Nephylim's Blog - Posts Tagged "romance"
Introduction
This is my first attempt at a blog and, for a technophobe that is a big thing.
I have recently had two books published seeing the achievement of a lifelong dream. I am still very starry eyed and excited.
I love to read and I love to write and I love people. Put them all together (reading about the people who read my writing) and I'm in heaven, I mean it.
I have long been of the opinion that young gay people are woefully under-representing in the literary world and I have moaned about it with my daughter and her girlfriend. Then I thought, well if something is wrong see what you can do to fix it, and i started to write stories where the main characters are gay
Yes, some of my stories have sex in them but they are character development first, story second and romance third. I have real characters going through experiences that makes them grow. Yes, there is romance and even a tad of sex but that it absolutely secondary to the story, in most of my stories although there are the occasional erotic as a more important focus.
The Unfairness of Life is, at the same time a love story and a breathless adventure. Gabriel is running from his past which is fast catching up, and Laurie finds himself, first fascinated and then falling hopelessly in love with him. Although Gabriel tries to push him away, he is tenacious and won't give up on him, even when his past catches up with him with dramatic, drastic and almost fatal consequences.
Enigma is my favourite out of all the stories I have ever read. It is about a character called Silver who I am totally in love with. He starts off in resitential care, having reverted to a basically catatonic state after a horrendous experience (he was thrown out of a car on the verge of a motorway, after having been beaten half to death, and left to die) One of his carers, River manages to get close to him and gradually brings him back to the world, falling in love with him as he goes. The more he discovers about Silver's past the more frighened he becomes and, when the past catches up and they are kidnapped by the evil Faith they find out just how important they are to each other and how special Silver really is.
Hostage, isn't a published book although it is posted at Gay Authors online writing site and forum. It is about two boys who start out deadly enemies but, on a quest to rescue their guardians from a political enemy, they become close and then closer. This is primarily an adventure across a world that might be in our future or another reality altogether.
I hope that SOMEONE will read and comment because there is nothing I like more than discussing my characters who are all very real to me
Nephylim
I have recently had two books published seeing the achievement of a lifelong dream. I am still very starry eyed and excited.
I love to read and I love to write and I love people. Put them all together (reading about the people who read my writing) and I'm in heaven, I mean it.
I have long been of the opinion that young gay people are woefully under-representing in the literary world and I have moaned about it with my daughter and her girlfriend. Then I thought, well if something is wrong see what you can do to fix it, and i started to write stories where the main characters are gay
Yes, some of my stories have sex in them but they are character development first, story second and romance third. I have real characters going through experiences that makes them grow. Yes, there is romance and even a tad of sex but that it absolutely secondary to the story, in most of my stories although there are the occasional erotic as a more important focus.
The Unfairness of Life is, at the same time a love story and a breathless adventure. Gabriel is running from his past which is fast catching up, and Laurie finds himself, first fascinated and then falling hopelessly in love with him. Although Gabriel tries to push him away, he is tenacious and won't give up on him, even when his past catches up with him with dramatic, drastic and almost fatal consequences.
Enigma is my favourite out of all the stories I have ever read. It is about a character called Silver who I am totally in love with. He starts off in resitential care, having reverted to a basically catatonic state after a horrendous experience (he was thrown out of a car on the verge of a motorway, after having been beaten half to death, and left to die) One of his carers, River manages to get close to him and gradually brings him back to the world, falling in love with him as he goes. The more he discovers about Silver's past the more frighened he becomes and, when the past catches up and they are kidnapped by the evil Faith they find out just how important they are to each other and how special Silver really is.
Hostage, isn't a published book although it is posted at Gay Authors online writing site and forum. It is about two boys who start out deadly enemies but, on a quest to rescue their guardians from a political enemy, they become close and then closer. This is primarily an adventure across a world that might be in our future or another reality altogether.
I hope that SOMEONE will read and comment because there is nothing I like more than discussing my characters who are all very real to me
Nephylim
The Runaway
My latest book, The Runaway is due to be released on 12th September and I am WAY excited.
