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July 15, 2011
T-1 month until the sparks - and airships - fly!
That's right - there's only one month to go until the
Cross Bones
anthology - with my steampunk romance, "On the Wings of Lir," in it - releases from Dreamspinner Press!!!
I just sent the galley back to my editor, so now it's time to hurry up and wait for the release of Cross Bones . I can't wait to read my fellow authors' stories. I love a good pirate romance, so I'm particularly excited for this anthology :)
To whet your appetite for "On the Wings of Lir," here's the (unedited) blurb:
In the time of Queen Victoria, the invention of airships has brought about a resurgence in piracy. Of all the buccaneers who sail the skies, pillaging merchant airships, the worst is Patrick Kelly, captain of the Wings of Lir. When fate lands Captain Kelly in Hugh Edwards's path, the young lieutenant can't believe his luck. He's determined to capture the pirate...but finds himself caught instead.
I just sent the galley back to my editor, so now it's time to hurry up and wait for the release of Cross Bones . I can't wait to read my fellow authors' stories. I love a good pirate romance, so I'm particularly excited for this anthology :)
To whet your appetite for "On the Wings of Lir," here's the (unedited) blurb:
In the time of Queen Victoria, the invention of airships has brought about a resurgence in piracy. Of all the buccaneers who sail the skies, pillaging merchant airships, the worst is Patrick Kelly, captain of the Wings of Lir. When fate lands Captain Kelly in Hugh Edwards's path, the young lieutenant can't believe his luck. He's determined to capture the pirate...but finds himself caught instead.
July 7, 2011
Book News: On the Wings of Lir
A quick note before the breaking news: Thank you SO much everyone who has purchased Chasing Alex. It was on Dreamspinner Press's bestseller list for more than two weeks and I'm both honored and thrilled by this :)
I'm very excited to announce that I'll have another new story out this summer. "On the Wings of Lir" will be available August 15th in Dreamspinner Press's Cross Bones anthology!!! Best of all? The Cross Bones anthology will be available in both ebook and print!
"On the Wings of Lir" is a male/male steampunk romance. That's right - steampunk, pirates, and romance. I'll post more information closer to the release date, but for now I'll say that "On the Wings of Lir was both fun and challenging for me. I've never written steampunk before, but creating the world of Lieutenant Hugh Edwards and Captain Patrick Kelly was exciting. As for the men themselves...damn, those guys had a few surprises in store for me as I wrote. I hope you enjoy this pair. As of right now, "On the Wings of Lir is a standalone story, but who knows? Perhaps these guys might talk to me again in the future.
Regarding the anthology as a whole, Cross Bones will contain stories from a variety of genres. The one thing all the stories have in common? Pirates, of course ;)
Now it's back to work for me. I've got the edits for "On the Wings of Lir sitting on my virtual desk. And after I finish with Hugh and Kelly....*rubs hands together*....just wait and see.
I'm very excited to announce that I'll have another new story out this summer. "On the Wings of Lir" will be available August 15th in Dreamspinner Press's Cross Bones anthology!!! Best of all? The Cross Bones anthology will be available in both ebook and print!
"On the Wings of Lir" is a male/male steampunk romance. That's right - steampunk, pirates, and romance. I'll post more information closer to the release date, but for now I'll say that "On the Wings of Lir was both fun and challenging for me. I've never written steampunk before, but creating the world of Lieutenant Hugh Edwards and Captain Patrick Kelly was exciting. As for the men themselves...damn, those guys had a few surprises in store for me as I wrote. I hope you enjoy this pair. As of right now, "On the Wings of Lir is a standalone story, but who knows? Perhaps these guys might talk to me again in the future.
Regarding the anthology as a whole, Cross Bones will contain stories from a variety of genres. The one thing all the stories have in common? Pirates, of course ;)
Now it's back to work for me. I've got the edits for "On the Wings of Lir sitting on my virtual desk. And after I finish with Hugh and Kelly....*rubs hands together*....just wait and see.
June 2, 2011
Chasing Alex is now available!!!
I'm very excited to announce that my newest story,
Chasing Alex
, released yesterday at Dreamspinner Press! I had a blast writing Chase and Alex's story and I hope you all enjoy it :)
[image error] Chase Larkspur is a rodeo cowboy who likes a good ride…as long as he's the one calling the shots. Alex Dawson is a bull rider who tests every limit Chase has ever set. The passion between them burns bright and hot, until Alex grows tired of keeping their relationship a secret—and of being the one who's always ridden. Alex lays down an ultimatum, and then the rest is up to Chase. Does Chase let the best thing in his life run away to the family ranch, or is he brave enough to chase Alex down?
Buy link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=55_436&products_id=2320
[image error] Chase Larkspur is a rodeo cowboy who likes a good ride…as long as he's the one calling the shots. Alex Dawson is a bull rider who tests every limit Chase has ever set. The passion between them burns bright and hot, until Alex grows tired of keeping their relationship a secret—and of being the one who's always ridden. Alex lays down an ultimatum, and then the rest is up to Chase. Does Chase let the best thing in his life run away to the family ranch, or is he brave enough to chase Alex down?
Buy link: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=55_436&products_id=2320
May 19, 2011
What's on your nightstand?
