine Laurie is being questioned by a girlfriend about her dating life. In the course of their conversation, Laurie spies a naked man in a window across the condo complex.

This excerpt was originally published on the Naughty Literati blog in 2015. “Window Display” originally appeared in the 2015 anthology Naughty Escapes: Eleven Naughty Vacation Getaways, then was republished in the 2018 repackaged anthology Getting Naughty: Twenty Tantalizing Tales.
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Excerpts: Birthday Party Meet Cute from Silent Sky

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Continuing my blog series of Excerpts, for which reasoning and explanation see the first post, with an excerpt from my contemporary seasoned erotic romance short story “Silent Sky”. Our hero and heroine meet for the first time at her birthday party. Based on my actual thirtieth birthday party, the heroine is having a “bring a single man” party.

This excerpt was originally published on the Naughty Literati blog in 2015. “Silent Sky” originally appeared in the 2015 anthology Naughty Reunions: Return to Romance, then was republished in the 2018 repackaged anthology Getting Naughty: Twenty Tantalizing Tales.
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Excerpts: Opening to Disputed Boundaries

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Continuing my blog series of Excerpts, for which reasoning and explanation see the first post, with an excerpt from my male-male, bisexual awakening, polyamorous American historical romance, Disputed Boundaries (Stories from the San Juan Islands). This is the opening scene of the story, and was originally posted on the Naughty Literati website as the story was originally published in the Naughty Flames anthology. Continue reading →

Excerpts: Nicholas and Helena’s First Kiss

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Prevailing wisdom in the indie-author world is that one should control one’s own content. Which means, an author should provide their own excerpts on their own website. So, in light of this wisdom, I am starting a new blog series of Excerpts, whereby I re-post on my own blog all the excerpts of my stories posted on other people’s blogs.

We begin with an excerpt from The Pleasure Device which was first posted on historical romance author Sherry Ewing’s blog in 2017 as part of her “First Kiss Friday” feature. I adore Sherry. She’s a wonderful person and an engaging author and has been so supportive of me and so many other historical romance writers. Continue reading →

The Amazon Boycott

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Are you participating in the Amazon Boycott? Officially the boycott, or “blackout”, runs from March 7-14, 2025, but some activists have stated the boycott should last as long as a month. The boycott aimed at Target stores started March 5th, and will be for forty days to coincide with Lent.

The purpose of the boycotts is to send a message to companies that abandoning diversity, equity, and inclusion is regressive and unacceptable. Billionaires have manipulated the American economy and profited off the working class for far too long. So working people are taking action.

[UPDATE: please do not buy-read-return ebooks on Amazon or any retailer platform. This does NOT affect billionaires in the slightest. It does, however, mean the author does not get paid, and it may mean the author has to pay “download fees” to the billionaire. Use your library instead (see below).]

If you’ve decided you do not want to purchase ebooks, audiobooks, or paperbacks from Amazon, here are some other places you can get books: Continue reading →

Contemporary shorts re-released!

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I have just released the remaining four of my contemporary romance short stories — An Academic Pursuit, Object, Silent Sky, Window Display — as ebook singles!

Each short story was previously published in various anthologies. In 2019, I republished all four, plus Orcas, in my Modern Shorts collection. Orcas was re-published as an e-short in 2021 along with the other Stories from the San Juan Islands. I have been wanting to release the other four contemporary stories as their own e-short, and just got around to starting it in December 2024. Continue reading →

Censorship is Coming

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The 2024 elections in the United States are devastating to all who believe in freedom of expression and freedom of speech.

Censorship is coming to the United States. Censorship of the books you want to read. Prepare for the censorship apocalypse now.
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Getting to know me: The Smut Report 2023

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This re-post of an interview I did with The Smut Report is the fifth in a series of blog interviews I’ve done over the years. The first post explains my purpose.

The Smut Report Interview

Today’s post is from a 2023 interview I did for The Smut Report with the goal of promoting my Harwell Heirs series. At the time, I had just released Book 4, A Delicate Seduction, and so applied to The Smut Report for a review of Book 1, The Pleasure Device. They said they would review The Pleasure Device later, but in the meantime, I could do this promo interview called “My First Smut”, so I did. By the way, The Smut Report hated The Pleasure Device. It seems my Victorian erotic romance was too smutty for a website with “smut” in the title! Continue reading →