Happy birthday to me!

Anah and I are over at Elisa Rolle's LJ today as part of her super spiffy Inside Reader feature. We chose 10 queer books (5 each) that were important to our development as writers and people.

Pop on by and see what we chose!

Okay, so I know most of you are readers of gay romance, primarily, but I just finished reading a heterosexual urban fantasy novel that I just loved, and I wanted to share the joy. Blood and Destiny, by Kaye Chambers, was so much fun to read that I had a hard time putting it down to get back to my own writing ( Read more... )

His Bid for a Bride by Carole Mortimer [Amazon
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Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon [Amazon
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No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty [ No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
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Ill Wind by Rachel Caine [Amazon
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Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing [Amazon | Barnes&Noble] is filled with truly excellent advice. The rules are formatted in true Elmore Leonard style, which makes them very entertaining to read. He backs up his advice with his reasons -- and is very clear that if you have the chops to back it up, you can do whatever the hell you want ( Read more... )

Writing Young Adult Novels by Hadley Irwin & Jeannette Eyerly [Amazon|Barnes&Noble] was published in 1988 and is out of print, but it was surprisingly useful and interesting anyway ( Read more... )

While You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop To A Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing [Amazon | Barnes&Noble | Subterranean] didn't tell me much I don't already know about writing or publishing, the realization that I already knew all the key pieces of information Scalzi was offering as someone with a decade of experience in the field was ( Read more... )

Writing for the Teenage Market [Amazon | Barnes&Noble] was something I picked up on impulse from the library last week. I knew it was a fifteen-year-old book, and so a lot of the information would be out of date, but I was curious anyway ( Read more... )