![]() ![]() No, these are not the ‘gender bender’ stories you can find on Amazon. I have decided to remedy that and I’ve looked up all the transromance stories I can. Is it because these writers are also afraid of being judged? Of being ridiculed? Or perhaps they are just too shy to post them on social media? However, what bothered me is when I went onto Twitter and started looking up the simple hashtag “transromance”. ![]() I even lost a few likes after posting the buy-link for it, and again, I’m okay with that. People are so quick to judge, yes–they still do that in the 21st century, and there are still many people out there who won’t share such stories because of their ‘beliefs’. Sharing it with the world was another lengthy decision. It was a fire that burned brighter and hotter than most story ideas I get. Much like my M/M romance novel Chartreuse, I contemplated long and hard if I should go through with the idea so deep in my heart. ![]() I really never know what my brain is going to do, but that is neither here or there. I can write on bear-shifters one day and switch over to ‘human’ stories the next day. Being from a small southern town, I have always been frightened of writing what I truly want to write–and this does vary. ![]() It has been 3 months since my last blog update.Īnyway, so over the weekend I released my first ever transgender romance story, 180 Days, and I have to tell you I was terrified. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Perched high in the Bavarian Alps, the Berghof seems worlds away from the realities of battle. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young women tasting the Führer’s food, offering herself in sacrifice to keep him from being poisoned. ![]() After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat. Young German women are expected to do their duty-working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. In early 1943, Magda Ritter’s parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined-one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler’s dictatorship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she just wants to spend her days in peace and quiet as a translator but the universe has other plans. Born into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda MacKenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council. "Jean Johnson's first novel in an explosive new science fiction trilogy set in the world of the national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series set two-hundred years earlier, at the dawn of the First Salik War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh and I apologize for the gratuitous use (and abuse) of the word muthafuckin’ in my last couple posts. ![]() muthafuckin’ Sakowski, Danger muthafuckin’ Slater, James muthafuckin’ Steele, and Christy Leigh muthafuckin’ Stewart.Ĭlick on the cover image to buy the kindle version of the book at Amazon. This anthology includes my story “I Think I’m in Love (or The Stranger in the Stall),” a tale about a worker in an office building cafeteria who lets the unseen stranger in the bathroom stall next to him reach under the stall partition to touch his shoe-and subsequently permits him to invade his stall in even stranger ways.Įdited by Arthur muthafuckin’ Graham, this antho also inlcudes 14 bizarre stories from Donald muthafuckin’ Armfield, Nick muthafuckin’ Cato, Patrick muthafuckin’ D’Orazio, David muthafuckin’ Wallace Fleming, Justin muthafuckin’ Grimbol, Eirik muthafuckin’ Gumeny, Wol-vriey muthafuckin’ Jesuto, Jon muthafuckin’ Konrath, John muthafuckin’ McNee, David muthafuckin’ Raffin, Vincent W. 2, the new short story anthology from Bizarro Press, is out now. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eric Marxen, her defenses start to falter. Somewhere along the way, Sara lost herself-her feminine, easygoing soul is now buried under so many defensive layers, she can’t reach it anymore. Sara’s philosophy is simple-blend in, be competent, and above all, never do anything to stand out as a woman in a man’s world. After her brother Ian’s tragic death, her career path seemed obvious: step into his shoes and enter the Naval Academy, despite her fear of water. Sara Denning joins a Navy battle group with little fanfare-and that’s just the way she likes it. □įrom the publisher: Helicopter pilot Lt. Plus, the officer’s hair on the cover is unsat. I worried it would be too far on the romance side for my tastes. It’s military fiction, which I’m often drawn to, but it also sounded kind of romancy. ![]() I saw this novel a couple times at my local bookstore and wasn’t sure about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blue is therefore surprised (but readers may not be) when he pulls into his garage to be greeted by all his friends with a shiny blue valentine just for him. But as Blue heads home, his deliveries complete, his headlight eyes are sad and his front bumper droops ever so slightly. With each delivery there is an exchange of Beeps from Blue and the appropriate animal sounds from his friends, Blue’s Beeps always set in blue and the animal’s