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Something Wicked This Way Comes - Volume 1 is available

It's available at Kindle and Barnes and Noble!!! Some reviews have come in and they are pretty fantastic. I had a lot of fun writing Captain of Nara's Heart and I really hope you'll give it a read. There are three more volumes coming out (I don't know the exact dates yet) that I have stories in. It will be released at Ellorascave and other vendors

Here are the links -

KINDLE

Barnes & Noble

a few reviews in so far -

TwoLips Reviews

Night Owl Reviews - rated for a Top Pick!

Sizzling Hot Reviews

In other news - my critique partner has her latest book out today! Some people ask me what a critique partner is. It basically boils down to we read each other's books, give feedback, and it helps us as writers to put out the best possible books that we're able. Kele's an amazing author and person. She had told me about the concept of this story, I was excited, and it was a JOY to read it. I'm in love with Clay. SIGH. He's hot! This is the first book in a series (Yippee - LOVE SERIES!!!) titled Battered Hearts. Here's the blurb and LINK.

When struggling waitress Melody Dylan gives a handsome, lonely stranger a simple gift she has no clue her life is about to take a drastic turn.

The stranger ends up being Clay Powers, a famous UFC heavyweight fighter. Clay's large build and dangerous fists have always intimidated. People in his hometown keep their distance and Clay is fine with that. Everything changes when a new waitress at the local diner buys him a piece of pie on Thanksgiving. Touched by the gesture when it's obvious she can barely afford to survive, her warm smile and lush body churn up powerful feelings that leave Clay wanting more from her than pie.

Melody is running from her past and the small, country town of Garnet is the perfect hiding place. With an ex-husband after her and scars from her abusive marriage etched deep, the last thing she expects is to fall for a man who makes a living with his fists, but she can't resist Clay or the tender connection they share.

Finding love in the most unlikely of places, the passion is undeniable, but Clay and Melody know their haunted pasts and unpredictable futures leave the odds stacked against them.

And...I've got one more book coming out this month. The 5th New Species - Brawn comes out! It's available for pre-order at Kindle and Barnes & Noble. It releases on Dec 27th at both of those sites and on Dec 30th at Ellorsacave and other vendors. The excerpt is up at the Ellorascave link. : )

I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday and Happy New Year!!! It's been an amazing year for me. I keep thinking back to the beginning of 2009 when I decided to go all out in an attempt to become published. I had a dream I'd been harboring since 1993 when I wrote my first book, I loved writing so much I had written 54 of them in my spare time, and I honestly had no idea if I'd ever see one of my books anywhere except on my computer screen. LOL! Now I have 21 books out or about to be out and 6 of them are in print ( Melting Iron is now IN print - LINK) I also learned that FURY will be put into print next month so I'll post when it is!!!

It's changed my entire life. I get all teary just thinking about it (okay, I turn into a sniffling mess - in the good way!) Happy tears. I couldn't do any of it without all of you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving my books a read.

Awesome week - Updated book news!

Once again - Something Wicked This Way Comes volume 1 is available for pre-order at kindle and Barnes & Noble. It comes out at those sites on Dec 20th. It releases at Ellorascave and other vendors on Dec 28th. Here are the links.


Kindle - LINK


B&N - LINK


If you click on the cover, they take you to Ellorascave where you can read all the blurbs in the anthology. I've gotten a lot of emails about this and I'm so glad that everyone is looking forward to reading it. These authors are really talented ladies. There are three more volumes coming, I wrote stories for each one, and for those of you who don't read my blogs...one is Captain of Nara's heart. It's a futuristic alien story with a human. Two of the stories are about vampires who know each other. There's also a werewolf story. : ) I don't know the order they are coming in except that Captain of Nara's Heart is in the first volume.


Book 5 in the New Species series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.

One look at Brawn and Becca is wondering how he'd look without his clothes. Brawn is instantly attracted to Becca but has sworn never to touch a human female. They just aren't sturdy enough and he likes his sex a little rough. He is shocked to learn he'll be living with her when she refuses to leave her home. He is there to represent New Species and to learn about humans so maybe this will be a good educational experience. He just has to keep his hands off her.

His good intentions go astray when they are kidnapped and locked together inside a cage. Brawn finds himself reliving a nightmare when he is once again subjected to breeding experiments at the hands of New Species' enemies. They will use Becca to get what they want from him. Brawn will do everything he can to protect her but they only have each other to depend on while trying to survive.

