Clare London

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Visit me and others at the GLBT Bookshelf, home of GLBT fiction.


HERE are my currently published titles...

~~PLEASE NOTE and be warned by the adult content of these stories and some of the sites that I link to~~

At Dreamspinner Press find me:

True Colors $16.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE
Sparks Fly $14.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE
The Gold Warrior $14.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE
And the sequel Twisted Brand $14.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE

Footprints (novella) $3.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE

Special Offer in the Anthology Mr Right Now / $14.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE
Dear Alex in the Anthology Make Me a Match Anthology #1 / $14.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE
Chat Line in the Anthology Sindustry #1 / $17.99 (print), $6.99 (download). >>>BUY HERE

Short Stories:
To Have & To Hold: Right Choice $2.99
To Have & To Hold: Then and Now $2.99 >>>BUY THEM HERE
Nap Sized Dream: Ghost of Christmas yet to Come $2.99
Nap Sized Dream:Come Together $2.99
Nap Sized Dream:Time Out $2.99 >>>BUY THEM HERE
Advent Calendar:Where's Santa? $1.49 >>>BUY HERE

At Amber Quill Press find me :

A Good Neighbor $ 4.00 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Muse $ 4.00 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE

At Eternal Press find me :

Masquerade Anthology of m/m erotica / $ 6.95 (print), $ 4.95 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE

Short stories:
Just Like Scrooge $ 3.95 (print), $ 1.80 (ebook)
Secret Santa $ 3.95 (print), $ 2.50 (ebook)
In The Wee Small Hours $ 3.95 (print), $ 1.80 (ebook) >>>BUY THEM HERE

At Torquere Press find me :

Open Up in the Anthology Bend Over Big Boy / $ 5.95 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Deep Cover a Torquere Sip / $ 1.29 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Bad Hair Day in the Anthology Flipped Fables / $ 13.95 (print), $ 5.95 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Limbo in the Taste Test Horns and Halos / $ 2.49 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Perfection and The Mask, Halloween Sips / $1.29 (ebook) >>>>BUY THEM HERE

At Red Rose Publishing find me :

In The Closet $ 1.99 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Just Like in the Movies $ 0.99 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
That's Entertainment! $ 1.99 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE

At Aspen Mountain Press find me :

His Gift $ 3.50 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE

At MLR Press find me :

Freeman $14.99 (print), $ 5.99 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE
Outed In the Anthology I Do! $ 14.99 (print), $5.99 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE.

At loveyoudivine find me :

Out of Time $ 2.50 (ebook) >>>BUY HERE

Find out more about ME here:

Author Interview at Jessewave's Blog.
Author Interview at Two Lips Reviews.
Podcast Interview at Jordan Castillo Price's blog.
Interview at Jen's Well Read blog.
Chrissy Munder and I review each other at Authors by Authors!
My experience of Fanfic2Profic plus many other authors' at meta_writer's Community.

I had a fabulous time in January 2009 with a month full of invited visitors, and blog posts covering chat, information, opinion, discussion and pimpage! I thought I'd keep a record of all the posts here if anyone wants to dip in after the event.

( FIND IT ALL HERE!!! )

Original call-up post HERE!!
Maybe I'll do it again some time...
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Hello FList and Vistors.

I've run away!

Well, not as melodramatic as it sounds. But things had been getting on top of me to the extent I wasn't eating or sleeping properly. Food made me nauseous, my hands were shaking on and off, I was crying at the drop of a hat. So I've taken my last 2 days holiday from work and have come down to Brighton for a long weekend.

On my own. WOW.

It felt odd, and the family did look a bit bemused, but I booked the hotel last night, then after work tonight I got in the car and drove. I have a novel to edit, several WIPs I need to examine for potential, and some stock to take. I had a day out with a friend last week and she said I ought to spend my royalties on things like this. As last quarter was yet again short of a pair of Jimmy Choos, I realised she was right. And seriously, it's sorely needed. I know I joke about the chaos around me at home and I do love my family dearly, but sometimes it all gets too much.

