Hi, I’m Carrie Jones, senior entertainment correspondent with the BBC and in the run up to the release of the novel Kissed by a Rose by British author Marc Nobbs, I’ll be interviewing some of the characters from the book – culminating with a interview with the one and only…

First, I’d like to say a very big thank you to Marc for letting me crash his blog for today. I am very, very honoured. And I promise not to set the joint on fire lol. I am Remmy Duchene and I write gay romance er erotica…well I write gay…

I’m 34 and I remember some snowy winters in Britain. I have memories of trudging to school through the snow for about a week when I was nine or ten. I remember the sheer glee of playing out on the school filed. I remember making giant snowballs. I remember building…

Just a quickie. Simon Cowell’s X-Factor is back and the live shows are underway. This year we have the worst act to go through to the live shows in the history of live television, ever. But damn, they are funny. The X-factor twins. Or is it the X-files twins. John…

I only recently come across this concept – post six sentences from a longer piece on a Sunday. Nice idea, so here’s my first offering. These six sentences come from Kissed by a Rose, which gets it’s print release next week. If you can’t wait for the print, you can…

This morning, I received some feedback from someone who read yesterday’s blog post on SOL concerning my brief comments on Frank Downey’s “Rewind”. It was politely pointed out that Mr Downey has his own reasons for not finishing the story, and that I should be very careful about what I…

My ‘Blue Pen & Highlighter” review of A Tortured Soul is well under way. Having the m/s printed means I can pick it up and review a few pages whenever I have a spare moment. I’m currently about half-way through chapter seven (of twenty-nine) and I’ve yet to find any…

The Big Four Ohhh! is the first short story I’ve written in a while and it shows. First, it’s not exactly short, with the first draft coming in at over twelve thousand words, and second, it’s written more like a novel than a short story in that the writing isn’t…

I know I haven’t been around this week, and there are reasons for that I might explain later, but I’m back for Six Sentence Sunday. My six this week again come from my impending print release, Kissed by a Rose, which you can get in digital formats now if you…

I’ve been a busy little squirrel this past week or so, but not working on A Tortured Soul (I’ve been thinking about how to get the plot where I want it to go though, if that counts for anything). No, I’ve been working on this website, which is just as…

What day is it? Yep, I sort of lost track over the past, however long. It’s easily done when you’re out of your normal routine. It is, I believe, Thursday, which means I have three days left here in Northern France before having to brave the British motorway system again…

  At some point today, I’ll arrive at the holiday cottage we’ve rented that will be our home away from home for two weeks. But through the beauty of advanced scheduling, I’m able to bring you a Six Sentence Sunday post this week. So, here are six of the best…

Sorry folks, but I’m just going to moan a bit this morning cause I feel like absolute shite. I went to bed early last night because I felt a migraine coming on – I got the lack of vision/spots all over the eyes thing. Then the headache started. Then the…

Yes, yes, I know, #sixsunday has been absent for a couple of weeks but it’s back and since today is father’s day, the six today – from Eternally & Evermore – have a fatherly theme. In fact, I’m offering up two sets of six to make up for the recent…

Recently I was interviewed by Victoria Blisse for a workshop she runs. Here’s my answers to her questions. How did you start writing erotica? I’ve written for as long as I can remember. Back in secondary school, I used to love getting story-writing as homework in English lessons. I even…

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After starting up “From Across the Pond” again, I did find myself trying to work out just what it was for. Well, now I know. From now on, “From Across the Pond” will become my place to write reviews of TV, Film, Books, music – anything really. They will be…

Here’s today’s Wednesday Words excerpt. Enjoy. BLURB: Jebediah Knight, Arizona territory’s Marshal, is a big man. He’s come to Arizona City to take care of business. Once the job is finished, Jeb realizes he’s not ready to move on just yet. It seems a sweet, if cantankerous, little lady has…

Do you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? You know, the one where they have a race? Well, a couple of weeks ago I was feeling like a hare in terms of how much and how quickly I was writing. Four new chapters and changes to a…

Another chapter is finished – that’s chapter 23 for those who are counting – and the word count for A Tortured Soul is now just 500 words below that magic 100k figure. That means that the next chapter will take the story over 100k, the first time I’ve achieved that….

