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September 25, 2012
Welcome Guest Blogger – Lila Dubois
Thank you, Jayne, for having me on your blog. I promise to stop blackmailing you after this. I’m just kidding…I won’t stop blackmailing you. What are friends for?
I’m delighted that finally, many years after Gone with the Monster came out, Have Monster, Will Travel, the fourth book in the series, is being released October 9th.
Available from: Samhain Publishing – Amazon – B&N
What would you do if you learned something that world change the world forever? It sounds dramatic, but that’s what’s happening in the Monsters in Hollywood series. Monsters are real, and in this day and age they did what any reasonable mythical race would do to reveal their existence—they went to Hollywood to make a movie about themselves.
The first three books in the series: Lights, Camera…Monsters, My Fair Monster and Gone with the Monster, all featured characters who learned about the existence of monsters at the same time—the start of the first book. In Have Monster, Will Travel production is gearing up for the movie, and we’ve hit the point that other people need to be told the secret. That’s where we meet Joanna—a rise star in the world of production design. But it’s not just human crew they need. As a race of warriors fighting isn’t a problem for the monsters, but real fighting and choreographed fighting for the silver screen are very different. Since no human stunt coordinator could design the fights for the massive, winged monsters, they bring in the most revered fighter and trainer among the monsters—Tokaki—to act as stunt coordinator.
Joanna and Tokaki are attracted to each other from the start, but they’re from very different worlds. Joanna finds out first hand just how dangerous Tokaki’s world can be, and Tokaki learns what it means to move heaven and earth to be with the one your love.
If you’ve read the other Monsters, then I hope you enjoy Have Monster, Will Travel. If you haven’t read them this is a great place to jump in. You can discover, along with Joanna, just what it means to find out that monsters are real.
She’d always heard Hollywood was full of monsters. She didn’t know they meant actual monsters.
All of Hollywood is talking about Calypso Production’s new top-secret action movie, and Joanna is tapped to be the Production Designer. There’s just one big issue: the lead actors are monsters. Literally.
Bound by tradition and discipline, Tokaki’s clan of shapeshifers has maintained the old ways even as they’ve retreated from the human race. When members of another clan come up with a plan to expose and explain their hidden existence, he agrees to help. As the warrior who trains all others, he knows how to inflict both the maximum, and minimum, amount of damage. Because of this experience he’s asked to become something they call a “stunt coordinator”.
When Joanna and Tokaki meet it’s electric, and not just because Joanna watches him shift from a massive white tiger into a handsome, naked man. Tokaki is fascinated by the outside world, especially Joanna, who’s colorful in more ways than one. When he takes Joanna to a hidden temple deep in the Chinese mountains, neither expects she’ll be risking her very life. In order to save the woman he loves, Tokaki must turn to his family for help, risking the secrets his clan has kept for a millennium.
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Here’s the Prologue from Have Monster, Will Travel
© Lila Dubois
They wouldn’t be able to keep the secret much longer.
“What are our options?” Lena sat at the head of Calypso Production’s conference table, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art visible through the floor to ceiling windows at her back.
Jane sat at her right, a copy of the script in front of her. “Without the rest of the pre-pro crew, we can’t go forward. We need more people.”
“If we bring them on, we have to tell them the truth.” Luke, Lena’s boyfriend, tapped his fingers restlessly on the table.
“No. No more people. We have to keep this quiet for as long as we can.” Margo’s voice was grim. The usually sassy Latina was dressed causally in a T-shirt and jeans, hair back in a loose ponytail. Her fiancé was seated next to her. The over six-foot tall Runako leaned forward, planting his elbow on the table hard enough to rattle the cups.
“I’ll protect you.” Before Runako had, er, kidnapped Margo, the real magnitude of what they were doing hadn’t hit the five friends who owned Calypso Productions. They’d known they were taking on something big when they agreed to make a movie about Runako, Luke, Henry and Michael’s people.
When Runako and Margo fell into the hands of those who wanted to dissect and kill Runako barely escaping, the project had gone from exciting challenge to grim life-or-death battle. If they screwed this up, they would lose more than production costs.
