my confession

Posted on 18/01/2010 by Kris


It is true. I have become a disgusting sap.


I kid you not (again).

LB, Emilie, Chris, JenB, Katiebabs chook and the Island Kitteh all bear witness to the ridiculous lengths I will consider, nay, go to, in an attempt to fulfill my latest obsession.

First, it was Deniz and Roman from Alles Was Zahlt.

Click on pic for the glory that is the shower scene. The aftermath… not so good. 😦

Then, it was the oh, so cute Luke and Noah from As the World Turns, although their recent storylines suck big, fat, hairy donkey ballz! *Maybe if you hadn’t screwed this up, CBS, you would still have a damned show on your hands!* *poutmope*

Click on pic for their first kiss, which apparently rocked the US in 2007 as the first gay kiss on daytime tellie.

And now…

Well, now it’s Kyle and Oliver from One Life to Live. *sigh*


Yes, Deniz and Roman are completely friggin’ awesome and the portrayal of their relationship sheer bliss, but Kyle and Oliver have their own song!

O_O

Their own song!!!!

*double sigh*

Perhaps I did hound certain US bloggy friends until one of them bought me the single from US iTunes and sent it to me – I luff my KBC! – , but, let me ask you this, is there anything really wrong with that?!?! *NO!*

I’ll let you decide for yourself.

Here’s a fan vid put together by itsjustlove1 featuring both song and Kish kisses, including their first love scene:



I have goose pimples. 🙂
Posted in m/m, pretties, red alert, sighs, time suckage, tv serialism | 57 Comments

but there’s no need to fret

Posted on 17/01/2010 by Kris

Oh, no…


… because today’s Rex Manning Fires of Ballian Day!!!

Well it was nearly… if ML had accepted my bribe of cookies to release the book on the Oz date instead of the US one. *mopepout*

Anyways, here’s the song that goes together with the movie reference. Enjoy!


Posted in empire records, M L Rhodes, music | 13 Comments

tam’s guest post: are we being misled?

Posted on 16/01/2010 by Kris

So you’re in a bar looking to score. Mr. Right-Now looks like he’s packing, he’s cute, clean, funny, this is going to be good. You get to his place and the imagined 9 inches of porn star goodness turns out to be 4.5 inches of midget glory and a packet of tube socks. Huh? False advertising, my friend.

No, I don’t regularly troll bars around town but I do read a lot of “shorts” and lately I’ve noticed some disturbing trends. I get my files in PDF format, I’m not sure how it works for other formats on Kindles and E-readers, but when I open the document I look at the “page count” to see how much pleasure I have to look forward to. 46 pages. Cool.

Reading, reading, reading …. hmmmm, this seems to be winding up. The end. Page 16!?!? WTF? Where is the rest of the book? I was promised 46 pages of manly smexin’, or at the very least some kissing. I understand there are a couple of pages at the front with info (in this case 5) and maybe a page at the back with the author bio, but 30 pages? Only 23% of the book is story? What is on pages 17 – 46? The first chapter of each of four books by the same author in another series. Excuse me?

I may have bought the book even if I’d known it was only 11 pages. I buy Sips from Torquere Press all the time, but it really annoyed me that the story came to an end on page 16 when I was expecting 30 more pages. I know, I know, it said 7000 words in the blurb. What the hell does that mean? Short, fine, but I trust you to give me an accurate page count. I shouldn’t have to scroll down to see if the book actually goes to the end or stops 1/4 of the way though. If a book is 150 pages and I find out that 12 in the back are propaganda, I don’t mind. I’ve already had a good dose of fun.

So tell me, do you care? Do you even pay attention or just go “long, short, medium”. I know if I pay $1.99 I’m getting less story than $6.99, but don’t cram a bunch of crap at the end that I don’t want to give me the impression I’m getting more for my money. I’ll figure it out, you’ll piss me off and I will mention it to others.

Posted in guest post, tam | 34 Comments

dear book goddesses

Posted on 15/01/2010 by Kris


Dear Book Goddesses

The Mumma and I have been talking and we think you should make authors stop writing other stories when they are meant to be doing the next book in a series.

It’s fucking annoying.

Amen,

Kris.

PS – Yanno, all this angst to authors and readers could be avoided by implementing my suggestion of a total ban for anything above a trilogy. Just sayin’.
Posted in authors, book series, dear book goddesses, mumma | 40 Comments

maybe it’s me, but…

Posted on 14/01/2010 by Kris


Honey, you’ve got it going on that’s for damn sure, but…

… and you can call me crazy…

… perhaps having that much skin on show may not be the best idea when you’re hunting vampires and other things that go rip and shred in the night.

