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A Christmas Surprise!

It’s official… I’m going to publish a Christmas-themed story next week! I’ve been trying to write something since August, and I’ve discovered that it’s really difficult to write something for one holiday when you’re on the other side of calendar. But after November, I needed something to cheer me up – and for some reason, writing a flirty, funny, sexy little Christmas story about two guy who fall into love fit the bill exactly.

A Christmas Caroling is with the betas now, and I’m tweaking a few things here and there. I’ve also been scurrying to get all of the other details that go along with publishing a book set – such as writing the blurb, setting up the Goodreads entry, and ordering a cover. I was thinking I’d give premade covers a try this time – but it’s surprisingly hard to find a Christmassy cover that features two guys. WHO KNEW. I ended up commissioning a cover from Amourisa Designs, and I couldn’t be happier with it. Look at my men! Look at the pretty Christmas lights! Look at the gorgeous font for the title! I love it.

The last thing alpha Rudy Mitchell wants to do is spend the evening caroling with the local community center – especially since he’s been paired up with the omega dork wearing the ridiculous Christmas sweater. But when the omega is injured during their walk, Rudy’s protective instincts kick into gear – and he finds himself singing a whole different song.

Omega Harry Chen just wants a little Christmas cheer before he leaves on a six-month-long apprenticeship on the other side of the world. He doesn’t plan on falling on some black ice… or falling in love with his caroling partner. Now Harry’s half a world away… and wondering how he’s going to tell Rudy about the Christmas surprise neither of them anticipated.

When Harry’s apprenticeship is over – will Rudy greet Harry and their surprise with open arms? Or will next Christmas feature solo acts only?

A Christmas Caroling is an alpha/omega non-shifter mpreg romance. It features horrible Christmas sweaters, beautifully painted glass bottles, and an HEA ending.

it was nice to write something so quickly like this – the story’s much shorter than anything else, somewhere around 22,000 words. Light, sweet, sexy, and a guaranteed happy ending all around.

Of course, the tricky part is getting all the pieces together… especially since I’ve recently become enamored with Yuri on Ice, a Japanese rom-com anime about a male figure skater and his male coach falling in love. It’s adorable. It’s my first foray into anime, and I’m absolutely loving every minute of it. I highly, highly recommend watching if you haven’t already! Just be sure you don’t have any projects due, it’s kind of addictive.

Back to Work!

I’m happy to report that I’m now back to writing daily – or at least, daily in that I’ve been

It looks just like this, too. Maybe less green.

writing every day for the last couple of days. I had a slump after the election cycle where I couldn’t write much of anything – and a slow start getting the promotions out for The Country Alpha probably wasn’t helping.

(At some point, I want to write about where I might have gone wrong with The Country Alpha – but not this week.)

A few days ago, though – I got tired of the post-election writer’s block, and said enough was enough. I’ve had an 750words.com account for years, though I haven’t logged in for a while. It’s a good site, very basic: you log in, you have a nice, unassuming blank screen, and you write at least 750 words. There’s badges and challenges and you can save or print your work there, but really, it’s just a screen that automatically counts your words for you. And for some reason – even though I could very easily just do this in a word processing program – it works for me when nothing else does.

I think it’s the badges. I really like the badges. It’s entirely stupid, but the thought of earning another badge is enough to keep me coming back, even when I’d rather waste time on Tumblr. (And I am very good at wasting time on Tumblr.)

I mean, look at these pretties!

For months, I’ve been trying to write a holiday story. Everyone likes a holiday story, especially one with a happy ending. I tried to write a holiday story over the summer… and ended up writing a summer story instead. (You’ll see it this coming summer since I didn’t manage to finish it until the end of August, far too late to put out on the market!)

I had a germ of an idea… but it took until now, when holiday preparations are really kicking in, for me to actually do anything with it. It won’t be super long – I’ve got just under 7,000 words written, and I don’t intend for it to be much more than 20,000, mostly because I really want to have it done and out by mid-December. It should be a fun little story once I’m done – but I’m coming into it so late, I’m hoping I can get all the pieces together (like the cover, and the editing, and all the right marketing).

