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Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2026
Following on the heels of the Rainbow Writers Cruise, Rory Maxwell and I stayed on the Celebrity Reflection for a back-to-back sailing. Time for the Rainbow Readers Cruise, the biggest year yet with about 50 authors and nearly 200 readers! Monday The mood gets set right away with the “Rainbow Regalia” theme for the first…
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Con Report: Rainbow Writers Cruise 2026
This year, before the Rainbow Readers Cruise, I boarded the Celebrity Reflection a few days early for the Rainbow Writers Cruise! For this 3-day sailing, I enjoyed workshops and activities with my fellow authors, plus time to enjoy being with my “coworkers” in a social setting before the readers joined us. Even more exciting, Rory…
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Con Report: RomantiConn 2026
Last month, I took my last road trip of the summer by heading up to Connecticut for RomantiConn 2026! The scheduling worked out perfectly this year, with me signing on Friday evening and Rory Maxwell signing on Saturday afternoon, so we were able to switch off acting as each other’s table assistant/emotional support human. Thursday…
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Con Report: Pride LitCon 2026
I was delighted to be invited back to Pride LitCon in Richmond, Virginia, earlier this summer! The event expanded to both Saturday (18+) and Sunday (all ages) this year, and my fun variety of books meant that I was able to exhibit at both. Friday Rory Maxwell, travel buddy extraordinaire, and I hit the road…
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Con Report: Balticon 60
I’m here, once again, with a late con report! As always, I had a blast at Balticon this year. This event is a fantastic way to connect with fans, fellow nerds, other industry professionals, and old friends. Though Balticon has phenomenal online programming, I decided to only participate in in-person events this year. Since this…
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Con Report: Farpoint 2026
Do I mean to keep letting so long lapse between attending an event and writing up my con report? No. Does life keep interfering, making this task fall far down my priority lists? Alas, yes. Maryland endured an intense, prolonged cold snap from late January into mid February, resulting in my house experiencing a water…
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Con Report: Capclave 2025
Sooo… Capclave 2025 was nearly 2 months ago, and I am clearly very late with this con report. Long story short: I was really busy the week after the event, and then the government shut down. The stress tried to eat me. It wasn’t pretty. I did have amazing convention, with panels and a reading…
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Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2025
I set sail again last week on the second annual Rainbow Readers Cruise! After having so much fun the year before, I knew this was an event I didn’t want to miss, despite my packed summer travel schedule. With my favorite emotional support human/road-trip adventure friend, Rory Maxwell, we flew down to Florida last Sunday…
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Con Report: RomantiConn 2025
After attending RomantiConn last year as Rory Maxwell‘s assistant, I was thrilled to be invited as an author in 2025! This event focuses on romance, but the organizers have done an amazing job of mixing various subgenres and gender pairings. Though we were only signing on Saturday, Rory and I made a weekend of this…
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Con Report: Pride Litcon 2025
A mere week after getting home from my epic West Coast adventure, I hit the road again! This time, for another new event a little closer to home. Pride Litcon was a single-day book signing in Richmond, Virginia, and yet another new event that I hope continues for years to come. I picked up fellow…
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Con Report: Queers & Quills 2025
When this brand new event was announced in spring of 2024, I submitted an interest form simply because you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. I was both shocked and thrilled to be accepted as a signing author to the first Queers and Quills! I hadn’t been back to the West Coast…
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Con Report: Read the Rainbow 2025
A year or so ago, a queer romance book convention made a questionable decision to change the location of their annual event. In response, multiple new events celebrating queer fiction (romance or otherwise) have sprung up. As a fairly new author to this genre, I’ve been excited to take advantage of these opportunities. I recently…
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Book Review: Destination Daddies Series (multiple authors)
This post includes reviews of books in the Destination Daddies series: Reel Love by Kate Hawthorne All Tied Up by Reese Morrison Living in Zin by G.R. Lyons Sink or Swim by Chloe Gray Jam Packed by R.J. Moray Greeking Out by Colette Davison Tourist Attraction by Luna David & Honey London All the Queen’s…
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Review: Subtle Blood (Will Darling Adventures #3) by K. J. Charles
Read my reviews of the previous books in the Will Darling Adventures series: Slippery Creatures (#1) The Sugared Game (#2) In most series in the suspense/thriller realm, even as a subgenre, the overall sense of danger starts small and then grows larger to encompass a threat to more people. Charles subverts this pattern for the…
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Review: Love Me Whole by Nicky James
I always go into romance novels in which one of the characters has a significant mental health issue with a grain of salt. Since I personally know someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), I went into this book with a whole bucketful. I am not an expert by any means, but as a reader, I…
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Review: Unhinged (Necessary Evils #1) by Onley James
Disclaimer: I received an advanced electronic copy of this book from the author. A strong fictional tradition exists of rich men “collecting” people to serve their particular purposes. James twists this trope to showcase her specific talents as a writer by creating a family of adopted psycho/sociopaths trained by their father to serve a purpose…
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Review: Duking It Out (Royal Powers #1) by E.J. Russell
I picked up the first installment in this superpowers-themed, shared-world romance series because I’d read another book by the first author. The author note at the beginning helps with the world-building issues in such a short text, and even though I still have lots of questions about these countries, none of them prevented me from…
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Review: Clockwork Dragon by Kaye Draper
Having previously only read serial novellas by this author, I was delighted when she announced a stand-alone novel-length project. This book contains all of the elements that I have come to love this author for, such as satisfying paranormal romance arcs featuring unique and fantastical characters. Draper is still one of the few “reverse harem”…
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Review: Fork in the Road by J. Coyne
Some novellas, especially in the romance genre, fall flat for me because I don’t get a complete sense of character development. In this case, however, Coyne uses carefully placed sentences to evoke a deep history between all three characters without ever “info-dumping” the nuts and bolts of their origin stories. Coyne also builds the comfortable…
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Review: Magic in Manhattan Series by Allie Therin
Spellbound (Book 1) Paranormal queer romance in early twentieth-century New York City seems to be a trope I’m particularly fond of, so I didn’t hesitate to purchase this book when at least two authors I follow raved about it on Twitter. The story itself did not disappoint in any measure, from the romance to the…
