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July 20, 2022
Reads: June, 2022
July has been a rough month, and I'm really behind schedule on pretty much everything, so I'm just now getting to sharing my reads!
Beyond the Mourning Veil: Postmortem & Mourning Photography by Thanatos Archive
Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway by Jim Dwyer
Off Duty: Volume 3 (Hazard & Somerset: Arrows in the Hand) by Gregory Ashe.
As always, I post my reviews at Goodreads and mirror them to BookBub (when they're listed) and welcome new followers!
July 2, 2022
Sale: Madison Square Murders
Madison Square Murders has been chosen as a July Kindle Monthly Deal, exclusively at Amazon UK! Until July 31st, pick up Book 1 in the Memento Mori series for only 99p and solve a twenty-year-old murder with neurodivergent Cold Case detective, Everett Larkin, and his forensic artist partner, Ira Doyle.
Madison recently won 1st place in mystery with both the Next Generation Indie and e-Lit Book Awards, and there's more twists, turns, sarcasm, banter, slow burn romance, and Larkin-knowledge-dumps (...
June 13, 2022
Sale: Magic & Steam series
In celebration of International Steampunk Day this Tuesday, I've put the Magic & Steam series on sale all week! If you've been hesitant about steampunk as a genre, now is a great opportunity to give it a try and race the streets of Gilded Age New York City with magic-wielding federal agent, Gillian Hamilton and his gentleman thief and infamous outlaw lover, Gunner the Deadly. Take a ride on airships, battle crazed engineers and power-hungry gangsters, sneak into the gay clubs along the Bowery, a...
June 6, 2022
Reads: May, 2022
I'm a bit behind on posting my May reads (story of my life!) and I haven't written reviews for everything, so I'll just share the two I did. I continued my pleasure reading of Adrien English, and got my greedy hands on the finale of Hazard & Somerset, too!
Death of a Pirate King (An Adrien English Mystery 4) by Josh Lanyon
Final Orders (Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand 5) by Gregory Ashe
As always, my reviews are posted on Goodreads and mirrored on BookBub. I appreciate new followers!
June 1, 2022
Publishing Anniversary
Every June I have plenty of reasons to drink whiskey and eat cupcakes guilt-free, and that includes: it's my birthday (35 this year!), the celebration of marriage equality, Pride, and my publishing anniversary! 2022 marks 7 long, weird, wild, and glorious years of pursuing my lifelong dream of being a professionally published author—and it marks 2 years of doing this as a full-time job! It all began with a (currently unavailable, but will eventually be re-published, I promise) short story called...
May 31, 2022
Sountrack: The Doctor
The Doctor (Magic & Steam: Book Three) is out in the big wide world and I wanted to share some of the songs that I religiously listened to on repeat while writing the latest adventure of Gillian and Gunner!
Can You Feel My Heart - Bring Me The Horizon
Safe and Sound - Capital Cities
Godzilla - Eminem
Popular Monster - Falling in Reverse
Irish Party in Third Class - Gaelic Storm
Infectious - Imminence
Stay - The Kid Laroi
Running Up That Hill - Meg Myers
We...
May 26, 2022
Release: The Doctor
The Doctor
(Magic & Steam: Book Three) is live with all online retailers! Join Gillian Hamilton and Gunner the Deadly in their next steampunk adventure full of explosions, gunfights, illegal magic, and yes, a glorious romance.Blurb: 1882—Gillian Hamilton, magic caster and Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has been stripped of his title, badge, and freedom. Gillian’s true name and powers have been exposed, so now he’s kept under lock and key. To make a tragedy worse, Gunne...
May 25, 2022
Awards: Indie & e-Lit winners
This month,
Madison Square Murders
won first place for Best Mystery in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the e-Lit Book Awards, and
The Gangster
won second place for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy in the e-Lit Book Awards! These nationwide events are not specific to LGBTQ content, so I am extremely humbled and thankful to be representing our positive and affirming content to a much wider audience.May 7, 2022
Reads: April, 2022
April was a long month of decompressing, as I realize, looking back, I was very near every author's biggest fear: burnout. I didn't even get much reading done, to be honest. It was a month of committing to healthier routines and getting back on track for the rest of the year, which I am confident I've achieved!
The Hell You Say (An Adrien English Mystery 3) by Josh Lanyon
Father Complex (Hazard and Somerset: Arrows in the Hand 4) by Gregory Ashe
April 28, 2022
Pre-order: Subway Slayings
Everett Larkin & Ira Doyle return!Title - Subway Slayings
Series - Memento Mori
Book # - Two
Cover Artist - Reese Dante
Release Date - September 29, 2022
Pre-order - https://books2read.com/SubwaySlayings
Blurb - Detective Everett Larkin of New York City’s Cold Case Squad has been on medical leave since catching the serial killer responsible for the Death Mask Murders. But Larkin hasn’t forgotten the anonymously delivered letter, nor its suggestion, that another memento—another death—is waiting to be f...
