Cover Reveal and Pre-order: A Corgi Named Kilowatt

I’m so happy to show you the new cover for “A Corgi Named Kilowatt.” This cover was challenging for me to put together. I had to work with three separate images and make them look like they belonged together. And choosing the right corgi was tough!

This story was originally released in Less Than Three Press’s Silver & Gold Anthology. It is now available on its own for the first time!

Blurb: Evan Andrews is a graduate student content with spending his days in a library reading poetry. His existence is rocked when hot, sexy, and much too old for him Marc Romano stumbles into his life. The guy has everything, plus he loves dogs. Evan is immediately smitten.

Marc didn’t expect to be older than the professors when he decided to go back to college. He immediately puts his foot in his mouth around Evan, and if weren’t for his dog Kilo playing matchmaker, that would have been the end of that.

Sparks fly between Evan and Marc, but will those sparks ignite, or will their difference in age extinguish the flame?

The novella will be released next week, but you can pre-order it now if you wish!
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Coming Soon!

I have some great news! I am re-releasing some stories that I now have the rights back to, all leading up to the release of the new story “A Christmas Yarn” in December.

A Corgi Named Kilowatt – m/m contemporary novella. A grad student gets his heart stolen by an older man and his adorable dog.

Wolf Knight – f/f fantasy novella. A knight might escort a princess home to be married…without falling in love with her.

The Superhero Division – m/m novel. A team of superheros must defend the world against incursions from an alternate universe – but can Valor and Socket figure out their relationship first?

A Christmas Yarn – m/m contemporary short story.  Librarian Gavin meets adorable Jonathan at knitting club.

Book talk: Fire and Hemlock

I like stumbling on books. Sometimes this is in the form of picking up something at random at the library or the book store and being pleasantly surprised. Sometimes it’s in the form of a recommendation online – I read about something I find interesting, check it out, and it turns out to be amazing.

A few weeks ago I ended up reading this thread  on Seanan McGuire’s twitter about women urban fantasy writers. Happily, I’d actually read most of the books she recommended, but one stood out as a book I had never heard of: Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones. I had heard of Jones, but never had the opportunity to read any of her books.

That was about to change.

First I checked my local library, figuring that I’d easily be able to find an older book via those channels. Nope. Not digitally, nor in print, and this is a massive library system of multiple branches. I had to look online, and happily found the newest edition with an introduction by Garth Nix, another author whose books I’d enjoyed. I bought it in print because I do prefer to read in print, plus it was actually cheaper than the e-version.

When the book arrived, I was surprised by the heft in the package. Had I ordered the hardcover instead? I opened it surprised at the thickness of the volume.

Fire and Hemlock cover being held by my handI posted a picture on twitter, and I got a lot of comments from fans of the book. This was clearly a book that meant a lot to people, and for a moment I was worried that I wouldn’t like it, or that it wouldn’t speak to me in the same way. I’ve often read a book, typically a YA novel, that might have meant a lot to me if only I had read it when I was a teenager, but as an adult, it didn’t work for me.

So, Fire and Hemlock. I cracked it open on a Saturday morning in the doctor’s office, waiting for my allergy shot. By the next evening, I had finished all 438 pages of it, plus the afterward included for the first time in this volume where Jones discusses her influences in writing it.

I can see why this book means so much to so many people. The protagonist, Polly, is a young woman caught up in heartbreaking circumstances – her parents are divorcing, her mother is a narcissist and her father is uninvolved. But her parents’ divorce and other adolescent problems pale in comparison to the magical battle she is pulled into. I won’t say any more, because of the key joys of this novel is that you don’t completely understand what is going on until the very end.

In that respect it reminded me of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the end of the Lane since they both involved childhood memory, and the ending of both made me want to return to the start and read it all again knowing what was going to happen.

It’s the kind of Urban Fantasy I like to think of defines the genre – the magic exists around the fringes of the real world. That alley just might be a portal to fairyland, or that really tall guy in the grocery store might actually be a giant. But there’s this level of disbelief – is it all actually happening, or is it nothing more than the dreams of a child?

I highly recommend this book and I can’t wait to read more of Jones’ work.

Angels Rising Blog Tour

It’s finally time! Angels Rising releases tomorrow! Please follow me along the blog tour and enter to win one of four $10 Dreamspinner gift cards!

Better to reign in hell….

Uriel 3019 has been a cybernetically altered angel since he volunteered for the program fifteen years ago. His devotion to the floating city of Heaven is fierce, and he’ll follow any command he’s given. But Uriel’s orderly world is crumbling. Angels are going mad, even hurting people. Some are rebelling, and the noble families are vying for control—by any means necessary.

Uriel’s latest assignment brings him into a secret society, where his partner, Raphael, is working for freedom and equality for all angels. Could their group be responsible for the angels’ recent erratic behavior? Uriel is determined to find out—and report on his findings. But he doesn’t count on Raphael’s confession—that he has feelings for Uriel—or the memories slowly starting to return from the time before he became an angel.

Is he on the right side? Does he dare to stand against Heaven, even if doing so will save his fellow angels from becoming soulless automatons? Uriel has to decide if his loyalty belongs to his superiors… or to the angel who’s stolen his heart.

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May 16 – MM Good Book Reviews
May 22 – Open Skye Book Reviews
May 23 – Love Bytes Reviews
May 23 – Happily Ever After FB Group
May 24 – Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words
May 25 – The Novel Approach
May 28 – Long and Short Reviews
May 29 – Dreamspinner Press Blog
May 30 – Kimi-Chan Experience

 

2017 Releases

I don’t think I’ve ever had a year where I’ve had so many releases out! If you missed something, here’s a post to remind you (and me:)


Also, don’t forget in 2018 I’ll have:

A new edition of Exodus with a new cover!
Angels Rising, the 3rd Heaven Corp Book
Re-release of Beyond Meridian

Angel 1089 Blog Tour!

This week kicks off the blog tour for the re-release of Angel 1089. The second edition contains a new chapter and has been thoroughly re-edited. Cover of Angel 1089

Find me at the following locations and stay tuned for the giveaway at the end of the tour.

11/20 – MM Good Book Reviews
11/24 – Divine Magazine
11/27 – Happily Ever Chapter FB Page
11/28 – The Novel Approach
11/30 – Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words
12/01 – My Fiction Nook
12/06 – Dreamspinner Press Blog

Updates and New Releases!

The next few months are going to be pretty busy for me. I’ll have 4 (four!!!!) works coming out.

Cover image of Into the Mystic Vol 2. Woman with water in backdrop.Already released:
– Unraveled- a short story in the anthology “Into the Mystic, Vol 2”

Coming soon:
November
– The new edition of Angel 1089! The new Heaven Corp covers look awesome and I can’t wait to share them with you! The new edition includes a new chapter.
– Short story (well, a novella really) called “Wolf Knight” in the “To the Victor” anthology by Less than Three Press.

December
– Short story “The Puzzle Box” in Dreamspinner’s Advent Calendar collection!

More about each project as the dates get closer!

What to read next after Love in the Time of Hurricanes

Now that you’ve read Love in the Time of the Hurricanes, you might be wondering what to read next. I have a few contemporaries stories out that you might like.

A Corgi Named Kilowatt, in the Silver and Gold anthology. We’ve got college students, big Italian families, and this time, a cute dog spurring the love!

Teddy Bear Christmas. A sweet story about two guys meeting at an airport. In this case, we have a cute teddy bear doing the introductions.

Kitten at Play – three short stories, lots of sexy times, mmf.Kitten at Play cover

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