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I Have a Twitter Account!

I have finally taken the plunge and got a Twitter account after holding out for so long. I know it will be useful to network with other authors, and all my friends have one… So follow me @VC_Lancaster for updates!

New Book!

Yesterday, I wrote the first page of my next novel!

It’s not Ruth & Gron, instead it’s a new series, but don’t worry, I plan to do another Gandry novel after this one.

The new series is set in the year 2266, and focuses on alien men integratingin mostly-human offices after being hired there. I will call the series “Office Aliens” because I’m original like that. The first one features a grouchy, unsociable lizard-man, and the woman forced to work with him.

I’ll post more details when I’m close...

My Favourite Kindle Romances

Time for my list of favourite Kindle romances. Now, for me, Kindle romances are something very specific. They have a flavour that is half-way between fanfiction, and books you find on shelves. Mills & Boon can be close, but the lack of sex in Mills & Boon stops them from being the same. And sure, Kindle romances can be found in print too, but when you see a Kindle romance, you know.

I specify as well Kindle romances. I have no experience of Kindle thrillers or what have you. Kromances, as I s...

My Favourite Books

I have meant, since publishing UnBonded, to make more blog posts, and make my blog more accessible to people who haven’t read my books. I have failed, and instead totally dropped off the radar for over a month. Oops. So I am planning a series of posts, starting with this one, My Favourite Books, soon to be followed by My Favourite Kindle Romances, and keep your eyes peeled for My Top 5 Weird Dicks and Tips for Aspiring Kindle Authors. If anyone has any requests for a post, let me know, and I...

UnBonded Is Out!

I have just published Book 3: UnBonded! It is still filtering through the system, so I don’t have a link for you, but it will available for purchase sometime in the next 12 hours in theory.

I was able to get it out early because I realised that the last chapter I had to write, a Moira chapter, didn’t actually need to be written.

I’m really excited to know what everyone thinks of it. It feels like a long time since I last published (five months…). I hope people like it, that the menage doesn’t...

UnBonded Cover

Below is the cover for Book 3: UnBonded.

I hate making covers. Ispend hours obsessing over fractionally different shades, and millimeters of difference in the placing of things. Fonts.

This went through a few different tweaks. For a menage romance, you’re supposed to have two guys on the cover, so it’s obvious, right? That’s like, the unspoken rule. But that requires cropping the background out, which requires much greater skills than I possess, so I knew I had to go with putting Moira on the...

UnBonded: Chapters 1-3

It’s been far too long since I posted on here, or even really had an update for you. I still don’t want to commit to a release date, but I can tell you that Book 3: UnBonded is as long as Gron’s Fated and still going. I think it has another 20k words in it. At least, I think a total word count of 80k is a reasonable bet.

Anyway, I thought I would post the first three chapters here, to stoke the flames and build some interest back up before the book’s release. Gotta stay relevant! Publish or P...

Book 3 Update: “UnBonded”

Hello all!

I meant to write this weeks ago, but I found that when I first started writing book 3, I didn’t want to announce it until I had more of it done. I have about 20,000 words done now, so it feels like time.

First, the general facts: Book 3 will be titled UnBonded. This is because it will be a menage romance, with Kranu and Troii falling for the same human woman, Moira, who they happen across in their exile. For this reason, my previous naming convention of “(Character’s Name)’s X” did...

Character Study 2

To pick up where I left off…

Grasta

Grasta is the Alpha of Gron’s tribe. In the books, you only have Gryla to compare her to, but among Gandry Queens, Grasta is exceptional, almost freakishly so. Even by Gandry standards, she is massive at around eight feet tall. She has more fur than any other Gandry, covering nearly her whole body. If they didn’t live in a world where females were celebrated for their strength and size, Grasta would have been ridiculed and outcast.

As it was, she was able t...

Character Study

Tomorrow, it will be a week since I published Gron’s Fated,but I was living with those characters for five months, and with Ruth and Gron for longer. I’m intrigued to see what people think of my Gandry tribe, and so far, most people hate Kranu. Well, he is the villain, but gosh, you just don’t know him like I do. Overall, responses to the book have been enthusiastically positive, and I’m blown away almost every day by new comments or new personal records being broken.

For example, Gron’s Fate...