maybe it’s me, but…

Posted on 09/01/2011 by Kris

Do you ever read a book title or a blurb and back slowly away because you know – deep down in the dark bowels of your digestive system – that this will be a series which will never, ever end?
Like EVA!
Yeah. Me too.
It’s the stuff of a reader’s worst nightmares.
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ally’s story: your choices

Posted on 07/01/2011 by Kris
c/o Eyre.  She sends me the coolest things. 🙂

I bet you’ve all being dying to know what the main character was going to be for Ally Blue’s choose your own m/m Valentine’s Day story, right?  ðŸ˜›

So without further ado… your choices!

1. part of the setting ~ a public swimming pool in a small country town

2. some background to one of the main protags ~ one of them is a wereoctopus 

3. another character/s ~ an amateur private detective who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes

4. a conflict ~ soap

5. an object/phrase to be mentioned in the story somewhere ~ ‘It’s not easy being a twink’ sung to Kermit’s ‘It’s not easy being green’

Can I just say that I seriously love you guys.  

I really do.

Have fun, Ally!

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encounters with my baby brother: 10

Posted on 06/01/2011 by Kris



The Baby Brother: How are the choices going for that story thing you do?


Me: Pretty good.  *reads out some of the votes so far*

The BB:  Wait.  How come so many have chosen the BDSM dungeon?  What’s the matter with them?!  Don’t they have any imagination??

Me: O_o

The BB: Yeah! It’s… you know, that thing that happens all the time… you know, when the same thing happens in a certain story…

Me: A trope?

The BB:  That’s it!  Like I said, it’s hardly original for a BDSM dungeon to be in a sex story now is it??

Me: I guess there are stor-…

The BB:  *interrupts*  Although I can’t say I’m really surprised… considering the fact that you’re all a bunch of fucking perves.

Me: *nods* This is true.


Dear Perves, please make sure that you put in your choices for Ally Blue’s choose you own m/m story.
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ally blue is going down

Posted on 04/01/2011 by Kris
When Ally Blue heard what one of the choices was going to be in this round’s choose you own m/m story, she practically begged me to let her write it.

It was such total embarassment that I had to agree.

It’s true. 

I’m such a kind and caring soul.  *beams*

How to play:
Step 1. Peeps choose different elements to be included in a story.
Step 2. After counting the votes, I let you know the results and…
Step 3. Hand it over to Ally, who has agreed to produce the short story incorporating your choices in time for Valentine’s Day! Very cool. 🙂

The story prompts:

1. part of the setting
a) a side show alley at a carnival
b) a public swimming pool in a small country town
c) a caravan used for conjugal visits
d) a BDSM dungeon

2. some background to one of the main protags
a) one of them is a wereoctopus
b) one of them is a wereoctopus
c) one of them is a wereoctopus
d) one of them is a wereoctopus

3. another character/s
a) a travelling sounds salesman
b) a grifter who puts the girls of Jerseylicious to shame
c) an amateur private detective who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes
d) a bearded lady who is filling in as the fortune teller

4. a conflict
a) a kidnapped chihuahua
b) a family reunites after many years, but everyone has different ideas about why things went wrong
c) a brown bear has escaped
d) soap

5. an object/phrase to be mentioned in the story somewhere

a) ‘Don’t you come near me with that straw!’

b) ‘2012?? Yeah, those Mayans could always tell a good joke.’
c) Occam’s Razor theory

d) ‘It’s not easy being a twink’ sung to Kermit’s ‘It’s not easy being green’

Leave a comment with your choices or email me at krisngoodbooksATgmailDOTcom. You have until midnight Friday 7 January (Perth, Western Australia time).

Do me proud, my vegemite muffins!
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random awesomeness

Posted on 03/01/2011 by Kris

I can’t work out whether this is meant to be Sean Kennedy or L B Gregg.

Actually I think both of them would be more snotty so it must be the Mumma.

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my 2011 readolutions

Posted on 02/01/2011 by Kris

I had every intention of coming up with something appropriate in terms of aims for the Kris ‘n’ Good Books blog this year, but then I decided that really sounded like too much work, half-arsed though they would inevitably be, which led me to a thought…

Why not ask you lot what you would like to see here in the coming year?