The room is gorgeous. I paid extra for a side sea view (don't tell Hubby) but I've been upgraded free to a full frontal *hehe*, view that is. I'm not closing the curtains tonight - I can see the sea, just past the bandstand that's all lit up. I can hear the waves and when I brought in my case, I could smell the wet tang of seaweed.

*am happy*

Of course, it's not Paradise *mwahaha*. The night staff are sullen, the floor of the room dips up either side so I'm typing on a slope, and the TV reception is so patchy the only thing that's not pixelated is Jackass 2. Hmm yes. May be turning that off in a minute, if someone starts nailing genitals or harrassing animals or something. Also I got lost (surprise!! I always do, even with sat nav) so I didn't arrive until 10 pm, and there are no parking spaces left at the hotel so I'm parked over 0.5km down the parade. And I had to make 2 journeys with case and laptop. But the rain held off and it was - wait for it folks, this is clare who reckons walk is an obscene 4-letter word - very, very pleasant under the streetlights and glow from the seafront hotels.

Now I'm sitting tapping this, drinking a bacardi and coke, eating one of those disgracefully expensive M&S salads I bought on the way, and looking out over the sea. I can go to sleep when I want, eat when and what I want, don't have to talk to anyone, worry about any chores, wonder what I've forgotten to do, who I have to wake up for school/college etc etc etc.

Is that dreadful?

Hubby is coming down tomorrow and we'll do some shopping, have a nice meal out, he'll stay over and go back Sun. Then I have another 2 days to work. Blissblissbliss. Then by the time I have to go home, I'll probably be getting lonely anyway.

OK, so Jackass 2 are branding someone's butt and putting a fish hook through a cheek and dropping him in with sharks. Ho hum. I'm off to surf my channels and try to find something less gross.

Wish me luck with the writing stuff!
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Just musing on the difficulty of writing an explicit sex scene with my household soundtrack in the background :

*Hubby defrosting the freezer, accompanied by the sound of cracking ice like a Scott of the Antarctic retrospective,
*Son#1 practising a medley of Deep Purple and Newton Faulkner (I know, I know, the ears boggle) on his electric guitar,
*Son#2 yelling alnost incoherently (thank god) at Call of Duty, something about one of his mates leaving him undefended on the top of a building.

chrissymunder said today my life reads like a sitcom.

I think it's more like The Omen.

My guys may end up in anguished UST.

*aarrgghh*

God, I bet this shot stopped traffic...LOL.

JB was fab!!! Yes, on Wed I went to see John Barrowman play Albin in La Cage aux Folles in London's West End (ish). His rendition of 'I Am What I Am' was a true show-stopper. It's a small theatre and we were in the front of the Dress Circle so we had a great view. Sometimes he was a little over the top - but it's in the nature of the show (and JB, I suspect:)). The dancers were amazingly, mesmerisingly brilliant, Simon Burke superb as Georges (what a voice!) and a Very Good Time was had by all. Including Son#2 who coped extraordinarily well with it all - as I'd hoped - and loved the wit and music of it.

*sighs happily*

Now I'm sitting watching the sheets of rain and high winds outside and trying to finish 3 tax returns before I can justify spending time writing. I'm also on my 3rd wash and Hubby is creating tapas dishes for the family celebration tomorrow for Son#1's birthday. I just have to keep my fingers crossed the weather clears so we have the planned fireworks...LOL.
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...an electric blue bob suited me! Don't you agree??!!!
LMAO

It's nearly midnight here, I'm drinking a home-made margarita after a Foul Week at work and wishing for Californian sun instead of London rain.

Sigh
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I Do is up for Book of the Month at Dark Diva Reviews. Jaime gave a thoughtful and enthusiastic review of the book on the site recently HERE, where she confirmed what a good read it is, in her opinion - and not JUST because of the great cause it supports.

"Readers have one week to vote for their favorite book.

The book that is voted Book of the Month will receive a Book of the Month Graphic for advertising, as well as a Featured Book Cover slot for November on the Dark Diva Reviews site.

You can find the poll HERE.

