Monday 31 March 2014

Cover Reveal

The help celebrate Rainbow Gold Reviews Debut: Review blog for M/M and LGBT I am going to reveal the cover for my newest release, which will be out on the 15th of April from extasybooks.   
So after having a good long look, why don't you come and join in on the chats, games and prizes that Rainbow Gold Reviews have to offer!
 
 
 And here’s the rest of the series, all lined up and pretty as ever, don’tcha think?
 

Light at the End of the Tunnel

So, It’s been a big start to the beginning of the year, and though I would get some things off my chest, and maybe you might want the update, if not, I really just needed to talk.  
 
My Mum is moving onto radiation. She was meant to have another set of chemo but the one before that affected her too much. Gave her a heart attack, though the organs fine, she ended up in hospital for a few days, and then a few days later she was in again for nearly a week as she caught something that floored her, and could have quite easily killed her as she was running on no immune system.  
So her chemo doctors are quite happy for her to only have 75% of that treatment since she’s going to have radiation and then hormones.
 
So we are heading into radiation with her, and another step closer to it all being over.
I know that there’s still 5 years she has to go on hormones for, but to me once the radiation is finished she’s will start to heal and become more of herself again.
She’ll regain the immune she lost and she’ll be stronger, because I believe quite soon my Nan is going to die and that’s going to suck, and she’ll need to be stronger so my dad doesn’t have to worry so much about her as well as dealing with his own mother.
He’s stretched enough as it is; I’m not sure how much more he can take. And I know he’ll deal with it, but there just comes a point in a person’s life when they need a minute, and it’s not looking like we’re going to get one.
 
But we’ll see, my Nan is a strong woman and she might come through this flu and stay alive for another couple of years, but I’m not putting too much hope on that, she looks too close to her end, and it’s only her stubbornness that’s keeping her going.
Well, that and she’s got a set of lung like you wouldn’t believe (and I’m grateful for as I inherited them which meant not being in an induced coma when both my lungs collapsed). We believe she has the first stages of lung cancer, mostly from smoking her whole life, and she isn’t even on oxygen yet.
 
But things aren’t going well in our family, and I’m hoping these last few years was our broken mirror and we’ll pull through and become stronger but who knows what life wants us to learn.
 
One more thing: This also marks the end of my first 3 months as a published author and though we will have to wait, like 20 days, until I can actually talk numbers and money of a newbie I have defiantly started to log it all down so that will be interesting.
I’m actually looking forward to this, because I wanna know, and it’s like, well, shocking that I have only been doing this for three months, if feels like it’s only been a week.  

Saturday 29 March 2014

Cigar Time, Gentlemen #50

This posting is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY.
It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some readers.

Thursday 27 March 2014

Hadn’t the Pleasure # 97

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it
 
 
Stefan Joss just can't win. Not only does he have to go to Texas in the middle of summer to be the man of honor in his best friend Charlotte's wedding, but he's expected to negotiate a million-dollar business deal at the same time. Worst of all, he's thrown for a loop when he arrives to see the one man Charlotte promised wouldn't be there: her brother, Rand Holloway. Stefan and Rand have been mortal enemies since the day they met, so Stefan is shocked when a temporary cease-fire sees the usual hostility replaced by instant chemistry. Though leery of the unexpected feelings, Stefan is swayed by a sincere revelation from Rand, and he decides to give Rand a chance. But their budding romance is threatened when Stefan's business deal goes wrong: the owner of the last ranch he needs to secure for the company is murdered. Stefan's in for the surprise of his life as he finds himself in danger as well.
 
Timing by Mary Calmes
(timing #1)
 First published 15th March 2010 by Dreamspinner Press
iBook,  182 pages
Contemporary Romance
 
“It was unfair of my boss to order me to go.
“I don’t understand why this is a big deal. We’re only talking about the morning of one of the days. We’re not talking about your entire—will you look at me, please?”
 
