April's Interlude

Switching Promotions

This week because April and I have both had books out that we’d start with a promo swap – that too and we haven’t quite talked about what we actually want to do with these weekly posts this year.

If you have a thought comment and tell us, we’d love some input. Do you like the WIP snippets our would you like to see something different from us. Like a challenge, we both have to do or something.

Crash by April Kelley

(Demon Elite #1)

Publish 1st January 2016 by extasybooks

Contemporary Action Romance

Love and danger aren’t supposed to go hand in hand.

Elijah wants to go back to his old life. He never realized just how well his mother kept the rest of his crazy family out of his life until she was gone. His extended family has descended on him like the plague, and now he’s in some deep trouble—trouble he can’t get out of, no matter how hard he tries.

Crash Morgan is the guy his boss sends when someone needs to get assassinated. Sometimes the best thing for society is to eliminate the worst that humanity has to offer, and Crash is very good at doing that. When he’s sent to interrogate Elijah Spade, he’s a bit out of his element. Talking to the suspect isn’t exactly where he excels. Even worse, Crash feels protective of Elijah.

LINKS

Extasybooks ǀ Amazon ǀ Goodreads

                        EXCERPT

Blog Hop: All Cock, No Bull!

Want to check out some great m/m books and hear from some wonderful gay romance authors? Then this is the blog hop for you! Make sure you visit each author for to find out about their latest release and enter the multiple giveaways available. Good luck!

Please find the links on Hennessee Andrews blog

I would have had a rafflecopter but apparently, they wouldn’t give me the code so if you’d like to win a copy from my backlist comment on this blog and I’ll pick a winner on the 15th.

Welcome One & All

I’m Bronwyn and this is my blog, pretty right? I just changed it this coming week.

It’s a big start for me, not only have I come out of a depression with the realisation that I need to not allow this to happen again. I need to work on my mental health. But that it’s also the 2nd year anniversary of my first published book going live. Not only with a company but self-publishing too.

My Kevin was the first book I published. It was, to me, a free “get to know me short” that I love. I have republished it now, got it edited and stuff, am very happy with that book.

From extasybooks it set a once a month publishing of the first 6 books from my Moonlit Wolves series. My Paranormal Erotic Romances. These books are perfect and need work, but the series is still good if you can look past editing mistakes. It’s the series that had me getting the balls to submit and tho the series annoys me, for personal reasons, I love it all the same.

The first book Loved Be a Werewolf is the only one in the series that doesn’t have to be read in order like the rest of the series. It’s just how the series started. It’s a little harsher than then the rest of the books. The second a lot more kink-ier then the rest of the series and I have a book with bondage as a topic.

52 Weeks Of Acknowledging Me

This is something new I’m going to try out. It’s not a resolution, not in the way one normally does those sorts of things, but in the idea that this is something that’s needed, that I want to do.

And yeah, okay, it seems very revolutionary but I didn’t even remember you normally made them until a few days ago and this is something that’s been coming for the last couple of months.

I changed my blog and with that means I need to change my line up. But I like my line up and yet… I don’t know, I found that I stopped being me. Or stopped showing me, instead I showed what I was writing full stop.

I want to bring me back.

I’m not sure if this is something you’d actually be interested in but it’s happening regardless.

I have spent a lot of my life never acknowledging the things I’m good at. always focusing on the negative and yeah a lot of people do, and I’m not saying I’m different than anyone else, I’m saying I’m over it.

I’m over going into massive dumps of depression and so this year, resolution like or not, I’m going to work on my mental health as much as I’m able. I hope it works and I’m going to do everything I can to keep that, however shit happens and it’ll be me going through the crapness that will prove how far I’ve come. Only I don’t want crapness around me to be able to prove… oh shit I’m already stuffing this up.

From this week I’m going to make myself sit down and write something good in my life, focusing on Me on how it’s because of me this has happened. How I’ve done this or that. How I’m not a dump shit my mind keeps on telling me I am.

I’m going to, as BJ Thomas did last year, see the silver light in my life and I’m going to make myself acknowledge those facts. This means that these posts may have a very selfish edge to them, but this is the point I think I need to spend one day a week being a little selfish in order to see just how awesome I am.

I’m also not going to hide the crazy. I’m going to speak out a lot more. I’m going to post things people prob don’t give a shit about, but who cares. I’m allowed to.

I’m going to being Me forward and I hope you are able to handle her and to support her—support me.

I am also going to open up for questions, ask me here or on facebook, anything you want to know I will answer (okay, not everything but I will always acknowledge the question and give me reason why I will not answer). Be it about me or about writing, anything, I will make this day a twofer if need be.

Anyway, week one: I AM AN AUTHOR

Published or otherwise I AM AN AUTHOR

BRONWYN YOU ARE AN AUTHOR!!

More so I am PROUD of myself for being one. I am proud of myself for coming so far in my writing. I am proud of myself for writing what I enjoy doing. I am proud of myself for stepping out of my comfort zone (tho I am going to try to go further this year).

I am proud of myself, because 10 years ago…15, and I wouldn’t have ever believe this was something I’d be good at. And I am. I’m GOOD at it, and I’m getting better with each book, and I will continue to get better. And that’s awesome, that’s something to BE proud of, and I’m allowed to be.

