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A Perfect Year
What a perfect year it has been for me.
February 2022, Blind Eye Books published my first M/M Romantic Thriller, Perfect Flaw. A great experience because I got to collaborate with the editor, Nicole Kimberling. Talk about bad-ass boss. Plus, I got to do something I have never done before: write gay sex scenes. What fun!
Writing has always been therapy for me. I try to write every morning before I begin my real job, but there is an obsessive nature to my writing. The story becomes something I think about all the time. When I go to bed, I try to induce myself into dreaming where I left off, hoping my dreams will provide me with the solution I’m searching for. Crazy as that may sound; it works.
My writing is also based in science. That is critical. Being a doctor, I feel a degree of responsibility to tell stories that are scientifically sound. Much of what happens in Perfect Flaw is based on actual events and real science. There won’t be any fudging the science in any of my books.
Obviously, the science comes naturally to me, having been a physician for twenty years. Writing mystery does not. The best way to become a better writer is to read in the genre you wish to write. That brings me to my February M/M Romance Reads Challenge. One book a week for four weeks. I’m happy to report I read: Strange Medicine by S.C. Wynne, In Search of Saints by Harper Fox, Madison Square Murders by Carroll S. Poe and Renovated to Death by Frank Anthony Polito.
Check them out!
February 2022, Blind Eye Books published my first M/M Romantic Thriller, Perfect Flaw. A great experience because I got to collaborate with the editor, Nicole Kimberling. Talk about bad-ass boss. Plus, I got to do something I have never done before: write gay sex scenes. What fun!
Writing has always been therapy for me. I try to write every morning before I begin my real job, but there is an obsessive nature to my writing. The story becomes something I think about all the time. When I go to bed, I try to induce myself into dreaming where I left off, hoping my dreams will provide me with the solution I’m searching for. Crazy as that may sound; it works.
My writing is also based in science. That is critical. Being a doctor, I feel a degree of responsibility to tell stories that are scientifically sound. Much of what happens in Perfect Flaw is based on actual events and real science. There won’t be any fudging the science in any of my books.
Obviously, the science comes naturally to me, having been a physician for twenty years. Writing mystery does not. The best way to become a better writer is to read in the genre you wish to write. That brings me to my February M/M Romance Reads Challenge. One book a week for four weeks. I’m happy to report I read: Strange Medicine by S.C. Wynne, In Search of Saints by Harper Fox, Madison Square Murders by Carroll S. Poe and Renovated to Death by Frank Anthony Polito.
Check them out!