Series includes

After the Sunset

Wednesday 26 March 2014

First Impression—Audio Books

I finished my first Audio book on Sunday, it took two days as I listened to it on the way down to the city, then on the way back, then when I went out, and then the last 3hrs while cleaning and then…well, doing nothing.
 
The first problem I had with it was completely and utterly my fault.
I put it on my iPad.
 
The thing is I can’t listen to stuff, or watch for that matter, without doing something else as well. and though it may be easier when I get use to the whole idea of audio books at the moment I’m to wrap up in things to actually do anything, but it’s not like I can look at something, and the whole not seeing what I’m hearing is a little…odd.
Hmm… a step closer to what it would be like to just turn blind, the idea of only hearing when you are used to seeing as well.  
 
Anyway, I found as I listened it I felt trapped, and it’s not something I’m use to feeling and so a feel that it annoyed me a little, which hindered my enjoyment.
I ended up coming up with an awesome idea when I had like 5hrs left and put the thing on my phone, which was all types of cool—you know, the new type of cool, where they link up between the phone and iPad and tell you that you iPad was at here, you want that on your phone?
Very convenient and something that I didn’t expect which made it so much cooler.
 
It says everything, and yeah, it’s the points, it’s a book, and he’s reading it. And like the fact that each have their accents, and there different voice, and I did like him going breathy along with everything else, it gave it a certain feel I guess you don’t really give your characters—or I don’t—when reading them. but them moaning and then telling me that’s happened… it seemed to irritate me a lot more than it should have.
 
The I like to highlight my stories, especially know that I’m reading exclusively ebooks, I like to note, highlight things, and even go back and read lines again, it’s not really something that’s easy to do. Like yeah, if I was just sitting there, but lines that pop generally don’t flash in front of your face until after you’ve gone a few lines away.
 
Now, people don’t get me wrong, I am so so on the book that I actually read, and I really wanna know what’s going to happen in the next one. I know I’m not going to get the ebook of it, because I’m pretty sure there long and in the first person and I’m not a fan of that, so…well…I’ll just have to get the next book.
Oh the tragedy, the pain… lol
 
Anyway, I’m not sure when that will actually come so I thought I’d get this out of the way, while it’s fresh and all.

Tuesday 25 March 2014

Stuck in Your Head # 90

I’m going to give you the line from the books I’ve read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.
 

 
“Well, it was a really nice song.”
Drew looked up at him in surprise. Maybe he had expected Travis to just walk off.
“You know,” Travis went on, “I go by here every day on my way home from work.”
Drew nodded a little cautiously.
“I’ve lived here for almost eight months and I don’t know anyone. And I have this sucky job and a fairly sucky life—but I walk by here and sometimes you’re playing your guitar, and it’s nice. It makes me smile. I just wanted to tell you that.”
Now Drew just looked astonished.”
--page 2, iBook
 
Speechless by Kim Fielding
(speechless #1)
First Published 18th July 2012 by Dreamspinner Press
Contemporary Romance
 
Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood, and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work. But when he finally gathers the courage to speak to the man, Travis learns that former novelist Drew Clifton suffers from aphasia: Drew can understand everything Travis says, but he is unable to speak or write.
 
The two lonely men form a friendship that soon blossoms into romance. But communication is only one of their challenges-there's also Travis's inexperience with love and his precarious financial situation. If words are the bridge between two people, what will keep them together?
 
Series includes

The Gig

Monday 24 March 2014

Sorry I wasn’t here earlier

Yesterday I went to Lost Picnic down in the city. It was awesome, we saw 4 outta the 5 bands, ate our own picnic as well as got to see the bats fly off into the night while Megan Washington was playing and the sun sunk, leaving purple streaks across the sky.
 
Then today I went out with two lovely ladies and we spend most of the day editing chapter one and the epilogue of Love without Knowing it.
I think it took a little bit longer than planned because it was the first time all 3 of us had gotten together so the was a lot more talking than real editing, but shit, it does take a long time especially if you’re going paragraph by paragraph.
 
