Just wanted to rec janedavitt's lovely new novel, Wild Raspberries -- it's a wonderful story, beautifully written just like all of Jane's books. Delicious sexual tension and two men who don't always see eye to eye, which makes things all the more interesting!

Jenna Jones has written a fantastic modern novel called Chiaroscuro. Here's what I wrote about it:

Jamie Makepeace has his eye on his co-worker, the sweet, blue-eyed Micah Ferguson. At nineteen, Micah is the boy wonder of Virtuoso Games and looks up to Jamie, who's not only older but also British and therefore interestingly foreign. When Jamie ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading Lolly Winston's Good Grief, and I really enjoyed it. I picked it up at a library book sale, strangely drawn to both the cover and the title. The fact that it VERY loosely resembles the most basic plot of a romance novel I've been working on didn't hurt, although the plot can be summarized as "woman's husband dies and she ( Read more... )

I'm a little bit loopy with antihistamines, so blame that if this post is less coherent than it might otherwise have been.

You should read In the Lion's Den Book 1: He Shall Be Cast. It's the first in a planned trilogy of original slash novels by que_qiao, and utterly brilliant in ways I'm completely incapable of expressing. The two young men are so real ( Read more... )

Today I did two betas. Go, me!

Are there Ellen Kushner fans on my flist? I think there must be (other than wordsofastory, I mean.) I've still only read Swordspoint, the original book, but I've also read some really lovely fanfic in case people are interested. All of these are NC-17, Alec/Richard, and superbly written.
Over a Lake of Cracking Ice by rm
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I'm so excited! janedavitt's incredible novel Drawing Closer is out today from Torquere Press.


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I first mentioned R. Beck's Elements of Recovery back in this post from June of 2006.

The back of the book says:

As children, Shep and Cameron were best friends. As adolescents, they were lovers. But as adults, they become strangers. Shep, now married, receives a wedding invitation from Cameron and his internal struggle begins.There are so many ( Read more... )

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1. Happy birthday to the lovely, kind and quick-witted up_your_peach, whose LJ name makes me grin every time I see it. Have a wonderful, wonderful day, honey!

2. I just sat down and read the first chapter of nancykayshapiro's What Loves Means to You People and I am just... blown away. I shouldn't be surprised, because I knew it was going to be amazing, and I'd already seen ( Read more... )

This morning I bought the following from Torquere Press:

Heat by Tory Temple

911 by Chris Owen

Keep You by Cindy Rosenthal

I'm really, really looking forward to reading all of them. :-)