the story of Burning It Down
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So have been checking out Rainbow Gold Reviews these days? It’s the fresh new thing on the reviewing horizon, well that and Prism Book Alliance. I’ve been having a lot of fun with both, actually. One of today’s features at Rainbow Gold is Firefighters Day and RG is kind enough to spotlight the third of my CalPac novels, Burning It Down (BID).
BID was a funny one as far as the CalPac canon goes. It was never supposed to
Cover art, Burning It Down
exist, and neither was Owen Douglas.
Obviously he and BID do exist, however. Astute readers of my novels know that Owen first shows up in Tipping the Balance (TTB) and was instrumental in make sure that Brad Sundstrom and Drew St. Charles acted like the adults that they are and worked through their misunderstanding. Brad and Drew are a couple because of Owen Douglas.
The thing is, Owen appears nowhere in my outlines for TTB and neither does that smoking hot scene between Owen and Brad in TTB. Owen essentially spun himself into existence in a few hours one evening while I was writing. I remember writing to my publisher to ask if something like that would detract from the story, because the sparks between Brad as the project foreman of the renovation of the Bayard House (why does no one get that I named the major plot device in TTB after Bayard Rustin?) and Owen as the chief official of the fire department present. I knew they were going to have sex as soon as they met. My publisher told me that so long as it wasn’t gratuitous it would be fine.
So I gave up keeping them apart and let whatever was going to transpire happen, and happen it did. A hot daddy firefighter and a muscular bear cub? Damn. Not only did Brad learn that he was not merely gay for Drew, he was gay, period, but I managed to avoid all those bad jokes about sliding down a fireman’s pole. Or did I? Maybe you should go read TTB and find out, because that scene was incendiary.
Still, I felt bad for Owen, because even at that magic moment, Brad thought about Drew, not him, and Owen could tell. Even if I hadn’t been enthralled by Owen for his own sake, I’d have owed Owen his own book just to make it up to him. He was noble and self-sacrificing, but that won’t get you laid, you know?
And there it was, the beginning of Burning It Down.
Well that, and this video:
https://www.youtube....h?v=G3uoVOOlT2s
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BID was a funny one as far as the CalPac canon goes. It was never supposed to
Cover art, Burning It Down
exist, and neither was Owen Douglas.
Obviously he and BID do exist, however. Astute readers of my novels know that Owen first shows up in Tipping the Balance (TTB) and was instrumental in make sure that Brad Sundstrom and Drew St. Charles acted like the adults that they are and worked through their misunderstanding. Brad and Drew are a couple because of Owen Douglas.
The thing is, Owen appears nowhere in my outlines for TTB and neither does that smoking hot scene between Owen and Brad in TTB. Owen essentially spun himself into existence in a few hours one evening while I was writing. I remember writing to my publisher to ask if something like that would detract from the story, because the sparks between Brad as the project foreman of the renovation of the Bayard House (why does no one get that I named the major plot device in TTB after Bayard Rustin?) and Owen as the chief official of the fire department present. I knew they were going to have sex as soon as they met. My publisher told me that so long as it wasn’t gratuitous it would be fine.
So I gave up keeping them apart and let whatever was going to transpire happen, and happen it did. A hot daddy firefighter and a muscular bear cub? Damn. Not only did Brad learn that he was not merely gay for Drew, he was gay, period, but I managed to avoid all those bad jokes about sliding down a fireman’s pole. Or did I? Maybe you should go read TTB and find out, because that scene was incendiary.
Still, I felt bad for Owen, because even at that magic moment, Brad thought about Drew, not him, and Owen could tell. Even if I hadn’t been enthralled by Owen for his own sake, I’d have owed Owen his own book just to make it up to him. He was noble and self-sacrificing, but that won’t get you laid, you know?
And there it was, the beginning of Burning It Down.
Well that, and this video:
https://www.youtube....h?v=G3uoVOOlT2s
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