Brawn has a release date! Two of them actually. It's going to be available for pre-order at Kindle and Barnes & Noble soon (I'm checking hourly to add the links so they will appear in this post or in the comment section as soon as they load them). It will release at Kindle and B&N on Dec 27th! It will be available at Ellorascave and other places on Dec 30th. The excerpt and blurb are up at Ellorascave. Click on the cover and it will take you to the site.

I've gotten emails about how it's releasing for kindle and nook first before Ellorascave. It just worked out that way...I'm not sure why. I own an Iphone and an Ipad. I got free apps on both to buy/read kindle books. I know they have them for other phones and kindle has a free app so you can buy and read the books on your computer for those of you who don't want to wait. This is awesome for those of you who have complained about having to wait for kindle/nook and...there won't be as many issues the morning of the book releasing since you can order them from now until they come out with pre-order. Plus...bonus...from my experience books on pre-order at amazon are available just after midnight! AWESOME!!!


I got the tree up. The war with the cats has began. It's actually a funny story but I bought a ton of presents and 98 percent of them don't fit under the tree. My living room is small, I stole 1/3rd of it for my office...so there was NO place for the tree. I have a cedar chest under the front windows so I decided to put the tree on top of it. The first tree I bought...was too big so yesterday I rushed out to buy a 4 foot tree. It fits and it's up. I still have to buy a star to fit it - will do that today...but here's a photo. I wanted a white tree with blue lights. That wasn't something I could find so I decorated the white tree with white lights...with blue. But then added in some red for color. So here it is. LOL.

I have no idea why there is a gray strip but I'm having spacing/placement issues with blog and it will be a nightmare to try to reload the picture. LOL. So...I'm leaving it as is.

Happy Holidays and I will post the links to Brawn for pre-order in the comment section. Keep checking back if it's not there when you look. Have a great week!

Book news! Something Wicked This Way Comes on pre-order

I have the BEST news! The first volume in Something Wicked This Way Comes anthology is available for pre-order at Kindle and Barnes & Noble. Many of you have asked for pre-orders so please let's 'show it some love' and hopefully all my future books can be put up on pre-order too. (Wouldn't that be awesome???) Here are the links.

Kindle - LINK

Barnes & Noble - LINK

Here's the blurb

Captain of Nara's Heart
Laurann Dohner

Nara knew she was taking a risk with illegal trading. Sure enough, she's been arrested, caged—and will be auctioned as a sex slave. One look at the scary alien buyers and she frantically makes a deal, agreeing to be sold to Captain Vellar, who turns out to be large, sexy and seriously in heat. Offering her body to the captain is a given…but Nara didn't expect to lose her heart in the process.

This story isn't related to any of my current series. I wanted something new and different to add to this anthology. Three more volumes are coming and I have a story in each one. It's such a privilege to be a part of it with so many wonderful, talented authors.


In other news...I have a cover for Brawn - the 5th New Species book. I don't have an official blurb but this book is about NSO council member Brawn. You get to meet him in Justice's book. He's volunteered to work with the human task force to replace Jessie Dupress.

I'll post as soon as I have an official blurb and release date.





In personal news...am I the only one who wishes Christmas was over? LOL. I have to put my tree up still. I'm dragging my feet. It's the stress of where to put it in my already crammed living room and knowing the 'battle of the tree' will begin. My three cats and I have it out every year. They try to climb the darn thing, have knocked it over, and I try to keep them away from it. Last year they knocked it over a few times. NOT PRETTY! With four kids...we've acquired way too many ornaments that we bought or were handmade. I worry about the cats breaking them which would you know...break my heart. I have such wonderful memories with each one.

I do love Christmas. The joy and excitement...my kids really get into it. This weekend they are going to see Santa. They've been looking forward to that for a while. Their wish lists keep changing and they really love the pictures we get. I've charged my video camera to make a new holiday home movie they'll watch a dozen times before and after Christmas morning. It's just so fun seeing it through their eyes again and brings back memories of my own childhood. Yeah, Christmas is awesome. They are trying to pick out the perfect gifts to give the people they love and they never cease to amaze me at how thoughtful they can be.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Something Wicked This Way Comes...Dec 20th!

I have great news! It just posted on facebook that the first volume of the four book anthology is being released December 20th!!! I wrote stories for all four of them, they are NOT linked to any of my current series, and are totally stand alone. Here's the blurb for the story I have in this one.