I've never put so much into marketing any of my books before and it's been a learning experience. I've enjoyed it very much, especially my forays into twitter, blog hopping, web banners etc.
I'm hoping it will have made a difference but in some ways it doesn't even matter because I've made friends and had lots of new experiences.
Anyway. The Runaway is a modern fairy tale based around an old Celtic story of faeries and the Otherworld.
In the story, a man chooses to leave fairyland, a place of pleasure and ease, but a prison to return to a world changed beyond his imagination where he has to struggle to survive, but is free.
In my story Ciarrai, a successful model turned Hollywood actor is crushed by the privilege and control of his extraordinary life and yearns for freedom.
He runs away to a cabin by a lake and meets Jack a boy with no past after a car accident kills his parents and wipes his memory.
While Ciarrai runs away from his past and Jack runs towards his they begin to form a relationship and Jack finds himself falling for the enigmatic boy who likes to wear silk and lace when he feels like it and thinks it's fun to turn up for a date in a leather mini skirt and stockings.
At first, Jack thinks the only reason he has these feelings for Ciarra is because his androgynous beauty blurrs the boundaries of male and female and he is attracted to the feminine in him. Gradually he comes to know better but by this time Ciarrai's past is snapping at his heels and just when it looks like they're going to be happy the past comes rushing back and Ciarrai is swept back to fairyland.
Can a mere mortal find his way into the world of the Hollywood superstar? Does he even want to? And will either or both of them survive it?
Interesting questions and an interesting story.
So there you have it a fairytale with no fairies in sight (unless you count Ciarria who's as fey as they come when he wants to be) and a story of two men struggling to be themselves in a world with so many expectations and demands.
Step out of the box and join two unusual characters on their journey of discovery and find out why Aaron Coleman has to die.
Stretch your imagination and ask yourself why the hell shouldn't a beautiful young man wear a silk kimono and high heeled slippers if he wants to? Or go on a date showing a sliver of flesh between the top of his stockings and the bottom of his skirt?
It was such a fun book to write and I really hope you'll find it just as much fun to read.
I've never put so much into marketing any of my books before and it's been a learning experience. I've enjoyed it very much, especially my forays into twitter, blog hopping, web banners etc.
I'm hoping it will have made a difference but in some ways it doesn't even matter because I've made friends and had lots of new experiences.
Anyway. The Runaway is a modern fairy tale based around an old Celtic story of faeries and the Otherworld.
In the story, a man chooses to leave fairyland, a place of pleasure and ease, but a prison to return to a world changed beyond his imagination where he has to struggle to survive, but is free.
In my story Ciarrai, a successful model turned Hollywood actor is crushed by the privilege and control of his extraordinary life and yearns for freedom.
He runs away to a cabin by a lake and meets Jack a boy with no past after a car accident kills his parents and wipes his memory.
While Ciarrai runs away from his past and Jack runs towards his they begin to form a relationship and Jack finds himself falling for the enigmatic boy who likes to wear silk and lace when he feels like it and thinks it's fun to turn up for a date in a leather mini skirt and stockings.
At first, Jack thinks the only reason he has these feelings for Ciarra is because his androgynous beauty blurrs the boundaries of male and female and he is attracted to the feminine in him. Gradually he comes to know better but by this time Ciarrai's past is snapping at his heels and just when it looks like they're going to be happy the past comes rushing back and Ciarrai is swept back to fairyland.
Can a mere mortal find his way into the world of the Hollywood superstar? Does he even want to? And will either or both of them survive it?
Interesting questions and an interesting story.
So there you have it a fairytale with no fairies in sight (unless you count Ciarria who's as fey as they come when he wants to be) and a story of two men struggling to be themselves in a world with so many expectations and demands.
Step out of the box and join two unusual characters on their journey of discovery and find out why Aaron Coleman has to die.
Stretch your imagination and ask yourself why the hell shouldn't a beautiful young man wear a silk kimono and high heeled slippers if he wants to? Or go on a date showing a sliver of flesh between the top of his stockings and the bottom of his skirt?
It was such a fun book to write and I really hope you'll find it just as much fun to read.
