But She DARED Me To!

Honest!

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Maura Anderson and I’m a gay romance-aholic. I didn’t start out that way. Really.

I’m a published non-fiction author as well as the author of several erotic romances from Aspen Mountain Press. I’m also an editor. (Hey, no vegetables. If you want to throw anything, I’d like some chocolate, please. This has been a difficult week at the Evil Day Job.)

I only began writing fiction about two years ago after many years of believing so strongly that I had no talent for it that I never even tried. Now I can’t imagine not writing and the ideas keep flowing.

Yah, laugh it up. I also used to believe that I was a hugely shy introvert. We probably shouldn’t go there…

I’ve been a fan of gay romance for quite a while. Laura Baumbach’s Rough series was one of the first true gay romances I read and I love Bram and Jamie to this day. Then I began test reading for Jet Mykles a while back - and Ally Blue…. And editing.

I should have known I was in trouble there, but I didn’t see the signs. I didn’t know if I could write a good male/male romance and (yet again) didn’t really try.

Surely you see a pattern here.

At one point I was in a chat room heckling…. I mean chatting and teasing… Jet and Anne Cain. It was just after Thanksgiving and we started bemoaning the lack of male/male romances with Thanksgiving themes. This led to a discussion of the potential uses for gravy and I opened my big mouth about butter being better and thought there could be a story there.

Jet and Anne dared me to write one!

Well, strongly encouraged me anyway. But I was helpless to resist because the plot bunnies began breeding like tribbles on some sort of fertility drugs and the story idea created itself. This became a story called Giving Thanks. It demanded to be written. Really. It had nothing to do with my inability to resist a challenge… Honest.

I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying about not being able to go back. Well, I’m not writing ONLY male/male now but I have sold Giving Thanks to ManLove Romance Press along with another story called Hard Candy. They should be out in later this year as parts of anthologies. I also have several other ideas in the works that are definitely male/male.

I’m so thoroughly hooked that I begged and pestered to see if they’d let me blog with them. So I can absorb all the talent, don’t you know! (Actually they’re some of my favorite authors - but don’t tell them that, they’ll get all stuck up and pour maple syrup on me again or something. Those initiation rituals are … intense.)

You can check out my website at http://www.realmsoftheraven.com and see some of my stories and what I have in the works. They all have little codes by them so you can tell what sexuality each story contains.

I have a newsletter you can subscribe to also that has a free story in my Coyote Clans universe (called Games Coyotes Play) and a drawing each month. Sorry - that story is a paranormal hetero romance :) Some month I might even get the newsletter out on the 15th when I’m supposed to. Yah, Real Soon Now.

I also post a weekly Friday Flash Fiction on my blog. This is a story or scene of 750 words or less and is whatever I feel like writing each week. It could be paranormal or contemporary, hetero or gay, romance or another genre. You never know. So stop by and take a look. This week, in honor of joining this group, I promise it will be something male/male. All bets are off other than that.

I’m thrilled and honored to join this blog group!

Oh - and I like to talk…. Come on - you HAVE to have guessed that already…haven’t you?

Written by Maura Anderson

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