About ropes and robes – how the “Monk” was born
Releasing a sizzling “Monk” into the world! Viking bear Bjorn has news: From today, the third sensual short story in the collection Tales of Freya is available on all major…
Sex, Romance, and the Viking Woman | Gina Conkle’s Guest Blog for Dirty, Sexy History
Sex and romance have spiced up history. There’s the tragic tale of Marc Antony and Cleopatra and the Middle Ages pairing of intellectual souls, Heloise and Peter Abelard. There’s the…
Hush, writer, you can’t write that …
Or: Why do I hold back? A painful observation. E.M. Cioran said: “Write books only if you say in them things you would not dare confide to anyone.” Or in…
The Female Gaze: What’s the revolution?
As an empowered, confident woman I didn’t at first realise why I am so in love with series like Vikings and Outlander. Yes, my gaze finds amazingly attractive men there,…
How do I orchestrate my own love scenes?
How to write sex with style, Part 5: The practice! Making a love scene come alive (no porn-vocabulary, no fetish, no Kama Sutra and little dirty talk needed) Yesterday I…
Holy Viking Hotness …
… or: How to write sex with style, Part 2: The complicated cooking of a tasteful Nordic feast As I said earlier, some recipes for yummy hotness are just proven…
What I could NOT write (about)
The bedside table discrepancy I talked about how I found my (present) writing genre (historical and often romance) and why I “specialise” in the Viking age here. And I often…
Publishing under pressure — Part 2: Research!
This post is about how to “do your homework” when the pressure is on, and you, let’s say, want to publish a book within, let’s say, one week (ahem), from…
Publishing under pressure — Part 1
My transition from writer to author within a week As I hinted at here, the writing of my novella “Yule Flight” was a little fun idea at first, when I…
Happy Old Year and welcome to the New!
What a wonderful year the old 2014 has been. I dared to officially turn my passion into my job, I am writing/editing full-time (with all the blogging-marketing-communicating-researching that comes with…
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