Nose to the grindstone, I guess.

Mmm, toasty.

The Country Alpha is out!

It’s official – both versions of The Country Alpha are available for purchase on Amazon Kindle! Each are priced at $2.99, or if you’re a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can read them both for free!

I couldn’t be more pleased with the early reviews already coming in:

“I love this book!…  I got trapped by the story, felt in love with the protagonists and I actually devoured the book. because I simply couldn’t. Put. It. Down.” (Five stars on Amazon!)

 

“[The] storyline keeps the reader turning page after page to see what happens next.” (Five stars on Amazon!)

 

 

 

 

“Veronica and Jake are both well thought out characters, and we spend enough time with each that neither feels like a plot device in the other’s story. Their journey was engaging enough that I had intended to only read over breakfast and kept going until I finished it.” (Five stars on Goodreads!)

 

 

It’s been such an interesting journey getting these books ready for release – and I’m so glad to finally share them with you. I especially can’t wait to hear what the folks who read both of them think!

 

 

The Country Alpha is now available for pre-order!

WHEW! I’m pleased to announce that both versions of The Country Alpha are available for pre-order on Amazon Kindle! The book will be released on November 15, but you can pre-order your copies now for the discounted rate of $1.99 – it’ll go up on November 15!

 

TO ORDER VERONICA’S VERSION, CLICK HERE.

TO ORDER NED’S VERSION, CLICK HERE.

I wish there was a way that Amazon would let me give a further discount on one book if you buy the first – but apart from bundling them together (which has sticky consequences for Kindle Unlimited readers), I can’t figure out how to do it.

I am SO excited to have these books finally ready for everyone! I feel like I’ve been working on them forever… well, I kind of have, Veronica’s version of the story was my Nano project last year! It’s changed a great deal since then – I think it might almost be unrecognizable now. There were points I really doubted I’d ever have it ready – but I’m so happy with how it’s come out, and I’m overjoyed with Ned’s Story. I can’t imagine having written this story any other way, to be honest. I think Jake’s story was always meant to be told in this format, with the two possibilities. Those of you who read one or the other are going to love them – but those of you who read both are in for a real treat.

I admit, I’m very curious how this is going to play out. Let’s face it, the reason most people are reading my books are because they’re interested in a specific genre: m/m paranormal romance. Writing a book that features an m/f pairing? That’s a pretty big gamble for me, especially so early in my publishing career. And I think I may have already seen at least one person unsubscribe from my mailing list because of it. (Granted, I can’t prove it. But I can say that before I sent out the email about the pre-orders, there were 70 people on that list. Within a day after sending it? 69.)

Like you all weren’t thinking about them, too.

I’m not going to fool myself into thinking that Veronica’s version of the story is going to do anywhere near as well as Ned’s version (and I remind myself constantly that there is no guarantee that Ned’s version will do as well as The Country Omega did in the first place). After all – Veronica’s Story is essentially my first in a new genre (of m/f romance), where the name of Penelope Peters is even more unknown than it is in m/m romance. The fact that it’s even got pre-orders is kind of making my day. I’m going to do my best by it – because I do believe it’s a good story, well-told, and is worth reading – but I’ll be honest and say I’m not entirely sure how to market it.

So when I say I don’t expect it to do as well… that’s me being pragmatic. If it gets a third of the pre-orders that Country Omega did, I’ll be happy. Then again – if Ned’s Story gets three-quarters of the pre-orders that Country Omega did, I’ll be happy with it, too.

(This makes me sound a great deal more pessimistic than I actually am. Really, it’s more about setting myself up to be pleasantly/enthusiastically surprised. Or at least, not horrifically disappointed.)

(I will admit I am very much hoping for the first outcome, and not the second.)