Following Monday’s post, I exchanged some correspondence which lead me to ask myself the following question – Should I look again at the stories I have on the StoriesOnline website (and free on my own website) and bring them up to the same sort of standard I’m writing at now?…

Yep, after a few posts about the state of the country/world and my spouting off in general – I’m going to do a post about writing today. Just for a change. I’m so tantalisingly close to finishing a first draft of Chloe’s Education that it’s starting to annoy me. Why?…

It’s a funny feeling when you suddenly realise now much and how quickly the world has changed. As I write this, I’m sitting on a park bench while out on a sunny Sunday walk. I’m writing it on my T-mobile G1, the google android based ‘mobile device’ and it’s suddenly…

Today is, so I’m told, Veteran’s Day in the US. I’ve seen blog posts, Myspace comments and twitter tweets wishing people a “Happy Veteran’s Day.” And I wonder. I wonder just how many of them realise why it’s TODAY. How many realise the significance of 11/11. It is, of course,…

When I write, I will often do a companion Tweet session if anything occurs to me. (And by tweet, I don’t actually just mean twitter, since the app I use, Twhirl, updates Ping.fm which in turn updates Facebook, MySpace Google Buzz and others) It might be that I hit a…

Today Don Luis de la Costa settles in to tell us a bit about himself and his books. ***** My “normal” milieu is difficult to define. One of my all time favorite stories has been a riotous biker adventure story that spans a week of travel as they traveled toward…

So, I’m really excited about getting Eternally & Evermore to a state where I think I can submit it to Phaze and see if they’ll publish it. I genuinely think it’s the best thing I’ve written to date. I know that there is still work ahead, editing is never easy…

A blog is, most of the time, a writer’s best marketing tool. But it only works as a tool if the writer can attract a steady stream of readers – be they as subscribers to the RSS feed or as visitors to the site. Listen to any ‘expert’ and they’ll…

“Kissed by a Rose” is scheduled for release by Phaze in June 2009. Here’s a sneak peek. Blurb Who’d have thought tears in the library could change your life? For Adam Smith they led to love. But when your girlfriend is the latest English Rose to grace the silver screen,…

Okay, so for the past few days I’ve been in a really, really shitty mood. I mean, really shitty. I’ve been the sort of miserable arsehole that even I’d like to punch. And here’s the thing, I’ve no idea why. Really – no idea at all. Mrs Nobbs keeps asking,…

Charlotte’s Secret has had another good review. Romance Reviews Today – erotic awarded it a “Missionary” rating with their review. Here’s some of what they said. “Yes, CHARLOTTE’S SECRET is about sex outside the marriage vows, but Marc Nobbs puts a unique twist on the subject to not make it…

Following yesterday’s entry about ‘Hate Mail’ or more accurately, one particular reaction to one story, I’ve had some interesting replies. Some of them agree with me, having received similar messages themselves, some sympathising with the correspondent. Now, let’s be clear about this, I don’t begrudge the correspondent his opinion, and…

One of the worst things about about being an author is that you have to work hard to promote your work in order for it to reach the readers. Back when I was an ‘amateur’ writer, by which I mean someone who wasn’t paid for what I wrote, it wasn’t…

I’m still trying to get back into the routine of blogging regularly—and of posting to my Facebook page regularly, for whatever that is worth with the piss poor way Facebook handles posts on Pages—but it takes some effort to get back into the swing of it properly. One of the…

I got notification today (aren’t Google alerts great?) of a second review of Eternally & Evermore in the space of a week. And this one is just as good as the last. The review site is Literary Nymphs and the reviewer is Goddess Minx. Here’s a couple of quotes from…

Another week goes by and it’s another week where I haven’t been able to find the time to blog as I’d have liked. But I’m not going to dwell on it – Life gets in the way sometimes, all of us have to accept that and I’m no exception. Shame…

Just come across this and I had tears streaming from laughing so much. Really, Really funny.

Two more of my books have been added to Kindle Unlimited, meaning if you have a KU subscription, you can read them at no extra cost! First up is the last of the four Ladz “Local Lovelies” short stories, Episode #65, Carla. This one features a feisty blonde estate agent…

Anyone who’s visited my website or looked at the signature of my e-mails will have noticed that for the past year or so I’ve been claiming to be “Turning Romance on its Head”. That’s been my strap line. I changed it from “The Known Unknown”. Why? Cause sometimes you need…