Captain of Nara's Heart
Laurann Dohner

Nara knew she was taking a risk with illegal trading. Sure enough, she's been arrested, caged—and will be auctioned as a sex slave. One look at the scary alien buyers and she frantically makes a deal, agreeing to be sold to Captain Vellar, who turns out to be large, sexy and seriously in heat. Offering her body to the captain is a given…but Nara didn't expect to lose her heart in the process.

Here's a LINK.


I'm still waiting for word on Brawn - the 5th New Species book. I believe it will get a December release as well. (Fingers crossed!) I have been working on books, cleaning up the 6th and 7th New Species, but the holidays have slowed me down a bit. LOL! This time of the year is always so hectic. I'm almost done with all my shopping. (Okay - I admit I've totally gone overboard shopping, spent way too much, but it's all good). The kids are going to be VERY happy this year. I found a LOT of sales. Yippee Internet!

I'm still trying to work out the tree issue of where to put it but if it fits...that cedar chest is looking good. I am allergic to real trees so I always buy artificial ones. I've always wanted a white and blue tree which turns out...is impossible to find. Anyway, I ended up buying an inexpensive plain white one and ordered blue lights. (Finding blue lights with a WHITE cord is hard to do unless you turn to the internet). The tree is sitting in the back of my van...waiting for the lights to be mailed to me...and then it's out of the box! I'll probably post a picture. I want proof I put it up before our three cats terrorize the poor thing. LOL! They feel they must climb EVERYTHING in the house for some silly reason. Of course that makes me feel the need to buy some small squirt guns because it seems they don't like water. The war of the tree will begin soon!

I'll post again as soon as I have word on Brawn. Happy Holidays! Please try to stay safe and sane while shopping. LOL!

Answers, books, and the holidays!

Hello everyone. I hope that you're all having a fantastic weekend. I've been catching up on some sleep. I'm an insomniac and after a while of living off 4 hours of sleep...my body isn't as young as it used to be...and I start sleeping 10-12 hour stretches a day for about a week just to 'catch up'. I'm currently in that cycle. I'm also getting some writing done!

I get asked a LOT of questions via emails. First off, I answer my own emails. This surprises a lot of people for some reason. I also update and run my own website. Back when I started out, I had a $40 budget. Period. I had to figure out how to put a website together, had to buy stock photos, and figure out how to make banners from them. I'm a techno idiot. Honestly. My kids program my iphone 4 for me. Yet...necessity made me learn how to open a website and play with pictures. It's been awesome. I update my website often. I'm a reader as well as an author. I honestly...get irritated going to visit an author's website and discover it hasn't been updated in a while. I have NO CLUE what recent books they released, what books are coming out, and yeah...kind of drives me nuts. I never want to do that to other people. LOL! I even date the front page when it was last updated so you know if there's anything new on there since your last visit. It was updated 2 days ago. I added links to find Justice at various sites and added to the coming soon page. I even have a WIP (works in progress) page.

I cracked up recently when I was asked if I'm really a 'writing team of authors'. Wow, that was funny. It's just me. Hello, my name is Laurann and I'm a writeaholic. Seriously, I am. I spend at least 8 hours a day, sometimes up to 16 hours, at my desk - EVERY DAY. I love to write. It's not that I write fast...I just put a lot of hours into it. My normal work week is at least 60 hours minimum. I never suffer from writer's block because I usually work on anywhere from 3-5 books at the same time. If I get hung up on one story, I work on another. It would be really cool if I could clone myself and assign 'five of me' to write five different books. But...it's just me.

The New Species books are coming out so close together because I had written them some years ago before I was published. I spend parts of my day editing and fixing my old writing mistakes. I have to update them to modern times, rewrite parts that need it, but it's faster to do that than writing brand new books. Of course writing new books is less frustrating. I'm not dealing with a much younger me who made a ton of writing errors. I write new books during part of my day as well. I just...put a lot of time and heart into writing. I'm able to get them out faster because of the serious commitment I've made to writing by the amount of hours I put into it. Plus, to be honest, if I were part of a writing team...I highly doubt I would have been chosen to be the 'face' of that team. LOL. I'm a 41 year old wife, mother of 4, with a grandchild. Plus, I'd be thinner, prettier, and not have this wild hair - it's naturally frizzy. It's just me, for real, and the pictures you see of me...that's the one I face in the mirror every day.

