Finally.
I had to submit it myself through their publishing site because after over a month, the version submitted through Smashwords had yet to show up. Less than 24 hours after I submitted it myself, here it is.
Caged: Now available on Kobo!
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Words… words… words?
You'll often find me with my eyes closed, head tilted up as if listening to the heavens, just waiting for the right word to drop out of the air so that I can push it into the right spot in the sentence I'm writing.
Embarrassed, abashed, flustered, ashamed, disconcerted - they all mean approximately the same thing, but look at these sentences:
Jon was embarrassed about his feelings for Tom - this brings to mind a bit of toe shuffling, pink-cheeked kind of behaviour from Jon. Approximately the same with flustered, or abashed.
Jon was ashamed of his feelings for Tom - now we have a bit of inner conflict and, unlike embarrassed, the word really makes it seem like a negative thing, no?
Jon was disconcerted by his feelings for Tom - this one has Jon running through a checklist of probably causes in his head and coming up empty. Or doing a slow mental double-take.
Words. I love words.
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Author and… Artist
I've been writing "Author & Artist" everywhere but I realized just earlier that I haven't actually showed you any of my art.
I consider myself primarily a portrait painter. That's what I've been doing since I was old enough to hold a brush - paint people. However, I've been doing far more graphic design work than actual painting in the past few years. Most of the stuff I do is pretty mainstream corporate-type logos, but I also do digital portraits. The cover for Caged is my own design.
Lately, however, I dusted off the old Wacom tablet and started doing illustrations for my writing, and drawing a lot of NSFW stuff in general.
Click the image for the full-res (s)NSFW
Grey skies… cozy on the couch with my dog.
Finished chapter 10 of the sequel to Caged - working title "Beyond the Spires" - and it's going well. I like the pace at which its going, considering I'm also in the middle of a collaborative project with another author (which just hit the 35K word mark this week).
I keep wanting to release excerpts of the WIP but there are spoilers. I wonder how other authors deal with that? Personally I'm the type of guy who absolutely hates spoilers - I go out of my way to avoid them as much as I can, which includes trying not to watching movie previews. (I am currently refraining from looking up anything about The Grand Budapest Hotel - the new Wes Anderson movie.)
I've been looking for a new desk, something antique and sturdy. Working on the couch is going to do in my back eventually.
I got confirmation for the date that my book participates in "Don't Buy My Love" at the Goodreads group M/M Romance - May 16th. Mark your calendars with that date if you want a free e-book in exchange for writing a fair review!
A new blog!
Look! WordPress.
I wonder if I can change the colours or if I'm stuck with these defaults.