You’re Number One! And so is Sinner’s Gin.

On 30 Dec 1202 Jul 23 By Rhys FordIn Good News22 Comments

A person can write alone. When they are wearing the Writer hat, it is a lonely business. However, once those words leave the person, they become more…belong to many more people. And once a story has gone through the layers of Beta and Editing, the person has to set aside the Writer hat and put on the Author hat.

But keep in mind, that Author hat is not of their making. Everyone contributes to it. Every person who purchased the story has woven a stitch into that hat. Every review, every edit and every suggestion made by a Beta is a part of that hat.

And sometimes, that hat reaches such great heights… but not just because of the person wearing it but because of the people who CREATED it.

Sinner’s Gin hit number 1 today on Amazon’s GLBT fiction charts. To be specific…

• #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Gay & Lesbian
• #1 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Fiction > Gay
• #2 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Fiction > Romance

So for everyone of you here… I toss the Author hat in the air and say Wooooooot. You have flown me…and Sinner’s Gin… much higher than I’d ever thought it would go.

Thanks seems so small a word. But it’s all I’ve got.

So Thank You. Very Much.

Ah… Hapa Hawaiian Boys…

On 29 Dec 12 By Rhys FordIn Music16 Comments

Still one of my favourite Kahiko dances.

This. Really. It’s All We Need.

On 29 Dec 12 By Rhys FordIn Good News4 Comments

Reaction To Marriage Equality In Maine

Crowd reacts to first same-sex wedding by breaking into song!

Dudes….

On 28 Dec 12 By Rhys FordIn Good News11 Comments

You all fricking rock… seriously… FRICKING ROCKING PEEPS.

Thank you for making this happen. Thank you.

Of Dogs and Words…

On 28 Dec 1228 Dec 12 By Rhys FordIn Heh6 Comments

I’ve spoken about Gus Gus before. He’s my cairn terrorist that suffers from an anxiety disorder of epic proportions. We’ve been working on it for some years now and it’s made all the more difficult because cairns are by nature, very stubborn and headstrong dogs.

Gus Gus is no exception to that rule. They are like cats in a dog suit most of the time which makes behaviour modification rather difficult. We’ve come a long way. A LOT of trial and error as different trainers…different philosophies were tried out to help him not go Full Metal Jacket on everything.

No, he’s definitely come a long way.

Right now, he’s sitting on the couch next to me. Today is a “needy” day. A day when he’ll spend a few hours shoved up against my leg and needing a bit of cuddles once in a while for reassurance. Just to make certain his world is doing okay. In a couple of hours, the mail trucks will come by and he’ll go ape-shit in trying to kill the noise but for right now, he’s just a grubby little boy dog that smells vaguely of wet leaves despite the fact he’d had a bath a couple of days ago.

Dogs are kind of like books… well writing them anyway. You never know what you’re going to get and sometimes, you have to fight with it to make it behave.

Whiskey and Wry is such a book. Pity I put Dude in Sinner’s Gin because honestly, all I need to do to make writing this would be a cairn terrorist in the middle of the plot. *laughs*

stabs this book

On 27 Dec 1227 Dec 12 By Rhys FordIn Heh18 Comments

Book Title: Whiskey & Wry

Words Written: 55,000
Words Used: 5,410
Hours spent Writing and Editing: 118+
Number of Reboots: 5

Number of changes to Male Lead Love Interest’s name: 7
Number of changes to Male Lead Love Interest’s sanity: 2
Number of changes to Male Lead Love Interest’s employment: 2

Amount of times Writer has muttered at book to just fucking behave and go forward: Numerous
Amount of times Writer has told Old Man Dog to get out from under the computer desk: Infinite

Looks Cat gives me when I begin to mutter: Priceless and stinking of “You’re crazy”.

Holy Crap…Dudes…Sinner’s Gin hits Top Ten

On 27 Dec 1227 Dec 12 By Rhys FordIn Good News40 Comments

Fucking hell, this morning… Sinner’s Gin hit number 8 and 10 in its genre categories on Amazon. Dudes… I am… okay truly, I am so very grateful and damn… words. I can’t haz them.

Thank you. It’s all ’cause of you. *does happy dance* Thanks, guys. COFFEE FOR ALL!