 

Anyway, I have jumped into the media blitz with 1-1/2 feet. It would be two feet, except I’ve kind of dropped the ball about sending ARCs out to the various review sites. (That’s this week’s goal. Or maybe next week’s. Everyone’s a little pre-occupied today, I think.)

So what do you all think? Am I being reasonable about Veronica’s Story’s reception? Or do you think I’m being pessimistic about it?

The Country Alpha Cover Reveal!

Out of all the things I’ve learned (and continue to learn) about self-publishing, I think the hardest curve has been with covers. I am not a graphic designer, by any stretch of the imagination. I love photography and in the past, I’ve enjoyed playing around with digital photography to achieve certain effects… but I can’t claim to know what I’m doing. I mean – when I took photography in school, we were still using film. The entire degree program had exactly two weeks of digital manipulation. I didn’t even own a digital camera until about five years after I graduated.

Graphic design? Way harder. It’s my ineptitude with Photoshop times twenty.

Which is why I’m so pleased to reveal the covers for the upcoming duo of books The Country Alpha: Ned’s Story and The Country Alpha: Veronica’s Story. I knew designing these covers would be a challenge – after all, they’re both the sequel to The Country Omega, but they each have their own storyline that takes the main character, Jake, in different (though complementary) directions. I wanted the covers to reflect each book individually – but still echo the other.

And I think I got that.

What surprises me is that they’re from two different cover artists. Ned’s cover was designed by R.A. Steffan, who also designed the covers for The Country Omega and The Omega Nanny. I loved the way that R.A. turned the black-bordered theme on its ear, and went with the snowy background of Jake’s cabin as inspiration.

Veronica’s story, however, was designed by Suze Howe, a long-time friend who asked for the chance to flex her designing muscles, and turned out something I fell in love with at first glance. I feel like every time I look at her cover, I see some new detail, like the heart pointing at Veronica, or the way the hockey diagram blends with the wine rack.

But especially, I love how well the two different covers complement and reflect each other, too – which is good, because I like to think the books complement and reflect each other, despite being two very different stories. And while my intention is that a reader should be able to read either one of them and not feel as though they’re missing anything – readers who read both are going to get a much better picture of Jake than they would by reading only one story.

I’m nearly done with formatting the stories – and some last-minute tweaks. I still haven’t picked my release date for the books, but I do know it’ll be sometime in November, and I suspect it’ll be simultaneous, unless someone can give me a good reason why that’s a bad idea.

In the meantime, though, I have to tear myself away from staring longingly at Veronica and Ned’s covers, and actually finish the formatting. (Details, yo.)

Have a lovely day, everyone!

 

 

 

The Country Omega is FREE this weekend!

It’s my birthday, but you get the treat – The Country Omega is free to own this weekend on Amazon Kindle! That’s right – totally, 100% free now through September 18. I haven’t run a price promotion on any of my books yet – and strangely enough, I think I’m more excited for this than I was for the actual publication!

 

(Okay, maybe not. But it has been exciting, getting it all set up.)

 

And in case you’re saying, “But Pen, I’ve already read it!” — don’t worry, there’s a treat in store for you, too. I’ve added a special sneak peek at the sequel, The Country Alpha, so even if you read it on Kindle Unlimited before, you’ll want to download the book to look at that! Those of you who already purchased a copy should find that Amazon has already updated your version, too – so you should be able to see the sneak peek as well. (If not, let me know – everyone gets to be happy on my birthday!)

 

One text is all it takes to spin a life into a different direction.

After a devastating accident, alpha Jake Downing has set aside his dream of hockey stardom, and narrowed his choices down to one—life as a hermit on a mountain in the middle of nowhere, with no city, no strictures of society, and especially no omega. He just needs to take one trip into the city – and then he’s free.

This is how the story begins.

Within hours of his arrival, however, a single text message will twist the course his life takes, spinning his life in two alternate realities – determining not only the ownership of Jake’s mountain, but also the person with whom he might end up sharing it.

This is how the story might go.

