{"id":1228,"date":"2015-01-03T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sacollins.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2015-01-05T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T06:24:07","slug":"quick-the-stork-done-took-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sacollins.com\/blog-wp\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Quick! The Stork Done Took My Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick! The Stork Done Took My Baby!<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Okay, not really freaking out too much here. I mean, there was no stork, even if there was a baby (of sorts).<\/p>\n

What happened was, I bit the bullet. I grinned and bear(ed) it. I took a leap of faith…<\/p>\n

I published my first work.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The book is out in the world now. Hall-le-fucking-lu-jah!<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m happy with it. Even if it isn’t the type of work I normally do. Part of me was concerned with that \u2014 perceptions and all. You see this work is a silly piece of fluff. Well, not silly, more sentimental and erotically charged. And while I am not about censorship when it comes to gay men and our sexuality, it is rather strange that I have a very sexual book out there that my\u00a0mother<\/em> can read!<\/p>\n

Okay, I should stop worrying about that. I am gonna write what I’m gonna write. It is what it is. Right?<\/p>\n

Yeah, well, I ain’t so sure now. Only because the next work I am putting out there is the important one. It’s the series that I feel the strongest about.<\/p>\n

Hank and my boys of West Virginia are great. I love them and they’ve given me a spark of interest in writing about werewolves that I didn’t know I had. I sort of love my furry beastie guys. And Hank’s a rather pretty boy in their midst. I mean, the picture I have of him as an inspiration says nothing but pretty (if decidedly, beefy) boy.<\/p>\n

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\"Inspiration<\/a>

Inspiration for Hank O’Malley in my story<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh, that ain’t the only picture of him, neither (as he’d no doubt say):<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/a>

Another of Hank O’Malley – tough luck lookin’ like that, huh?<\/p><\/div>\n

So yeah, pretty and beefy. Just look at them arms and them pecs, will ya? And I am not so much for blond guys – but, uh, yeah. He’d do \u2014 no kicking to the curb with that purdy boy! #jussayin\n<\/p>\n

And Hank’s a lovely boy to write about. He’s caring, un-obsessed with his own good looks, genial and easy to get along with. Completely unassuming. And who’da thunk he’d be in the middle of a werewolf war that was about to break loose? Or that his mama and closest thing to a grandma he’s got are a pair of powerful witches? I know he sure didn’t.\n<\/p>\n

Hank and his boys are near and dear to my heart. Which was sort of a revelation. I mean, as an author, you are deeply involved with your characters and your worlds that you create. That’s fairly a given \u2014 unless your completely dispassionate about the work then, why bother? But even if you are deeply in bed with them, it doesn’t always mean you have to like them much.\n<\/p>\n

But with Hank, Riley, Tanner, Mike, Toby, Darby, Dylan, Maynard, and Spike – I am really already rooting for these boys to triumph over the likes of Cade Bowen\/Talbot.\n<\/p>\n

Don’t know who he is?\n<\/p>\n

Yeah, well, go pick up the book, dammit!<\/p>\n

Amazon<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Smashwords<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Barnes and Noble<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
And I’d like once again to thank Steve Grand<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for providing the emotive inspiration for my gay werewolves of Sparrows Hollow, West VA.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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\"Country<\/a>

Country Crooner Steve Grand in all of his bloody manly redness…<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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In a very real way, they’ve already been turning the creative wheel on the next part of their adventure. Trouble is, I’ve got a crap load of new stuff to churn out in the other series that I am just dying to get out there: Angels of Mercy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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\"Angels<\/a>

Angels of Mercy – Volume 1: Elliot<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

It’s interesting because I am still<\/em> not about the sales. In a very weird way though, I want to know what other’s think of my work. I know there’ll be some who bash it all to hell. There’s haters out there who do nothing but trash talk every damned thing that’s out there.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
It’s just the way ’tis, thassall.<\/em> <– As Hank would say.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
There isn’t much that I want to censor from my work. I am so not a prude when it comes to sex. It doesn’t make my work erotic in nature because of this (though I do admit that the Sparrow’s Hollow series is deeply tinged with eroticism). Usually when sex enters my books it is because it is a part of the natural order of life. Whether it would be to have a family or simply for the pleasure of it all. I rail at those who get all uppity about it. The duality of not wanting to read about it and yet it is a very intrinsic part of life. I mean, we all got here because our parents fucked. Let’s be honest about it and pony up and embrace that everyone does it to a degree (not intending to take away anything from those who are asexual – that’s their gig and hey, I’m happy for them if they’re content to be so). I can’t though.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
Sex is important. It is a vital part of why we pony up to the relationship table, right?<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
My works will reflect that. My Feigr story is predicated on that. Sex is power to them, a means of manipulating and rewriting genetic code. They are very fearsome creatures who use our desire as a means to an end. Allure has a very dangerous connotation when it comes to my Norse infused Fae.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
So yeah, one of my baby’s has done flown the coup. It’s just as well. I gotta make room for the next part of their tale (it’s already brewing in my head). \u00a0Hank and the boys are waiting with baited breath for me to finish out my Angels (volumes 1 and 2 – that I plan to release simultaneously in the first quarter of this month). Volume 1: Elliot is already in the can (as it were). Marco (volume 2) is near completion. I think I’ll be ready by March at the latest. In a real way that’s a good thing I guess. It means, I can prep the Angel series for a proper send off. Hit the blog tour stuff and get the word out there.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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\"Angels<\/a>

Angels of Mercy – Volume 2: Marco<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Who knows? With a little luck, I just might have something here.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
And the literary nest will never be empty. No, I think that as I take my last breath on this Earth (hopefully many, many moons from now) my last thought will be: shit, they’ll never know how that ended now.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
The life of a writer, I suppose. A lonely craft it is.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
Still, I can’t think of what else I’d like to do more.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
Until next time…\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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