I broke a milestone the other day and didn't even know it.

A rather large milestone for me, as I don't remember the last time I hit 200 pages on a work in progress and still had the joy of work in me.

Aside from the boogy dance I did in my pj's when I realized what I'd done, there's not too much else going on here. Severe weather, possible hail, which I can't remember if I've ever seen hail this far south, but that would explain the gray sky and almost monochromatic look to everything outside.

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Happy Tuesday, Novelspotters. Josh Lanyon here, and if you missed yesterday’s post, I was sharing my publishing history in the hope of maybe inspiring or at least encouraging some of you who have met with a few roadblocks – or towering cinderblock walls – in the path of your writing career.

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Good morning, Novelspotters. My name is Josh Lanyon. I write M/M erotic mystery and romance (also known as GLBT genre fiction). I’ve been writing it for over a decade, and I’m pretty good at it, if I do say so myself. In fact, I have a book coming out on how to write M/M fiction in March. Man, Oh Man: Writing M/M Fiction for Kinks and Ca$h walks the aspiring M/M writer through the entire creative process from coming up with terrific commercial ideas to submitting your book proposal.

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It's been great hanging out at NovelSpot this week! Thanks to Allie for having me and thanks to you for checking out my posts.

Stop by my blog anytime:http://isabelledrake.blogspot.com/

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I’m actually glad my worst book signing fear has come to pass. Now I can stop sweating it, right?

What is...was..my worse fear? Having no one stop by my table? Spilling my complementary coffee all over myself? Saying something stupid?

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A book I picked up recently speaks to this issue and another one that crosses my mind occasionally: censorship.

Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyage Of The Olympia Press And Its Writers
which, aside from offering great glimpses into the careers of ground breaking writers Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett and Anaïs Nin to name a few, tells the story of Olympia Press--a publisher that put into print erotic stories considered “too hot” for the censored post-WW II British and American market.

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I chose to set Satisfaction Guaranteed in Texas because I'd been there recently, but I don't always set books in places where I've been. When starting a story that's set somewhere I haven’t been the first thing I do is contact a visitor’s organization (both the state and city) and ask for info.

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A woman wearing red lipstick isn't messing around. She wants to get noticed. If you've ever worn red lipstick, you know what I mean. If you haven't, think about making a trip to the drug store. Thankfully, there are a lot of shades of red. You'll find one that works for you.

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Well, it's been really, really great being here this week. Thanks to Novelspot for having me. I've enjoyed sharing my thoughts and my books with you. Hope you'll visit my web site at www.desireeholt.com and my alter ego, www.judithrochelle.com. I leave you today with a taste of my latest from Ellora's Cave, Journey to the Pearl.

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You love your life. You're getting married. Your fiance is the greatest guy in the world. But in the back of your brain is that little tickle: Am I sure I didn't miss out on something? That wild motorcycle ride? That no boundaries vacation at the beach? Thoreau meditated for years at Walden Pond to find the meaning of life, but sometimes you can find it in one weekend. That was the question I asked when writing ONCE UPON A WEDDING. (Ellora's Cave).

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HI! My alter ego, Desiree Holt, will be taking over for the rest of the week and she has some "interesting" things to tell you aboujt.

Valentine's Day has certainly come along way from the pagan ritual it was in ancient times. In Rome the name of young virgins were put in a big woden box and youngmen each got to draw a name. That girl was then his sexual companion for the night. Althnogh politics and religion put a stop to the ritual, men continued to find a special way to spend the night with a special female.

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I first became interested in mental telepathy while reading Christine Feehan's Ghostwalker series, enough so that I gorged myself on books from the library and hunted down everything I could find on the Internet. Fascinating. You'd be amazed at how many people have this incredible gift that allows them to communicate silently with others, and distance is no problem. If the connection is there, if the person you;re trying to reach has the same psychic gift, well...just think of all the things you could talk about that no one could hear!

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It's an honor for me, as an author, to be part of the family of wild Rose Press family. The Wild Rose Press, thankful for the tremendous success it's had in a short time, desicded to conduct a year-long fundraiser, and the charity they chose is St. Jude's research Hospital for Children. The proceeds from one book would go into a special fund for St. Jude's, and they asked me to write the book.

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I'm new to this blog as far as posting but I've been reading and lurking forever. My name is Judith Rochelle, I live in Texas, and I love to write about the very sexy cowboys that live around me. My first trilogy, Love With a Proper Rancher, Cutter's Law and One Hot Texas Night are set in a town very muich like the one I live in and the Circle C and Yellow Rose ranches are modelled after two ranches near me.

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Bowing to political pressure due to my all-too-public contention that 'the bizarro literary movement' was just a cover story to help promote the writings of Carlton Mellick 3 and Eraserhead Press, I am no longer a 'bizarro writer'. But before we went our separate ways, I did this interview for issue 3 of Chainsaw Magazine(now defunct) to talk about my opinion of 'the bizarro literary movement' I was a part of and what it means to write outside accepted literary genres. It was very tongue-in-cheek and subversive in tone but (strangely) prophetic. Interviewer - Kyle Kucek.