I came to writing through the backdoor, and have learned my way while trudging through the trenches - fanfic, then slash, then original fiction, honing my skills and focusing my interest as I went along. I also have to admit to not being as well read as many glorious writers who have posted here before me.

I think that started my affection for the m/m genre. All those daring spies, and rough and tumble heroes, guys working and living with their best buddies, saving each others lives and sharing a bond closer than most married couples. And to me, as a heterosexual woman, two attractive, hunky males all sweaty and passionate is arousing.īut my first love affair with reading started with the thriller/adventure genre. Writing about men in love with men gives me the opportunity to explore all the things I like best about them-their strengths, weakness, emotions, vulnerabilities, tenderness and even jealousy and possessiveness-all magnified by two. I love being with them, making love to them, being friends with them. My fascination with the m/m dynamic blossomed. Not writing slash at first but reading it, experiencing the genre, discovering I liked the power and dynamic of two gorgeous, cunning men in love.Įventually when I became more confident of my writing I branched out into slash with a vampire series I was immersed with on a business level as a script consultant. I started my writing career by reading slash fan fiction. So yes, I will always have a special place for Laura Baumbach in my shelf, and in this LiveJournal.

I'm probably one of the few proud owners of Demon Spawn: Tales from Demon Under Glass in print, her fanfiction, and of the first print edition of Out There in the Night and Details of the Hunt, when she was testing Lulu Press, and then instead decided to launch her own publishing company, MLR Press. Probably the first explicit M/M author I read, and I still remember the night I eagerly read Out there in the Night, and then the morning after browsing the net to find all the booklist by this author, and buying A Bit of Rough. Elisa_rolle Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir MitchellEven if she is not the first M/M romance author I read, Laura Baumbach is for sure among the firsts who did me a 'strong' impression.

Details of the Hunt by Laura Baumbach