Some people ask me if I'm going to write certain books. So...here's my current 'to write' list.

Zorn - Vhon, Coto, and Vinlotti.

Raine - I'm writing all of the brothers including Trip and Adam.

Mating Heat - the brothers, cousin Brand, and probably Alpha Elroy's story.
Cyborgs - Sky, Deviant, Gene, Onyx, Blackie, and I just added Mavo.

I may add more names to those but that's my 'to write' list right now.

New Species... I haven't released the names of book #8 or #9. Here's why (I get asked this). Some of the names of the books/characters have already been changed. Here's the ones that are set.

#5 - Brawn
#6 - Wrath

#7 - Tiger

I do have a story for Brass, council member Bestial, and another species you haven't met yet. I had mostly finished writing their books before I had a medical issue and had to take time from writing while I got better. I plan to write Breeze's story, 927, and a bunch of other books including at least one gift female one since...I found a partial already written for one of them that I LOVE and want to finish. I was going through old hard drives of my older computers and found partials of other Species books. Some of them I'd totally forgotten about. LOL. Jaded (council member) was one of them. Moon. Flame. Some you haven't heard of. I even found an entire mostly written book that is a prequel of the Species series that I'd forgotten I'd even written. It's like two chapters shy of being finished and I had outlined a few books to go with it. I don't know if I'll ever try to get it published. I have enough on my plate right now but maybe in the future. I want to catch up on my 'to write' list before I rescue any of my older books. It's time consuming. In my 20's and 30's...my writing was rough. The storylines are awesome but yeah...rough writing style. Plus...If I rescue that prequel book...I'd have to write the ones that should go with it. There would be at least two more books that would have to be written. Big project and I just don't have the time right now.

I'm totally trying to get through the holidays stress free. Easier said than done. Mr. Laurann and I decided to stay home this Thanksgiving rather than visit family. A stress-free day of us sharing a kitchen is something I look forward to and that's awesome because we cook well together. I'm mostly stressed about Christmas. Kids are easy to buy for. Adults...NOT so much! It used to be buying gift cards was the easiest thing to do but what do you give people who can afford anything? Yeah. That's my stress question of the month. LOL. I'm trying to think up personal and touching gifts. My brain hurts! LOL!

My other stress question...where to put the darn Christmas tree next month. The area it usually goes...now sports my new treadmill. Our home is tiny, 5 people, 3 cats, 1,200 square feet. We're crammed in. I'm thinking of putting the darn tree on top of my cedar chest in the living room. Not sure how that's going to work out but yeah, it's got to go somewhere. I also stole 1/3rd of the living room for my 'office' which now has a huge L-shaped desk so we're wall to wall furniture in the living room/dining room area. I also found some killer sales on toys and totally overbought. Yeah. You should see the explosion of wrapped toys already taking up part of my living room before the tree is even up. NO WAY are those going to fit under a tree. Next year after we move...it's going to be great. We'll have too much room but this year is going to be tricky. LOL! I don't even want to discuss what my living room looks like. It's...bad. Gifts are shoved everywhere. Yeah...I totally blame those toy sales. Buy one on sale, get one half off. 75 percent off. Who could resist??? Not me! I got entire seasons of their favorite shows for like $10. They are usually $40-$50. Yeah. It's totally NOT my fault! LOL! And the email sales just keep popping up in my inbox. Damn you, irresistible sales! I'm going to stop opening them and reading the darn things. I only have one kid left to buy for. She's 12 and past the toy stage, unfortunately. LOL!

I turned in Brawn's story from New Species. I don't have a release date yet. I'm hoping for December. Also...good news. It looks like the first book in the Something Wicked This Way Comes Anthology will come out in December. I'm really excited about being a part of them. I wrote stories for all four. None of the stories I wrote for the anthology books are related to any of my series books. I wanted to write something new and fresh, something that could stand on their own, and it won't matter if you've read any of my other books. Here's the blurb for the first story in the first volume. (subject to change but I think this is the official blurb)

Captain of Nara's Heart

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Nara knew she was taking a risk with illegal trading. Sure enough, she's been arrested, caged—and will be auctioned as a sex slave. One look at the scary alien buyers and she frantically makes a deal, agreeing to be sold to Captain Vellar, who turns out to be large, sexy and seriously in heat. Offering her body to the captain is a given…but Nara didn't expect to lose her heart in the process.

