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A new m/m by me
I had such good time writing a short contemporary for the m/m group, I wrote another novella.
This one's called Game On and it's about a bright but stuffy lawyer and an adult who acts as like a teenager.
* * *
Grant knows his fellow-lawyers think of him as a calm but distant person. At the moment he’s furious: some guy has been swimming in his pool.
Ned visits pools to jump-start his creativity. When one homeowner flips out, Ned's apologetic--and intrigued.
When they meet again, Ned decides he has to convince Grant he’s not trying to ruin his life and career, and that the attraction of opposites can be very good...very, very good.
* * *
Anyway, it's cheap--99 cents. It's a novella, although reading it will take longer than drinking a cup of coffee so you will get a better deal than you would at Starbucks or even Dunkin Donuts.
It's over at Smashwords and Amazon and Barnes and Noble --although the cute cover Linda Gayle did for me seems to have vanished there. Hmm. As soon as I get my act together, it'll be at All Romance Ebooks.
If you read it, let me know what you think.
This one's called Game On and it's about a bright but stuffy lawyer and an adult who acts as like a teenager.
* * *
Grant knows his fellow-lawyers think of him as a calm but distant person. At the moment he’s furious: some guy has been swimming in his pool.
Ned visits pools to jump-start his creativity. When one homeowner flips out, Ned's apologetic--and intrigued.
When they meet again, Ned decides he has to convince Grant he’s not trying to ruin his life and career, and that the attraction of opposites can be very good...very, very good.
* * *
Anyway, it's cheap--99 cents. It's a novella, although reading it will take longer than drinking a cup of coffee so you will get a better deal than you would at Starbucks or even Dunkin Donuts.
It's over at Smashwords and Amazon and Barnes and Noble --although the cute cover Linda Gayle did for me seems to have vanished there. Hmm. As soon as I get my act together, it'll be at All Romance Ebooks.
If you read it, let me know what you think.
Awww ....
The review is nice but the comments from two people I like --and I've even MET Irene!--are even nicer.
In other news, Bonnie and I are writing a book set in an insane asylum and I'm looking at hundreds of pictures of those mid-Victorian structures. Holy crap, some of those places were built to look like dens of horror.
If you didn't have the heebiejeebies going in, Mr. Asylum Patient, you will soon enough....bwhahahahaha.
In other news, Bonnie and I are writing a book set in an insane asylum and I'm looking at hundreds of pictures of those mid-Victorian structures. Holy crap, some of those places were built to look like dens of horror.
If you didn't have the heebiejeebies going in, Mr. Asylum Patient, you will soon enough....bwhahahahaha.
hey! it's release day!
The Gentleman's Keeper is out today!
I do like release day. It's like giving a cocktail party without having to get dressed up or serve anyone else drinks.
Here's a blog post about our new book! including bits of reviews. Notice the nice reviews? If you didn't, I advise you to go back and read again.
Since I'm in promo-mode, here's a dog almost identical to the one in my short story, "The Tail of a Dog". She's even pregnant! Okay, so she doesn't look like the one on the cover my kid made, but very much like the dog in the original photo.
Why am I showing you this? Because she was saved by the group that gets the profits from the story's sales at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The dog was in a must-find-a home-in-10-days-or-get-put-to-sleep shelter and now she's in a foster home, waiting to whelp.
Nice, huh? Buy more copies and we'll help get her pups good homes, too.
Here's a blog post about our new book! including bits of reviews. Notice the nice reviews? If you didn't, I advise you to go back and read again.
Since I'm in promo-mode, here's a dog almost identical to the one in my short story, "The Tail of a Dog". She's even pregnant! Okay, so she doesn't look like the one on the cover my kid made, but very much like the dog in the original photo.
Why am I showing you this? Because she was saved by the group that gets the profits from the story's sales at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The dog was in a must-find-a home-in-10-days-or-get-put-to-sleep shelter and now she's in a foster home, waiting to whelp.
Nice, huh? Buy more copies and we'll help get her pups good homes, too.
Never mind promo. It's time to get outraged
I'd read the basics of Lon and Jim's heartbreaking story before and, for some reason, I had supposed it had all turned out well.
That comes of writing and reading too much HEA fiction or maybe of supposing smarter, more compassionate humans will generally prevail.
It's still ongoing and still outrageous.
(Follow the links in this piece if you haven't been keeping up with Jim and Lon's sad saga.)
