I have been invited to be a panelist at the Historical Novel Society Conference next June, to sit on the panel "Writing Gay Characters."

I'm very excited.

Leslie over at Jessewave has written a review of Lovers' Knot, and what a review it is. Whew!

I have been nominated as a New M/M Authors Who Rock – As Nominated By the Fans over at Jessewave's site. How very cool!!

An interesting article in Slate. More of my own thought on this later.

Bristlecone Pine Press, an e-book publisher, posted a call for submission for a written works inspired by pictures or photographs, and mentioned Lovers Knot as an example of "How to do it right," which I thought was remarkably generous of them =-D

I'd picked up on it while browsing over at the Macaronis.

Cassandra Gold has listed Lovers Knot as one of her top ten favorite M/M novels. This is on Elisa Rolle's Livejournal, and is available here!

It's been a crazy busy year here (clearly, since I've been such a posting fiend). January was calm, and then all, well, good stuff and bad stuff broke loose. I was pulled unexpectedly into a production of my theater company's production of Arcadia, and had to go on with one week's rehearsal/memorization time. Insane, but such a brilliant text.

No sooner did that close, than I was smacked with a two week bout of vertigo. Like, losing my balance and falling over while I was sitting down. Not as I was sitting down. I was completely seated and...fell over. Weird.

And I wasn't entirely recuperated when we went into rehearsal for Hamlet, set in a Steampunk Universe. The show was so fraught with injuries, illnesses, and such that we took to referring to it as The Danish Play.

All the while keeping the day job chugging, AND working on a stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice -- NO ZOMBIES. That goes into workshop in two weeks, and folks, I'm only halfway done. This is going to be a nutso two weeks, let me tell you.

And that's the news!

Don

I'm rather odd today. Kind of in a blue mood. Not quite the Norse Dark, that bane of my gene pool, but just strangely down. I want to write sad, tragic stories...but not therapy writing.

But for the moment, it's off to walk the dog, and then to work on Pride and Prejudice. The script is still ridiculously long -- how does one cut out so much and still have the story? -- and incredibly unwieldy, and I have just a few short months to make it functional.

I'm trying at this point to avoid any added (severely added) dialogue. I don't trust myself to sound right. I've tweaked the original on occasion to make the prose into dialogue -- one doesn't have to go far for that with Austen -- but haven't tried to flat out write a scene. I'm thinking (hoping) the fact that this is a theater piece, and not a film, will enable me to stick very closely to the actual piece, and instead of writing new, trim (lop and crop!) until I get the thing down to its essence, while still maintaining the voice. Effectively, I want to be invisible in this.

We'll see.

Lovers' Knot is now available in an Ebook format. So if you've been waiting for Kindle, it's here!

I've been asked to do a book signing/book event at the Books Inc. here in Alameda. WOO HOO!

Off to the City to talk to other bookstores!