I’ve made a standing joke out of the fact that I don’t speak anything but English, but that I’m fluent in Australian, British, Canadian and American. It really isn’t a joke. As an author of genre fiction, I learned very early on – with my first manuscript, in fact – that I was expected to […]
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What’s With Vampires and Mirrors? There is so much vampire fiction and vampire romance fiction out there that it has reached a critical mass; there are now “trends” in vampire mythology. It seems that some vampire powers and abilities are trendy and some, well, aren’t. Vampires still have a craving for blood – I doubt
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I get asked how to go about getting published in the erotic market almost weekly – usually via private email. I have faithfully answered all those emails over the last few years, despite there already being a lengthy article on the site that answers the question exactly and in detail. (“How To Break Into The
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Despite the blog playing dead for part of the year, it has been an interesting year, statistics-wise. I had just shy of 25,000 visitors over the year, with a total of just under 90,000 page views. The site is hovering around the 300,000 mark on Alexa, which isn’t too shabby at all for a fiction
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I’m back to the grind stone. How about you? I’m sitting on the bus heading for the day job as I write this. It’s dark outside, snow is lying all around, it’s hovering around ten below zero (Celsius) and the nicest thing about my day so far is the hot English Breakfast tea in my
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I’ve been madly Christmas shopping, orchestrating free promotions for you for the holiday season, and producing books – blog posts sort of fell off the horizon for a bit. Oops. I hope you all enjoyed the series of three free books over the last three weekends? Two of them were repeats: Blood Knot and Bannockburn
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The last of my Christmas goodies is being given away free tomorrow and Sunday. Bannockburn Binding, the first book in my sexy time travel vampire romance series, Beloved Bloody Time, will be freely available for download at Amazon throughout the weekend. If you already have a copy, pass this post on to any friends or
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There was a flurry over the weekend — you may have noticed it — and it had nothing to do with snow. This was the second weekend out of three when I am giving away a free ebook on the build up to Christmas, and there was a growing outcry about “But I don’t have
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If you’ve only ever read my paranormal romances…or never read my stuff at all — if the erotic MMF sexy talk has made you hesitate (we won’t tell), then this weekend you’ve run out of excuses. Dead Again, the lead novel in my romantic suspense collection, is free for download at Amazon. It isn’t erotic
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What Are The Fangs Actually For? Turns out, no one actually shows exactly what the fangs are for, except to mark vampires indelibly as not-human and scary as shit. Those fangs work really well for that, but what do they really do? Before I started writing vampire fiction for a living, I had supposed in
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