Is (W)hole about me?

My first novel, (W)hole, went through a lovely promotion earlier this month which got it exposure to a much wider audience than normal. I think most of the people reading the book have been other devs or people with disabilities who have heard of devs and are curious. With the promotion, I think most of the readers are people who are curious and intrigued by the highly unusual subject of the book, but may have never heard of it before. I got a new review at Amazon that I found really interesting. Two things stood out to me about it. “My only complaint is that the book is written clearly for an audience who is into this fetish and because of this, it is a bit too technical, especially early on, with the ins and outs of this fetish. I visited the...

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Posted by on Jan 10, 2012 in Updates on Ruth's Fiction | 1 comment

Six Sunday: Breath(e) Two

Six Sunday: Breath(e) Two

Again this week I have six sentences from the new novel, Breath(e)… At the end of dinner, Elizabeth put her coat back on and prepared to go home. “Do I get a kiss?” Theo said. Elizabeth flushed. “Yes,” she said. She braced her arms against the back of his chair and leaned over him, pressing her lips against his. His lips were soft and his breath tasted like coffee and cinnamon. Find more six sentence excerpts from other writers at www.sixsunday.com  Thanks for stopping...

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Posted by on Jan 8, 2012 in Six Sentence Sunday | 7 comments

New Year

2011 was a year of massive change in my life. It’s been a wild ride and I think 2012 is going to get even better. It really came into focus that life doesn’t ever go the direction I expect or give me what I want in the way that I want it. I’ve learned that whatever goals I make need to be things directly in my own control. I can control how much I write, but not whether it will sell. I can control how open I am to dates, but not whether I will have a boyfriend. The first really monumental thing in 2011 was that at the very beginning of the year, January 5th, I discovered www.paradevo.net.  This is a website message board for people like me, women who are attracted to physically disabled men. Now, I’ve been this way for as long as I can...

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Posted by on Jan 2, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment