Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the long awaited day has arrived! I received a parcel in the post containing the single collection of sexiest things I have ever seen in my life. The first paperbacks of What He Wants. To celebrate, I’m hosting a giveaway of not one or two but five copies over on Goodreads. Entry closes March 23rd so hurry on over and sign up! (more…)
It takes a lot to make me feel sick. I’ve got a pretty strong stomach; I’ve drank from a stream while hiking, gone further uphill and found a rotting sheep carcass in said stream and still held onto my lunch. But something I saw today induced a wave of rolling nausea so great I feel compelled to share it. This video is just over 4 minutes long; I urge you to watch it all, with the sound up. But if you’re really pushed for time, skip forward to 55 seconds in. (more…)
You’d have to have been living under a rock not to have heard about the downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the Catholic church’s highest ranking UK official.
A week ago, four men (three priests; one ex-priest) came forward alleging the Cardinal had behaved inappropriately towards them. The claims dated back to the 1980s. The Cardinal denied the claims at the time. Then a fifth priest emerged, with a claim as recent as 2001. The Cardinal brought forward his retirement plans and resigned immediately. Then, this weekend, the Cardinal confessed.
It’s Read an Ebook week over at Smashwords, and to celebrate I’ve enrolled not one but two books in the promotion. Get 25% off What He Wants or a whopping 50% off Blood & Ash before the 9th March! (more…)
I’ve broached this subject before. Ex-gay organisations are up in arms over an episode of Criminal Minds that this week featured a serial killer who’d undergone sexual conversion therapy. (more…)
Apologies for the double-post today, but this one couldn’t wait. I’m sure some of you by now have seen the recent press release from GRL regarding the registration for October’s con in Atlanta. For those of you who haven’t see it yet, here’s the highlights. (more…)
Usually my Google Alerts bring me nothing but Lost fanfic (Kate/Aaron) and torrents. Today, however, the Great God Google hath delivered a lovely review of The Rest of Forever from The Novel Approach. (more…)
Last week I wrote about the speeches given by various MPs during the equal marriage debate. I said I had never felt as proud of UK MPs as I did that day, and I meant that. Genuinely. But there’s one MP I am not proud of – my own MP, Derek Twigg; one of only 22 Labour MPs to vote against equal marriage.
Yesterday was a bit of a write-off for me. The UK House of Commons was discussing the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill from 12.30pm right up to the vote at 7pm. I followed the entire thing as it happened. (more…)
I was out in Manchester on Saturday, for the first time since Pride. God, I love the Village. It reminds me of my godforsaken youth, of three magic years when I lived there and going out was essentially my life. I’m a scene queen, I admit it. And despite so, so much of it that has changed – since I lived there, since I was last there – so much of it is the same. I met old friends and new, I went to some of my favourite haunts from the bad ole days and I went to bars and clubs that have been rebranded, reopened a dozen times or more since I called that place home.
But some things never change. The attitude of some of the men there to women, for a start.