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May 14, 2012
Episodes 1-53, now available in one big compilation!
Great News!
Scryer's Gulch Episodes 1-53 are now available in one big ebook!
The old mini-compilations are gone--unavailable. But now you can read everything currently on the site in one big download--about 70,000 words--for only $3.95! yay!
Regular updates will resume once I get my feet back under me from three four book launches in three months... *thud*
Chapter 4 Part 1 | Son in Sorrow | IHGK Book 2
Ansella suffered in ways Temmin didn't understand. Yes, she had loved Ibbit, but Ibbit had proved false. Ibbit wanted Temmin dead. She wanted his father dead. Oughtn't Mama to be more angry than sad? She stayed in her rooms, avoiding both the morning room and the dinner table. Miss Hanston swore she ate, but "Her Majesty is in a kind of mourning, sir, and that's a fact."
May 13, 2012
Scryer's Gulch: Magic in the Wild, Wild West Vol 1
Three DRM-free formats in one purchase: mobi, epub and pdf!
1875: The dawn of a magical new age of technology.
The hard-scrabble mining town of Scryer's Gulch supplies the world with hermetauxite, the ore that runs everything from clocks to trains to the new ethergraph system. But an unscrupulous spellcoder is poisoning it--twisting it for an unknown but undoubtedly evil purpose.
Beautiful magic wielder and secret Treasury Agent Annabelle Duniway and her captive demon servant Misi have come to the Gulch undercover--she as the new schoolteacher, he as her mean black cat. Their assignment: Find out who's corrupting the ore that increasingly runs the world, and why.
This is the first fifty-three episodes of the fantasy western serial that's one part "Deadwood," one part "Wild, Wild West," and one part "Dark Shadows."
$3.95
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May 12, 2012
Son in Sorrow: An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom Book Two (paperback)
Prince Temmin incurred his father's wrath when he took Supplicancy in the Lovers' Temple; his devotion to the Gods outweighed his father's rage. Now he faces a greater challenge: his forbidden love for Allis, the human host of the goddess Neya. If he doesn't conquer his emotions, he may bring the Lovers' deadly fury down on them both--but pride and desire stand in his way. When a murder rips his greatest support from him, Temmin turns to the magic book of his ancestors to find answers to his need both for revenge and for a woman he must not love.
All the while, enemies inside and outside the kingdom are plotting against the monarchy, and the gods prove once again they are no one's friends.
Set in a Victorianesque world of magic, sexuality, political intrigue and military conquest, "Son in Sorrow" is the second book in the epic fantasy series "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom."
390 pages in paperback.
$14.95
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"Son in Sorrow" paperbacks ordered!
Hey, pre-salers and Kickstarters! The "Son in Sorrow" paperbacks have been ordered! Which means I'll also be adding autographed paperbacks to the site. In other pre-sale/Kickstarter news, the poster mailers have finally been found at a price I can afford, and so I'll be whipping out the silver Sharpie and signing a bunch of those soon, too. I'll be letting everyone know as I send out books.
IF YOU HAVE CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS YOU NEED TO TELL ME NOW. Log into your account and update your address, PLEASE! Especially if you're international.
May 11, 2012
New Aria Afton Presents release: "The Mage's Toy"
You want fluffy erotic romance? Of course you do! It's getting warm out, and everyone likes a quick summer read. So I've launched the "Aria Afton Presents" line for all the fluffy non-History/Gulch erotic romance I write. So far they're novella length, right around 20,000 words, and they're priced at $2.99.
Today's release is The Mage's Toy:
[image error]Runaway Jennia Wick has to marry her childhood sweetheart to escape a bad apprenticeship--if she can find him. Traveling mage Antony Onyx has grown cynical and bitter after a former lover took both his money and half his lifetime store of magic. But when they meet on the road, their instant attraction cracks his cynicism and her resolve.
Even though Antony has vowed never to be vulnerable again, he can't bring himself to let Jennia be re-captured. He offers her a job demonstrating his sex charms, enchanted toys that can satisfy any desire. He tells himself it'll be just like all his other models--strictly business. Even though she's already fallen for Antony, Jennia is determined to find her childhood love and agrees.
