For Pride Month I’ve been featuring Ace Artemis fan artist here in the blog. Ace has been drawing my my queer characters for a while now. I hope you enjoy seeing them illustrated as much as I do. Follow Ace Artemis on Twitter & Tumblr My last installment features Primrose & Tasherit. Of course I had […]
Jun292018
Illustrating Queer Characters Primrose & Tasherit by Ace Artemis
Jun262018
Illustrating Queer Characters Madame Lefoux & Imogene by Ace Artemis
Ace Artemis is an amazing fan artist who often draws my queer characters. In honor of Pride month, I’m featuring Ace’s work here in my blog, Gentle Reader. I hope you enjoy Ace’s take on my characters. Follow Ace Artemis on Twitter & Tumblr It’s time for the ladies! Genevieve & Imogene The above is […]
Jun252018
Illustrating Queer Characters Biffy & Lyall by Ace Artemis
Ace Artemis is a stalwart of the fan art community who has been particularly kind to my queer characters. In honor of Pride month, Gentle Reader, I’m featuring Ace’s work here in my blog. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Follow Ace Artemis on Twitter & Tumblr First up? Biffy & […]
Mar262018
Dear Lord Akeldama: Choosing a Lover & Raising Teen Girls
Please welcome the gentleman vampire back to my blog this week, Gentle Reader. As always Lord Akeldama may not give you the answer you wish, he always gives the question the answer it deserves. (If you asked him a question and do not see the answer, it is always possible he has answered it before.) […]
Aug22017
9 Gay Romances That You’ll Love If You Enjoy Gail Carriger’s San Andreas Shifter series
Hello hello. I’m hoping by now you’ve had a chance to read my latest book, The Sumage Solution. If you have, as always, I’d adore a review. The second book, The Omega Objection is out now, with more to follow. In the interim, I’ve put together this list of authors I absolutely love who write […]
Feb132017
Gail Carriger interviews Rhys Ford about Black Dog Blues
This months book pick is Black Dog Blues by Rhys Ford. This is a great urban fantasy with some fast paced action, stellar world building, and lovable (if snarky) characters. I invited Rhys round for a visit, so we could get to know her, and her book, a little better. About you, the Author! Tea or coffee and […]
Dec282016
20 of the Cutest Queer RomComs (or at least ones that I love)
I’m thinking, Gentle Reader, we all need a bit of love and laughter in our lives right now. Queer Rom-Coms Reading some pull quotes for reviews of Romancing the Inventor (not the whole review, because that might kill me) made me realize something… What I write, at its heart, is romantic comedy. I know. You’re shocked. […]
Oct262016
Lesbians in Genre Fiction: Books Like Romancing the Inventor & Gail Carriger’s Competence
I did a recent blog post about how Mercedes Lackey opened my heart to writing about LBGTQ characters in genre fiction. Still, I struggled to find other characters (main or side) who represented lesbians in particular, in the genre books I loved to read. I guess I was thinking about characters like Madame Lefoux, who […]
Oct192016
Why this author writes queer characters
AKA Blame Mercedes Lackey, Behind The Supernatural Society Back when I was first transitioning into reading adult books, Gentle Reader, it was pretty natural to cross from children’s fantasy (there was no YA as a category back then) into adult fantasy via Mercedes Lackey. (I still hold that Arrows is, in fact, YA. It simply […]
Apr302010
Queering-Up Genre One Akeldama at a Time: Why I Write LGBTQ+ Characters from Gail Carriger
I’ve been contemplating this blog post for a while, Gentle Reader. Generally, I try to avoid matters personal or political online, but a review of Changeless finally convinced me I should say something on the subject. (As an aside, this post updated regularly with new images, books, and links.) You are hereby warned that […]