( Jamie knew what he wanted. )

Shifters Ross and Lindy really want their third love, Tau, to move in with them. Were-lion Tau is reluctant, if only because he has problems in his past that he doesn’t want Ross and Lindy to have to deal with. When those problems show up in a very real way, Tau knows he has to do something to stop them from spiraling out of control.

Ross and Lindy know they have to help Tau, but they're not sure how they can when they end up in trouble themselves. Can Tau reach his lovers in time to keep them safe, or will the ghosts of his past take everything he cares about away?

Your result for The Kink Spectrum Analysis Test...

Blue (450 nm)

You scored 67% self-confidence and 74% bandwidth!

*claws out of pit* I’ve been so ridiculously ill. I’m finally getting well enough to get through the backlog of my to-do list. I already had ‘infection of vital internal organs’ checked off on my ‘let’s not do that again’ list, but apparently I’m going for doubles. Looking back, I was really kind of sick there. But, better now!

Anyway, until I do anything else, have a repost of a comment I just made over at Angela Benedetti’s LJ in her “Sticking the Landing” post(http://angelabenedetti.livejournal.com/22455.html):

I’ve written nearly 2 million unpublished words in the last 20 years. (Mostly over 10 years with 10 years of being too ill to write in the middle and the first five years just writing for fun, not publication.) Someone once wisely said that the first million words you write will be crap — and he wasn’t far wrong. Even if you don’t write crap, knowing why you don’t is something else all together.

I think it takes a certain amount of study and writing to reach a level of maturity so that not only do you finish novels but you know what makes a novel a success AND you can do it on demand. The writers you see who are ‘one novel’ writers have learned to write THAT novel really well, and they’re lucky if it’s a novel that sells, but they may not know how to write a good novel, period (not the end of the world if what you know sells!).

What kind of writer you want to be, where you’re satisfied with stopping in your progress, is an individual thing. I respect people who master a certain kind of novel and continue to produce saleable novels of that kind indefinitely. They get more done than I do and they make a lot of people happy. It’s not in my nature to stop banging my head on the craft.

I’ll note also that the first thing I wrote that anyone else saw was a (very long) novel. It was actually quite respectable and an editor could have done something with it. I regret now that I didn’t take it, and the next two major things I wrote, seriously enough to seek out an agent or editor before I fell ill. I just couldn’t do it, even with encouragement from professional writers. I didn’t know WHY what I did was working and until I did, I couldn’t come to terms with it being any good.

Originally published at anahcrow.com. You can comment here or there.

excerpted from the forward of A Primer On Bisexuality in Erotic Romance For Beginners, posted here for public reference*

Some characters may like both men and women. Sometimes, they might mostly like men but like women a little, or they mostly like women and like men a little. That means they usually like to do romantic stuff with the kinds of people they like best.

Then someone extra-special comes along and the character likes them a lot even if the character wouldn't usually want to hold hands and do private things with someone like that. This is all called being BISEXUAL.

Some people like to pretend that BISEXUALS don't exist, or that BISEXUALS are just confused about who they like, but that isn't true. Other people say that BISEXUALS are just greedy. That isn't true, either. BISEXUALS are perfectly normal people who think it's normal to like men and women instead of just one or the other.

Sometimes, it can take a person a long time to decide they are BISEXUAL; it could be a long time before they meet someone who interests them the right way who is the kind of person they don't usually date. This is not any different than a STRAIGHT or GAY person who takes a long time to find the right person for them. Some people know they are BISEXUAL when they are young. They are not just being cool or trying to hurt their parents' feelings. They know they are BISEXUAL just like GAY people and STRAIGHT people know what they prefer.

BISEXUAL people are not dangerous. They will not suddenly decide to be attracted to you and lose control of their libido. BISEXUAL women also are not usually interested in doing private things with a man's wife while he watches. That is called EXHIBITIONISM and is not covered in this primer.

BISEXUALITY is not contagious. While you may briefly consider what it is like to be attracted to the kind of person you don't prefer, it is very rare to be permanently trapped in a state of undesirable open-mindedness. If it happens to you, don't worry. Proceed directly to the nearest adult video store and select your usual preference. You will return to your normal state within several hours.

In short, BISEXUALS are just like everyone else, which is too bad, because if they really were twice as awesome as normal people, in addition to being twice as likely to get rejected on a Friday night, the world would be a happier place.