Happy Pride Month everyone! Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering them. We will be celebrating all month with author spotlights as well as reviews for some of the LGBTQIA books we’ve read this year. Check back daily to learn more about that days featured author or book and add to your TBR piles. I hope you enjoy getting to know a little about all of these wonderful authors and their work.
🏳🌈Tell us your name and a little about yourself?
I’m K.M. Neuhold and I write MM and MM(M+) romance books! Most of my books are low angst, high heat, and full of humor, found family, guys being dumbasses, and lots of loveable pets. When I’m not writing I’m playing with my three huskies and watching horror movies.
🏳🌈 How many books have you written? Do you have a favorite?
Including novellas and co-writes I’ve written around 87 books to date. It’s so hard to pick a favorite, but I think currently Deadly Little Sparrow is my favorite that I’ve written because it’s one I really stepped out of my comfort zone to write and really enjoyed challenging myself with.
🏳🌈 Do you write one book and finish it completely before starting the next? If not, how do you keep yourself from confusing the projects?
I can write one solo book and one co-write at a time, but not 2 solo projects at once. It’s much easier to keep things straight when one of them is a co-write, but with 2 solo projects I end up mixing tone too much or switching up characters, so I’ve learned not to do that.
🏳🌈 What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is it a default setting?
Times New Roman is my automatic. Every time I start a new doc I always set it to TNR 12pt before I start. It’s just out of habit, but now it would just feel wrong to have it set to anything else.
🏳🌈 How do you ensure your LGBTQ characters feel authentic and mutifaceted, rather than just serve a plot function?
Just like in real life, sexuality is only ONE part of who someone is. I am bisexual myself, but that only defines one tiny part of who I am, and I treat my characters exactly the same way. They have interests, hobbies, quirks, and everything else that any straight character would have.
🏳🌈 Do you have a favorite piece of LGBTQ history or fun fact you would like to share?
Not something specific, but it always amuses me how many historical figures had “roommates” or “best friends” who they very clearly were in love with. Alexander the Great famously had a “best friend” who he referred to as the love of his life who I believe he was even burried with later. Abe Lincoln also had a “best friend” whom he shared a bed with when the man came to visit him at the White House. And those are just two off the top of my head. History is full of so many LGBTQ+ people than we’re lead to believe.
🏳🌈 What is one of your favorite books or movies with LGBTQ representation?Feel free to share more than one, I know it is difficult as a reader to pick one favorite of anything. Especially if its book related.
Schitt’s Creek will always be a comfort watch show for me with Daniel Levey playing a pansexual main character. I tend to lean more towards representations of queer joy rather than the heartbreaking types of queer movies or shows, so it can be hard to find many to watch! Books are much easier and off the top of my head some of my favorite authors who bring the queer joy in heaps are: Charlie Novak, Mia Monroe, Lucy Lennox, and C Rochelle, just to name a few of my favorites.
🏳🌈What is something you have used for a bookmark that IS NOT a bookmark?
I typically use the reciept
🏳🌈 Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what are some of your favorite genres or songs?
I prefer binaural sounds or brown noise to help me focus when I’m writing. But when I’m plotting or getting ready to write I have playlists that go along with specific series. They’re very varied depending on each series so I can capture the vibe of the specific characters for inspiration. But in general, lots of pop music, rap, and rock.
🏳🌈 What is a super specific detail you know about one of your characters that has no relevance to the story?
to be honest, I have ADHD and I forget even the story relevant details the second I finish writing a story 😂
You can find my books on Amazon/Kindle Unlimited. Here’s my Author page on Amazon: https://readerlinks.com/l/4023778
