![]() Oddly DRitC has always prompted me to claim photos/stories that are outside of my usual comfort zone. I spent some time browsing them, not intending to write, but very captivated by the range of photos and stories being requested.Īs these things tend to go, I came across a story that grabbed me and I claimed it. The event was in its second year, and back then they released all the prompts at once. I was still very new to the publishing world and had no real production schedule to fill my days. Tami: I first learned about DRitC not long after discovering Goodreads itself. What attracted you to the DRitC event, Tami? ![]() Most of all, I find the collaborative atmosphere it produces really inspiring and encouraging. I think it’s a great way for writers to challenge themselves and learn and readers to be introduced to a variety of stories and authors. Tami: Hello! And thank you for hosting me □ I’d seen her around the forums during last year’s Love’s Only Road event, but it was in the M/M Romance Writers Group on Goodreads that we met. Today I’m interviewing Tami Veldura about her story Perihelion, a story she wrote for last year’s DRitC event. Sweetly romantic, the story is freely available in a variety of formats from the M/M Romance Group. Written for the 2015 DRitC event hosted by the M/M Romance Group on Goodreads, The Biggest Scoop is a YA story that focuses on the development of the main characters. What will happen when Taylor is no longer Milo’s story? How far will Milo go to save the newspaper? But Taylor’s success might put an end to their burgeoning friendship. Good looking, responsible, and possessed of a mysterious something that has him turning heads on his first day of school, Taylor is the story Milo is looking for - too bad Taylor has plans for a quiet high school experience.ĭespite their many differences of opinion, Milo finds himself developing a close journalistic relationship with the future class president. Worse, he has only one day to find a story that will satisfy newspaper editor, Candice. The future of the school newsletter is in jeopardy, he doesn’t have a single friend among his junior classmates, and his film script has just been rejected again. The Biggest Story Milo’s ever found is one he can’t tell.Įverything is going wrong for Milo Markopoulos. Here is the original cover (by cover artist extraordinaire Bree Archer) and the blurb: If you missed it the first time round, The Biggest Scoop is available for free along with an incredible range of stories from the official M/M Romance DRITC site. I could not be happier about this (also my grandma is totally impressed). Once the production costs have been covered, all profits from The Biggest Scoop-or I should say, Le Plus Grand de Tous les Scoops-will be donated to a charity supporting homeless LGBTQ teens. I was tremendously flattered, but given that The Biggest Scoop was produced with the help of volunteers from the M/M Romance group, I didn’t feel it was appropriate to sell it. They are a French publishing house specialising in positive LGBTQ-romance, and they were interested in The Biggest Scoop. Then, early 2016, totally out of the blue, I got an e-mail from MxM Bookmark. My students constantly surprised me with their inventiveness and sheer enthusiasm for life, and I wanted The Biggest Scoop to reflect that. When I wrote it, I was still teaching in Japan, and when I reread it recently, I was surprised how nostalgic it made me for my students and my classrooms. One of those stories where the characters (Milo) just take over the story (Milo), going places you never really expected them to go. It was my first YA, and it was incredibly fun to write. I wrote The Biggest Scoop for the M/M Romance Group on Goodreads 2015 Don’t Read in the Closet event. Plus grand, in fact.Ĭonfused? The Biggest Scoop is coming out in French October 25th! I wondered what was going on, and voila-I found out.Īs scoops go, this was pretty grand. Now, I’m not Facebook famous, so three people talking about me all on the same day was pretty unusual. While in Rotorua, I got a Facebook alert that three people I didn’t know were talking about me.
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