Random Musings

Category: writing

  • Will you hang out with me?

    On June 6th-7th, I’m going to be one of twenty five authors doing an lgbtq online book festival. It would be really great if you’d come along, and maybe tell your friends to come hang out with the cool author-kids as well. We’d love to share stuff about our books,…

  • Another year, another lgbtq book festival

    Every year we have an lgbtq book festival in Nottingham. It’s two days of authors, books, fun. It’s meeting up with old friends and meeting new ones, and it’s a community that reminds you not only are you not alone, you’re also represented in books, where the queer characters aren’t…

  • Just call me imposter broccoli

    You know when you’re expecting cake, and hoping for cake, but then you get broccoli? And not good broccoli, but rather dried out, old broccoli? Know that feeling? That’s kind of what you get when you’re around me. Dried out broccoli. I’ve never been good at the social thing. I’m…

  • Fading Away

    I’m not alone in this, as I’ve come to realise from reading other friend’s writings, so I’m going to sigh my own thoughts into the open too, so you know you’re not alone if you feel this way. I don’t want to be forgotten or left behind. It’s that simple,…

  • Your Feelings are Valid

    Stop comparing yourself to other people. Seriously. I’ve come across a lot of posts lately, and had some messages, too, from people who are having a hard time coping with the world as it is right now. But they then go on to say ‘but there are people who have…

  • The good stuff

    I’m not sure what there is to say that hasn’t been said. The conversation about the pandemic is widespread and covers so many issues. People seem to be either scared, or not nearly scared enough. Personally, I’m scared. But in a rational, logical way. A pandemic virus killing thousands is…

  • Hot stories from fabulous authors.

    My first short story was published in an erotica anthology. I’d gone to GCLS, a conference celebrating lesbian fiction, and it opened up a whole world I didn’t know about. Kind, friendly, generous author Lori Lake convinced me to submit a story to a forthcoming anthology. I’d had a few…

  • Do what, now?

    We were talking in the car the other, as we are wont to do. Topics varied, as they do. And Nic says, “I went there on a school holiday once. We went for a walk.” (Referring to a place sign we’d just passed.) I couldn’t and can’t get that out…

  • The beauty of breathing

    Yes, I know. Breathing is one of those necessary things, something we must do in order to be considered alive. Being able to do it doesn’t make you all that special. But it’s also something we don’t notice until it goes wrong. Because it’s automatic, because it’s one of those…

  • A personal bugbear rant

    You pick up a hammer and a nail, and you pound that nail into a board. Are you a carpenter? You make a toolbox in high school. Are you a carpenter now? You make a bed frame. It doesn’t fall apart. How about now? Would you advertise as a carpenter?…