By Lissa.Matthews On Nov 8 2012, 4:32 pm

I had a new release this week. Malachi’s Word. It’s a male/male friends-to-lovers short story. I’m primarily a contemporary male/female author. But I love reading male/male. Same as I love reading historicals and one day, who knows…

Some advised me to write male/male under a different name when I said I was going to try it. I did ponder this idea. I did talk it over with myself and with several others…friends, other authors, editors. No one really had a clear cut thought one way or the other. I decided to go with my gut and stick with the name Lissa Matthews. I didn’t want to go through all there was to establishing a new identity, promoting a new identity, marketing a new identity. I wanted to stick with my name, to build new readership with Lissa Matthews for male/male. It’s not been easy. Malachi’s Word is not my first male/male romance and it won’t be my last. Read more…

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