In one reality, Jake gets his mountain, but he also gets Ned Reilly, an omega whose secrets have been ripped away one by one. The whole city knows why Ned’s first alpha broke their bond—or thinks it does. The whole city is wrong. No one’s ever taken Ned seriously before—except the one man Ned can’t afford to ignore. Now Ned’s life is at stake… and Jake’s mountain might just save them both.

This is how the story might go.

The other reality leads Jake back to the ice, and with it, omega Veronica Aletta. Veronica’s broken bond is a matter of gossip on the omega circuit – so it’s just as well she has no intention of bonding again, despite her father’s persistence. But now she’s about to lose everything that’s precious to her, and it will take more than determination and her strange link with Jake Downing to save it.

Sometimes love is just a matter of circumstance.

One night in the city, one inexplicable bond formed in a moment of passion, will bind Jake to the person destined to be his mate. Only their growing faith in each other will keep them from being torn apart.

A Country Alpha is a story told two different ways. A Country Alpha: Ned is m/m non-shifter paranormal mpreg romance. A Country Alpha: Veronica is m/f non-shifter paranormal romance. Available separately from Amazon Kindle starting November 2016.

 

I’m still working on finishing up the edits on The Country Alpha, and there’s some GORGEOUS covers in the works that hopefully will be ready to show off in a few weeks. But in the meantime, enjoy the sneak peek and have a fantastic, cake-filled day!

 

The Print-Out

This week, I’m working on what is probably one of the more banal jobs in my editing process – the print-out.

Everyone has their own way of editing, and I’ve tried more methods than I can actually remember. But one that has stuck with me since I started writing with a No. 2 pencil in my hand has been reading and marking up a physical copy of what I’ve written.

In the early days, I marked up a printed copy of my story because it was literally the only way I could edit. I’m a child of the 80’s; I wrote my first stories in wide-rule spiral-bound notebooks, using pencils because pens were too messy. Once I learned to type, I used my parents’ old typewriter, which smudged the “e” and was noisier than any aviary in any zoo. At some point (and after what must have been ceaseless begging), I got a word processor – that cross between a typewriter and a computer, which had a screen about 14 characters long, but could save my files on 3.5″ floppy discs, and I had to load every piece of paper individually when it was time to print my work in one mass effort.

Obviously, there were a lot of mistakes and typos, when only 14 characters at a time were visible. I got pretty used to printing out my story, marking up the changes and new scenes and dialog and anything else… and then starting the slow process of skimming through the text, 14 characters at a time, to make changes.

I don’t think I wrote anything on a computer until college. My parents owned a computer when I was in high school, but it was the family’s computer, sitting in the living room for all of us to share. I liked writing in the privacy of my own room better.

Editing on a computer screen was a vast improvement over a 14-character viewscreen. Suddenly, I didn’t have to print out a page to see everything – and I stopped printing out stories to review them. I could edit just fine on the computer, and so that’s what I did. After all, I was still writing with a pencil a lot of the time, especially when I was commuting to work, and editing the hand-written words as I typed them into the computer at the end of the day. I still edited on the page… just much earlier in the process.

Until one day, about four or five years ago, when the story I was working on had so many problems that I couldn’t see all of the issues on the computer screen anymore. I was a stay-at-home mom by then; I didn’t write with pencil on the Metro anymore. Heck, the only thing I physically wrote with anymore was a crayon as my son and I scribbled on blank paper, side-by-side.

I  missed writing. I missed the scratch of pencil on paper. And I realized I needed to have that print out, to, and then lay out the scenes on the table in front of me. I needed to be able to flip back and forth from scene to scene, mark a place and be able to go back to it with ease. I needed to make notes in the margins, use sticky tabs and colored pencils.

I needed to write out my edits on paper again. So that’s what I did – and it worked. The story that had been such a mess took only a few hours to fix, once I could see the problems on paper.