But Antony's toys only ignite their desire for one another. Passion may prove more than the mage and the runaway can resist, but when Antony finds Jennia's sweetheart, he must make a choice that could lead to happiness for her--and catastrophe for himself.
It's also available at Amazon, B&N, Smashwords and All Romance Ebook if there's an ebook store you prefer to buying direct from me (I give three formats in one purchase--PDF, mobi and epub).
The Mage's Toy (ebook)
Aria Afton Presents: An erotic romance novella
Runaway Jennia Wick has to marry her childhood sweetheart to escape a bad apprenticeship--if she can find him. Traveling mage Antony Onyx has grown cynical and bitter after a former lover took both his money and half his lifetime store of magic. But when they meet on the road, their instant attraction cracks his cynicism and her resolve.
Even though Antony has vowed never to be vulnerable again, he can't bring himself to let Jennia be re-captured. He offers her a job demonstrating his sex charms, enchanted toys that can satisfy any desire. He tells himself it'll be just like all his other models--strictly business. Even though she's already fallen for Antony, Jennia is determined to find her childhood love and agrees.
But Antony's toys only ignite their desire for one another. Passion may prove more than the mage and the runaway can resist, but when Antony finds Jennia's sweetheart, he must make a choice that could lead to happiness for her--and catastrophe for himself.
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The Mage's Toy (Aria Afton Presents)
Aria Afton Presents: An erotic romance novella
Runaway Jennia Wick has to marry her childhood sweetheart to escape a bad apprenticeship--if she can find him. Traveling mage Antony Onyx has grown cynical and bitter after a former lover took both his money and half his lifetime store of magic. But when they meet on the road, their instant attraction cracks his cynicism and her resolve.
Even though Antony has vowed never to be vulnerable again, he can't bring himself to let Jennia be re-captured. He offers her a job demonstrating his sex charms, enchanted toys that can satisfy any desire. He tells himself it'll be just like all his other models--strictly business. Even though she's already fallen for Antony, Jennia is determined to find her childhood love and agrees.
But Antony's toys only ignite their desire for one another. Passion may prove more than the mage and the runaway can resist, but when Antony finds Jennia's sweetheart, he must make a choice that could lead to happiness for her--and catastrophe for himself.
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Chapter 3 Part 8 | Son in Sorrow | IHGK Book 2
Temmin woke the next morning to someone moving through his room. "Jenks?" he called, sitting up and ruffling his hair.
From beyond the bed-curtains came a level voice he recognized as Gram, his father's valet. "No, sir. I'm tending to your needs until my nephew Mr Harbis arrives this afternoon." Gram opened first the bed-curtains then the draperies, letting the gray winter light creep apologetically past the valet's square shoulders into the bedchamber.
Temmin flung himself down on the pillows again. "Harbis? Oh, Pagg's balls," he muttered to himself. He'd had to put up with Harbis as his valet last year when Jenks was called away. The elegant man was irritatingly good at his job, his sole flaw being that he wasn't Jenks--Jenks, the dispenser of advice from fashion to horses, more a father to him than the King. The gravel-voiced ex-cavalryman had been Temmin's personal servant since he could remember. The year they'd spent apart had been busy enough that Temmin hadn't had time to miss him much, but here outside the Temple he felt his old friend's absence greatly. "Gram, your nephew is all very well and good, but I'm not going to be here long enough to need him!"
May 8, 2012
Which name to use?
I've written an absolutely ridiculous bit of froth, a traditionally structured erotic romance that is nothing like what I usually write. I got the plot idea, these things are quick to write, I'm always trying to get stuff out there making money for me, this is a business.
Thing is, it's totally different from my usual thing. You know, angst, awkward sex: that thing.
If I publish it as MeiLin, am I going to confuse people on both ends of the transaction--old readers thinking WTF? and new readers picking up, say, the History and thinking WTF? Or what?
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