I recently wrote a book called Herc & Pyotr [now independently published as Tea at the End of the World], and it’s a contemporary romance set during a natural disaster: devastating meteor strikes across the world. Although the publisher’s intent, under their award-winning Storming Love banner of disaster romances, was […]
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Before I begin, I want to let readers know that my mother hasn’t finished reading Red Envelope yet, and I don’t plan to push her. Again, I don’t take it personally when friends and families have no interest in my work, or choose not to read a story I’ve written, […]
When my mother asked to read my book, Red Envelope, I told her, “You don’t have to read it.” She said, “I want to read it.” “It’s in English.” “I can read English.” I knew she could, but I knew she also struggled with it and probably hadn’t read an […]
When I was young and going through a terrible childhood, I had stories told to me, that I told myself, and that I found. Each of these stories hindered or hurtled me forward in life. The stories told to me involved not being good enough. It came from trusted adults […]
After attending my first GayRomLit, I was invited by the blog, Prism Book Alliance, to write a monthly column for them under their Outside the Margins feature. Each article would be about anything that interested me, particularly if it related to the M/M romance genre. The blog is no longer […]
In 2005, I quit writing. Well, I thought I had quit, but as it turns out, I was actually on hiatus. For ten years. During that decade, I continued to write, but I refused to focus on fiction anymore (so I didn’t count it). I had been burned and my […]
Tea at the End of the World once belonged to a series that mashed up the genres of romance and disaster, known as Storming Love. Each subseries dealt with its own natural disaster, from earthquakes to tsunamis. The line for which the publisher asked me to write came from a […]