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/...
That comes of writing and reading too much HEA fiction or maybe of supposing smarter, more compassionate humans will generally prevail.
It's still ongoing and still outrageous.
(Follow the links in this piece if you haven't been keeping up with Jim and Lon's sad saga.)
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/...
Sibling Rivals coming in October
I've fretted about this book. It hasn't gotten the best response. I even tried to find someone to blame.
But then Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review and I've abandoned that neurosis (this week, anyway).
here, look -- here's a chunk of the review:
"The plot is rich in detail and subtle in message, and Peter’s relationship with Colin is thoroughly and playfully sexy, joyfully leading readers through a truly romantic journey toward happiness." I've almost memorized the review.
In other news, Junk is a fun book.
But then Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review and I've abandoned that neurosis (this week, anyway).
here, look -- here's a chunk of the review:
"The plot is rich in detail and subtle in message, and Peter’s relationship with Colin is thoroughly and playfully sexy, joyfully leading readers through a truly romantic journey toward happiness." I've almost memorized the review.
In other news, Junk is a fun book.
A book cover!
This is for the next Devon-Dee m/m historical which will be out February 18. 2014.
In the meantime, I'm posting this cover all over the internet because I can.
In the meantime, I'm posting this cover all over the internet because I can.
new book! release day for meeeee
"The plot is rich in detail and subtle in message, and Peter’s relationship with Colin is thoroughly and playfully sexy, joyfully leading readers through a truly romantic journey toward happiness." --STARRED review, Publisher's Weekly
Happy release day to me! my new ebook
Happy release day to me! my new ebook
New m/m Summer/Bonnie book out today!
is out today! here's a review: http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com...
I really like the heroes of this story (and enjoying the characters, more than anything else, makes a book fun to write).
the annual M/M Writeathon
I wrote mine in three days and it was more fun writing than I've had in months.
here's a bit of it--unedited:
The prompt is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dear Author,
I am getting really tired of the waiting. No one told me that waiting to die would be quite this boring. So to pass the time, I wrote a letter to my sister, but somehow my letter got to the wrong person. Who do I end up writing? Did I really commit the murder I will hang for? Can whoever my mysterious pen pal is get me out of the mess?
Fantasy or pseudo-regency preferred, where same sex relationships are normal, no PWP,
HEA or HFN ending please
Sincerely,
Xelly
Photo description: A man in his early twenties looks scruffy in a blood-stained shirt covered by a dusty leather coat. His handsome face wears a slight smirk which is odd, considering the very large noose around his neck.
Genre: Victorian/Historical
THE SCENT OF HOPE
Summer Devon
“And do you regret your actions that have brought you so low?” The elderly gent wore a fixed smile as he examined Dez. “I do not speak of the crimes of which you are accused. I mean all the sad conditions of your life.”
Dez sat at the edge of the metal platform that functioned as a bed and wiggled his perpetually cold toes. Hell, yes. I regret getting so drunk I was caught almost at once. “Yes, Father.”
The vicar leaned far back on the wooden chair he’d brought into the cell. Poor man probably wished he hadn’t settled so close to the prisoner. Dez got a bucket of water every couple of days and he didn’t waste more than a few drops on cleaning his stinking self and he hadn’t had a change of clothing for …too long.
But Dez had underestimated the old man who’d been shifting about on his chair for another purpose: to pull some crumpled blank pages and a pencil from inside his fusty black jacket. “Do you have someone to whom you can write, and beg forgiveness?” the vicar asked. “Can you write?”
Writing? Dez considered the notion.
Messing about with pencil and paper seemed more interesting than sitting and watching the rats chew on his dinner. His first week in prison, he’d tried to tame a rat—that seemed a standard way a convict might entertain himself. The creature bit him. After that, Dez decided to ignore his fellow inmates.
“Yes, Father. I’ll write a letter. Good idea.”
If the vicar gave him paper, he’d figure out what to do with it later on.
But then his plans to make salacious drawings were destroyed with the vicar’s next words. “I shall carry these pages from this place and send them. No official eyes will see what you’ve written.”
A generous offer, although perhaps the man of God was lying like the devil. Dez considered writing to Bill and ask he bring some tobacco and the ten shillings he owed Dez, but he supposed his friend would ignore any pleas.
No one he knew had tried to come to his rescue…and wasn’t that a lowering thought.
