K.C. Burn – Erotic Romance Author

I’ve been offline for a couple of days due to a back problem, and spending any length of time at the computer is painful, but I did want to add my voice.  I’m saddened and horrified that a chapter of the Romance Writers of America, specifically the RWI chapter in Oklahoma is no longer allowing GLBT entries in their contest, due to the members being “uncomfortable” with GLBT entries.  Now, there have already been many, many blog posts already on the subject which articulate eloquently and reasonably (and more so than I believe I could) the problem with this pronouncement.   I encourage you to read these blogs and make yourselves heard.

Fiction with Friction

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Heidi Cullinan

Kari Gregg

I want to thank everyone who has bought and read Cop Out.  I’m so excited that it’s managed to hit a few bestseller lists, and is still on some, even one month after release.  I truly appreciate everyone who has had a part in that.  It’s the best Christmas gift I could ask for!

That being said, I also must thank those who thought enough of Cop Out to nominate it in the Goodreads M/M Romance Group’s 2011 Members’ Choice Awards.  If you care to vote, please do.  Here’s the link, and I’m in the Coming Out, Gay/Out for You, and Contemporary categories.  You don’t need to be a member of Goodreads or the M/M Romance group to vote, but it’s a fun place to be, so think about joining.  Voting is open until December 30, 2011.

Regardless of how the voting turns out, I get to post this great banner, and I’m thrilled and honoured to have my name up there with so many fantastic authors.

Okay, posting from my phone for the first time so we’ll see how it goes! I’m posting at Simone
Anderson’s (www.simoneanderson.blogspot.com) today about titles – how I’ve come up with them, how difficult I find it to do so, and I share a couple of my fav titles (not mine) that I think are excellent at grabbing one’s attention. Stop by if you can!

p.s. the phone thing isn’t going especially well… in fact, failed miserably for posting this

I’ve listed direct links to my books on ARe below, but it’s a great time to stock up on summer reading!

MIA Case Files: Wolfsbane

MIA Case Files: Blood Relations

Spice ‘n’ Solace

The special rebate is in effect until 11:59 pm (US/Central) on May 30, 2011, for PayPal or credit card purchases.

I’m signed up as an author, and hubby’s coming with… so excited to be going to New Orleans for the GayRomLit Retreat in October!  Reader registration is open now & I’m looking forward to meeting readers and other authors.   Lots of fun activities planned!

It’s been a while since I’ve done a romantic cage match (last one was Vampires vs. Aliens), and I enjoy them, therefore you must, too — this I command! Robots vs. Mexican Wrestlers — come and tell me which would make better romantic heroes!

Update: Voting is open until January 30th, so if you liked Blood Relations, stop by and vote!  One vote per person per category.

• Best Vampire Book
• Best Book Cover

MIA Case Files: Blood Relations was nominated in the “Best of 2010″ Reader Awards at Love Romances Cafe for Best Vampire book and Best Cover.  Obviously I can’t take any credit for best cover — Croco Designs has been SO good to me   I’m in some fabulous company — I’m completely thrilled!

Probably because I can never keep them.  However, this year I’ve decided to make a resolution I might have a “whelk’s chance in a supernova” of actually keeping (thank you, Douglas Adams, for one of many colourful phrases I’ve never forgotten).  My goal this year is to complete and submit six manuscripts.

Now, I’m kinda cheating, because I’ve got one that’s already a first draft (last words finished this morning & my first attempt at cyberpunk) and one that’s got 10K already written (first attempt at a contemporary).  But if stacking the deck is what it takes, well, call me a cheater   It also helps that I’ve got tons of ideas besides those two.  I want to write a third MIA book (oh, poor Oliver — I intend to put him through the wringer).  I’d like to write a sequel to my upcoming Carina release, and this one would involve alien nookie.  And I’ve got an idea for another contemporary as well as a time travel one.  And those are only the ones I’ve made notes for.

For a change, I’ve even got titles picked out for half of them, which is highly unusual, since I usually use a generic working title until I’m ready to submit.  Then I agonize over choosing something suitable.  For instance, MIA Case Files: Wolfsbane spent several months as “the agency”.  Blood Relations was “vampire agency”.  Spice ‘n’ Solace, my upcoming Carina Press release started out as “rent boy”.

The cyberpunk is currently “the hacker” although I’ve chosen a proper title now, and the contemporary has a working title that I might want to keep.  MIA 3 already has  a title, too.  Because I’m weird about titles, I’m not going to share the ones I’ve picked out… not yet.

So…  back to the resolutions.  I have an idea of how long I want each one to be, and if I subtract the words I’ve already written, that means about 215K for 2011.  I think that’s manageable, even with a full time job.

As an adjunct, I’d like to find more time for Facebook — probably more people say they should spend less time on it, but I need to feel more comfortable with that style of communication.  So for me, the easy resolution will be the writing bit.  The hard bit will be Facebook.  And if I manage to exercise more and eat right, that’s just gravy!

Hope everyone has a fabulous 2011!

Nutterbutters.  Peanut butter cookie with peanut butter filling.  I don’t remember ever seeing these back home in Toronto, so I’d never tried them until recently.  I like them, but I’m not entirely sure why — the peanut taste isn’t quite as strong as I’d like.  Fudgee-O’s are cookies that I’ve not seen down here in Florida.  They’re chocolate cookies filled with chocolate, and they’re better than Oreos, in my opinion.  But, as I ate my Nutterbutters the other day, I realized that I think they’re both made by the same company… and for whatever reason one is Canadian & the other is American.  Weird, eh?  Still, I think it would absolutely GENIOUS if they combined the two.  Seriously.  One chocolate cookie, one peanut butter cookie, with chocolate and peanut butter filling.  Holy crap, I’m drooling just thinking about it.  Someone get on that, okay?  Please?

We recently got a new blu-ray player — our old DVD player died.  We can get Netflix directly through the blu-ray player — so cool!  I’m loving it.  We finished watching Lie to Me.  When the series started, we weren’t able to work it into our elaborate and often excessive TV schedule.  But access it through Netflix?  Perfect.  We enjoyed it quite a bit, enough queue up the second season when it became available.  Tim Roth is great, although my all-time favourite Tim Roth role was in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.  Love that movie!

Anyway, when we bought the player, my hubby said I could also get one movie (non-Netflix-ian).  I really wanted to get Sahara, because I adore that movie.  Hubby laughed at me.  Said I might be the only one who did.  And I already own it on DVD.  I didn’t *need* it on blu-ray, I just wanted it.  However, instead I grabbed the recent Star Trek.  Which was also awesome, although I did expect Kirk to kick a little more butt than he ended up doing.  But the casting was exceptional, especially Karl Urban as Bones.  And it was visually impressive.  I’m looking forward to seeing it in all its blu-ray glory.

Of course, the real problem with the new player?  The easy Netflix access means I may never have to get off the couch again — I can already feel my butt getting bigger