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The Hard Line Cover Reveal

Hard Line has a cover! Woo! And you can see it today at Boy Meets Boy Reviews! They have been kind enough to do a cover reveal for me, so check it out here. 

It's seriously gorgeous, you guys. And while the Bad Judgment cover is still my favorite, Hard Line is definitely running a close second. I've been lucky with my covers, which is saying something, because I'm super picky. 

Crap! I almost forgot. I was going to say that before you wander over to take a look at the Hard Line cover, you shoul...

Loose Cannon on Sale for $0.99!

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Sale lasts from Dec 30th to Jan 2nd only!

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Not sure what Loose Cannon is about? Go here. 

Hard Line Excerpt Available!

Pretty much what it says on the tin, guys. The first 3 chapters of Hard Line for your Thanksgiving enjoyment. Which is sort of long for an excerpt but I don't care. I do what I want. ;D

Read the excerpt here.

Blurb for Hard Line & 3 Facts

Ahem.

***HARD LINE, by Sidney Bell Copyright 2017

Premed student Tobias Benton is making amends for his past. He keeps his head down, mouth
shut and colors within the lines. But when his close friend Ghost goes missing, Tobias will do
whatever it takes to get answers—including using blackmail to enlist some help. The last thing
he’s looking for is romance.

Private investigator Sullivan Tate isn’t above a little breaking and entering to solve a case, but
when Tobias catches him in the act, it's almos...

Literally the Stuff on My Desk. I'm Sorry.

Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I spend a lot of time running through possible ideas. My response to most of these is: no one will care about that. Since I spend a lot of time writing about office supplies and stupid crap like that, I'm probably right most of the time. Which is why I've been trying to spend more time writing about book stuff, since I figure if you're showing up at my site, you're at least vaguely interested in my books.

But I've spent the last few weeks doing edi...

The Mermaid Game--Original Flash Fic Release

So Boy Meets Boy Reviews is four-years-old today, and they asked me to write a flash fic for their celebration! And because I'm me, I wrote way too many words, so I'm not sure it even counts as a flash fic anymore, but they were kind enough to accept the story anyway.

I'm also giving away two paperbacks of Loose Cannon, so make sure you sign up if you don't already have own a copy. Go here to read the fic and enter the giveaway! They're doing stuff all month long, so check back frequently for...

How Dark is Too Dark? Or, the Birth of Hard Line.

So...Ghost's book is pretty dark so far. 

I know, I know, I should probably be talking about Tobias, and I will, for about half this post, but the only reason he's part of this conversation is because he's crucial to the feelings I'm having about Ghost right now. And those feelings are currently like this: 

It's like a Japanese horror movie, I guess I'm saying. Where you're really freaking out, but the only way out is through so you keep going.

Ghost's book is writing really well. Like, really...

In Defense of the HEA

You could say I have a bit of a bone to pick. Which might explain why this is really long. 

Damon Suede called romance "The literature of hope." Some folks might say that that's an inflated description for dinky little love stories; those folks don't know what they're talking about. I'm not saying that to be rude so much as to express that they are working from a fundamental misunderstanding of the genre, one that is usually based in some mixture of sexism, superiority and an unfamiliarity wit...

Tobias Has a Title...and a Date.

I know, I know, I haven't had a lot of news lately. I gave myself a lot of time to write Tobias's book, in large part because I'm a slow writer, and also because I knew I would have to do a lot of research for it and I didn't want to skimp. But now that the book's in and we've begun the editing and pre-publication process, things are finally starting to roll!

Hard Line, Tobias's book, second in the Woodbury Boys trilogy, will be released April 2, 2018.

As soon as I have a cover (it'll be a whil...

Gettin' Fighty

Sometimes it's hard to draw a line between writing healthy relationships, realistic relationships, and the sort of conflict-based relationships that are crucial for page-turning fiction.

Let me give you an example with some mild spoilers. In Bad Judgment, my two heroes get into an argument. They're both tired and pissed off and neither one is getting what he wants from the other and they're too emotionally involved at this point to walk away. Neither one has any good options. There's no obviou...