“Once it’s out that we’re releasing a monster movie in the summer, everyone will start asking who’s working on it,” Lena said. The reality of Hollywood was that if they were going to produce a summer blockbuster, they needed to attach blockbuster names to the project, above the line.
“It’ll come out at some point anyway, and wasn’t that all part of our publicity campaign?” Cali, the movie’s director, held up a copy of a Hollywood tabloid, folded back to a picture of Akta with Runako, Henry and Luke on the red carpet at a charity gala. They’d purchased the tickets and sent Akta, who was a recognizable star, with the guys as a way of introducing them to Hollywood.
The caption under the picture read, “The stars of Calypso Production’s top-secret new project. Akta Patel and her unknown escorts.”
Akta tipped back in her chair, bracing her knees on the conference table. She sat between Henry and Luke, who would star in the movie with her. Calypso Productions had only recently learned that Henry and Runako were both actors—Henry considered the best actor of their people. They’d started script read-throughs, and it fell on Akta to give them, along with Luke, a crash course in acting for the screen. Jane, the resident screenwriter, had written the script for them, so they’d basically be playing themselves, but still, if they didn’t translate to the camera the whole thing would fall apart.
“Our publicity campaign is to make sure everyone falls in love with them,” Lena said, gesturing around the table at the guys, “so that when the movie comes out, and then they come out, they’ll already have people on their side.”
“We know that, we helped come up with that plan.” Cali wasn’t known for her patience. “But I’m telling you, we’ve gone as far as we can with just us. Two producers, half the lead actors, a screenwriter and a director don’t make a movie. If we’re serious about starting production—” Cali motioned to Margo, who, in her role of line producer, had been working up start-date-less timelines. “—we need a production schedule, we need the rest of the above-the-line people. We need to know how we’re making this movie.”
“What does above the line mean?” Runako looked to Margo.
“It basically means anyone who could have any real influence in how the movie is made, or the storyline.”
“But we are all here.”
Margo grimaced slightly. “Yes and no. We know what we want to do, we have a lot of it figured out, but usually a casting director is above the line, and in our case special effects may have better ideas as to how to shoot this. Special effects—which usually means actual real effects like blowing up cars and fake blood—means we need the special effects coordinator.”
“But it will be easier to make, we won’t need all those special effects…” Akta interjected.
“Fucking actors.” Cali threw her hands back. “So when Runako’s character dies do you want me to actually kill him? What should I do on the second take?”
“Fine, sorry. What do you need?”
“At least a director of photograph, production designer, VFX supervisor and special effects supervisor. Location scout. Casting. SpecFX make-up since we have no idea what it will take to make-up these three.” Cali jabbed her finger at the men. “Akta, don’t talk to me about how you were art director on some crappy indie film or I swear to God I’ll come across this table. We need big guns.”
“Who are you thinking?” Lena’s voice was calm as she tried to keep the tension down.
“If we’re serious about keeping this tight, I know who we could get to serve as PD. She’d be able to pull up-and-comers in visual and special effects.”
There was a beat of silence as everyone put together who Cali was talking about. The four men seated at the table looked blankly at each other.
“Uh, Cali, she hates you.” Jane bit her lower lip.
“Yea, I don’t know why.” Cali slumped back in her seat, tugging on the frayed cuff of her USC sweatshirt.
“You told her she was getting fat senior year.”
“She was getting fat, and I said it in a nice way. I thought she’d appreciate the heads up. Sixty hours a week in front of her computer or sketching crazy stuff while eating those weird fish crackers was not doing her any good.”
“There’s no nice way to tell someone they’re getting fat, and telling her she was fat was the least of what you did,” Akta said.
“Well, now she’s one of the best creative minds in the industry.” Lena was twirling her pen as she considered. “She’s never handled a summer action film, but she’s an amazing designer, has contacts at Industrial Light and Magic, and she knows everyone.”
“Exactly. We need her.”
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ISBN 978-1-61921-091-2
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Lila
September 18, 2012
Two to Tango Blog
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
September 17, 2012
New Cover – Where There’s Smoke
I feel like I haven’t posted on here in forever. I have good excuses like the day job and the fact that I was on vacation and finishing up several projects, which means new books soon! The next up is Where There’s Smoke. It’s a standalone story that will be available individual in ebook on 10/2 and then in print along with a story by Lorelei James and another by Jess Dee in a follow up to Three’s Company called Two to Tango.
