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Excerpt from Wylde Man, spin off from Wylde

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Okay, well, this is an exciting week for me we are coming into. My friend Carolyn Topol's mystery/romance is out on Monday and The Pleasure Slave is out on Wednesday.

I've finished two chapters of the projected ten of this novella, which I'm still trying to decide what to call. It is a spin off focused on Wylde, the boy who grew up alone in the forest of the book Wyld...

News and new yahoo group

Wow, in one week my novella The Pleasure Slave will be out. I'm looking forward to that one, I had so much fun writing it over September.

And a reminder to readers of Wylde that my draw for this Vancouver Starbucks mug that looks like the spooky woods of the cover will be at the end of January. I will ask a question from the book and take the winner from the folks with the correct answer.



On the Wylde subject, I started tinkering with a novella focused on the character Wylde called tenatively ...

Thinking of 2010 story ideas

A small update on what I'm working on now. I finished Luke, really enjoyed working on that one. Sort of mulling over doing a third one called Jesse sometime maybe.

Right now I'm working on The Boxer, a spin off novella of The Janitor.

This is the rough premise:

Dane is hiding problems with his fight-damaged eyesight from his long time lover, Noel. How can he be a man for him if he can't see to fight or to paint? He faces losing it all, everything he fought for. But Noel is not the only one who n...

Coming in March--the contemporary Western novella Sylvan

I thought I should give you guys an update on what I'm doing and what is coming.

First of all I think the order of stories coming out:

The Pleasure Slave: historical novella, January
Mastering Toby: contemporary romance, February
Sylvan: contemporary Western-set romance, March

What am I working on? I got stumped on Sahara Blue for some reason. I'm half way through the novel and just had to leave it for a while. Right now I'm working on a novella set in the same small town as Sylvan, called Luke. ...

Wylde is out! And I'm hosting a small contest for it

Noah Matthews brought his son Josh to the pristine woods of Washington State to make a fresh start. The first night in their new home, Noah meets Kell Farraday when the laconic police chief shows up on his doorstep searching for two people lost in the forest. It's the start of a sexy new friendship when Kell decides to pursue the shy but flirtatious Noah.

But a new beginning won't be so easy. Noah's former boyfriend shows up to try to reclaim a place in his life, and worse, Josh is drawn to...

Wylde by Jan Irving

Wylde


Noah Matthews brought his son Josh to the pristine woods of Washington State to make a fresh start. The first night in their new home, Noah meets Kell Farraday when the laconic police chief shows up on his doorstep searching for two people lost in the forest. It's the start of a sexy new friendship when Kell decides to pursue the shy but flirtatious Noah.

But a new beginning won't be so easy. Noah's former boyfriend shows up to try to reclaim a place in his life, and worse, Josh is drawn...

My holiday novella The Star Man is out

On Christmas Eve, Matthew Cromby is fired by Dove Hollister, the man he has a secret crush on. But things get much stranger when, right in front of him, Dove is hit by lightning and wakes up a different man--a sweet, sexy, and untouched angel who has been watching Matthew, drawn by his yearning. Dove can't stay on Earth, and protective Matthew vows to help him get home, despite his desire for the innocent angel who is trying to heal his heart.

Purchase it here .

For an excerpt, book slide and mo...

Happy news--The Summer Gardener is out!

Alejandro Moreno drops out of college and puts aside his dream of a degree in landscape design to take care of his mother and younger brother. Then he gets the chance to restore a strange and unpopular patch of land with an uncanny inhabitant—Fane, a prickly fairy.

At first, Alejo isn't thrilled to share the space with the annoying fae, but as they work together on the neglected garden, both men discover they have two things in common: a love for working with the natural world and loneliness. ...

Snippet from Sahara Blue

Okay, you'll need some background before you probably will get this snippet. Sahara Blue is the spin off to Mastering Toby, a book I finished recently.

Sahara Blue Drummond is an ex-Navy SEAL who works as a body guard. He's tall, sandy-haired, hard-bodied and fiercely protective of his friends. When Seth's shop is vandalized, Sahara steps in to rescue him, but shy Seth can't believe a man like Sahara would want him.

"I bought breakfast." Sahara held up a paper bag as he entered the bedroom...

Book Review: Love means...no shame by Andrew Grey

Love means...no shame by Andrew Grey
Link: ebook here print here

This is a short review.

I was moved to tears by this beautiful romance and I read it straight through.