I’m allowed to be proud of myself

I’m allowed to be. And I’m allowed to shout it at the roof, and I’m allowed to not let people put me down because they don’t think what I write is worth anything. Because it is.

I AM A AUTHOR – A PUBLISHED AUTHOR

[and for the record this one will probably come up more than once, because it’s the one thing I keep on forgetting]

Now onto you, if you have ANYTHING you’d like to ask me, now’s the time. Ask away, and we’ll see how it works out

Guest J. Johanis with Dream God

Why Dark Erotica?

I originally considered myself a fantasy writer, but after being called “royalty when it comes to dark erotica,” and “the queen of non-con,” I’ve come to the realization that M/M Dark Erotica is my main genre. Due to this realization and since I’ve had some readers ask me what inspires me to write dark erotica, I decided to make the topic of my post. The simple answer is that when I sit down to write, dark things are what always tend to fill my mind. So themes with a lot of angst are just what come naturally to me.

As for erotica, my first published book was dark, but not necessarily erotica. I started showing the sex scenes due to reader request and since it seemed to fit my themes. So, beginning with Claimed by the Order, I included graphic sex in the story. As a result of making this change, my work has been banned by several retailers. However, since my goal is to publish to the widest network possible, I tend to ride the line with content to assure it will be accepted on the main retail sites. One day, I plan on writing a banned book, but for now I am invested in finishing my two series. I recently published Dream God, which is book two in the S-God’s Series, and I’m currently writing Slash Op, which is the sequel to Drago Star and the second novella in my Toy Soldier Series.

Dream God by J. Johanis

(s-Gods #2)

Publish 30 November 2015

185 pages

Fantasy Dark Erotic Romance

For the first time in three years, Aya is finally free, but with his freedom comes the pain of all he’s lost. Seeing Akad and Marduk together makes him realize how badly he has messed up. By betraying Marduk, he ruined his chance with the one god he desires more than anything.

Aya needs time to heal and put his world back together, but the trial against the Order looms over him. As the trial begins, Akad, Marduk, and Aya are ensnared in a web of jealousy, backstabbing, and cut-throat politics. Were they crazy to think they could stand up to the Order? If the gods of the Order can still rip their lives apart, their chances of receiving justice may be next to impossible. But if they fail to bring the Order down, Aya may never truly be free.

Content Advisory: Graphic violence, abuse, & dub-con.

LINKS

Amazon ǀ ARe ǀ Barnes&Noble

Goodreads

Others in the Series

Claimed by the Order & Wrath of Akad

J. Johanis writes dark M/M erotic fantasy and enjoys plots that are historical or myth-based.

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the Year Begins

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So for me, and writing, this week brings about it a rush of needing to get everything finished.

I just send back 2nd edits for Outside Sanity. It’s now only got to go through another proofing edits and it’s set to release on schedule. Which is great.

My Outside My Inside will follow shortly after, but it’s not as important to get out asap.

Being That For You has been pushed back because we aren’t in a rush, and it’s needs a lot of work. This one is something I wrote before submitting Loved by a Werewolf, so I understand the amount of work its going to need. A lot of OLD mistakes in that one.

This week I’m going to be working on The Way Life Turns. We have BETA edits and pretty much trying to line the characters up better which I have good hope in achieving tho I still have the fact that I believe our styles are two different that even if I scrapped my part and re-wrote it to make April’s that they’d still seem like four different characters. However I will try my best and we will deal with the consciences of this.

Really it’s a learning curve of us and it shows that we won’t be able to actually co-write anything. This however has let to 2 very different and equally awesome ideas that you’ll hear about later in the year.

I also have to finish M-PREG 2, because I’d really like that one to come out in the beginning of the year and the only way that will happen is if I submit it before this month is out.

And that’s it for this week. I’m hoping I can get it all done, and I have hopes that I’m able to, really, I can work on one during the day and the other at night. Or just work on one and hope it only takes a day to finish and then the rest of the week I can write m-preg.

Saying this I do still have my kids home on school holidays so I might not be able to get both done. Just do one at night and then the start on the other when I’m finished.

Didn’t I just say that?

Anyway that’s it for me this week, what’s your plans??

Moonlit Escapades

Last week I went onto GR and realised that Moonlit Wolves 7.5 had NOT reviews on it. It took me a post on FB to realise the reason was because no one knew it was even out. Which lead to another post and a whole lot of love that had made me giddy. Really, I’m so thankful and overwhelmed.

Here are the dates and links to all the places I’ll be and I hope you find something you’d like, if not just with this book but the series as a whole.

31/DEC - Velvetpanic Heloise West

3/JAN – Rainbow Lyrics and Mellow Mushrooms

4/JAN – Andrew Jericho

5/JAN – Multitaskingmomma

5/JAN – Because Two Men Ate Better Then One

6/Jan – LJ Harris

6/JAN – Sessha Batto

7/JAN – Helena Stone

8/JAN – April Kelley

9/JAN – Louise Lyons
9/JAN - SPECTRA

10/JAN – Chris McHart

11/JAN – Lexi Ander

13/JAN – MM Good Books Reviews

15/JAN – The Novel Approach

Lisa Worrall

Jana Denardo

**will get updated as I get the links