A Fan Letter to Jet Mykles

Last year a bunch of blogs got together to write fan letters to our favourite authors.It was great fun and I wrote one to KZ Snow which you find here if you are interested.  I was delighted when Kassa and Kris announced that they were running the author appreciation blog crawl again this year and I jumped at the chance to participate.  You can find the whole list of blogs taking part here, but I especially want to draw your attention to Heather from The Book Reading Gals who wrote a great letter yesterday to Julie Garwood.

Now onto my letter...

Dear Jet Mykles

You probably don't know this, but you are perhaps one of my most inflential m/m authors.  You see, a few years ago now I discovered m/m romance.  I'd read a JL Langley and a couple of Josh Lanyon books but then I was completely stumped.  I had no idea which book to try next, what sort of thing I would enjoy or how to proceed with my tentative move from m/f historical romance into m/m.  Most of the blogs I was reading were all centred on m/f romance and so there was no help from that quarter.  Anyway, I was helplessly scanning the pages at Loose Id, wondering what to buy when I came across this book:

The cover just jumped out at me and after reading the blurb I bought it and read straight away.  I can honestly say I never looked back.  I immediately bought up all your LI m/m books and read them one after the other, happy that I had finally found a m/m theme that I could identify and enjoy and which would make my m/m book choices easier in the future: Gay For You.

I know that these days some m/m readers claim to be tired of GFY as a theme, but not me. I love it and have done from the very start.  For me you are one of the most exciting writers of that theme and I look forward to each and every one of your releases.  Tyler's cry of "but I'm not gay" in Heaven, still has the power to make me smile and Johnny's reaction to that still sends shivers down my spine.  Your Heaven Sent books are my number one comfort re-read and as such have been re-read most often out of my entire collection of m/m books.

However, it's not just the GFY theme which has me returning to your books or which makes you one of my few autobuy authors, I just love the sense of fun that comes through your writing, the witty dialogue and the amusing plots.  I also love your characters and the way they interact with each other, the way that their problems are so well described and their conflicts resolved.  There's often a great sense of theatre and drama to your books which reminds me of cinema, especially in the way that many of your characters make bold statements of love at the end, bringing a huge soppy grin to my face.  Many of my favourite romantic films end this way too, and your books reflect that.

Finally, I can't finish without a reference to your ability to write amazingly hot sex scenes which are full to the brim with emotion and romanticism too.  You use sex to further the plot, to show us something of the characters and their development all within a series of descriptions which blow your socks off.

So I just want to say, thank you Jet Mykles, for helping me to find my way into m/m romance, for fostering in me a love of the genre and for writing such terrific books that I want to read again and again.  I'm all excited at the moment because the next book on my pile to read is your recent release, Reverb. I can't wait to begin and know I'll be in for a special read.

Yours sincerely,
Your fan, Jenre.

Don't miss the rest of the blog crawl - tomorrow it's the turn of Alpha Reader.