vocalization in a color that matches the card it receives. His bed overflowing with cards, Blue sets out to deliver a yellow card with purple polka dots and a shiny purple heart to Hen, one with a shiny fuchsia heart to Pig, a big, shiny, red heart-shaped card to Horse, and so on. ![]() Little Blue Truck feels, well, blue when he delivers valentine after valentine but receives nary a one. ![]() ![]() ![]() The final project for this course required that each student collect, identify, and analyze 40 items of folklore. In this course, students were introduced to the many various forms of folklore, from myth, legend, and folktale to proverbs and riddles to jokes, games, and folkspeech ( slang), to folk belief and foodways. Teaching methodsĪlan Dundes was an engaging lecturer, his Introduction to Folklore course attracting many students. Dundes held this position for 42 years, until his death in 2005. He completed his degree very quickly and went on to a teaching position at the University of Kansas where he stayed for only a year before being offered a position in the University of California, Berkeley anthropology department teaching folklore. ![]() He quickly established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the field of folkloristics. At Indiana, he studied under the father of American Folklore, Richard Dorson. ![]() ![]() Upon completion of his service, Dundes attended Indiana University to pursue a Ph.D in folklore. He then spent two years maintaining artillery guns on a ship in the Mediterranean. When it turned out that the ship he was to be posted to, stationed in the Bay of Naples, already had a communications officer, Dundes asked what else that ship might need, not wanting to give up such a choice assignment. Sure that he would be drafted upon completion of his studies, Dundes joined the ROTC and trained to become a naval communications officer. Dundes attended Yale University, where he studied English and met his wife Carolyn. ![]() ![]() They are almost gods themselves, and under their service she is either going to end up sentenced to death, or else they are going to ruin her so badly that she will wish for it. In the present case, the Commonwealth does not justify its entry of the defendants home based on probable cause and exigent circumstances thus the only issue for consideration is whether the police had consent to enter the defendants home. Under the sudden, watchful eye of the gods, she will be tasked to serve the Abcurse brothers, five sols built of arrogance, perfection and power. ![]() Until one small mistake changes everything, and Willa is awarded a position to serve at Blesswood, the top sol academy in the world-a position that she definitely did not earn. Her life will be one of servitude to the sols, the magic-blessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods.Īt least her outer village is far removed from the cities of the sols, and she won’t ever be forced to present herself to them. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa. ![]() ![]() In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. ![]() ![]() Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. ![]() After passing through a doorframe ter'angreal, Moiraine gains foresight while the Aiel await Rand's return, either with both arms marked by dragon symbols, validating his identity as He Who Comes With the Dawn, the Chief of Chiefs of all the Aiel - or to never emerge at all. Now, he seeks answers to another prophecy that lies with the warrior people known as the Aiel to put him on the path of learning how to wield the One Power.Īccompanied by Moiraine Damodred, Rand arrives at the Aiel Waste and is granted permission by the Wise Ones to enter the sacred city of Rhuidean. He is both the Champion of Light and the Dragon Reborn. In The Shadow Rising, the fourth novel in Robert Jordan’s number one New York Times best-selling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor now wields the sword Callandor. ![]() The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! ![]() ![]() ![]() The encounter reeks of schoolboy fantasies: an insatiable older woman who offers carnal instruction, then repairs to the kitchen to prepare a Sunday roast. It is “the moment from which all else fanned out and upwards with the extravagance of a peacock’s tail”. What happens between them in that quiet cottage will score a line across Roland’s life. Roland fears that the world is about to end, and he will die a virgin. ![]() The boy, Roland Baines, is 14 his teacher, Miss Cornell, is 25. He stands on her doorstep in his drainpipe trousers and sharp-toed winklepickers, twitchy with eroticised terror. In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, an English schoolboy arrives unannounced at his piano teacher’s house. Can earnestness be a form of literary rebellion? It’s compassionate and gentle, and so bereft of cynicism it feels almost radical. McEwan’s 17th novel is old-fashioned, digressive and indulgently long the hero is a gold-plated ditherer, and the story opens with a teenage wank (few books are improved by an achingly sentimental wank). ![]() |