I've published both contemporary and historical fiction, and my latest release is The Station, which was my first full-length historical. It was part of Loose Id's Coming Out Day Celebration. Most coming out stories are modern, and I wanted to explore the challenges – and rewards – of coming out in a different era. Despite the serious consequences of coming out in the 1800s, my goal was to explore the freedom and opportunity being yourself could also bring.
Ever since Cambridge-bound Colin Lancaster secretly watched stable master Patrick Callahan mastering the groundskeeper, he’s longed for Patrick to do the same to him. When Patrick is caught with his pants down and threatened with death, Colin speaks up in his defense, announcing that he, too, is guilty of “the love that dare not speak its name.” Soon they’re both condemned as convicts and shipped off to the faraway prison colony of Australia.
Patrick learned long ago that love is a fairy tale and is determined that no one will scale the wall he’s built around his heart. Yet he’s inexorably drawn to the charismatic Colin despite his best efforts to keep him at bay. As their journey extends from the cramped and miserable depths of a prison ship to the vast, untamed Australian outback, Colin and Patrick must build new lives for themselves. They'll have to tame each other to find happiness in this wild new land.
So that's a little about my newest book. As for me, along with writing gay romance, my passions are travel, theatre (especially musicals), ballet, TV, movies and figure skating. Oh, and reading, of course! To sum me up in a nutshell, I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Life is too short for shame!
Favourite place to travel: I love Australia and Italy, but New York City and the Great White Way holds a special place in my heart.
Favourite musical: Spring Awakening, which I've seen 15 times
Favourite ballet: The National Ballet of Canada's Cinderella, not only for the gorgeous choreo, dancing, sets and costumes, but the HEA, which is a welcome respite from all the Russian tragedy in ballet!
Favourite TV show: So hard to choose, but right now my faves are probably Vampire Diaries, Dexter and historical Brit show Garrow's Law.
Favourite movie: Again, a tough choice, but if I can only pick one, it's Stand By Me, which resonated so much with me as a 13-year-old. And for a movie that never fails to make me happy -- Strictly Ballroom.
Favourite figure skater: Of all time: Kurt Browning. Currently I love Patrick Chan, Jeremy Abbott (who broke my heart last week at US Nationals!), and the ice dance team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
Favourite book: Impossible! Right now I have to go with the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Very powerful story and characters that left a lasting impression after the last page was turned.
Enough about me. What are your favourite things?
3 comments:
I should probably put this on my blog.
Favourite place to travel: It has to be Australia. Anywhere on this great continent.
Favourite Movie: 50 First Dates. I cry everytime I watch it.
Favourie Book: James Herbert: The Rats. Read it when I was 15. Gory. Oh, sorry have to add The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I cried reading that too. Still do when thinking of Ponyboy.
Favourite Food: Gotta be Chocolate!
Oh yes, Strictly Ballroom - that's on my list!!
Fav place to travel - Oregon - an under-rated state in my British opinion.
Fav book - nope can't choose.
Fav food - bread (yes I know I'm boring)
Fav Musical - Les Miserables
Fav TV show - Trueblood
Hi Penny and Barbara! Nice to meet you. :D
Penny, I adore Australia, too. I lived there for a year after university, doing the backpacking thing. It was such an amazing time in my life. I really would love to go back, since I never made it to Perth and WA.
You know, I've never seen 50 First Dates. I'll have to rent it. Thanks for the rec!
Barbara, glad to know I'm not the only Strictly Ballroom fan here. And I adore Les Mis! One of these days I need to go to London to see it, since I missed the most recent Broadway revival.
And I've never been to Oregon, but have always wanted to go. It looks gorgeous.
Post a Comment