Hey guys, guys!

[elingregory]

Guess what I've been doing today!

Making wig curlers out of air drying clay, that's what! Herself has decided she needs 50 of them so she can - well, to be honest I'm not entirely sure what she wants them for. I merely follow orders, right? Right.
Proper wig curlers are made from pipe clay and are smooth and white and look like little bones. Mine are made from terracotta and look like little lumpy double-ended willies. Probably nobody will notice. This makes me happy.

Another happiness is that I've got a guest on my Comfy Chair blog. Kiran Hunter, author of Bedevil, is answering questions about ghosts, inspiration and sequels and there's a very nice excerpt of Bedevil too. Bedevil is a terrific and quirky short story about a gay couple, one of whom inherits an old house with a very unusual sitting tenant. Come and show Bedevil and Kiran some love. :)

And finally please excuse me for squeeing a tiny bit - my pirate novel On A Lee Shore has been accepted for publication! :) I'm apologising in advance because I'll probably natter on about it a bit.

Comments

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:D thanks me dear. I have to make it shorter [112K words is a bit overenthusiastic] and they want to talk about upping the heat level - somehow I don't think they are talking about the weather. I guess my approach of stopping sex scenes when I get bored writing them isn't the way to do it. :) But it's still pretty exciting.

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

I find writing sex scenes much easier in the editing stage... on the first few goes-round I'm too interested in getting the *story* right - as long as what needs to happen in terms of character development within a sex scene happens, I don't care if they just stare at each other & feel hot & bothered

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, story first, sex later. Hot and bothered I can do but the squelchy stuff gives me writer's block like nothing else.But have you seen that Silver have a new imprint? Silver Stream Press accepts all the usual genres, including m/m, only without explicit sex scenes. Maybe there is some kind of market for mainstream stye M/M stories after all?

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen that, thanks for pointing it out!

Although these days I think I'd struggle to write a romance without *any* sex on page...