Author: Kim Fielding

My novella Speechless is now available in a bunch of e-formats at Dreamspinner! Here’s the blurb:

Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood, and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work. But when he finally gathers the courage to speak to the man, Travis learns that former novelist Drew Clifton suffers from aphasia: Drew can understand everything Travis says, but he is unable to speak or write.

The two lonely men form a friendship that soon blossoms into romance. But communication is only one of their challenges—there’s also Travis’s inexperience with love and his precarious financial situation. If words are the bridge between two people, what will keep them together?

The Romance Reviews is having a Sizzling Summer Reads Party. Each week in July there are contests with lots of giveaways and a grand prize. I’ll be taking part too: a quiz question about Good Bones will appear during the final week. In the meantime, hop on over and see what you can win.

PS–Five more days until my novella Speechless debuts!

My novella Speechless will be available July 18. Head here to check it out.

Thanks to all of you who have bought the books in the Praesidum trilogy, I made another satisfying donation today to Doctors Without Borders. Doubly satisfying, actually, because a donor was matching all donations today. Give yourselves pats on the back.

And then you can do me a favor: Go to my Amazon author page and click on “like.” Rumor has it that when an author reaches 40 likes, chocolate cupcakes fall from the sky–or something.

I finished my textbook revisions today too, which means in the not-so-distant future I may have time to write fiction again. But first a family roadtrip is in the offing.

Thanks so much to all of you who visited and/or commented during the blog hop. I’m happy to announce that the random number generator has chosen the winner of a Kim Fielding book of her choice: Savanna T!  The grand prize winner is Amilyn.

I have a novella and a short story coming out this summer, so stay tuned for more giveaways later.

Welcome! I’m excited to be participating in the Manga and Romance Blog Hop.

I have four novels and several short stories published, with more on the way. All my work fits more or less in the category of m/m romance. I sort of ended up here accidentally.

I never could stomach het romance novels. The plots seemed too cliched and although I’m a straight woman I couldn’t begin to empathize with the female protagonists. I read fantasy instead, and horror, and magical realism, and a whole lot of stuff that gets called “literature.”

Then I discovered fanfiction. To be specific, I discovered slash Buffy fanfiction (starring Spike, mostly). That I enjoyed very much. After a while of reading, I began to write. It was fun! I had fans!

And then I wrote my first novel, Stasis. This was in 2009, and I wrote the novel in one month, for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). As it turned out, my protagonists were two men who fell in love with one another–despite evil wizards, tyrannical leaders, and harsh laws. Stasis was followed by two sequels, and by then I was hooked.

What I like about m/m romance is that I can explore fresh plots and interesting power dynamics. Nobody assumes that the protagonist is me, because I am very clearly not, for instance, a gay male hipster werewolf architect. Most of my stuff isn’t strictly romance–it’s fantasy or paranormal or something else, in which the main characters happen to be men who fall for other men.

And, well, there are pretty men to think about. Can’t forget that part.

If you’re new to me, I hope you’ll try out some of my stories. And you can follow my blog and see what I’m up to. Thank you for visiting!

Prizes:
1. Comment here with your name and email and be entered in the drawing for the grand prize, which consists of 10 ebooks!
2. In addition, I’ll randomly choose one person who comments on my blog, and the winner will receive  the ebook version of one of my novels (winner gets to choose which one).
Comments must appear before the hop ends on June 24, so comment quick!

Once you’ve commented, go visit the other participating blogs:

I’m working on revising one of my textbooks right now. My muse is growing more and more impatient–she’d much rather be writing something more fun. The book includes the text of several hate crime laws, and I needed to proof those texts to make sure they were accurate and up to date. I recruited my older daughter (who’s 12) to help, because she’s an excellent proofreader.
So we get to the first law–Alabama’s–and I’m reading off the list of protected classes: race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, and physical or mental disability. DD1 interrupts me to ask, “But where’s sexual orientation?”
 I explained that lots of states intentionally exclude that group.
“That’s horrible!” she said. “That’s really stupid.”
Sometimes you have those parental moments where you think, I’m doing something right. This was one of those.