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| Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
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Kim is in his last year of high school and just hopes to make it through the year without running into any gay bashing. The thing is, Kim is not only gay, but he's transgender, too. He's unhappy and lost in his female body, and his mother has agreed it's time for him to undergo hormone therapy and possibly surgery.
Things get even more complicated when university student Dash joins Kim's mother's coven. Dash is immediately attracted to Kim and they wind up going out together, but when Kim reveals he's a female to male transgender, Dash reacts badly.
With all the other things going on in their lives, will Kim and Dash be able to try again and find happiness with each other?
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I wrote Circle of Change after reading a mainstream 'inspirational' romance, which had hand-holding and lingering looks, along with lessons to be learned. For reasons that I can't quite recall, writing a pagan response seemed like a good idea, and now it's available as an e-book. It has hand-holding, and lessons to be learned. And paganism. And trans issues. Wow, does it have a lot of stuff in it that matters to me.
The dedication reads to all the gender warriors I have known. This one is for you. May the Goddess bless you all.
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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9:41 am
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Torquere Press are offering 15% off all e-books, until midnight Sunday (US EST time). Just type 'mom09' for the coupon code at checkout.
And Romance Writers of Australia have invited me to be part of the Perth Romance Roadshow, on May 23rd. I'll be on the panel for the Author Q&A session, in the afternoon.
The Romance Roadshows are one day conferences, where RWAus takes an awesome line-up of writers on the road (Keri Arthur! ~fangirls~), around the states, for members who can't make it to the annual conference. Or members who can, but still want a second conference. Non-members are welcome, too.
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| Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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7:40 am
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Torquere Press are offering a 15% disount off their books for the next day and a half! To use the discount, type 'stpat' when prompted during checkout.
My author page is here.
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| Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
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| Monday, February 23rd, 2009
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| Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
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12:47 pm
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I'm a guest blogger, over on Out in Perth, the local queer press. If you want to read my gig review for Big Day Out on the Gold Coast, it's here! Photos are mine too. I'll do a full pic spam here, too, once Out in Perth have finished using the photos.
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| Saturday, January 17th, 2009
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| Friday, January 16th, 2009
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8:32 pm
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I'm off tonight, on the first leg off my epic Laney-rocks-around-Australia adventure. My first flight has already been changed (fail, Qantas, fail), leaving me with painful hours to kill in Brisvegas airport before the city wakes up and I can do anything. Unless, of course, Qantas is four hours late with the flight, in which case, it won't matter.
I'll be glad to be out of Perth. 29C minimum? 42C maximum? Anywhere else in Australia is going to be cooler, and probably not actually on fire.
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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| Thursday, December 25th, 2008
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7:05 am
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Running the Nullarbor is available in print!
It's listed on the Torquere Books site here. It hasn't appeared on the distributor's site yet (that takes a few days, especially with the holidays), but as soon as it does, I'll let you know. Then it will have an Amazon listing, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) planetfantastic will order stock in, for people in the Antipodes.
And Bad Case of Loving You made the Uniquely Pleasurable Review Team's Best of 2008 list.
Yes, I am posting early on Christmas morning. Someone had to get up to put the leg of ham in the oven at 6am. And I need to clear up a little before the extended clan begin to descend on my house in waves over the next 36 hours.
Best wishes for the New Year to you all.
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| Monday, December 22nd, 2008
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7:14 am
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It's Year in Review time, when Australian writers compare their published output against The Sean. The Sean is the number of words that Sean Williams--a well-known, awesome and prolific Australian writer--publishes professionally each year.
The Sean this year was 282 000 words.
My published word count? 260 000 words! I made 92% of a Sean!
~does the dance of the Sean~
(If you want to compare this to last year's figures, here's that post)
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| Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
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| Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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bunnymcfoo, who I've known online for years, is raising money to buy plus-sized underwear for teenage girls in a homeless shelter. These girls only have access to someone else's cast-offs at the moment, and she wants to buy them their own knickers and bras for Christmas, using her employee discount at Lane Bryant.
Her post, with paypal donation button, is here.
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| Friday, December 5th, 2008
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10:35 pm
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There's a good review of Running the Nullabor on Fallen Angel Reviews, over here. They gave it five angels, and I don't think I've had five angels before.
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| Friday, November 28th, 2008
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4:33 pm - 15% off The Tockleys (e-book)
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The news post from Torquere says:
Don't want to go out among the crowds on Black Friday? At Torquere Press you
don't have to.
We've got a 15% off coupon for you.
All you need to do is put in 'thanks08' during checkout and you'll receive
15% off any of our ebooks.
This coupon is good until the end of the day November 28.
Happy Thanksgiving from Torquere Press.
http://www.torquerebooks.com/
That means you get to buy the e-book of The Tockleys at 15% off. Go on, what are you waiting for?
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| Thursday, November 27th, 2008
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10:49 pm
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There's an interview with me on the front of the Torquere Press site at the moment. I'm going to cut-and-paste it here, since the site gets refreshed frequently.
Laney Cairo
Laney Cairo researched The Tockleys by hanging around in pubs and listening to local punk bands. She has acquired a taste for melodic hardcore punk and a working knowledge of her local music scene. Her family sedan will hold herself, a bassist, a girlfriend, three hangers-on, a guitar, an amp and a four stack speaker, but not in any comfort.
( Q and A behind the cut )
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( behind the cut, for a couple of teasers from The Tockleys--adult language, work safe apart from that )
As Stevie Wood mentioned in the review, there are song lyrics in The Tockleys. I was wildly fortunate that song-writers donated me the copyright to their songs, preventing me from having to write all the songs myself. Of the three song-writers, Cathy Cupitt, Anjela Conner and E. A. Pearson, only E and Cathy were people I already knew. Anjela was someone who heard about the book on the grapevine and submitted lyrics to me, and one of her songs turned out to be vital to the novel. I was reduced to writing an Eighties Australian rock ballad when no one else would would, and it was not a pleasant experience.
There's going to be a second Tockleys novel, working title of The Tockleys: Louder!, in which the band try and take the next step toward commercial success. I'll be needing more song lyrics. If you're a closet song-writer, and you're looking for somewhere to expose your lyrics to the world, keep my novels in mind. Please don't make me write my own.
Plans for researching the second novel are underway. I'm taking some time off work in the summer (that's Southern Hemisphere summer), hiring a really cheap campervan, and touring around huge rock concerts. It's work! I'm working! I'll be posting about the experience on laney_cairo, so watch that journal for the last couple of weeks in January.
If there's anything you want to ask my about The Tockleys, or my experiences researching it, feel free.
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| Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
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