So I couldn’t even quickly put something up which is making me feel really guilty.
I don’t know why, and I’m going to work on it not, because why am I putting more pressure on me then I need.
 
Anyway, I was going to spend this day talking about the 2.5 ‘long’ books that I have read.
But I started that and it rambled and really turned into someone elses words as I’m half-way though listening to Dirty Kiss and it’s all I can hear, and think.
Which is fine and all (the story), but I can honestly say that I’m not a fan (of audiobooks), and I know it may have something to do with this story. That I’d prefer it if I had read it over listening, it’s just a drowning…drowning voice.
But then again it fits and its good, I’m just not a fan.
 
I think it’s the same as anima, I’m not a fan of that, I love manga but put the moving version in front of me and I can’t stand it, because I like to make my own voices, I like to see it myself.
 
Saying this, I thing I would have been finished with it by now if I didn’t make the mistake of putting it onto my iPad. I can’t take it anywhere with me. And like movies I like to do things while watching, and I want to do stuff while listening only I’m trapped there, with nothing to do but listen and I feel it’s driving me nuts a lot more than it should.
It’s almost like I’m frustrated with it because I’m stuck but that’s translating into being frustrated by the book.
 
I’m rational even with being irrational, and I can’t stop myself from being this way even though I know it’s happening.
Hell, you if you understand, that cool, 'cause I think I lost myself there for a moment, too.
 
Anyway, so a lot has happened and nothing, but hopefully I’ll get a kick from having this over with and I’ll fix up a little on the book above as I start writing the other 2 that need finished by the end of the month.
 
Last minute update: I just realised I could probably get it downloaded onto my phone, so I checked it out, and yes I can, so I’m downloading it as we speak, at least this way, even if I get to finish it tomorrow, I’ll be able to listen while, I don’t know, I clean my house.
I’m actually up to chapter 10, so I’m just under halfway done, which is why it’s fucking up my brain. man, I really need to finish it.

Saturday 22 March 2014

Memoirs of this Delusional Writer #41

*sigh*
 
So I have actually done a little more this week then I have since I spent those 13 days writing my first Movember story.
 
But first, let’s get the series outta the way, there’s a post here, that will tell you what I have so far, rather than me having to write it all out again—or summaries.
But I have written just over 500 words on that book, it’s still giving me shit, I hate it, but the story is sitting in my head, right there, waiting for me to sit down and write it, which is better than I have had in a long time.
It’s also making me thing that book 7 will be the last, or if I can get them done before June than I’m taking a break and working on a contemporary set of stories or series. But I have to get writing if I want to be able to go that.
Mind you, I’m hoping that writing these stories will allow me to just finish the 12 and then I can forget this series for a long time (or until people want more)
 
I started a new story A Word with You which has come from a weird spot and it’s been completely plotted out, all I have to do is get into the mood and finish it off.
It’s centred around a funeral and it’s meant to be a backwards story. I’m hoping to pull it off in a way that might have you just getting rid of the beginning and then when the end hit, you go, ‘Oh that’s why…”
Anyway, it’s like high emotions and a tragedy making you asses the things in your life and fixing what’s not necessary broken but defiantly not perfection.
 
Anyway, it will only work if I can pull it off, and I’m so hoping I can, but I have to be there, in that mind space or its going to go to shit.
 
Lastly I started another short story, I’m hoping for something between 4-6K.
At the moment I’m calling it Gotta Start Somewhere and I guess it’s about learning your worth.
I’m hoping to get it into the Dreamspinner A Taste of Honey Anthology.
 
And onto something else, I know it’s not something that happened before this post, but it was meant to.
On Monday I’m getting together with two lovely ladies in my life who are going to help me edit this book. we are going it in a sit down sweep. Going over every line and trying to see if we can resolve the problems with Love Without Knowing it and then it will, hopefully (I have to ask) to go with proofing and then I can move onto the next stage—which is paying for a line proofer. As well as a post and all the other things that need to go around this one.
 
