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Sneak Peek - THE DARK TIDE by Josh Lanyon

Warning you now. VERY rough. Absolutely unedited.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye,

The Dark Tide

It began, as a lot of things do, in bed.

Or, to be precise, on the living room sofa where I was uncomfortably dozing.

Somewhere in the distance of a very weird dream about me and a certain ex-LAPD police lieutenant came a faint but persistent scratching. The scratching worked itself into my dream and I deduced with the vague logic of the unconscious that the ...

Now is the hour...

A Strange Offer for M/M Fantasy and Adventure Readers

 

 

Order Strange Fortune, the new spec fiction novel by Josh Lanyon through the Blind Eye Books website before midnight on November 20th and uncover a small fortune in exclusive downloadable promotional plunder.

 

“Mystery author Lanyon (the Adrien English series) makes his first foray into fantasy with a taut, energetic and romantic tale. In Hidush, an analogue for India in its final days as a British colony, a colonial religious group sends...

I Spy Something Wicked

Trick or Treat.  I Spy Something Wicked , the "fling" sequel to I Spy Something Bloody is now up and available at Loose Id (you'll find it on my author page).

Happy Halloween!

Headcount for Yaoicon

My publisher--that would be Blind Eye Books in this case--tells me they'll be bringing a small selection of all their titles to Yaoicon, and that includes a few preview copies of Strange Fortune.

So if by some chance you're attending Yaoicon and you'd like to pick up a copy of Strange Fortune in advance of the madding crowd, just drop a comment and I'll provide BEB with a rough headcount so they have an idea of how many copies to bring (it won't be many, but if there's interest, there will be...

If you could ask Jake or Adrien any question...

What would it be?

Now, a lot of these questions will be answered in The Dark Tide, but what about stuff that is unlikely to be addressed or the stuff you always wondered about or the stuff you figured (probably rightly) that I'm going to forget?

And suppose I was going to do another one of those interviews that I did for Alex Beecroft's wonderfully imaginative In Their Own Words site? You remember? The one I did with Adrien and the one I did with Jake? Well, I'm thinking along those lines -- ...

The Dark Farewell

Nothing to do with the recent kerfluffle on a certain fan list, although the title is appropriate, yes? *g*

I've finished "The Dark Farewell," my novella contribution to The Mysterious, an anthology of historical ghost stories with Alex Beecroft and Laura Baumbach. 33K in roughly a week. Since I was aiming for 20, I'm not positive that this is a triumph. The story is...odd. I was, in the spirit of experimentation that has gripped me all this year, trying to do a very 1920s sort of style. Not t...

Feel Like Doing a Couple of Good Deeds?

So I was over at Amazon checking a publication date, and I noticed that Mel Keegan's books are basically untagged. You know, the Mel Keegan who's putting all that time and energy into making the GLBT Bookshelf a great resource -- both for readers and writers? I have no doubt Mel has zero time to be tagging his own work. I don't think Amazon's even his main venue, but it's a useful promo tool (Amazon, I mean) so I started tagging his titles, but then it occurred to me that I'm actually suppose...

Beautiful Stranger

I received the proofs for Strange Fortune the day before yesterday. I think the last time I was this excited about a book was Death of a Pirate King. 

 It's beautiful.

It really is. Nice paper, nice typeface, lovely little touches all the way through. There's this very cool map that, in my opinion, is worth the price of admission alone. Oh, and the story. Which is hopefully going to do justice to all this effort on its behalf. Because the effort is impressive.

This is a totally new thing for m...

The Rainbow Awards

Some of you are aware that the lovely Elisa Rolle has instituted a new award aimed largely -- though not solely -- at the m/m writing community. I think this is a good idea for a number of reasons, the main one being that there is currently no award that really addresses m/m romance or writers. There's a significant division of opinion as to how comfortably m/m fits into the broader scope of GLBT fiction, and there's been a distinct lack of open arms in mainstream romance.
 
So...The Rainbow...

And moving into the homestretch we have...

I think I see the faintest, wannest (wannest?) glimmer of light at the end of that tunnel.

One more novella to go. The Dark Farewell for The Mysterious a nthology with Laura Baumbach and Alex Beecroft. It's set in Herron, Illinois in the 1920s and it's about spiritualism and mediums and ghosts and oh my. Quel creepy. At least I think so. Something about the summer and the midwest is just...well, I don't want to say creepy since a lot of my readers happen to live there. But it lends itself to g...