Category: Reading
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My holiday reading and summer snaps
While my beta readers ripped one book to shreds and I left another to stew away quietly, I took a break! It was so nice to catch up with friends and family as we’d been separated from them for months. We relaxed, read books, ate, swam at the beach (it’s our summer here in Aotearoa New Zealand!), sampled…
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Happy Jólabókaflóðið!
The Christmas book flood is an Icelandic tradition of gifting newly published books on Christmas Eve, to be read into the night while drinking hot chocolate. The wonderful Robyn Sarty coordinated a remote, international version of this tradition for fellow Bestseller Experiment podcast listeners this year. As you can see, mine is all ready to…
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MMerry Christmas – MM romance group sale
I’ve hooked up with these fellow indie authors to promote each other’s books for Day 19 of my bookish Advent calendar. They’ve all got man-on-man action, some sweet and funny, some more sexy and steamy. Make sure you check them out and see if anything takes your fancy! Promotion ends Christmas Day 2021.
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Picking up the Groceries – free flash fiction
This story grew from a writing exercise designed to encourage the use of all the senses in your writing and to avoid leaning too heavily on one sense or another. We had to go for a walk and take a photo then describe that scene solely from the perspective of each sense: sight, sound, touch,…
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Santas Unite – Gay Christmas romance novella
It doesn’t get much more festive than a Christmas story, so for Day 13 of my bookish Advent calendar I’ve teamed up with Lydia Guleva to promote each other’s books… Santas Unite is a nativity story retelling turned gay fantasy romance novella about a modern day doctor and a king from a medieval fantasy world.…
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Top 9 fave reads of 2021 + bonus free short story
I read so many great books this year that I couldn’t narrow it down like I did last year (Top 5 fave books of 2020). And two of the entries aren’t even single books, but series! I made a bunch of blog posts throughout the year for some of the books, as linked below. In…
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Year-End Romance Sale
I’ve hooked up with a big bunch of fellow indie authors to promote each other’s books for Day 8 of my bookish Advent calendar. Last time we had 40+ LGBTQIA+ titles, and this time we’re hitting 70 romances across a massive range of sub-genres (romcom, historical, paranormal, etc) and heat levels (G-rated to XXX). I…
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Chicken Nuggets – free short story
Once upon an evening, in a time long, long (i.e. over 18 months) ago, I had a memorable journey home on the train after an evening out. This is a short tale loosely based on that experience, with some exaggeration here and there for the drama and the lols. Traveller beware. I made this story…
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Queer Books – 40+ LGBTQIA+ reads of all genres for sale
I’ve hooked up with a big bunch of fellow indie authors to promote each other’s books for Day 2 of my bookish Advent calendar. There are over 40 LGBTQIA+ titles across a huge range of genres and categories: Paranormal romance Urban fantasy Romantic comedy Contemporary fantasy Erotic fiction An anthology And a pride colouring book…
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Cosy up with a cosy mystery
They’re just what I’ve felt like recently. We’ve all had a bit too much real life lately, so why not? A bit of lighthearted murder, set in a quaint town with an eclectic and entertaining cast of characters. A quirky main character acting as amateur sleuth, and with a slow-burn love interest. A trail of…