So, that’s all for me, I’ll cya next time
 
Sean hated clubs, all fucking types of them, but especially dance clubs, where the body mass was borderline fire codes and the heat of people radiated around the place like a colour.
--Gotta Start Somewhere

Friday 21 March 2014

My Heterosexual Reading List

Something different but it’s inspiration that, among the reason I’ve mentioned before but were things that help guide and pushed and made me want to be a writer more than anything.

These are the only Het books that I’m looking forward to this year (some may be out, but I’m waiting for them to shrink paperback size)


Dark Bites, Styxx & Son of No One (Dark-Hunter) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Demon Storm (Belador) by Sherrilyn Kenyon & Dianna Love
The Darkest Touch (Lords of the Underworld) by Gena Showalter

 
 
The King (Black Dagger Brotherhood) by JR Ward
Possession & Immortal (Fallen Angels) by JR Ward
Dark Skye (Immortals After Dark) by Kresley Cole
Illusion (Chronicles of Nick) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll buy more, but I got over Het and it’s hard to get me back into it, but man, these series, can’t give them up.

Thursday 20 March 2014

Hadn’t the Pleasure # 96

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it
 
 
Sometimes the only way to let love in is to let the wolf in, too.
 
Ten years ago, Mason fell for his best friend while at university. Little did he know just two years later, that same friend would turn his world upside down in a way Mason could never have imagined. Now, he lives a cursed life. Living in solitude, Mason does everything he can to keep people away, not only for his safety, but for theirs, too.
 
The night of the full moon.
 
Niall has no idea he's a werewolf, but fate brings him and Mason together. A trick of the moon or something deeper, the men are drawn to each other. Together they must find a way to deal with what has happened to them both. But first Mason must learn to trust Niall and realize being alone is not always for the best.
 
The Good Wolf by Meredith Russell
 (the lone wolves trilogy #1)
 First published 15th August 2013 by extasybooks
iBook, 94  pages
Paranormal Romance
 
“Having fun?”
Mason looks at the beer in his firend’s hand. “Fun is subjective,” he said, pulling off his glove of plastic knives and then taking the offered drink.
 
Series includes
The Bad Wolf

Wednesday 19 March 2014

I’ll try and make this brief

Okay, so… I was going to take this moment to bitch and whine about Moonlit Wolves #6: Rub of my Werewolf, because I’m not writing it, and let’s be honest there’s a whole heap of reasons out there now as to why I haven’t, and I’m over it.
 
I’m over myself.
 
So instead I’m going to take a look at the series in whole and what’s on the horizon.
 
It’s come to my attention that I need to finish up this part of the story. I need to have something so that when I end up with people on the outside of the group I don’t have to tie them to them straight away. that they can have their own problems, and their own troubles that aren’t related to the first group of boys, because, at the end of the day, even though Eamon is opening up a house for werewolves to come for the three days of their shifts, well, it’s just not going to be about them anymore.
Or I’ve never really seen them be part of that whole picture, just the start and the idea of needing an alpha and a want to get closer to one so that everything in your life settles.
This isn’t to say that they weren’t feature in the whole show, but things will be different.
 
That being said, this war business needs to end. There needs to be some sort of conclusion from what Craig began, and, well, I have finally put together and got myself one.
 
Book 8 is going to be the hail Mary of conclusions to this part in the series, from that moment, though things are going to be up and in the air, they will be there very own problem, centred around the people that are there. New groups will come in, they will have their set drama that I will focus on through their stories, but it will also give me a chance to have random books, about nothing and no one other than the two characters that are driving the boat.
 
So now, I have three books that I have to set up and plan out and deliver in a way that’s interesting and concludes everything that really needs added.
However, that mostly means the Hunters are going to die.
 