You can click on the cover or here's the LINK

Justice is OUT today!!!

Justice - the 4th in the New Species series is OUT today!!! I added a timer to the blog so you know when it should be added to the Ellorascave site.

I'm posting this a bit early because my update list is DOWN. I'm having issues with that account and looking for a new place to move my update list. I'm so sorry to the people who expect updates. I've tried to log on and get errors. I don't know why it won't allow me on but it's been about a week. I've emailed for support but I'm guessing they are behind. Right now I'm using the blog for this so if you are a member of my update list... if you look to the left under my website picture banner on here...sign up if you want email updates. It will send you an email when a new blog is posted. Again, I'm VERY sorry for this.

In other news...I finished updating and fixing the 5th NS book. Brawn has been sent in and I'm currently updating the 6th one - Wrath. After I'm done updating the original 9 books - I plan to write brand new ones! Tiger is book #7. Brass' story was mostly written but I hadn't finished it when I took a break from writing the series some years ago. I DO plan to finish that book. I get asked a lot about 927 and Breeze. Yes, I do plan to write books for them. I've gone through my hard drives on some of my older computers to locate any partial books I had started for NS...I do that...I'd get an idea and write a few chapters. I have been reading through them and am excited to salvage a few of them! I even found a large section of a book I had written - kind of a prequel of the series. I had totally forgotten about it. LOL! It was cool finding and reading it. You know it's been some years when you totally mind blanked that you wrote something. LOL! I don't know what to do with it though. I might finish it and send it in to see if I can get it out there but won't tackle it until I find some free time. Right now I'm busy updating the rest of the original 9 NS books and writing new books for my other series.

I get MANY emails asking about Zorn. YES, I do plan to write more of them. I'm trying to get a three month hole in my schedule to write them. I want to get some book releases lined up so I have books coming out so there's not months that go by with nothing coming out. When I do that...I'm going to sit down for those three months and finish writing the three books I started. The timeline on them is right after another. It's easier to write them at the same time so I have the facts straight in the storyline. It's like when I wrote Touching Ice, Stealing Coal, and Redeeming Zorus. They are all linked and I wrote them side by side to get the facts right. So are the Zorn books. I am hoping...fingers crossed...to get them done by June. That's my goal. I am going to write all the books to the Raine brothers. I started two of them and work on them here and there. I'm also working on the next few cyborg books. And I'm almost done with Cousin Brand's book from Mating Heat. I have ideas written out for the other brothers in that series. I'm getting there. I am a mood writer. I write what I'm in the mood for so some days I'll work on one series, another the next day, and part of my day is always given to the New Species series because it's mostly editing work to fix all my bad writing habits from the original books, bring them into modern times, and doing minor re-writing on sections that need fixed. They are coming and I spend the majority of my time writing. I love what I do. I do it a LOT. LOL!

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and that you enjoy reading Justice's story.

Here's the counter so it's still up on when it should begin to load at Ellorascave. I am HOPING that it gets added to Kindle within hours. I'll come back on here and post a link in the comment section when it does. B&N takes longer to load. ARE seems to load them within a few days.

Nov 11th - Justice!

November 11th! Whoo Hooo! The blurb and excerpt are up. Click on the cover and it will take you to Ellorascave for the excerpt.

Here's the blurb -


Book 4 in the New Species series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.

Book 4 in the New Species series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.

Justice North is the face of New Species. Seeing him up close makes Jessie's heart race. He's the ultimate alpha male—big, muscular, exotically beautiful…and dangerous. Of course he's off limits. But then the sexy man purrs and all bets are off.

Jessie Dupree is a mouthy, fiery human female who brings out the animal in Justice. He wants to get to know her a lot better. They go to his room to share dinner but she wants to show him how to relax. He's all for anything she wants to do but Justice has sworn to protect his people and to take a Species mate. He's torn between the woman he wants and the oath he's taken.

Jessie knows a relationship between them probably won't end well but she wants to free the wildness inside Justice and spend every moment she can steal wrapped around his hot body, making him roar with passion. She's going to get her heart broken because she doesn't want it to end at all.

My last book, Taunting Krell, was loaded at Amazon/Kindle about 4 hours after it was released at Ellorascave. I am HOPING that Justice loads JUST as fast! Fingers crossed! I don't know why but it seems to take a lot longer for other sites to load the books. (B&N the slowest - ARE (allromanceebooks) the second to fastest besides Kindle. I was told they are all sent out at the same time so I have no clue why it's that way and I'm sorry if you have to wait on those sites.

