With projects like Frosting on the Cake collections, almost every word is way over on the reader side of the scale.
You’ve let me know what novels you adore, and I specifically craft stories about the characters that continue the flow of that novel even if it’s been 35 years since the final page.
I’ll admit, though, that sometimes it’s a character yammering in my ear that inspires, like Lisa from both Warming Trend and My Lady Lipstick.
Also, as many of you already know, writing has been a struggle for a past few years due to medication and, well, the entire crapshow that is the United States government right now, and that crapshow built right on top of the crapshow that was COVID. Through it all my publisher, Bella Books, has been extraordinarily patient. We were all happy when the book finally reached readers!
For all that and more than I can likely express, it is meaningful and touching that Frosting on the Cake 3: Still Crazy After All These Years is a finalist for a 2026 Goldie Award. I wrote it for readers, especially those who have been with me since 1989, all through the gay and gayer 1990s, the end of our bookstores, the beginning of the wild ride that is still publishing in the 2020s. I heard from many of you how much you enjoyed one more look into the lives of old favorites and newer stories too.
Thank you, all of you.
The Goldies are the awards of the Golden Crown Literary Society, which also hosts my favorite event of the year. I’ll be attending this August at the Orlando conference, standing proud and visible with my Florida queer family. I hope to see you there!
