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Happy Valentine's Day. I'm spending it alone but better that than with a jerk I suppose. I have prosecco and chocolate covered strawberries and I have crab legs and scallops for dinner. I think I'll enjoy a little hedonism tonight.

Other than that I've managed to lose a whole day. It was nearly 1 by the time I got home (how it took me THAT long in Kroger's today I'll never know) and then suddenly it was 3 and now nearly 5. Huh. I've done absolutely nothing. Thank god I have off tomorrow.

In Jana's news we have this: See Kaleo’s snippet &
Sunday Small Talk

This is rather important how authors ruin their chances on Amazon Amazon has been stripping reviews and this shows you how to avoid it. I'm sure I've made this mistake.

We've been having some interesting conversations on Queer Sci Fi and that has to do with lesbian fiction. Between authors failing at it and publishing houses learning it doesn't sell, it makes you curious as to why. According to some of the editor/publishers, on their publishing house forums the answer is 'lesbians don't read that stuff.'

I find that interesting. Granted I've known for a long time that most of the gay m/m stuff was only being read by a relatively small percentage of gay men and that women made up the lion's share of the current boom in gay romance. I've seen too many comments by readers (much like I have with far too many slashers) that anything with a woman in it is 'icky,' and 'who wants to see a woman?'

If I were getting a doctorate in psychology I swear I'd make THAT a study. I do find it disappointing that there isn't more lesbian fiction out there. That was the point of the conversation, more diversity in the QUILTBAG other than just m/m fiction but the bi/lesbian/trans/asexual stuff doesn't seem to sell. I did try one short story for one of the few lesbian anthologies I saw but realized quickly it would never be a short story and shelved it. Mostly because I didn't see a market for a longer piece.

And I was disappointed as well looking at Wayward Ink's non-romance LGBT section which was about six books in total. I know they're a newer company (that I'm thinking of sending something else to) but I was hoping there was more there. I also wished I knew how those books or the non-romance ones in DSP were selling. Either way I'll finish off the few novels I have left in that and try to make a decision.

Even though I know if I really want to sell something it should be contemporary romance. sigh.

This isn't that accurate since I have put nothing of Weird West into it and frankly it's in the other room and I don't feel like hobbling after it.

Yearly Count -

6849 / 115000
(5.96%)

Blood Red - Edited up to chapter 12. PROGRESS!

Weird West - languishing in a lake of self doubt.

And a week later my knee still hurts but that urgent care visit was worth whatever I'll pay for it because that vaseline impregnanted gauze and the NSAIDs have made me hurt much less and the damn wound isn't sticking.