Have a great week and Happy Halloween!!!

New Cover for Justice!!!

Yes, his story is coming! I don't have an official blurb but I will say...he's going to meet Jessie Dupree! She's the woman who works for the task team that goes out and retrieves those Gift Females. It should be getting a release date REALLY SOON! Whoo Hooo!!!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

This has been a crazy month for me. LOL. We went to Romanticon (SO MUCH FUN!!!) and we came home to sick kids. They shared. It took me a bit to get over what I think was the flu so I'm SO far behind where I wanted to be on other book projects. That bums me out. I've been putting in insane hours...trying to play catch up but I don't want what I'm working on to suffer so I don't know if I'm going to make my set goal of turning in a book by the end of this month. I'm trying though. Honestly. I hate to say it but I haven't really slept with Mr. Laurann in like two weeks. I've been up all night and still working at my computer when he wakes up. Poor Mr. Laurann has been wonderful though. He just kind of smiles at me and shakes his head when he comes to give me a morning kiss and urges me to 'go to bed'. I know a lot of people think I write fast... I don't. Honestly. I just put in some intense hours. I'm book obsessive. I admit it. I love to write, I get emerged in stories, and yeah...I spend way too much time at my desk. I gained 3 pounds since I haven't been working out or used my treadmill AT ALL this month. Mr. Laurann jokes that he's going to figure a way to set up my keyboard and put a monitor on the wall so I can use it and type at once. I think he gets tired of hearing me wince over not being able to use my new treadmill.

I've also been busy going online to house hunt. We're planning to move next year so I'm all excited!!! We outgrew our current home within a year of buying it since we literally moved in...and I discovered I was pregnant with our son, kid #4. We only have 3 bedrooms and ONE bathroom. 1,200 square feet. 3 cats. It's been tight living but we've made it work. I love the layout of our home but there's just not enough bedrooms, bathrooms, and my office is 1/3rd of our living room. I'm shoved between our living area and the kitchen with the dining room behind me. In other words I'm writing while life is going on around me, literally. Someone is using the big screen TV to my right, someone else is getting a snack to my left, and we set up computers on Mr. Laurann's desk in the dining room for him and the kids (it holds his desk, the dining room table, and my treadmill - luckily it's a big room...) but yeah. It's kind of nuts and that's why I work with headphones on. Heavy metal pouring through my head is easier to work with than hearing video games, kids talking, or whatever show they have on. I had to actually ask Mr. Laurann to stop watching Fraiser in the living room and move to our bedroom for his viewing pleasure. I love that show and it distracts me because I glance to my right...and yeah. I take off the headphones to hear it and then I turn in my chair...put my feet up on the back of one of our recliners, and I'm watching it with him. I tend to get out of my chair, go settle next to Mr. Laurann, and don't get my work done. In other words...I need a real office with walls and a door so I am not distracted. LOL!

It's been fun, let me tell you. I made a NEED list for the new house. We're looking at 5 bedroom (a room for everyone so the kids no longer have to share - and MY OWN REAL OFFICE...with walls and a door!), at least 3 bathrooms (no more waiting in the hallway to use the bathroom when someone beats you to it!), and where we're looking is far less expensive than where we live now. We can get a really bigger house for a LOT less. I am holding off on saying where our new location will be so that's news for another time. It's out of state, a few of you know, but shush...LOL! Anyway, we can get a huge house in other words for what we are paying now. Over 3,000 square feet so that's really big compared to what we have. Most of the ones I'm looking at are around the 3,800 square footage range. A pool in the backyard. The kids will LOVE that. They hate the idea of leaving their friends, I hate that part of it too, but the truth is...Southern California is really expensive. The area we live in is...extra expensive. We looked at houses here and can't touch anything, even small homes, for less than $400,000 in good areas. I'd rather have a huge home with tons of space and pay half that. I do like to eat and I need electricity! LOL! (No electricity...no internet and computer to write on)

