A.L. Lester's Blog

This month we are writing about Regency Romance– whether we love it or hate it and why so many people love to both read and write it. This is bang in the middle of my area of interest as both a reader and writer of historical romance. Firstly then, when, and what, was the Regency? … Continue reading "RAtR: Regency Romance"

Hi! Hello! The observant among you will have noticed I have been absent from RAtR, and pretty much everywhere else, for the best part of a year. In that time I’ve sent out a couple of newsletters I think and put one or two things on my FB group. But essentially I’ve been focusing on … Continue reading "RAtR: Kind of, anyway"

Thanks to Ally for letting me stop by! I���m so excited about this project ��� last year���s Naked Gardening Day collection was such fun that we definitely needed to get the band back together, this time for World Letter Writing Day! Holly, Ally, Nell and I have stories out this weekend, and Amy will hopefully … Continue reading "World Letter Writing Day: A Flowering of Ink by K. L. Noone"

Hi! *waving happily* Thanks for inviting me to your blog, Ally, it’s always a pleasure to be here. After we finished our Naked Gardening Day project, we wanted to work together again because it was so much fun, and after some back-and-forth about what theme to pick, we settled on World Letter Writing Day because … Continue reading "Love, Isidor by Nell Iris"

Hello everyone! Thank you, Ally, for allowing me to swing by. I’m Holly Day, and I write MM Romance in all sorts of subgenres. By now, you might be aware we’re doing a group thing for World Letter Writing Day. Nell Iris, A.L. Lester, K.L. Noone, and I have each written a gay romance novella … Continue reading "World Letter Writing Day: Dear John by Holly Day"

It���s that time again! I���m very pleased to announce that the Naked Gardening Day Team are back. We had such fun working together last year that we decided to choose another day to write about this year and landed on World Letter Writing Day on 1st September. Today I’ve got an excerpt for you below, … Continue reading "It’s release day for the World Letter Writing Day Novellas!"

This isn’t a treatise on dystopian fictions! This month, we are writing about what happens after a writer types THE END in capital letters, centres them, saves the file and posts all over their social media that their masterpiece has finished? Erm. Well. Lots and lots. And I guess people work in different ways, so … Continue reading "RAtR: After The End"

Holly Day has a new release today! Celebrate National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day with a magic user, a vampire, and a mountain of zucchini! Vampire Food MM Slow Burn, Hurt – Comfort, Size Difference, Found Family, Vampire, Magic User A former blood slave. A strapping vampire. More zucchinis than any man … Continue reading "Holly Day: Vampire Food"

Morning! We had a quite a long rambling discussion about this topic when we were discussing what to write this month. It turns out the group is firmly divided in to “I love seasonal reads!” and “I hate seasonal reads!”. I’m pretty firmly in the latter group; except when I started actually thinking about it, … Continue reading "#RAtR: Seasonal Reads, yes or no?"

So this month’s project is basically messing around with AI chatbots. Collectively, along with most other creatives, the Read Around the Rainbow group are very concerned with the way there seems to be a minority cohort who think AIs can replace human artists and writers. So we decided to write from a prompt ourselves; and … Continue reading "#ReadAroundtheRainbow: AI Versus the Writer"