I have this thought that book 6 will start it, there won’t be any shifting in this book, that was always the plan, but they are on the edge of it all, they are balancing there in the wake of something huge.
So now I have to set it up to have them in the way, sorta have the battle start when in the next chapter but have them going on way.
Then book 7 will back date a little and within the first few chapters, it will become a battle, which will be the middle way
And lastly book 8, again will start a few days back and line up coming in behind the action and taking out the strays.
 
Now this all has to happen on the same days. That’s the problem, and yet there needs to be a night between because the wolves need to come out.
Because if I do it all on a night that isn’t a full moon what was the point in making them werewolves?!
 
But I kinda like the idea I have for book 6 even as I struggle to write it. I like where it sits, but I need to push him forward. I have to have it so he’s not with Gene the night of the moon so that he can come and find him and they ended up locked in a cottage while everyone else is out fighting.
 
But I have to do this in a way that doesn’t leave cliff hangers, because I don’t like then either. and let’s face it I could only have a cliff hanger if I wanted to continue with these boys, and I really don’t, they are driving me nuts.
 
*sigh* it’s what I’m coming up with. It’s a new idea that I like but it’s got to grow a little as I try and work out the time line and kinks  
 
Update: with a little bit of thoughts, the next things have been decided about the next set of books.
·         Book 6: Rub of my Werewolf will be the start of the end of this series plot, it will show the boys willingness to stand up and fight for life.
o   There won’t be a great mess of information or that much action, like I originally planned, it also won’t be a large book
·         Book 7: Protecting my Werewolf will be the man story, it will have a Jex’s backstory, and a lot of it will be them working out a beginning of a relationship between Adam and Justin while they kill a heap of people.
o   This book will come straight off book 6
·         Book 8: Picturing my Werewolf will be backstoried and will have them coming into the start of the battle, like James has to pull off to a side and this is that as well as them joining the battle
·         Book 9: Catching a Werewolf’s Attention will coming right off book 8 and deal with the end of the story as well as the clean-up.
o   This one I’m excited to write as it will have my very first ‘just made’ werewolf who’s got a who has to deal with what he’s become and what that means for his life.
 
Anyway, the ‘battle’ isn’t going to be a high thing, it’s not going to be like messy and shit as this isn’t what this book is about. So, it’s not going to any more graphic or gross as the other books have been. But I hope I can pull these next set of books off in a way that you’ll enjoy and that will help end this part of the series, as I have this…well I really don’t wanna drag this out until it’s boring the hell outta everyone.

Tuesday 18 March 2014

Stuck in Your Head # 89

I’m going to give you the line from the books I’ve read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.
 

 
D Spoke again, cutting him off. “Cain’t think no further ahead jus’ now, ‘cause today I got you here and I cain’t think ‘bout that time comin’ when I won’t.” He was shaking his head. “Nobody knows me but you, Jack,” he said in a horse whisper. “Weren’t nobody in here ta be known before you, and after yer gone be nobody in here again.”
--page 135, iBook
 
Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville
(zero at the bone #1)
First Published April 2009 by Dreamspinner Press
Contemporary ‘mystery’ Romance
 
After witnessing a mob hit, surgeon Jack Francisco is put into protective custody to keep him safe until he can testify. A hitman known only as D is blackmailed into killing Jack, but when he tracks him down, his weary conscience won't allow him to murder an innocent man. Finding in each other an unlikely ally, Jack and D are soon on the run from shadowy enemies. Forced to work together to survive, the two men forge a bond that ripens into unexpected passion. Jack sees the wounded soul beneath D's cold, detached exterior, and D finds in Jack the person who can help him reclaim the man he once was. As the day of Jack's testimony approaches, he and D find themselves not only fighting for their lives... but also fighting for their future. A future together.
 
Series includes
Date Night, Time After Time, Lair & A Very D Christmas