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Usually my Google Alerts bring me nothing but Lost fanfic (Kate/Aaron) and torrents. Today, however, the Great God Google hath delivered a lovely review ofThe Rest of Foreverfrom The Novel Approach. Jack Campbell and Paul Adams tried their hardest to rip my heart out through my tear ducts, and I liked it. No, I more [...]

Last week I wrote about the speeches given by various MPs during the equal marriage debate. I said I had never felt as proud of UK MPs as I did that day, and I meant that. Genuinely. But there’s one MP I amnot proud of � my own MP, Derek Twigg; one of only 22 [...]

Yesterday was a bit of a write-off for me. The UK House of Commons was discussing the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill from 12.30pm right up to the vote at 7pm. I followed the entire thing as it happened. Now this was already a done deal. Enough MPs had said in advance they were voting [...]

I was out in Manchester on Saturday, for the first time since Pride. God, I love the Village. It reminds me of my godforsaken youth, of three magic years when I lived there and going out was essentially my life. I’m a scene queen, I admit it. And despite so, so much of it that [...]

Welcome to my new website! I’ll be running a ‘soft� launch over the next few weeks, so I might still be tweaking different elements. If you’ve arrived here from my old blogthen fear not, I will still be updating it. I’m splitting the two to make them each slightly more focused � Only True Magic [...]

Hands up who’s bored of the equal marriage debates rumbling through virtually every country in the west at the moment? It seems every other US state is currently having areferendumon the matter � with some voting for, and some against � the UK bill just hit parliament, and Paris was invaded by hoards marching both [...]

I thought I’d throw my two penneth into this debate (because it hasn’t been discussed enough!!). For too long there has been an undercurrent of certain readers rejecting (queer) male characters that they refer to as chicks with dicks. Firstly, I think that’s a horrible expression. Somehow it manages to be homophobic, transphobic andmisogynistic all [...]

Yes, really. In certain circles, there seems to be a general malaise with the standard tropes of m/m sex. Anyone who’s dabbled even slightly in the genre will know exactly what I’m talking about � a trope best described as 1-2-3-lube. If you don’t know, don’t ask! Sometimes, it seems like every book contains the [...]

In June 2011 when I first published Blood & Ash, no-one knew me. The wonders of anonymity � I could wander out into the big, bad world and do as I pleased. That is no-longer the case. A year and a half down the line, my identity has been compromised; the line between my fiction [...]

We’ve all heard the term LGBT, right? Gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans*. Do you know how many groups consider that acronym redundant? The NYT ran an articlerecently on what it dubbed “Generation LGBTQIA�. Here’s just a sample of some of the labels you can apply to your sexual identity: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, queer, homosexual, [...]