Here’s a little more about the book:
When old flames unite, the heat is on!
A Two to Tango story.
Kyana Brady never intended to return to small-town life in upstate New York, but reality doesn’t give a damn about plans. She dropped everything to care for her dying aunt. Now that Rose is gone, Kyana realizes something else has changed—her priorities. Her high-paid, higher-stress law career no longer holds any appeal.
While debating her future, an insomnia-driven stroll turns into a desperate dash to save Rose’s elderly friend, Benjamin, from his burning house. And he’s always believed one good turn deserves another. So the old man rewards Kyana’s bravery with a little meddling in her love life.
After Ben’s great-nephew Logan witnesses his childhood friend’s bravery on the news, he rushes home to help his uncle rebuild. But before his hammer hits the first nail, sparks are flying. The heat between him and Kyana melts old affection into a completely new—and combustible—relationship.
Before they have a chance to discover how hot their love will burn, another disaster threatens to separate them forever. After all, they say bad luck comes in threes…
Product Warnings
A love affair that’s been ten years in the making is sure to be hot enough to scorch. And everyone knows, where there’s smoke there.
I hope you enjoy my light romantic suspense. Other books coming up quick include Healing Touch in December (the sequel to Dream Machine where Luke Malone gets his story!) and the start of the next generation of Compass, which debuts with Winter’s Thaw in February. Plus there’s lots of print action too. Love’s Compass just released last week (print compilation of Northern Exposure and Southern Comfort), Eastern Ambitions author copies just arrived today. They release the same day as Where There’s Smoke technically. Plus Powertools books 1-4 will be available in print in November and my very first published book, Picture Perfect, will be in an anthology with JK Coi called Watching it All. That will be available at Romanticon in October first then sometime after all the usual places sometime afterward.Whew!
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
August 14, 2012
Hammer it Home (Powertools 6) Out Today!
Today’s the day! The (sort of, maybe) last book of the Powertools series is finally here! I’m happy and sad having come to enjoy writing these characters so much. Don’t worry, we’ll be seeing more of the Crew in a future series. If the hot construction workers were Powertools, their mechanic friends are Hot Rods!
I’m thrilled to say Eli and Alanso, who you’ll meet in this book, are kicking off a new series. It will start with three books out next year and (hopefully) three the following year. Each is titled with the restored car the character drives. First up, King Cobra, then Mustang Sally and third will be Super Nova. More to come on that soon, or you can check out the post below for a little more.
Available at Amazon
Available at B&N
Available at Samhain
Okay, but for today’s installment, here’s a little more info:
When times get tough, the tough stage one scorching hot intervention.
Morgan is happy that her best friend Kate is expecting the crew’s littlest member, but helping renovate a room for a nursery is more than she can bear. Baby furniture and pastel paint are a painful reminder that she and Joe can’t—and will never—conceive. There’s no hiding it from the rest of the close-knit crew, either.
True to their unique brand of love, the gang rallies to find a non-traditional solution to alleviate their friends’ suffering. Not with a cold, clinical visit to a sperm donation clinic, but delivering it the old fashioned way. With a healthy dose of searing passion.
But soon after Morgan’s scorching hot night with her husband’s four best friends, an accident threatens the life of one of those men. The challenges that lie ahead will test crew’s powerful bond to the limit—and their long-standing promise to take care of each other through good, bad, and sexy times. Whatever it takes…
Plus the book has already had an awesome review released. It’s from Alyn at Guilt Pleasure reviews and you can read the whole thing here. My favorite part is: “While the stories are short, they always blow me away and leave me wishing I could be part of that little circle even if for one night. Another great chapter in the Powertools saga that left this book addict very satisfied!”
I hope you agree! Thank you so much for sticking with me through this series and making Powertools a career changing project for me. I appreciate every single reader who has contributed to their success.