Just a thought.
Posted in book covers, maybe it's me but, urban fantasy chicks | 32 Comments

wren’s m/m story: your choices

Posted on 13/01/2010 by Kris


Do any of you have any fricken idea how hard it is to find a picture of two guys; one of whom sings when he’s nervous and also – or maybe it’s the other guy – can’t remember that he’s done the dirty with the second dude, in a stuck elevator with a drunk priest and an ice sculpture??

*Or was that a funny story about a drunk priest and an ice sculpture?? What. Ever.*

Well, do you?!!

*mutteryoualljustmademyawesomeimagefindingpowerslookbadmutter*

Hence the gratuitous cookie.

Yeah. You’re welcome.

*consoles a sobbing Wren*

There, there, hun. I know. *glares* They all suck and we hate them.

Anyways, you’ll have the story for me us them by Valentine’s Day then.

Awesome. *beams*

Posted in a choose your own m/m story, wren boudreau | 50 Comments

major kris ‘n’ good books red alert*

Posted on 12/01/2010 by Kris
*already edited before it was even published


Up until the morning of Sunday 10 January 2010, I, Kris, of Kris ‘n’ Good Books, had managed to resist the pimpage of the German soap opera, Alles Was Zahlt.

And then this happened, which was promptly followed by this, etc, etc.

*Damn you to friggin’ hell, Lisabea aka LB aka L. B. Gregg! May you never see a Golden Oreo ever, ever, ever again! Do you hear me!! EVA!!!!!*

For those of you who have yet to visit this place of evil (otherwise known as the Eskimo Kiss Project famed for its English subtitles, unrepentant gay boy fandom and awesome episode summaries) be warned it is a gate into another dimension.

I kid you not.

For when you eventually return to your own reality due to an urgent need to pee and/or dangerously annoyed Russian Blue kittens you will discover that time has mysteriously moved forward. Waaaaaaaaaay forward.

It is true.

You have been warned.


PS – If Deniz doesn’t get his fucking ‘I’m-gay-I’m-not-gay’, ‘I-love-him-I-love-her’ act together soon, I’m gonna be seriously pissed off.

Do you hear me, LB.

Pissed. Off.

PPS – Would somebody please just tell me if/when/whatever episode that they get back together because I’m dying here! Dying!!

PSS – There also appears to have be an echo in this blog. Quite possibly caused by please-geezus-can-someone-tell-me-there-is-hot-make-up-shower-sex-again-because… *fans self*

PPSS – Okay, after nearly 7 hours of watching, I’m done for the day. I better not continue to be disappointed tomorrow or there will be hell to pay.
Posted in Lisabea, m/m, red alert, time suckage, tv serialism | 39 Comments

random funny

Posted on 11/01/2010 by Kris


You know it’s true. 😉
Posted in extra further randomness | 26 Comments

dear jake

Posted on 10/01/2010 by Kris


Dear Arsehole Riordan Jake


Well, well, well. Look at you being all lovey dovey and stuff.

Yeah, pal, that’s right.

Everyone else may have bought your redeemed yourself bullshit, but don’t think I didn’t notice that ‘I-worship-Adrien-so-much-that-I’m-going-to-give-him-one-final-ultimatum’ crap.

You’re not fooling me, mate:


Pfft to your new found sappy ways,

A Doubting Kris.
Posted in Josh Lanyon, me | 61 Comments

let’s make fun of an author!

Posted on 08/01/2010 by Kris

Whoops. I mean let’s have fun with an author, of course. Silly me. *hehehe*

That’s right, virtual folks, it’s time for another round of the perfectly legitimate author promo in the form of my super fun ‘choose your own m/m story’. Yay!

Who’s the lucky victim author I hear you ask?

Why it’s none other than lovely sucker newbie Wren Boudreau!

Remember 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 Wren, who has agreed to write the short story incorporating your choices especially for posting here on Valentine’s Day. Awwwww…

So, here we go!

1. the setting

a) a candle lit dinner

b) a Valentine’s Day wedding

c) a stuck elevator

d) a florist shop

2. some background to the main protags

a) it’s their first meeting

b) one of them sings when he gets nervous

c) it’s a May/December romance

d) one of them is a cross dresser

3. another character

a) an annoying maitre d’

b) a bawdy grandmother

c) an inebriated priest/minister/whatever

d) a delivery man

4. a conflict

a) one of them is a werewolf but the other doesn’t know

b) they had a one night stand but one of them can’t remember

c) feuding families

d) they’re arguing over taking holidays together

5. an object to be mentioned in the story somewhere

a) a pentagram

b) unwanted facial hair

c) an ice sculpture

d) a secret email

Now it’s your turn…

Leave a comment with your choices or email me at krisngoodbooksATgmail.com. You have until 12noon Wednesday 13 January (Perth, Western Australia time).

Let the picking on Wren commence!

Posted in a choose your own m/m story, wren boudreau | 53 Comments