UPDATED 11/12/2015: Now shipping, and now available for download. For those who love their Kindles, it won’t be available from Amazon for several weeks. But that’s an easy fix — buy it from Bella Books in mobi format, send the downloaded file to your Kindle account, and it’ll show up on your Kindle like all […]

“Life begins at 60!” If you happen to have an autographed copy of Mulligan, chances are you’ll find this phrase inside. I scribbled it as an homage to my older readers, who told me they were delighted to find a romance about young-at-heart seniors falling in love. In Mulligan, one of the main characters, Louise […]

Want to be the first on your block to read The Touch of a Woman? Want your charitable donation to the world’s premier organization for LGBT books to count twice? Have I got a deal for you! Lambda Literary — the organization that brings you the Lammys, the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices and […]

Back when I was a kid, it was my mom who decided on my hairstyle. Understanding I was something of a tomboy, she mercifully kept my hair pretty short, though I have (un-digitized and therefore un-shareable) photographic evidence that she forced me into a dress more often than I liked. But when I hit junior […]

For the last several years, I’ve put out two books a year. One of those books usually falls in the category of what I’d call a pure romance; i.e., a character-driven story focusing on the emotions two women experience when they meet and fall in love. Etched in Shadows, Life After Love, Rhapsody. Alternately, I […]

Say, do you know any women who came out late in life? Yeah, me too. I know it’s kind of early to start talking up my next book — it won’t be out until November. But since it’s showing up at online retailers, I’ll give you the lowdown. It’s typeset, proofed and ready to print. […]

The GCLS con always leaves an afterglow. Face muscles tired from smiling, arms still warm from the hugs. Excitement from the awards, from dancing the night away. Utter exhaustion. This year, though, something else is lingering. Frustration, outrage. Resolve. I had the great pleasure and honor of spending several hours with Rita Mae Brown in […]

When this photo was taken, I was still in my 40s … but just barely. The year was 2005. The place, the Renaissance Hotel in New Orleans — site of the very first GCLS conference. I still recall the Chihuly chandelier. I’d been an avid participant at Bardcon and Bardfest, two book events that arose […]

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” ~ Elon Musk Mila Todorov and Jancey Beaumont are in competition for that honor too — to die on Mars. Even knowing their lives may be shortened by decades, the thrill of the quest for Mars is too great to pass up. For those […]

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gao Xingjian said: “It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.” Truth is authenticity. The authentic lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people are celebrated when our stories are written, published and read. Those three steps transform […]

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new book. And I’m feeling good. Some books, frankly, are more fun to write than others. This one was a blast. Oh, I just made a rocket joke! Last one, I promise. But it’s true that I had great fun writing T-Minus Two. Lots of […]

Any day now … that’s when the ebook will be available, and you’ll be able to follow Mila Todorov and Major Jancey Beaumont in their quest to become the first team to colonize Mars. Here’s your chance to meet them. Chapter 1 “Ladies and gentlemen, seating in the lecture hall is arranged alphabetically. Please take […]

I received my author’s allotment of T-Minus Two late yesterday, and got all my early copies ready to go. Rozzie conducted her postal inspections this morning … ergo, several of the packages are now reinforced with tape so the teeth marks don’t snag. 😉 A huge THANK YOU to all who answered my call to […]

[UPDATED BELOW] Limited seating, little space in the overhead bin. Early boarding matters a lot on a trip to Mars, a journey of 140 million miles. But the real scramble for seating happens well before liftoff, when the Tenacity Project winnows its 40,000 applicants down to two. That’s the premise of my upcoming book, T-Minus […]

No, I’m not auctioning Lucy Lawless. I just used that photo to get your attention. Now that I have it, I can tell you about The Greater Good. That’s a recurring theme in the show, Xena: Warrior Princess, and it carried over to fans from the show. The show’s been over for 14 years, but […]

Totally off-topic blog today. I promised on my homepage not to do this often, but this is one of those days. If you aren’t sure what March Madness is — and you don’t give a hoot about college basketball — feel free to skip this part and check below the jump for book updates. I […]

If I don’t do anything else in 2015 — a most unlikely scenario — I’ve already had a phenomenal year. I posted in my last blog that I was headed to the Xena convention in Burbank, but I haven’t had a chance to tell you about it because the moment I got home I had […]

I challenged the cover artists at Bella Books this time: “I need a cover for a book about two women who meet during a worldwide competition to be the first team to colonize Mars. Oh, and it’s set entirely in Hawaii.” It’s kind of early to start chattering about this book, since it isn’t due […]

Who writes to a cow? Perhaps when you’re up pasture bedtime and in the mood to share something you herd. Udder nonsense. Turns out Spellcheck isn’t a perfect editor. Many years ago, I came within a curly hair of turning in a dissertation that contained three references to pubic opinion. Lucky I didn’t muff that […]