Thank you and happy reading,
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
August 7, 2012
Two weeks, two new releases
It’s back to back fun around here! Today, Mistress’s Master, Men in Blue 3, is out in PRINT for the first time. You can pick up a copy at Amazon, B&N or Samhain among your other favorite hard copy book retailers.
Next up is Hammer it Home, Powertools Book 6, which comes out brand spanking new in ebook next Tuesday. I hope you enjoy the “final” book in this series and an introduction to some related mechanic friends you’ll be seeing a lot more of in my upcoming related series, Hot Rods!
After these two, Love’s Compass (the print book containing Northern Exposure and Southern Comfort) will be out the first week of September. Then both the print edition of Eastern Ambitions and the digital version of Where There’s Smoke will be out on 10/2.
Where There’s Smoke is my contribution to Two To Tango, an anthology featuring Lorelei James and Jess Dee along with myself. A follow up to Three’s Company, Lorelei’s book features Jon Whitefeather from the original set of stories and Jess’s book is related as well. Mine is all brand new (because I like to be different!). Check back soon for more details.
Rounding out 2012 will be the print anthology of the first four Powertools books the first week of November and then Healing Touch, the sequel to Dream Machine, featuring Luke Malone, on December 4th. Also in there, there will be a special edition print book from Ellora’s Cave available at Romanticon 2012 that will including my very first published book, Picture Perfect, in print for the first time! It will be available sometime after for general purchase but I’m not sure of the date yet. So much to look forward to but I’d better get back to work. Just wait until you see what’s in store for 2013. WHEW!
Happy Reading!
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
August 5, 2012
Compass & Powertools Featured in RT Magazine
Check out this article by RT Magazine. They’ve listed Northern Exposure as one of their editors recommended reads for 10 Short and Steamy Stories. Even better, they also selected Morgan’s Surprise, which they honored with the 2011 Best Indie Erotic Romance award at last year’s convention. Only danger to this article… I found a bunch more books to add to my own reading list!
http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/10-short-and-steamy-reads-fill-out-your-tbr-pile
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
July 24, 2012
4 1/2 Stars from RT Magazine
I’m thrilled to share this review from RT Magazine (4 1/2 stars, their highest score!) for Nailed to the Wall. My favorite part about it is that it rates the book well because of the extension of the crew’s relationship to the crew ladies, not despite that bond. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this book that I couldn’t see any other way. I hope Hammer it Home, the sixth and final Powertools book, does it justice. Hammer it Home will be out in just a few short weeks and in it you’ll meet some sexy mechanics who will be featured in their own series, Hot Rods, along with cameos from your favorite construction workers 
You can read the whole review on their site, where it’s featured in the Everything Erotica section here but this is a great snippet: “There is so much genuine emotion in this story it will bring tears to readers’ eyes. The closeness and caring that the characters show each other makes “Nailed to the Wall” an exceptional read.”
Nailed to the Wall – available now
Hammer it Home – coming 8/14
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
June 30, 2012
Oodles of Good News
1. I just found out that Picture Perfect is going to PRINT!!!!!!!!! My very first published ebook will be paired up with JK Coi’s Brazen Games from Ellora’s Cave in a volume called Watching It All that will debut at Romanticon and then be available for sale sometime before the holidays everywhere else. I’m so thrilled. This means that every book I’ve published prior to the beginning of this year will be in print by the end of 2012 with the exception of Phoenix Incantation. Seriously, the year of print for me. I had six print books heading into this year and will end the year with 12. WOOHOO (So far this year Red Light has come out. Love’s Compass, Eastern Ambitions, Powertools, Mistress’s Master and Watching it All will round out the rest of the year).
2. I can officially tell you about some of my 2013 projects. Today I am thrilled to announce the start of a new series with some familiar characters. If Powertools was about construction workers, their mechanic cousins are… HOT RODS! The six book series will kick off with three being released in 2013. King Cobra, Mustang Sally and Super Nova will feature cameos from the powertools crew as well as lots of hot cars and hotter group action. Here’s a brief description of the first book, King Cobra
The Hot Rods series will be a spinoff of Powertools. Each book is named with a car the main hero/heroine drives in a way that describes the character. King Cobra features garage owner, Eli, who is the cousin of the Joe from The Crew. He appeared in books five and six of Powertools with his head mechanic Alanso, where their eyes were opened to the possibilities of massive ménage and a love greater than ordinary through a lesson from friends.