Now I just look forward to buying and moving, getting settled in, and not having to stress out about it anymore. I just want to be able to concentrate on writing. I have a list of books to write. There will be more Zorn. On my list...Coto, Vinlotti, and Vhon. More Mating Heat books. I'm working on Cousin Brand's story - and let me tell you...writing that first chapter cracked me up! LOL! There will be brother stories. I'm getting requests for Alpha Elroy too. That man needs a good mate who isn't a bitch in every sense! LOL. More Cyborgs. More Raines. And of course, when I'm caught up on updating the original 9 New Species books and the 3 that I had started and never finished...I DO plan to write brand new ones!!! I even have other books...yeah...but let me catch up with my 'to write' list before I unveil a few other series I wrote before I was published. Five current series is my limit. Before I unleash a new series...I want to get those books written for the other ones so I'm not juggling so many at once. I had thought to hold off on New Species, they've been sitting in files for a lot of years, but I had sent them to my CP, to a beta reader, and another author friend of mine. They strongly encouraged me to stop holding onto them and get them OUT there so I did. I'm glad I listened even if dealing with a much younger writing me has been frustrating, sometimes depressing (oh man have I learned a LOT in the past 2 years working with my editors), and fixing all those old mistakes I made is daunting. I'm working on them though, fixing them, smoothing them out, and adding in modern technology while writing new books for my other series at the same time. I usually edit in the mornings to take out my old mistakes and write new stuff in the evenings to get both done. Sometimes I switch that up. I'm getting a lot done and that's all that matters. LOL! I'm currently about 80 percent done with the 5th book...and am trying real hard to get it done in the next 4 days (yeah...good luck with that to me...LOL!) I'm also really close to finishing Cousin Brand's story!!! (GRIN)

I should have great news... a release date for Justice... really soon! Also, at Ellorascave they added the first Volume of Something Wicked This Way Comes to their coming soon pages! I have stories in all four of them. I think that first one is the futuristic alien story. I think. I could be wrong. Anyway, he's HOT! Trust me. LOL. None of the stories are linked to any current series. They are stand alones with no connection to other books BUT two of them are vampire stories and the guys know each other. LOL! They aren't linked besides that. You can read them in either order. The fourth story is about a werewolf. That was so much FUN to write those stories! I am so honored to be a part of this anthology set. It was a challenge because I wrote four of them and the limited word count was TOUGH on me but it was super exciting. I hope you give them a read. When I have an official release date...I'll let you know. The first one is slated for a Nov/Dec release but it's not nailed down on the exact day.

You can click on the cover to go to Ellorascave to see it at the coming soon pages.

I hope everyone has a great week and the next post will include Justice's release date!!!

Laurann

Taunting Krell is out!

Book 7 in the Cyborg Seduction series.

Krell hates humans. They left him scarred and undesirable to females. He's lived a lonely existence in his home world because of their brutality. So he's angry when he's ordered to interrogate the captured human. She's the enemy, a soldier from Earth. He'll show her the same mercy they showed him. None.

Cyan didn't expect to survive her mission against the Markus Models but she's stunned and elated to be confronted by cyborgs. The past and present collide, however, when she sees Krell. He's part of a dangerous secret from another life—and he's also completely irresistible.

Krell is certain Cyan can't be trusted. He's determined to keep her at a distance…but Cyan is just as determined to get the big, sexy cyborg into her bed.

Here's the LINK


I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Taunting Krell - coming out this Friday!!! Oct 14th

I got the cover!!! I love Syneca. She's the cover artist who does most of my books. I think she's brilliant!

Taunting Krell is the 7th Cyborg Seduction book and more books are planned. Here's the blurb.



Krell hates humans. They left him scarred and undesirable to females. He's lived a lonely existence in his home world because of their brutality. He is angry when he's ordered to interrogate the captured human but she's the enemy, a soldier from Earth. He'll show her the same mercy they showed him. None.

Cyan didn't expect to survive her mission against the Marcus Models but she was stunned and elated when she was confronted by cyborgs. The past and present collide when she sees Krell. He is part of a dangerous secret from another life but he is completely irresistible to her.

Krell is persuaded to keep Cyan in his home while he learns everything about her. He's certain she can't be trusted but she uses her body to distract him. He's determined to keep her at a distance but Cyan is just as determined to get the big, sexy cyborg into her bed.

The excerpt is up at Ellorascave. I am hoping that it's loaded onto Kindle and B&N pretty quickly. Ellorascave is located in Ohio and they release books when the office opens at 9:00 am.

I hope everyone has a fantastic week. I'm also hoping to have a release date to announce within the next few weeks for Justice - the 4th New Species book.