by Cooper West | Aug 20, 2013 | Announcements!, Writing Update
Damaged Goods, my latest contemporary M/M story, has been submitted! This means I now wait around forever while my publisher decides if they want to option it or not. I’m not nervous about that, nope. Not me. Nope. *whistles* Okay, “forever” is...
by Cooper West | Aug 19, 2013 | Modus Operandi
Most of you probably know that “Cooper West” is a pseudonym. Back in 2010 when I was first contemplating, then submitting, my first M/M story to Dreamspinner Press (the short story Connections), I had just started graduate school. While my field is a...
by Cooper West | Aug 18, 2013 | Editorial, Modus Operandi
I just turned 44 earlier this week, and I’m SO proud of that. I tell everyone. It is a triumph that I made it at all, much less made it as a successful (if newbie) romance author who just finished her master’s degree and…wow, so many other things! I...
by Cooper West | Aug 8, 2013 | Editorial
A post by author Lisa Morton (whom I will NOT link to from here) and the various reactions around the interwebz about it, most perfectly represented by John Scalzi’s rebuttal, has been making the rounds within the communities of writers I belong to. And it’s really,...
by Cooper West | Aug 7, 2013 | Modus Operandi
I self-identify as polyamorous, but lately I’ve come to realize that my current lifestyle is more along the lines of “recluse.” I got divorced back in 2010, and after that my life was consumed by writing and graduate school for two years. 2013 has...