Please let everyone know to stop by and vote for their favorite book."

And I can only hope that for some of you, it will be I Do - and here's the BUY LINK *lol*".

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I'm THRILLED that True Colors has been selected by the Jury to be considered in the final stage of Elisa Rolle's RAINBOW AWARDS.

It didn't win the Popular vote in its category - BUT I'm very, very grateful to anyone who voted for it in the first couple of rounds. I was excited to get the votes I did in such great company!

Don't forget to check out all the nominees over at Elisa's announcement post, plus she's also running a fun contest for the best cover from all the nominees HERE.

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I'm back from Yaoi Con where I had the most fabulous time. I go there full of wary nerves every year, because surely it can't be as much fun? and we all know you can't reproduce joy to order, and maybe people have moved on, or it'll all seem very jaded or overwhelming or boring or I'll feel too OLD...

But it was Fabulous :). The Con itself is fun and I love to watch the cosplayers, attend some of the panels and buy buy BUY loads of stuff. But mainly, for me, it's the joy of meeting a group of people who've really become good friends - not just the 'friends' that we all have online, whom we like of course but have never had the chance or appetite to welcome as something more - and to spend time with them in a totally relaxed way. We talked fandom and writing and jobs and clothes and food and families. We spent time in different small groups and then time all together, all of it as enjoyable as anything else. Big missing-you-already hugs to iveys_tales, badmomma64, klingonpoo, muse_neko, yaoichick, anime_gal22, colorfulshadows and caro_t.

I met some friends in real life for the first time - shout out to emlynley, bittermint, baileymoyes and arieltachna - and spent some precious time with friends I hadn't seen for a longer time like paikan (I needed more time with you, love, so sorry I missed you at the end of the day!) and mallorypath.

Highlights??? My panel on turning Pro with your Writing, with iveys_tales went very well, I was determined not to get too nervous and to enjoy chatting with people. I spent an entertaining hour with one of the Bishonen from the auction on Sunday morning - I was sitting in the lobby because I couldn't sleep, he hadn't been to sleep at all LOL - where we chatted (yes, that's all we did, to the more filthy-minded of you out there) about anything and everything from Prop 8 protests, whether he thinks straight het women exploit gay males for their m/m fic ideas or fantasies, how to handle garter belts without pinching the fingers, and the anguish/joy of apartment sharing *phew*. I also had a fab supper with my publisher and appear to have committed to all sorts of delicious new fiction over the next few months, so keep your fingers crossed I can peel myself away from RL sufficiently to deliver!

I bought pencilboards!!! (there's a surprise *cough*) and some art books, plenty of Pocky, plus I appear to have come home with 2 more pairs of shoes than I went with (must have been distracted by the margaritas).

And of course....tah dah... my blue wig that Pumpkin so kindly let me borrow and then keep!
Yes, photos will follow, if my kind friends will copy me in on them.

Now I'm off to catch up on posting all the things that I probably should have posted before now...

I miss SF deeply - but it's good to be back, too!
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And I'm back to San Francisco tomorrow to get it back LMAO.

5 glorious days in SF - well 3 full ones, much of the rest of it travelling *sigh* - and another trip to Yaoi Con. I'm a novice, it'll only be my 6th LOL.

Pancakes for breakfast...
Margaritas at the bar...
Cable cars...
Japantown...
More pencilboards for my collection...
Plenty of cosplayers to watch and marvel at...
So many US accents around me...
The Bishonen auction...
Running a panel on seeking professional publication (*ulp*)...
Meeting some DSP authors...
Signing my books, even if no one wants to buy them LOL...
Sitting in the lobby, writing, at 5am because I can't handle the jetlag...
Chatting about writing, reading and One True Pairing...
Maybe even some Californian sun!!!

And MOST IMPORTANT of all - meeting friends I haven't seen since last year.
Not sure I'm going to get to sleep tonight with excitement, and I haven't even packed yet...

I'll be back properly online next Tuesday, though I'm taking the laptop with me and will - of course - be tempted to come online sometimes. *am geek*
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