The auction for Kara Leonardo is winding down. Here’s your chance to bid on some amazing items from writers all over the lesbian fiction community. I’ve offered two titles, Worth Every Step & The House on Sandstone, which I will sign and ship to the highest bidder anywhere in the world. If you already have […]

They say “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” That isn’t always true. I was not flattered yesterday when readers alerted me to the unauthorized use of one of my books. It seems a Grey’s Anatomy fan fiction writer appropriated the first chapter of Without Warning, inserting her preferred character names in the place of […]

Thanks to those of you who’ve written about Rhapsody, and who have posted notes on Facebook or reviews on Amazon. Yes, it was one of those “tough journeys” I talked about in my 2011 keynote speech for GCLS, and I’ve already been rewarded with a few very special notes from readers who were moved by […]

One of my longtime readers, Kara Leonardo, needs some help from her friends. In February 2012, Kara & her partner Stephanie were in a horrific auto accident. Stephanie was killed; Kara suffered serious injuries and is finally readying for release from rehab. Here’s the problem: Kara wants to stay in Delaware, where she lived with […]

Prologue First runner-up…that means you lost. Ashley Giraud parked her rental car, a conspicuous Victory Red Chevrolet Impala, in the long line by the curb and turned off her headlights. Before she could move, her car door was opened by Donald Weber, a classmate from twenty-four years ago at Adams County High School and the […]

Another fabulous conference! Minneapolis was a great host city, despite the intermittent rain. There were lots of new faces, many of them local, and the familiar bunch of friends I look forward to each year. A special shout out to the Europeans, affectionately known as my Greasers. You had to be there. Actually, you didn’t, […]

It seems like ages since I was able to announce a book. Maybe that’s because Mother Load was released in November 2010 and I’ve been twiddling my thumbs ever since. Well, not really. Rhapsody is coming out; Playing with Fuego is off to the editor; and a new one (as yet untitled) is 80% outlined. […]

I was talking with a friend the other day about queer literature. The second or third time I used that phrase, she stopped me and asked why I kept using that word — queer. She found it offensive & derogatory. I was surprised, as I’ve begun to use queer for shorthand to mean LGBT, or […]

I’ve just this afternoon finished another book, Playing With Fuego, due out November 2012. It’s the story of Daphne Maddox, a blonde, blue-eyed, monolingual English-speaker who finds herself stuck in Miami. For all she has in common with the locals, she might as well be on the moon. Not that I have any personal experience […]

Every year in November, thousands of writers all over America jump into National Novel Writers Month, known in shorthand as NaNoWriMo. The object is to write like crazy for 30 days straight at a clip of 1,667 words per day to produce a (mostly unreadable) 50K-word novel in just one month. I tried it myself […]

I’m well into my next book, Playing With Fuego. It’s the story of Daphne Maddox, a New Englander who feels like a fish out of water in Miami, where she’s stuck with an underwater mortgage. The glitzy Mari Tirado, a first generation Cuban-American, personifies all the things that irk Daphne about the Magic City. Mari […]

Breaking up is hard to do. I’ve been in love with my website for nearly six years and thought we were building a great life together. But then I started to notice little things. She’d let herself go, not caring anymore that her text wasn’t wrapping, her fonts weren’t formatting, her comments not appearing. She […]