This week, that’s what I’m doing with one half of The Country Alpha. I’ve got it printed out, all 197 pages of it, and once the baby is down for his nap, I’ll sit down at the kitchen table and get to work. Pick up my pencil, and start marking, editing, deleting, adding… and turning what is currently a mess of a timeline into something that flows smooth and sure.

It’s a little bit daunting… but it works. It’s not a step I take lightly – after all, 197 pages is A LOT of pages to print – but I’ve found that sometimes it’s the only way I can fix a problem too big for even my 17″ screen.

I love writing on my computer… but there will always be something special about writing with a pencil in my hand.

 

While I’m here – I’ve got an exciting announcement for this weekend coming on Thursday – keep your eyes peeled!

Reviews and Coming Attractions!

I’ve been remiss in checking for reviews for The Omega Nanny, which is how I completely missed the lovely review posted at JoyfullyJay.com a few weeks ago. And I really have absolutely NO excuse, because the same day it posted, the person who runs the site sent me an email to ask for an ARC for The Country Omega, since the reviewer enjoyed Nanny so much.

In retrospect, I totally should have taken this as a clue and checked the site; I didn’t, and therefore only realized now that the review had gone up! I don’t know what I was thinking, except that I wasn’t!

The review is here, it’s a lovely 4-star review, do go and read it and browse the rest of the site while you’re there.

I think my only excuse is that I’ve been desperately trying to finish the first(/second/third/fourth/you-really-don’t-want-to-know) drafts of The Country Alpha before my older son is released from kindergarten in about two weeks. Summer vacation is only summer vacation for those who don’t have kids who get summer vacation. Between trying to entertain him (without relying on the television to do it for me), and ensuring that the one-year-old doesn’t succeed in his attempt to love the cat to death (not sure whose demise would be imminent, honestly; the cat’s patient only to a point)… yeah, doesn’t leave a lot of time for writing. And that’s before you figure in the fact that we’re meant to be packing up the house at the end of this month, living in transit until August, before traversing to the other side of the world.

As it is, I feel like I’m taking one step forward, two steps back  most of the time – especially now that the school year is drawing quickly to a close, and the list of things that need to be done gets longer and longer every time I blink.

But in case you were wondering… you read that correctly, and it’s not a typo. Drafts. Because there’s going to be two versions of The Country Alpha.

Well, what else are you supposed to do when your main character is equally attracted to two people, and there’s two equally interesting and fun plots to match the two love interests?

(Okay, I guess I could have gone the poly route. There’s a thought! How would a poly relationship work in the Omegaverse? Maybe next time.)

Instead… we’re going to get to see Jake Downing fall in love with Ned… and then we’ll get to see Jake Downing fall in love with Veronica. Or the other way ’round, it’s totally up to you which version you read first; my plan is to release them on the same day, though I’ll admit I haven’t figured out the actual logistics of it.

This is either the most brilliant way to tell a story… or I’m completely insane. Possibly both, though at the moment, I’m kind of leaning toward the latter. If I do it right – you won’t have to read both versions of the story in order to get the whole picture. But you’ll want to!

One version is… okay, I thought it was done, but apparently while I wrapped up the love story just fine, I sort of forgot to wrap up the plot. So I have to do that. And the second version, the plot keeps tripping over itself and my inner editor is softly crying in the corner. Every time I think I’ve solved it… I get another brainstorm. Argh!

(See why I’m leaning toward insane?  And two weeks until summer vacation.)

But enough fretting… it’s back to work for me, or none of it will be written at all! (And it really is such fun, you’re all going to love it – and Ned, and Veronica, and Jake, I promise!)

Omegaverse Q&A (Or Pen answers reviews without answering reviews)

One of the trickiest things about being a professional author is reviews. Not that getting them is necessarily tricky – there’s no trick other than sheer luck and a whole lot of prayers – but sometimes you want to reach through your computer screen and either hug or throttle whoever wrote them.

All reviewers are my sweet baboos.

(If you’re lucky, it’s more hugging than throttling, though I suspect even J.K. Rowling has wanted to throttle a reviewer or two.)

