Starting a New Trilogy
I’ve decided to take the advice of my friend Jackson Cordd and let one of my short stories become a novel. Well, actually, three novels. It started out as a … Read more
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Turning Your Characters Gay
Have you ever had a story that you wrote, oh, I dunno, ages ago, with a straight protagonist, that you’ve decided to turn gay? You know, one of those in … Read more
Blending Sci Fi and Fantasy
Growing up, I read my first Fantasy books – the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, starting in second grade. Not long after, I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. They were … Read more
When Your Short Story Wants to Become A Novel
I’ve never been good at short stories. For starters, I generally used to sit down and just start writing without an endpoint in mind. While it’s fun to have no … Read more
When Should You Have Sex (in Your Sci Fi Story)?
Up until the last year, most of the stories I had written had been “straight” sci fi (pardon the pun) or fantasy – stories that relied on the sci fi … Read more
Newsgayper Profiles LGBT Writers
Just ran across a great site yesterday via Facebook: thenewsGayper.com is an online publication that comes out twice a month on a Sunday to provide LGBT readers with Arts & … Read more
Writing Characters Who Aren’t Like Us
I posed the question “Why is there no market for FF sci fi, fantasy (or romance fiction in general)?” recently in the MM Gay Sci Fi group on Facebook. There … Read more
Setting the Scene
When I’m writing sci fi (or any fiction, for that matter), I tend to write scenes fairly quickly, without a whole lotta scenery, and then go back and layer that … Read more
Finding the Ending
I’ve just finished my first draft of a short sci fi story set about 500 years in the future. As I’ve gotten back into my writing with a vengeance this … Read more