Dabwaha Final Round!

Excitingly enough, there is a m/m romance in the final round of Dear Author’s DABWAHA competition this year.  It’s not False Colors, but it is the book that False Colors lost to.  I’m thinking “wouldn’t it be brilliant if – out of all the different categories, and against all the m/f romances of this year, a m/m romance won?”  Yes, it would be fabulous news for all of us.

And I reckon that if it beat False Colors in a fair fight, then it must be a good book   So I’ve been over there and voted for Zero at the Bone http://dabwaha.com/blog/

and if anyone else in the m/m world fancies giving our representative  a helpful nudge, I think that would be a great thing

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Meme day #7

7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?

I find music too distracting to listen to it while I write.  I prefer silence.  I’m one of those people who can’t help but stop and give the majority of my concentration to whatever music is playing, so I have to have none if I’m going to concentrate on anything else.

I do find that music is excellent for giving me story ideas.  I listen to it all the time when I’m not writing, and I like to make up playlists to accompany my novels – but that’s more in the light of “stuff I do to keep up my enthusiasm for the project” and goes alongside making icons, making book trailers and picking photos of actors to represent my heroes.  A playlist goes in the “making up a fun scrapbook” part of the process, but not with the actual writing.

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