Christopher Rice's Blog

You can only write what you know?Nonsense. Let me translate this statement. There is a certain type of writer (and reviewer) who believes the only legitimate form of fiction is the kind so directly fueled by a writer’s personal experience it’s almost impossible to distinguish it from memoir.

Why these individuals don’t just commit themselves to writing and reading non-fiction is beyond me. But I suspect they want to drag a little bit off fiction’s power – the power to give a complex, messy si...

We did it. We found him. We got our cowboy! MeetJamison, whocomes to us via Aston Models. This Friday, photographer Cathryn Farnsworth and I will shoot him here in Los Angeles for the cover of DANCE OF DESIRE, the novella I’ll release in February of next year as part of the 1,001 Dark Nights series. Then, in April 2016, Jamison will join me at the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Las Vegas where he’ll appear with me at several events, including the 1,001 DARK NIGHTS SPARKLER!

So what...

So this is a first for me. Tomorrow morning I’m holding a casting call for the cover model who will be featured on the cover of my February 2016 novella for 1,001 Dark Nights. The novella is called DANCE OF DESIRE, and it’s hero is a cowboy. A very tall, very hot cowboy. I’ve even bought the cowboy hat the potential models are going to doff as they pose for a test shot. (No, it’s not a Stetson. Stetsons, as I recently learned, are expensive. About $200 a pop! This is because they’re made of f...

Today, Tom Hardy was questioned about comments regarding his own sexuality which he made on the record to a gay publication at the beginning of his career. These comments apparently do not serve the career path on which he now finds himself, despite the fact that in his latest film he plays an openly gay historical figure. So instead of providing an answer, he unleashed a series of reactions most would have described as bullying and hostile had the subject been something other than his potent...

So am I the only who one who listens to music from the 40′s, 50′s and even 60′s and feels like I’m in some sort of dark thriller where the director intends the tune in question, no matter how cheerful, to convey an ironic sense of dread? That’s how I felt when I queued up this Frank Sinatra ditty that also serves as the title of this late night post. Like an assassin was on his way up to my apartment. Or nuclear missiles were streaking through the night sky towards Los Angeles as I tapped my...

So I’m in that place. I call it “the place” because I can’t think of a more precise term which captures the combination of anxiety and exhilaration that defines the last few days before I finish a project. In this case, the project is another novella, scheduled to be released by 1,001 Dark Nights in February of 2016. (If you don’t know what 1,001 Dark Nights is, here’s the short version: a monthly series of cross-marketed novellas from some of the top names in erotic romance.) It started out...

So I had a dinner with a close friend last night who shall remain nameless. (M.J. Rose) I was telling her about how this rock star used to have an apartment in my building. He also used to keep a large boa constrictor as a pet. While the rock star was barely ever there, the snake, apparently, always was. I was expressing relief that I didn’t learn about any of this until long after said rock star and his snake had moved out when M.J. said, “Maybe the snake had babies.” Cut to5 AM, me staring...

(This rant originally appeared on my Facebook page, but I’m preserving it here so it doesn’t get lost under a series of posts about my latest haircut and/or strong feelings about a new T.V. show.)

So my naughty, twisty, suspenseful erotic romance ‘The Surrender Gate‘ made this list of recommended readsfrom some of the top erotic romance authors in the biz. I’m thrilled. The whole romance thing has proved a risk and a challenge after years of writing books in which plants ate people or parasi...

My new book THE VINES went on sale today in both the U.S. and in theUnited Kingdom. For me, the line between an idea and a finished novel often zig-zags across different periods of my life, passing through different fictional landscapes as it goes, so rather than just writing the words – ‘Please buy my new book THE VINES’ over and over again (which is pretty much what I’ve been doing on Facebook for months now) – I thought it would be fun to trace the line that ultimately brought me here, to...

This is the first in a planned 6,578 part (or until I get bored with it) series called CONVERSATIONS WITH MY TRAINER. It’s like Neal Donald Walsch’s famous spiritual meditation CONVERSATIONS WITH GODonly shallow. For the most part, this is an excuse to post really hot photos of my trainer. These photos are an attempt to get my trainer more clients. Getting my trainer more clients is my attempt to console him over the fact that I’m still his client, even after eight years of conversations like...