I know! Fucking lazy awesome, right.  *beams*

When you make your requests please remember:

(a) My Not-Quite-A-Manifesto Manifesto; and,

(b) It will be highly unlikely I will ever do any of them.

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my 2010 readolutions: an analysis

Posted on 01/01/2011 by Kris



I think I was meant to do this before the end of last year, but, well, I couldn’t be fucked doing it then so you’re getting it now.


How I did with my 10 bloggy type aims for 2010?


Aim #1 – Read. A lot. Rant about it. A lot.  Please.  As if I was going to fail at this.

Aim #2 – Continue with the tasting-a-month thing up to the point just before it completely pisses me off.  I did it for 6 months.  Got tired of it, felt guilty – it happens.  not often, but it happens. – and then caught up on my tastings in 6ish days.  My version of the 12 days of Krismas.

Aim #3 – Embrace my randomness. It is the stuff of epics. I’m pretty sure I was even more random in 2010. I think it might be associated with getting older.  In a senile kind of a way.

Aim #4 – Try not to become too obsessed with my new photoshop software as well as send said rude pictures to people at their work.  My obsession lasted maybe a week.  Damned toy poodle flu.

Aim #5 – Mock people, in particular authors. FYI, apparently you’ve not really made it on the reading interwebz until you’ve become the subject of hate mail. Needless to say that I’m pretty disappointed it hasn’t happened to me yet – hmpf! to those Fanyons who call themselves… err… Fanyons… – so obviously I need to try harder.  I received my first hate mail within hours of posting this.  It’s disgusting how much Sean Kennedy loves me.  In all seriousness, though, I was quite disappointed in the utter lack of people hating me.  Obviously I need to try to be even more offensive.

Aim #6 – Avoid Attempt to avoid losing hours going through Sarah’s pron blog.  O.o BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Aim #7 – Get new minions since the old ones have utterly failed me.  Success!  And the proof that my new minions appreciate my awesomesauceness. 

Aim #8 – Over a 24 hour period, create a Twitter account, start a wankfest and then ninja flash out of there.  Well, I joined Twitter… That’s got to count for a 1/3 of a mark, right?  Right.

Aim #9 – Convince more authors that it is perfectly legitimate promo to be involved in my super fun ‘choose your own m/m story’ program.  I think you’ll all agree that we picked on some wonderful authors in 2010.  But fear not, my vegemite muffins!  For I, Kris, the Queen of the Fucking Universe, have already got the next victim lined up for a Valentine’s story!  There will be wereoctopi and other types of win!  Woo and hoo.

Aim #10 – And always, always serve up cookies to my virtual peeps.  


Smooches.
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the kris ‘n’ good books new year wish for you…

Posted on 31/12/2010 by Kris

HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAREST MINIONS!

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getting on the ‘best of’ bandwagon: 2010

Posted on 30/12/2010 by Kris

Continuing my tradition of not-quite-the-norm best ofs (see 2008 and 2009), I’ve decided to again pimp the shit out of revisit my 2010 fave glbtq film-ish moments.

In fact, I’ve heard the PTB are thinking of renaming 2010 as the Year Kris Became Obsessed Wif Teh Ghey TeeVee.

It’s an honour.

Apparently.

Anyhoo, this is what I done liked in 2010:

1.  Deniz and Roman from Alles Was Zahlt.

My post about it: Here.

A fave moment: The shower scene.

Dear.  God.  *fans self*

2.  Kyle and Oliver from One Life to Live.

My post about it: Here.

A fave moment: The first love scene.

It still gives me shivers.

3.  Brian and Justin from Queer As Folk.

My post about it: Here.

A fave moment: The infamous make up sex scene.

Rawr.

4.  Christian and Oliver from Verbotene Liebe.

My post about it: Here.

A fave moment: The proposal.

I am NOT a sap.  I just have something in my eye is all.

5.  Timothy and Jonathon from Were the World Mine.

My post about it: Here.

A fave moment: Timothy (Tanner Cohen) as Puck.

That voice just blows me away every. single. damned. time.

So these are my faves.

What glbtq films or TV shows did you discover and love this year?

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maybe it’s me, but…

Posted on 28/12/2010 by Kris

Sometimes when I’m reading a romance that is heavy on the sex I’ll get totally freaked out if there are kids in the story too.

Makes me think of parent sex.

*brain bleach*

Posted in maybe it's me but, romance | 35 Comments