Faux Ho Ho is available now from Book Strokes Books! I can’t even tell you how much I’ve grown to despise holiday stories, and here’s the kicker: I’m a sappy romantic human! I’ve just found so many of them feel snoozy and overdone. Most times, I can’t get beyond a few pages. Then I read …
Continue reading My review: Faux Ho Ho restored my faith in holiday romance stories!
I'm so proud to announce that I'll be at Glad Day Bookshop to launch Nothing Without Us and The Stealth Lovers on November 30. Also joining us is the amazing Su Sokol, who'll be reading from her latest novel, Run J Run. (Her first novel, Cycling to Asylum was fantastic, too.) Consider stopping by to …
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This is really happening! The Stealth Lovers is going to be published on September 30, 2019!!! Here's where you can pre-order it! Presses Renaissance Press: pre-order the paperback!Amazon.com: pre-order the Kindle version!*Amazon.ca: pre-order the Kindle version!* * Paperbacks will be available on Amazon after Sep 30. My guess you can find it on an Amazon …
Continue reading Official Book Trailer for The Stealth Lovers and Pre-order info!
The fantabulous Nathan Fréchette from Renaissance and I collaborated once again, and I'm so happy with the result. The greyscale version of the cover is already out in print as a promo at the back of MJ Lyons' Murder at the World's Fair, so, as Xax would say: What the hay? I figured I might …
Continue reading Oh, what the hay? Here’s the full-colour cover reveal for The Stealth Lovers.
I was going to wait on this, but anyone who purchases MJ Lyons' novel, Murder at the World's Fair, will see a promo for my upcoming book, The Stealth Lovers! Cover and all! Promotion of The Stealth Lovers. Cover design description to follow in this post. You can find the official back-cover blurb on the …
And here's a snippet! ID: Fighter ship flying away into space. Once again, I'm working with the super-talented Nathan Fréchette from Renaissance for this cover. I wanted something that was a little different from the ’Cosm series but would still look like it belonged as its prequel. (For the two sequels following Life in the …
Continue reading Cover design for The Stealth Lovers is happening!
This week I was so excited to send The Stealth Lovers to my publisher, Renaissance. The manuscript still has to go through the Acquisitions Committee, so I have about three months to wait before I know if they'll publish it. (Please, please pick me! Pick me!) The Stealth Lovers is the origin story of Commander Xaxall …
This morning my friend tagged me on a post featuring an article about sensitivity readers. Without reading the article, I replied, "Yes! I use sensitivity readers and editors all the time!" Then, I did a bad thing—I read the comments. Ugh. A few people equated this type of editing to censorship and others made some really insulting …
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Well, whaddaya know? I said I wouldn’t do NaNoWriMo again (after I’d completed my first in 2017 and actually hit the 50,000 word goal), but guess what? I’m baaaack! It just happens that I am on a two-month break from my freelance editing day job. I needed time to regroup and refresh, but also to …
Continue reading I’ve gone camping! To Camp NaNoWriMo, that is.
Yeah, so I'm cisgender, which means that a doctor looked at my new-born bits and said, "It's a girl," and when I grew up I said, "Good guess, Doc." I'm also heterosexual, which means I am romantically and sexually attracted to men. Right, so we got those boring details about me out of the way. …
Continue reading I’m cishet and I write queer characters, but not without help.
Cait Gordon—author and editor 