Andrew Q. Gordon

It’s Too Easy to Forget Thank you Andrew, for hosting the Blue Notes Holiday 2013 Blog Tour!  I’m celebrating the release of Encore, the fifth installment in the Blue Notes Series, as well as the upcoming release of the first holiday novella in the series, Symphony inBlue.  Symphony in Blue is also my 10th Dreamspinner Press release, so even more reason for me to be jumping up and down like a complete fool!  To celebrate, I’m running a contest with some super prizes, including a brand-new Kindle e-reader loaded with ebooks.  Check the end of the post for the link to Rafflecopter app.  You can enter more than once, and there are lots of ways to enter.  The contest ends …

So yeah, I’m a bit behind, but hey, better late than never.  The DC Metro Area M/M Romance Readers met on November 16. Mike was able to come this time so we made it a family outing.  Thanks to Joyfully Jay for being our fearless leader and to Treva Harte of Loose Id Publishing for hosting the event.

NaNoWriMo has been interesting. Much like a lot of things, November started with a surge – the first 12 days I averaged almost 2000 words a day.  The last five I’ve done less than 800 a day.  That said, I’m hoping to get to that 50K mark by the end of the month.  Not sure it will be done at 50k – doubtful really – but at least I can say I made the 50K threshold.  If I do make it, I’ll have written almost  double the number of words in one month that I managed in the six prior, so no matter what the result, it will have been a good exercise.  I’ve got an updater on the right …

‘lil q had her pictures taken at school – I think they came out quite well, even if I am biased. 🙂

Here we are at stop five. In case you haven’t been keeping up, I’m Johnnie, and I’m still stuck doing this tour. At least today we’re visiting one of my favorite places: the pub. Pull up a chair and get ready for a rowdy evening of drinking and darts. After a long day, if we’re not too exhausted to drive, the fellas and I will come down to our favorite pub, the Queen’s Head.

Bru Baker stops by today to talk about herself and her newest book – Island House. She’s also going to be giving away a free eBook copy to one lucky reader who leaves a comment at the end. Guest Author: Bru Baker Welcome Bru, why don’t you start by telling everyone a bit about yourself. Thanks for having me, Andy! I’m a journalist by trade and training, so it feels pretty strange for me to be the one answering questions instead of asking them. It’s more fun on this side of the questions! I’ve worked in newsrooms for more than a decade, and now I’m freelancing so I can focus on fiction. It’s a whole new ballgame, and I love …

All authors face the same daunting task – how to get their book noticed. In an effort to help some of my fellow authors, every Monday I’m going to post some of the numerous new books that have been released. For the most part these will be M/M Fiction with a heavy bias on Romance. That will probably evolve over time, but for now that’s were it is. I’ve not read everything that is listed, though I’ve probably read or will read many. Which means inclusion on the list isn’t an endorsement or suggestion. You should read the blurbs provided to see if you’re interested. I’ll post reviews to books I recommend under the ‘Books I Reviewed’ tab. This is …

The weather in DC is beautiful today.  Mike took took this video of ‘lil q and Emma while they were out for a walk today. This is more proof that the expression – a girl and her dog – is every bit as true!

This is my blog’s 200th post. I wish I had something stupendous to announce, or wildly entertaining. Instead I figured I’d use it to do what I had planned to do today all along – post an update. Boring? Perhaps, but I try to make it mildly interesting if I can. When I started this site/blog, it was meant to promote my first book and the others that would hopefully follow. I had no idea what that really meant – even if at the time I thought I had it all figured out.  In the 199 posts that preceded this one, I learned a few things that I hope will make the next 200 better. I’ve almost finished Book Two …

As some know, I’m the cook in the family.  But this year is my first time doing NaNoWriMo so I felt I needed a little help in the kitchen. ‘lil q volunteered to help and she told her daddy how she was going to make the pizza for dinner.