Most of the time, I land firmly on the hugging side. With a side of chocolate cake, because everything is better with chocolate cake, positive and negative reviews both. (You can consider the chocolate cake either reward or apology, depending on the review.)

The general rule of thumb, though, is not to respond. Ever. Which makes some sense… I mean, the reviews you find on Amazon or Goodreads or any of the review sites aren’t really meant for the author. They’re meant for other readers, to help them determine whether or not they want to read the book in question. Sure, I love to read them… but reviewers aren’t thinking about me when they write them.

And that’s cool. I get it. I’ve been on the other side of the fence, reading reviews to get a better sense of how people (and therefore, I) will like a story. I still do that, though it’s not the end-all-be-all of my decision-making process when it comes to what to read.

Sometimes, though, there’s a review I’m just dying to respond to, general rule of thumb be damned. Mostly it’s because the reviewer asked a question, and I… I’m just enough of a Ravenclaw that I’m desperate to answer it.

Such is the case with a review received last week. The funny thing is… the questions this reviewer posed are actually questions I’d been discussing with one of my ARC readers, based on her recent review of The Omega Nanny. And I think she makes a very valid point (I have yet to have a single review, positive or negative, which didn’t raise at least one) that I don’t really do much explaining of the Omegaverse in my books.

Part of that is because I’m very used to not having to explain. And part of that is because – well, to put it bluntly, I didn’t really want to have a long explanatory thing in the book, because that can really disrupt the flow. We’ve all read books where the author stops the action to explain some cultural tidbit. It’s interesting, maybe, but how many of us actually sit and read them, and how many of us start skipping paragraphs until we’re back at the story?

(Okay, I read them. 90% of the time. But, again, Ravenclaw.)

I’ve also never much cared for a world so detailed that the author felt the need to have to explain it via webpages and diagrams and graphs and charts. If you can’t write the world well enough to make me understand enough of it simply by reading your book – you are not doing your job thoroughly.

It would seem that I’m not doing my job thoroughly. And that’s on me to fix. It’s not that the Omegaverse is complicated – I don’t really think it is – but it is different from our own world, and that of other paranormal books which incorporate alphas and omegas.  I’m beginning to think that some additional explanation/expository is necessary, more than what I’ve been doing.

The Omegaverse world was not built in a single book, as it turns out.

So I’m going to work on that. The Country Alpha is already going to incorporate more world-building in it – the story is demanding it, actually, as I advance Ethan and Antonio’s life together, as well as the obstacles faced by Jake, Veronica, and Ned – but I’ll strive to explain things a little more than I have previously.

But back to the review I’d like to answer. Amazon won’t let me answer as Penelope – which is majorly annoying, and I’m not sure the reviewer knows that you can ask authors questions on Goodreads. So I’m going to post it here, and hope someone will let her know to look here.

Penelope, how do male omegas feed their babies?

Yep! It seems strange, but it’s true – men can lactate. Okay, it wouldn’t be easy to turn that into full breastfeeding capability, and apart from Dustin Hoffman, I don’t think most men are into trying, but it’s possible. I mean, think about it – they have all the right parts (nipples, mammory glands, etc), they just don’t generally lactate or grow breasts like women do. (For what it’s worth – I don’t think omega males in the Omegaverse grow breasts, either, though I do think their chests probably swell after giving birth. But this is my own headcanon and may not apply to other authors’ visions of the Omegaverse.)

And yes – I think a male omega would be able to supply all the milk a baby needs. A person’s breast size doesn’t actually indicate how much milk they’re producing – small-breasted women can certainly breastfeed their babies without supplementing with formula, and large-breasted women can require formula supplements sometimes, too. So really, there’s no reason why in the Omegaverse, a man could give birth and then be able to nourish his baby, too.

(Ain’t science grand?)

Why is Connie being able to get married such a big deal? Why couldn’t she get married before?

