A MAGNETIC COUPLE DILEMMA

Disappointed by politics and coverups, Father Esteban Hidalgo decides to leave the church, regardless of his conservative family tradition. The real trigger for his decision is losing his best friend, Mauricio, who died of AIDS, and whose last letter stirs forbidden desires, besides asking Esteban to look out for Mauricio’s widower, Javier Lozano.

Without Mauricio's love Javier collapses, and the only thing which keeps him going on is to fulfill Mauricio's last wish. Javier has to personally return twenty years of letters to Mauricio's pen pal and best friend, Esteban. Someone Javier hasn’t meet, but whose voice over the phone, helps Javier cope with his ignorant family that doesn’t even understand the different between being HIV positive and having AIDS. The meeting between Javier and Esteban changes their lives, but standing between them is a lethal virus, Esteban family’ prejudice, a twenty plus age gap, and the memories of the man—both once loved.

Why do I have to be such a conflict junkie?

Why do I have to be such a conflict junkie? I’ve been working for a couple of months on a story for the M/M Romance Group at Goodreads, and somehow I managed to complicate it so much, that now, I’m tangled with it. I know I should let it go, but I keep polishing it, adding layers of everything, while my kind beta-reader-copy-editor is waiting for the masterpiece.

I should have written something nice, simple with little conflict and a lot of sex scenes. Well, the a lot of sex scenes will be included, but it’s not an easy story. None of mine are.

One thing I learned is to stick with what I know or almost know for stories, because this one needed so much research that rather than a short story it seems I was writing an epic of some sorts. I better go back to it, or it will never be read by anybody else.

Struggling with backstories and flashback.

I’m still working on those books. It has been hard to deal with the past, but I think I finally got it. Thanks to some of my friends who suggested a few ways to feed the essential backstory into the books. Some nice picture for inspiration.

What I'm doing.

Just a quick update, if anybody cares to know. I've been working nonstop in my books, which I hope to release next week. I'm going self-published after watching the market for a couple of years. Besides, I'm a control freak, who loves to master every step of the process.

Now, back to the work, or those will never be published.

It’s Sunday, so I’m not shaving, neither wearing make up.

While sipping coffee this morning, I realize that today I don’t have to shave or wear make up. Since I don’t have to interact with nearly anybody, because I’m staying home finishing the cover for one of my books. Then, I remembered the storm that is shaking the m/m writing word, and I thought, huh, maybe I should tell them now. Just in case, I meet any of my cyber pals and he/she notice what Revlon ® Colorstay ™ makeup doesn’t hide, that I do have an evil five o'clock shadow, which never fails to show up. There, I added it to my profile, so nobody complains down the road.

Web, here I come,

Why do a writer need a web space? Never mind. Yes, we do. However, I'm kind of reluctant to share more than my books out there. I started my cyberlife on Tweeter, and to my surprise, it went well. So far, I meet a few interesting folks, even see some very private pictures. I had no idea you can share such  things on Tweeter. I'm digressing again, see? I'd rather go back to what I think I do best, creating characters who get at one another in the most intimate ways.
I'm proud of myself today, because I created my Goodreads account, and posted on a couple of blogs. I even did my first blogging. That's huge, trust me. At least, for me.

I joined Booklikes too 

Also, Unless otherwise credited, all pictures used in this blog and my books covers are from Scarlett Content, provider of Adult Stock photo sets (NSFW link.)