Eli and his biological father suffered a terrible blow when their respective mother and wife died suddenly and unexpectedly of a brain aneurism during Eli’s formative years. Honoring her life’s mission as a social worker, Eli’s father welcomed several kids from the wrong side of the tracks into their family, their home and their hearts. Not all of them stuck permanently, but those who did became Eli’s adopted brothers…and one sister.
Bonds forged in the fires created by their personal demons are unbreakable. Or so Eli wants to believe. Their gang has stuck together through thick and thin—living, partying and working together. Still, he fears fucking everything up by taking the risk of a lifetime. The team of auto restoration hot rodders are too valuable to gamble a quick romp behind the stacks of tires on, no matter how obsessed he’s become with the prospect of deepening their relationships.
But when Alanso, his head mechanic, caves to the overpowering lure of the desire they’d witnessed together when visiting the crew, all bets are off. Eli catches his closest friend exploring their mutual fantasy on his own at a known hookup spot in a public park by accident when he’s out for a drive. Things quickly spiral out of control, requiring Eli to leap before looking and trust his instincts to guide him through the night.
Can he keep the Hot Rods from wrecking long enough to claim the reward he’s been dreaming of? Will his father understand his decision or will he disown his only blood son? Will any of it matter if Eli doesn’t follow his heart?
3. The fourth Men in Blue book, Spread Your wings is also slated for next year and features Jambrea, Matt and Clint
HOOORAY.4. Now it’s even easier to get my app. I’ve posted QR codes on my site on the links page today that you can scan and be taken straight to the download page for either iOS devices or Android devices. Stay up to date on news and pictures as well as latest releases and buy links through my app
Okay, there’s more to come, but I’m already exploding with happiness (despite the hole in my roof from last night’s crazy storms!).
Jayne
www.jaynerylon.com
June 20, 2012
Booksigning Friday!
Hey Central Ohio fans, I hope that you will join me and Mari Carr at The Book Loft in Columbus, OH on Friday from 7-9. The Book Loft is a really cool independent bookstore with 32 rooms of books in two old Victorian houses just South of downtown. We would love to see you there.
Details:
When – Friday, June 22nd
Where - The Book Loft
631 South Third Street
Columbus Ohio · 43206
Contact Info for the store: 614-464-1774
Visit them on the web: http://www.bookloft.com/
June 10, 2012
Passionate Plume Finalist
Today was a great day. I started it out with Mari Carr, her BFF Tess, Biana D’Arc, her dad and Book Obsessed Chick Kim Rocha on Long Island. The Book Obsessed Chick BBQ yesterday was fantastic! Then I was off to Rye, NY for my future sister in law’s bridal shower where I got to see my whole family. Then I drove back to Philly for another week here for my day job. Just one more week and I get to go home for a week before making (hopefully) the last trip out here.
Well, anyhoo, if that wasn’t all fun enough, I got word this morning that Can’t Buy Love is a finalist in the 7th annual Passionate Plume contest held by the online erotic chapter of Romance Writers of America. I’m thrilled! The Red Light series is my favorite series that I’ve written to date so if you haven’t had a chance yet, I hope you’ll give Star and Rick a shot. Their story is unconventional but one I’m proud of and all four books are out separately in ebook or available bundled in the single print anthology, Red Light available now from Ellora’s Cave.
Here’s some more info about the book:
Book 3 in the Red Light Series featuring Star
What man would be crazy enough to date a whore? Star is a sex worker in Amsterdam’s red light district. After the intimate exchange between her and Rick, she’s hoped to take their adventure into affection farther. Too bad he’s disappeared for weeks.
When he resurfaces, to deliver her portion of the paycheck they’d earned by starring in a live sex show together, the magnetism between them proves irresistible. In the wake of undeniable passion, they’re left wondering if they can make a relationship work in unconventional circumstances.
They’re both convinced… you can buy sex, but you can’t buy love. And nothing else will satisfy their hunger for each other.
