The Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia (HAHAT) was created to spread awareness of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and to stand together as a writer community against discrimination of our works. There is a website with more information here: http://hopagainsthomophobia.blogspot.com/ The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia I have a phobia. It’s one that a lot…
Il miracolo di Natale
Il Natale è il periodo dell’anno in cui tutti dovrebbero essere più generosi. Cosa fare, quindi, quando tutto ciò che si riceve è indifferenza? Per Zachary Weston Natale significa dormire su una panchina nel sagrato di una chiesa, sotto alla neve e senza nessuna speranza per il futuro. Cacciato di casa a causa della sua…
The Christmas Throwaway – French, Spanish and now Italian translations
Tomorrow, 16 May, is the official release date for Il miracolo di Natale, the Italian translation of one of my favourite stories, The Christmas Throwaway. This means that one of my best selling books (and probably most reviewed!) is now available in four languages and I am absolutely blown away by this fact. It feels really…
Monday News Post
So this week is a game of two halves… Writing The first half (or 3/5 to be exact, less the time it takes me to get my nails done!) is writing AND FINISHING The Ex Factor (Bodyguard 2). It is currently at 25,000 words and will be around 40,000 and I want it off to…
Jeté à la rue pour Noël
Noël est une époque de partage – mais que feriez-vous si tout le monde s’en foutait? Pour Zachary Weston Noël signifie dormir sur un banc du cimetière, dans le froid et la neige, sans perspective d’avenir. Jeté hors de son domicile parce qu’il est gay, il est seul et sans argent et n’a, apparemment, nulle…
Necropolis (Whyborne & Griffin #4), Jordan L Hawk – 5/5
Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established. Until, that is, a man who seems as…
What is a bank holiday?
I have been enjoying Bank Holidays for a long time (as long as I can remember… ROFL). Today is Spring Bank Holiday which falls on the first Monday in May and was created in 1978. These weird one off days fall in May and August and I honestly didn’t really think there was any particular…
Hainted by Jordan L Hawk, 5/5 and Highly Recommended
The Good Guy Haint-working runs in Dan Miller’s blood. Not everyone can help the restless dead cross over, especially when the haunting threatens the Living. But the death of his parents six years ago forced Dan to give it up in exchange for raising his brother and sister, all the while struggling to keep their…
Reviews Roundup – March & April 2014
A Reason to Stay Love Bytes – 4.5/5 – “….So what we have here is an awesome story, quite possible my favorite RJ Scott book. Some of my issues with her other books were totally missing in this one. Her military bits felt right to me, she had her sailor correct someone who called him a soldier (pet…
Glory Lands, Vastine Bondurant – Blog Tour post, Competition & Review 5/5 & Highly Recommended
A Texas Piney Woods Story Rural East Texas, 1931. Preacher’s son Emory Joe Logan and a fiddler from Shreveport, Glory Lands, meet and form a tender bond. When they are caught and arrested for homosexual acts by Sheriff Elihu Bishop, the lawman’s sanctimonious bigotry threatens to rip the young men from their families. Emory Joe’s…