Happy Saturday! Hot and sunny here, so my kids invented a new game: put the sprinkler under the trampoline. We spent the morning shopping for new bathing suits, and now they’re out there enjoying their water fun.
There are five more weeks in my book tour, and you can check out any of the links below on their respective dates to enter the giveaway. In this snippet, Renee has gone to do other things, and Adam is left with a handful of…interesting condoms he thinks he has no use for. (Those are all real, by the way, including the ones with former US Presidents and ruler markings.) He’s decided to pay the health center a return visit.
By the time Adam reached the health center, he’d made up his mind not to be swayed by Mr. Dark and Handsome. Adam was an effective communicator—that was his job. Not since middle school had he been at such a loss for how to speak to another human being. The only reason he’d ever been rendered silent, his mouth opening and closing like a fish, had been his eighth grade English teacher. Ms. Figueroa had been the single most gorgeous woman he’d ever seen, and the combination of puberty hormonal overload and awkward, geeky middle schooler had left him incapable of anything but sitting in class staring dreamily at her. No matter how attractive the guy in the health center was, he was not allowed to have the same effect on a grown-ass man with years’ worth of experience in the fine arts of dating and sex.
Rainbow Snippets is a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQIA+ authors, readers, and bloggers to share 6 sentences each week from a work of fiction—published or in-progress—or a book recommendation. Feel free to join in!
An Act of Devotion Book Tour:
2-May: MM Good Book Reviews, Book Lovers 4Ever, My Fiction Nook, Happily Ever Chapter
9-May: Iyana Jenna, Jessie G. Books, Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews
16-May: Prism Book Alliance, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, The Novel Approach
23-May: Dawn’s Reading Nook, Three Books Over The Rainbow, Bonkers About Books
30-May: Full Moon Dreaming, Oh My Shelves, Unquietly Me
6-Jun: Alpha Book Club, Bayou Book Junkie, Inked Rainbow Reads
13-Jun: Molly Lolly, BFD Book Blog
20-Jun: Love Bytes, Sassygirl Books, Outrageous Heroes
Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. I’m participating in a blog hop for equality and awareness, plus I’m giving something away for free! (Stay tuned.) Here’s the official site for the hop: 
There are people who might want to know why I use the term bisexual. For me, it’s political: it’s an alignment with a movement and a community. I don’t feel that the word is limiting in describing my orientation, and this definition from the wonderful 
As for gender, that’s a whole story in itself. I’ve never identified with womanhood or what I sensed that should be. It’s not about femininity; it’s something different, deeper. I don’t know what to call it. Some might suggest I’m gender fluid or another specific word, but I’ve never found one I like. So I simply leave it as “my gender is me.” Unlike many trans folk, I don’t have a set pronoun preference. I don’t object to she/her, mainly because I don’t think male should be the default and because sometimes it’s safer not to correct people (hey there, bathroom bill, I see you). I like they because sometimes my gender feels like a whole other person. When I write, I usually use other neutral pronouns (typically ze/hir) because when you write about relationships, it can be tricky to write they as both singular and plural and not get confused (your mileage may vary on that one). The only ones I don’t like are he/him. But no one has ever used those on me, so I think we’re good.
