Help me Choose a Cover

I’ve got several options for the cover of my new book, so please help me to decide! 🙂 Blurb of the story is: Dylan Sinclair wants a future in music, but he feels held back by being in a wheelchair. In a moment of desperation he hatches a plan to have his brother, who can’t sing at all, impersonate him. Record executives are happy to go along with the charade and David’s career quickly takes off. Dylan must watch and keep quiet, never getting any acknowledgement for his work. When a beautiful reporter starts writing a biography of David, it becomes too much for Dylan and he determines to prove to her that he is the talent behind the famous voice of David Sinclair. Here are the options: A                     B                       C                       D  ...

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Posted by on Apr 2, 2012 in Updates on Ruth's Fiction | 17 comments

Friday Excerpt: On Saturday Afternoon

Time is going by so quickly and I frequently forget when it’s Friday! I apologize for the weeks I miss.  Today’s excerpt is from my short story On Saturday Afternoon. It is available in my first Dev Dreams collection, but the reason I’m sharing a part of it today is that it is also in a new anthology that just came out called Accessible Love Stories. It’s on Kindle and will be out in paperback soon. All the stories are from different authors and each one has at least one character in a wheelchair. ### The hallways were empty and Em had no idea how to find him. Her voice was too soft to call for him. She kept a hand against one wall as she slowly walked from one end to the other, stopping abruptly at a painting hanging at the end of the...

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Posted by on Mar 30, 2012 in Friday Excerpt | 0 comments

Unfortunate Shout Outs

It seems like every movie or book that has a love story with a disabled character has an obligatory sentence about those freaks who are attracted to disabled people. It really annoys me. It’s always a love story where the people “really” love each other, as though that’s different from how a devotee and a person with a disability could feel about each other. The guy (in my case) will complain that he can’t get a normal date. Of course there are these weird people out there who will date guys in wheelchairs because they like it, but who would want that? Thank goodness the heroine is a nice normal non-dev woman. You know what? A lot of devs are reading and watching these stories. And it is painful when we’re going along, enjoying...

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Posted by on Mar 29, 2012 in Sexuality | 3 comments