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hmm sorry to sound rude, but i am being literate... what do you want instead of saying lol you want me to spell it out?
how am i not being literate, if your going to say what someone's not, it would be nice if you said a little more then your against the rules for not being literate and say why you don't think their being literate, alright?

Yes, I do. I have read many stories with good M/M scenes written by women. Of course, "good" is a subjective term. Everyone has their own opinion of what makes something good. Personally, I think a good M/M scene should be factually and anatomically accurate, or at least plausible. It should be about more than just the actions that are taking place. It should reach the reader on an emotional level.

By those standards, I would have to say that I find more good M/M sex scenes written by women than by men. Men tend to focus on the visual and physical aspects. Maybe I'm just really in touch with my feminine side, lol, but I like a story that engages me on a deeper level.

I'm not really an expert on publishing, especially on what other countries do. I know that in the US, all the publishers that I looked at have a list of unacceptable elements -- No minors in sexual situations, no sex with animals (werecreatures okay) or the dead (vampires okay), no rape for titillation, no bodily functions -- Most of it has to do with erotica. As long as there aren't any erotic scenes involving the girl, I don't think it will matter. If she's an adult in her world, then it should be fine, even if the sex is implied.

Do you mean the cover in my sig? I didn't make that one. That was made by Coyote Shadow Studio, my publisher's very talented cover artist.

I'm almost finished with my Easter/Ostara story. I should finish it up this weekend, especially since we don't have to go visit family on Sunday. 5 feet of snow in California is keeping everyone at home. It's too bad, but I need the writing time. Now, if I could just think of a title for the darn thing.

Speaking of titles, I decided on the title for the third book in the Suburban Fantasy series. It's going to be called Will Work For Blood and my publisher and I are talking a tentative November release date. I haven't even finished writing the outline yet, lol. So far it's got sex, dancing, and drama as my vampire main character struggles to find a job in a failing economy. And I now have ideas for several more books. Yay! I see selkies and faerie princesses and werepossums in the future, lol.

Congratulations on finishing the Easter/Ostara story
Heh I know how titles can be the trickiest part of the writing to do..
I hope you can find one you'll be happy with
Oh, sometimes the stories started on whims or side projects can turn out to be quite fun to play with -nods- I hope it goes well for you. I haven't written steampunk, though I've heard the term thrown around a lot on Gaia when requesting items

lol I have that same problem when I look back at the books I wrote with my old mode .. (writing til I passed out from exhaustion) .. g'luck re-writing it

Oh -nods- yes, I have the same problem with titles as well.. some come okay, but others (like this series I'm working on now) are really hard to put an attractive title on

Yay for side projects turning into fun full books!
And yes, writing in a new environment always gets me confused to.. maybe that's why I stick to the fantasy umbrella with action/school/adventure/drama etc under it ^^'
Oooh -nods- sometimes that happens to me too, but I try to use that as part of their personality.. it can be pretty interesting when that happens

Wo0t! January is over and I made my goal of writing at least 500 words a day. My daily average was 1049, so I did pretty good if I do say so myself. I finished two stories, got one sent off to my publisher, and should have the other edited and sent off in a week or two.

Gah! I need to stop looking at writing contests. I found another one I want to enter, about how opposites attract. It's not on Gaia, it's on a site called Storywrite, and while I find the instruction for the contest a bit hinky, it has inspired me to re-enter the beloved world of my epic masterpiece, Broken Wings.

I've been thinking a lot about Broken Wings lately. The entire 163k word novel is still up on FictionPress because I don't know if I want to butcher it down to a publishable length. Most publishers won't look at anything over 120k. I don't want to cut it down, and I don't want to take it off FP because (and I know this is a stupid reason) the story has almost a quarter of a million views and if I remove it, those stats will be lost. Stupid, I know, but those are impressive numbers.

It also draws in a lot of viewers to my FP account, where I have links to my published works on my profile page, so maybe I'll get a few sales from it, too. And, the story has been nominated for a SKoW Award as best completed slash, Jak and Akitra. Voting should begin soon and I'll post a link when it does so you all can go vote, lol.

I think what I might like to do is write short stories and novellas set in the world of Broken Wings that address loose ends I left untied in BW, expand on the lives of minor characters, or just happen in the place at the same time, like the story I'm working on now, A Solitary Flame. I'll leave BW up as a free read forever, and as promotion for these shorts and novellas, which I'll publish as e-books. I might even offer a cleaned up and edited version of BW as a PDF download for $.99 or something like that, if someone wants a nice version to keep on their e-reader or Kindle or ipad or whatever. That's what I'm thinking of doing, anyway.