* I’m going to be in Kansas City this next week for World-Con! I’ll be at the DSPP booth, Th-Sun, if anyone wants to say hi, let me know! (I’m so excited about this–it’s not my usual venue, but sci-fi/fantasy was my first love, and I’m still infatuated!)
* Unfortunately, when I made the date for World-Con, I thought the kids started school THIS week. I was really depressed when I realized I wouldn’t be there for their first day of 8th and 5th grade. So if you see me Tweeting of FBing pictures, it’s because Mate is THE BEST Mate, and he has taken pictures of me, and I’ll be mourning that I couldn’t do Squish’s hair special or give Zoomboy his early morning hug.
* I will also be at Yaoi-Con in September, and I’m waxing a little nostalgic. The first time I went–in 2010– I was reeling. You can read my post HERE but what it DOESN’T say (because I was prohibited by law from discussing it) was that less than two weeks earlier, I’d been pulled out of my classroom for giving a kid a copy of Litha’s Constant Whim and Truth in the Dark. I’ve talked about the matter a few times, of course, but I’m not sure if I ever mentioned how nervous I was.
I was just starting out then–I’d been with Dreamspinner Press for a year, and in my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined where it would take me. And I was meeting people who have been my staunchest friends for the last six years.
It’s good to remember, sometimes, where you’ve been and how far you’ve come, and how grateful you are to people who were kind to you when you didn’t even know it was a thing.
And there you go!
I’m back to writing (because I’ve got a series of back to back deadlines!) and I’m excited and scared, because some of it is stuff I’ve never tried before–or haven’t done in a while.
So that’s me–always stretching boundaries, and always looking to the future. But also grateful to the Past.
* Oh yeah– did I mention this was coming out September 5th? It’s the last Candy Man Book–but I think you’ll like where the series ends. Hopefully it’s in a place where you can imagine all our guys in the perfect HEA.
In the Army, Robbie Chambers turned on his lover out of fear—and he hasn’t been able to live with himself since. Now he’s out of the Army but still trapped in the closet that brought on his most cowardly moment, and he starts to think he’ll never be able to fight his way free.
Until he sees Cy McVeigh. Beautiful and uninhibited, Cy is dancing on the boardwalk at Old Sac for no other reason than the moment called for it. Robbie not only joins in the dance but is smitten from the very beginning.
However, Robbie still has old business to clear up, and when he helps out a kid in need and comes face-to-face with the man he betrayed, he’s forced to come clean with himself. He can’t redeem his mistake if he’s still locked into his old patterns, and he won’t ever be worthy of Cy if he can’t earn Adam’s forgiveness. He’s going to need all the help he can get from the people at Candy Heaven in order to make things right with his past so he can have a future with Cy.