For the same reason that gay and lesbian couples have been barred from marriage until the last few years in much of the world (and still are banned from marriage in parts of it). Discrimination, pure and simple.

One of the things I like about the Omegaverse – about any science fiction or paranormal story, really – is the opportunity to comment on various facets of the world as we know it. SciFi has done this for years, ever since Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein. The right to marry in the United States might be settled now – but that’s not the case in other parts of the world, and the parallels with Connie and Brent’s right to marry in The Omega Nanny are intentional.

It ain’t a real world unless it involves red tape somewhere.

So all an alpha and omega have to do is bite, and they’re bonded?

Biologically speaking, yes. Legally speaking, there’s a few other things Thomas and Kieran would need to do – signatures and whatnot, but nothing too major. Can’t have a society without paperwork of some kind!

(The Country Omega goes into the whole contract/arranged marriage concept a bit more thoroughly – maybe a little more thoroughly than some would like – but it’s a good place to start if you’re keen to read about that sort of detail.)

 You had Kieran pushing in the labor scene. Um… where’s that baby coming out?

Same place it went in.[image error] Well, that’s my theory, anyway, feel free to ignore that bit if it disturbs you, I don’t mind!

I’ve seen multiple methods of baby removal in mpreg fics. Sometimes there’s a spontaneous hole that appears when the baby’s ready to be born. Sometimes operations are required. I’ve even seen one book where the pregnant father’s skin turned to jelly, allowing the doctor to reach in and pull the baby out. The possibilities are endless and increasingly creative.

Because people are amazing, there are folks out there who have not only written thousands of words of meta about the political and social ramifications of the Omegaverse, there’s people who have written thousands of words about the biology too – and included diagrams. If you are at all interested in biology, you could be occupied for days. It’s kind of fabulous.

Oh, who am I kidding? It’s totally fabulous.

I can’t wait for the next book in the series!

Meep! I don’t have one planned, actually – well, not exactly. Certainly Cameron and Desmond have a story to tell – but they haven’t been inclined to tell it to me just yet. And I admit, I’d love to stick Vera in the interrogation chair – but she didn’t ever show up to storyboards so I honestly don’t quite know what was going through her head most of the time. (Hence why she never appeared in the book, either.)

But there is more Omegaverse coming – I’m working as hard and fast as I can on The Country Alpha, which is the second part of the Downing Cycle, and it’s on track to be released this fall.  And I think it’ll be more than worth the wait… mostly because it’s a whole lot more than I bargained for when I began!

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While I’m here… if you haven’t already read Aiden Bates’ wonderful take on the Omegaverse, Country Passions, you really need to read it! I just finished it, and I loved his version of the Omegaverse. It’s not the same as my own – omegas and alphas are more of a hidden society than in my headcanon, and there are aspects of his world that are much, much darker and scarier – but I love the characters Bates has created and the story that revolves around them. If you enjoy the Omegaverse – you’re gonna love Country Passions, so please take a few moments to give it a look!

Have a wonderful day!

Release Day!

IT’S RELEASE DAY!

Now available on Amazon Kindle

The Omega Nanny

Alpha Thomas Whittaker needs a nanny.

Single dad Thomas Whittaker loves work, his daughter, and coffee – not always in that order. Romance hasn’t been on his mind since his mate died six years ago. When his sister hires the cute busboy from Thomas’s favorite coffee shop as the new nanny, he’s just amused.

Until he finds out that the busboy is an omega.

Omega Kieran Corvey needs a job.

Kieran Corvey is newly single, almost homeless – and determined to pay back every cent his parents spent on an engagement that went nowhere. Kieran needs money more than he needs a love life. Being hired to take care of a six-year-old girl is much better than shilling coffee to thirsty and lusty customers all day.

Until he finds out his new employer is an alpha.

Sometimes you find exactly what you need when you’re not looking for it at all.

The Omega Nanny is a standalone Omegaverse non-shifter story with a HEA and mpreg (male pregnancy) ending.

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