A Few of my Favorite Things….’

I love erotic romance. My current (for the last several years) kink is m/m romance. My tagline is “if one naked man is good, two must be better”, and I truly believe it!

I have to agree, though, that since m/m has started gaining in popularity, a lot of crappy m/m romance is getting pub’d. A. Lot. And, since I’m po (I’m too poor to afford the other “o” and the “r”), I’m pretty darned picky about finding new authors. So, here are my top ten favorite m/m writers:

ZA Maxfield – writing that’s deep, multi-layered and authentic – love her!

Madeline Urban and Abigail Roux – Cut & Run is good, Sticks & Stones is great and Fish & Chips is superb!

Amy Lane – her fantasy stories are good, but IMO, Lane truly shines writing contemporary – Keeping Promise Rock? Beautiful!

Heidi Cullinan – what more can I say than OMG!!! I’ve yet to read a Cullinan book I haven’t liked, and I’ll add dayam, she writes some hot shit!

Marie Sexton – you haven’t read her yet? WTF??? Get thee to Dreamspinner Press NOW!

Aleksandre Voinov – amazing wordsmith, and can make me love his characters even as they’re bitterly disappointing me and breaking each others hearts.

KA Mitchell – at her best, she’s brilliant; at her weakest, she’s still pretty damned good!

Jordan Castillo Price – love it all, but I may never end my love affair with Wild Bill and Michael.

James Buchanan – must write FASTER! I need a Nicky fix!

Anah Crow & Dianne Fox – love pretty much all their stuff – both separate and together. Slow Bloom’s my all time favorite, though (although I have to imagine Ricky as maybe 23-ish, cuz the age diff is more May/February than May/December – still it’s an amazingly beautiful, amazingly HOTT story!)

There are many more I could name – Ava, Stephani, Bonnie, Ethan’s 1&2… Sean M., TC B (not to be mistaken for TCBY, which is also sweet and addictive)… They all grace my auto-buy list. They give me something to smile about when I’m stressed, inspiration when the well is dry, and some freaking awesome hot flashes, too.

Huh. I’m noticing a theme. A lot of my Thursday Things lately are centering around books. Go figure!

But I WANNA Overshare!

There are things that don’t belong on the internet. There are times when venting my spleen in public is unprofessional and downright trashy. There are things that are nobody’s business except the parties involved, and things that piss me off that aren’t particularly my business either. Knowing all of this really sucks because, dammit, there are times when all I want in the world is to overshare!

The problem, of course, is that by being vocal, I paint a target on my own forehead. I open myself up for close scrutiny. If I “go on the attack” when I feel wronged, I’m inviting anyone I’ve ever irked to put me in their cross-hairs. There’s waaaaaay too much glass in my house for me to go around throwing stones.

So, I’ll sit here and stew in my own outrage, be all offended, and then man up (always interesting since I’m decisively female) and just fricking get over it.

Or at least pretend to get over it.

Dammit.