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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Sixty

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Marissa and Ainsley make some major life changes… < Read Chapter 59 | Read Chapter 61 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter SixtyNew Beginnings “I want to come back.” Marissa stood before Matteo, grasping the … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Peter E. Fenton

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Peter’s first novel, The Woodcarver’s Model was released by Pride Publishing in April of 2022 and was a four time nominee in the Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Awards.Following the success of the first book, Pride Publishing released The Declan Hunt Mysteries series which includes Mann Hunt (nominated for a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award and recently translated into Spanish), Hoodoo House, (also a Goodreads M/M Romance Readers’ Choice Award nominee … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Fifty-Nine

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Sam thinks about considering possibly contemplating starting something new… < Read Chapter 58 | Read Chapter 60 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Fifty-NineBack So Soon? Sam pulled the rental car up in front of … Read more

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Point of View: World Con Seattle

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Two more days to go. Tomorrow, I leave for WorldCon, and on Wednesday the whole shebang kicks off. It’s only my second time at this huge science fiction convention. The first time was before pandemic, in San Jose, California. Unfortunately, I wasn’t ready for it, and we only got to spend a day and a half there, with little to no advance prep. This time is different. While I decided to actually go a bit late, I had made preparations just in case. I will have a table in the dealer room for Liminal Fiction, and I am planning to … Read more

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Author Spotlight: R Frank Davis

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: I may just be the dirty oldest man of gay romance: After an award-winning career in news editing, I retired as managing editor of a legal news magazine in 2018. It may seem like, in the ensuing years, I turned from nonfiction to fiction, and not just any genre, but gay romance. Truth is, I’ve been writing stories, scripts, poems, books, and plays since before middle school; it’s just that, in almost … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Fifty-Eight

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Ben becomes a hero, and something surprising happens… < Read Chapter 57 | Read Chapter 59 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Fifty-EightAn Uninvited Dinner Guest “Mother, I want you to meet Lorelei.” Ben stood … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: The Monster at the End of This Book

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Note: I got up this morning, having just finished writing the first draft of Down the River, and thought abut writing a column about The Monster at the End of This Book. Then a little part of my brain tickled me and said “didn’t you do this before?” Turns out I had, and this says exactly what I wanted to say. So I am resharing this column from 2021, with a slight update for my latest novel completion. Enjoy! When I was a kid, I had a few favorite picture books. At the top of the list was The Wump … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Rachel A. Rosen

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Rachel A. Rosen is an activist, graphic designer, and for her sins, a high school teacher. In a previous life, she published two long running anarchist ‘zines and designed the uniform for the Christie Pits Hardball League. She is the author of Cascade, this novel’s predecessor, and, with Zilla Novikov, the co-author of The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die. More of her writing can be found in Beyond Human: Tales … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Fifty-Seven

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Sam meets with his foster son and bumps up against some uncomfortable truths about his feelings… < Read Chapter 56 | Read Chapter 58 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Fifty-SevenDo You Know What You … Read more

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Point of View: Finding the Theme

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Every story begins with something. Sometimes it’s an especially vivid image of a character that you want to write. Sometimes it’s a shiny plot object, the big idea that you want your whole story to revolve around. And sometimes it’s a theme. No matter where you start, the theme is an important part of your story. You are asking readers to buy into your view of the world, and that viewpoint should be about something. The tricky part is figuring out what that something is. For me, the theme is usually not apparent to me until I get partway or … Read more