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June 30, 2011
More bang for your buck…literally!
Ellora's Cave have slashed the prices on two of my books! The menage novel Her Dark Soul and the erotic SF novella, Flesh and Shadows.
Her Dark Soul
A man trapped by magic, an enigmatic guardian, and a virgin who will bind them all…
Ordered to secure a precious box from the priests of Fausta, Marek isn't told a virgin ward is part of the deal. Ash's innocence and need drive him to touch her, taste her, to take the twisted power in her flesh and energize his own. But hidden players force Marek into doing something unthinkable.
Lucas' soul has been trapped for four hundred years. His new master demands he invade Ash's dreams and take her virginity. If he does, the treasure she guards will open. He's happy to obey. However, he finds her guarded by a man unlike any he's known in his long life.
Ash should deny the fire in her blood, remember who and what she is, but something inside her finds both men irresistible. As their lives intertwine, they're driven to find pleasure, using their unique blend of sex and magic to fight an enemy who would consume them all.
For sale at Ellora's Cave, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and ARe for around £1.60/$2
Flesh and Shadows
Flesh-fruit—priceless delicacy, forbidden fruit…
Rand has a secret. Bitten by one of the deadly shadow-snakes, he's changed and will go to any length to see that he remains in charge of his planet—and the flesh-fruit harvest—including using his alien abilities to convince Agent Niamh Sullivan to lie to her superiors. His plan is simple, but what he doesn't realize is that his venom is an aphrodisiac. With it, Rand has become irresistible.
Now Niamh must deny their overwhelming mutual attraction. But as their need for each other spirals out of control, the danger becomes apparent. Rand will take her humanity, take who and what she is. Niamh has to make the choice. Turn him in. Or succumb to his potent, forbidden temptation.
For sale at Ellora's Cave, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and ARe for around £1/$1
Filed under: Ellora's Cave, Flesh and Shadows, Her Dark Soul, sale!
June 26, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Fury – part 7
I sort of took this week off… Read and slobbed mainly 
Anyway, here's my 6 from Fury:
She breathed in the warm, bloodied scent, finding it over the stink of people, of animals that swept around the high palace walls. The stall came closest to keeping the meat raw. Her stomach growled and she could no longer resist. With a few snarling bites and quick swallows the meat-filled wrap was gone.
"No, I wouldn't trust that mouth of yours anywhere near my dick."
Ava almost choked on the last crumbs of bread still in her mouth.
As always you can read more #sixsunday snips here
Filed under: Six Sentence Sunday, Writing
June 19, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Fury – part 6
I'm plodding along with Fusion…and got distracted yesterday by an evil contemporary. I do not write contemps. No. Not anymore… 
Anyway, here's a bit of Fury:
"What?"
"Bruises." She bit out the word and held his gaze, saw the memory flicker there.
His hand eased but he didn't let go. He pulled her behind him. "I'm not used to women with so little stamina."
Filed under: Writing
June 18, 2011
Top or Bottom?
Yes, my mind went there with the Top or Bottom song. Which one so you honestly think Hugh Jackman would be??
Filed under: Writing
June 13, 2011
Sale! CURRENT to Ellora's Cave
Ellora's Cave have agreed to publish the third book in my Planetary Bodies series, Current!
This story is slightly darker than Magnetism and Friction, but it fits with the characters. Lawe is a new fav hero. Just saying. Here's the unofficial blurb:
Alexandra Syato has complete control of her life.
She's rich and has Captain Rhearden Lawe as a delicious friend with benefits. Her life couldn't be more perfect. Until the mysterious force known as sheen turns her world upside down.
It changes Lawe in a way she doesn't expect and now her easy-going friend has become a dark and brooding stranger, determined to take her control. She can't fight their new, blistering attraction. But the price for having him may break her. Completely.
Filed under: Ellora's Cave, Planetary Bodies, sale!
June 12, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Fury – part 5
So my good news from last week was the fact that I sold Bitter Harvest, my m/m post-apoc romance to Carina Press. It's due out in March 2012. 
If you want to read snippets of it, it first appeared as part of Six Sunday. There're are about 5 parts of it, I think.
Anyway, here's my next 6 from Fury 
I'm half way through Fusion and Frequency is mostly planned, so I should be back to this wip soon. Can't wait
She wanted skin and flesh, the slide of his against her own. To bite him. Fuck, to devour him.
Heyerdar broke their kiss, but buried his face against her neck, his teeth grazing her. Breaking the skin. "You shouldn't feel so fucking good."
Filed under: Bitter Harvest, Planetary Bodies, Six Sentence Sunday, Writing
June 6, 2011
Sale! BITTER HARVEST to Carina Press
I was minding my own business in Writechat.net one day when I was hustled by CM Torrens and Marguerite Labbe. They forced a plot bunny on me…and Bitter Harvest — a m/m post apocalyptic romance — was born. The story was way out of my comfort zone. I'd never written m/m before, but these two men, Rider and Sutton, refused to be anyone other than who they are. They gave me a hell of a ride…lol
Carina Press has contracted Bitter Harvest and it should be out early 2012. Here's the unofficial blurb.
Lieutenant Robert Sutton has survived by luck, his wits and a chance mutation. The pheromones of the infected—how they first pull in their victims—has no effect on him. Or so he thinks. He's survived on the emptied streets of London for years, but now the infected are closing in. They will have the last humans for themselves.
For Sutton, and the people he cares for, time has run out.
So the capture of Nicholas Rider is too convenient. A man who's survived the nano-virus that's almost destroyed the planet, a man whose striking sexuality wraps around Sutton. He's a trap. He can't be trusted.
Yet Sutton can't resist him and it could mean the end of his world.
Filed under: Bitter Harvest, sale!, Writing
June 5, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Fury – part four…and a little extra
I was good and finished Current and subbed it Now I'm about 3.5k into Fusion. So today's Six Sunday is a bit of a double whammy. Six lines from Fury and a just a little bit more than six from Current. Enjoy.
First, Fury:
"What?"
"Your clothes."
"Captain…"
"I'm the left hand of the emperor." A twist of a smile touched Heyerdar's mouth. "You obey me as you do the right hand."
And a snippet from Current:
He growled and his fingers tightened at her wrists, pressed deep into her sex so that her body arched back against his. "You think this is a fucking joke?" His teeth found the curve where her neck met her shoulder. Pained-pleasure lanced and Syato bit back a cry. "Feel like a joke now?"
Dark spots danced across her vision and she fought to breathe. What was he doing? "No. No it doesn't."
Filed under: Writing
May 29, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Fury ~ part 3
The week was split between Fury and Current. I'm still writing Current now. If I get though it, Fusion and Frequency, then yes, Hailey Edwards, I can get back to writing Heyerdar. I do have 27k to pick from for 6 Sunday though.
Oh and I also got good news in the middle of the week. But I can't share it yet…
A thin smile touched Heyerdar's mouth. "My power comes from the heart of the earth. Remember that." He leaned forward his mouth so close to hers she tasted his sweet breath and couldn't stop the quick hitch in her chest. His voice was just above a raw whisper. "Never offer me anything you're not willing to lose."
Filed under: Six Sentence Sunday, Writing
May 22, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Fury – part 2
Fury went to a very dark place this week. I'm not sharing that yet, if at all…so here's something from early on with Ava and Heyerdar 
Heyerdar's hands tightened on her hips, his fingers digging into her flesh hard enough to bruise. His eyes had grown dark. "And for this…?"
"A kiss."
A smile lifted his mouth, wry and wicked. "So little."
As always you can read more 6 Sundays here
Filed under: Writing
