I'm a writer...

But you wouldn't know it from how poorly I promote my work. I write mainstream books as well as MM erotica, but you wouldn't know it from how quiet I am about it. Friends and family are aware, as are some people on Facebook...but for the most part I do nothing to make anyone aware of what I've done.

I have a website for my mainstream books and I need to start talking about it. My books have something to say, and I need to start saying it out loud. Not worry that they might not be received or be misunderstood. I've had plenty of that with my MM books...and with The Lyons' Den.

This one, I think the dissing I got for it stemmed from people who couldn't get into the crazy writing style. Ace Shostakovich is telling the story, but he is a fictional detective developed by the main character, Daniel Bettancourt, and he's got a patois that is very off the wall. Plus, he's referencing Daniel's real-time thoughts, fears and concerns as well as memories. If you don't get into it by the third chapter, you never will.

It was an experiment in style that didn't really come together enough for just anyone to get into, and one I almost started to repeat with Dair's Window. But taking space from that story helped me see I was going about it all wrong. I want it accessible to any reader, not just a few.

I'll still have Adam telling Dair's story but not his own until much later in the book. We'll see what happens, there.

Meanwhile, I'm going to finish Taking Nicky as soon as I can. I'm probably halfway done with it, at 20,000 words. And it gets rough, in parts. Makes me uncomfortable.

Which is good.