The vicar said, “Do you have a mother? Father? No? A sister? No one?”
“A sister,” Dez said. “But she wouldn’t want to hear from me.”
“Write to her. Do you have anything better to do with your time?”
Dez laughed for the first time in days. He liked this old crow of a man. “I’ll cancel my luncheon appointment with her majesty immediately.” He took the papers and pencil and got to work.
here's a bit of it--unedited:
The prompt is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dear Author,
I am getting really tired of the waiting. No one told me that waiting to die would be quite this boring. So to pass the time, I wrote a letter to my sister, but somehow my letter got to the wrong person. Who do I end up writing? Did I really commit the murder I will hang for? Can whoever my mysterious pen pal is get me out of the mess?
Fantasy or pseudo-regency preferred, where same sex relationships are normal, no PWP,
HEA or HFN ending please
Sincerely,
Xelly
Photo description: A man in his early twenties looks scruffy in a blood-stained shirt covered by a dusty leather coat. His handsome face wears a slight smirk which is odd, considering the very large noose around his neck.
Genre: Victorian/Historical
THE SCENT OF HOPE
Summer Devon
“And do you regret your actions that have brought you so low?” The elderly gent wore a fixed smile as he examined Dez. “I do not speak of the crimes of which you are accused. I mean all the sad conditions of your life.”
Dez sat at the edge of the metal platform that functioned as a bed and wiggled his perpetually cold toes. Hell, yes. I regret getting so drunk I was caught almost at once. “Yes, Father.”
The vicar leaned far back on the wooden chair he’d brought into the cell. Poor man probably wished he hadn’t settled so close to the prisoner. Dez got a bucket of water every couple of days and he didn’t waste more than a few drops on cleaning his stinking self and he hadn’t had a change of clothing for …too long.
But Dez had underestimated the old man who’d been shifting about on his chair for another purpose: to pull some crumpled blank pages and a pencil from inside his fusty black jacket. “Do you have someone to whom you can write, and beg forgiveness?” the vicar asked. “Can you write?”
Writing? Dez considered the notion.
Messing about with pencil and paper seemed more interesting than sitting and watching the rats chew on his dinner. His first week in prison, he’d tried to tame a rat—that seemed a standard way a convict might entertain himself. The creature bit him. After that, Dez decided to ignore his fellow inmates.
“Yes, Father. I’ll write a letter. Good idea.”
If the vicar gave him paper, he’d figure out what to do with it later on.
But then his plans to make salacious drawings were destroyed with the vicar’s next words. “I shall carry these pages from this place and send them. No official eyes will see what you’ve written.”
A generous offer, although perhaps the man of God was lying like the devil. Dez considered writing to Bill and ask he bring some tobacco and the ten shillings he owed Dez, but he supposed his friend would ignore any pleas.
No one he knew had tried to come to his rescue…and wasn’t that a lowering thought.
The vicar said, “Do you have a mother? Father? No? A sister? No one?”
“A sister,” Dez said. “But she wouldn’t want to hear from me.”
“Write to her. Do you have anything better to do with your time?”
Dez laughed for the first time in days. He liked this old crow of a man. “I’ll cancel my luncheon appointment with her majesty immediately.” He took the papers and pencil and got to work.
gotta love this footnote to the ruling in Idaho
[via Chris Hansen]. The 9th Circuit Opinion WIN!
Here's a real footnote, referring to governor “Butch” Otter's argument against same-sex marriage.
[footnote 12 from Page 21]
"He also states, in conclusory fashion, that allowing same-sex marriage will lead opposite-sex couples to abuse alcohol and drugs, engage in extramarital affairs, take on demanding work schedules, and participate in time-consuming hobbies. We seriously doubt that allowing committed same-sex couples to settle down in legally recognized marriages will drive opposite-sex couples to sex, drugs,and rock-and-roll"
https://www.scribd.com/doc/242213594/...
Here's a real footnote, referring to governor “Butch” Otter's argument against same-sex marriage.
[footnote 12 from Page 21]
"He also states, in conclusory fashion, that allowing same-sex marriage will lead opposite-sex couples to abuse alcohol and drugs, engage in extramarital affairs, take on demanding work schedules, and participate in time-consuming hobbies. We seriously doubt that allowing committed same-sex couples to settle down in legally recognized marriages will drive opposite-sex couples to sex, drugs,and rock-and-roll"
https://www.scribd.com/doc/242213594/...