I'm hard at work on a story, but I'm trying to sneak in a book here or there. On my virtual nightstand this week is a sexy paranormal romance:
Ardent by Jan Irving
MLR Press
Erotic Male/Male Paranormal Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-1-60820-368-0 (print) / 978-1-60820-369-7 (ebook)
Buy it here at MLR Press:
It sounded like something from one of the graphic novels Jaime Anderson aspires to create, but Arden Kaller is real. Once the lover of Jaime's older brother, his blood coats Jaime's lips the first night he hits town when he heals him after Jaime is involved in an altercation in a brick-lined alley. Arden has spent long years studying his amphora, his pot shards. How can a small town boy exert such a hold on him? But it isn't long before he tricks Jaime into wearing his mystical token.
Jaime's life is complicated enough just handling classes. Now his guitar-playing friend Mondo turns out to be a werewolf who wants Jaime to be his-and then there is Arden, his dark, dangerous, and slightly nerdy vampire lover.
Ardent by Jan Irving
MLR Press
Erotic Male/Male Paranormal Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-1-60820-368-0 (print) / 978-1-60820-369-7 (ebook)
Buy it here at MLR Press:
It sounded like something from one of the graphic novels Jaime Anderson aspires to create, but Arden Kaller is real. Once the lover of Jaime's older brother, his blood coats Jaime's lips the first night he hits town when he heals him after Jaime is involved in an altercation in a brick-lined alley. Arden has spent long years studying his amphora, his pot shards. How can a small town boy exert such a hold on him? But it isn't long before he tricks Jaime into wearing his mystical token.
Jaime's life is complicated enough just handling classes. Now his guitar-playing friend Mondo turns out to be a werewolf who wants Jaime to be his-and then there is Arden, his dark, dangerous, and slightly nerdy vampire lover.
May 5, 2011
What's on your nightstand?
Melinda Barron had a book release last week, so of course it's on my virtual nightstand this week. What is everyone else excited to read?
Three Ways to Wicked by Melinda Barron
Resplendence Publishing
Erotic Fantasy Ménage Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-1-60735-292-1
Buy it here at Resplendence Publishing:
Bestselling Author Krisily Carmichael needs a break from her life. Her horrid ex-boyfriend sold naked photos of her, and now she's plastered all over the nation's largest skin magazine. So when an advertisement for a rental cottage near Bath appears in her mailbox, she snatches up the offer.
When she arrives at the remote English cottage, she finds a charming country home with a huge botanical garden…complete with four magical beings trapped inside.
Victim of a wayward spell, the Sorcerer Uriel and his alchemist cousins, Bythos and Acolius, have spent centuries trapped inside their garden with an evil witch who wants their secrets. Krisily's arrival sets off a string of events foretold to bring about the witch's end. Unfortunately, they have to contend with the witch's curse, which took one sense from each of the men.
But the four of them find a way to communicate, and they come together in a blaze of passion that helps them to destroy the witch and meet their destiny.
Three Ways to Wicked by Melinda Barron
Resplendence Publishing
Erotic Fantasy Ménage Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-1-60735-292-1
Buy it here at Resplendence Publishing:
Bestselling Author Krisily Carmichael needs a break from her life. Her horrid ex-boyfriend sold naked photos of her, and now she's plastered all over the nation's largest skin magazine. So when an advertisement for a rental cottage near Bath appears in her mailbox, she snatches up the offer.
When she arrives at the remote English cottage, she finds a charming country home with a huge botanical garden…complete with four magical beings trapped inside.
Victim of a wayward spell, the Sorcerer Uriel and his alchemist cousins, Bythos and Acolius, have spent centuries trapped inside their garden with an evil witch who wants their secrets. Krisily's arrival sets off a string of events foretold to bring about the witch's end. Unfortunately, they have to contend with the witch's curse, which took one sense from each of the men.
But the four of them find a way to communicate, and they come together in a blaze of passion that helps them to destroy the witch and meet their destiny.
May 3, 2011
Dreamspinner Press Turns Four!
Dreamspinner Press (home of my upcoming story, Chasing Alex) is celebrating its fourth anniversary by having all kinds of specials and drawings!!! Check out the Dreamspinner Press Blog for details.
May 2, 2011
Cover Love: Chasing Alex
We're less than one month away from the release of
Chasing Alex
and I'm getting excited enough to consider adding a countdown button on the side of the blog. In the meantime, visit my website and check out my Coming Soon page to read the blurb for
Chasing Alex
:)
Chasing Alex also happens to have not one, but two covers. Since the story is part of Dreamspinner Press's 2011 Daily Dose line, the cover that will up on their site is the Daily Dose: First Time For Everything cover. Inside the book itself, Chasing Alex gets its name in lights (or pixels, as it were).
Interested in a sneak peek? Here are both covers:
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Chasing Alex also happens to have not one, but two covers. Since the story is part of Dreamspinner Press's 2011 Daily Dose line, the cover that will up on their site is the Daily Dose: First Time For Everything cover. Inside the book itself, Chasing Alex gets its name in lights (or pixels, as it were).
Interested in a sneak peek? Here are both covers:
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April 28, 2011
What's on your nightstand?
We interrupt this regularly scheduled blogging for some book news! Check back on www.rileyshane.com on Monday for to see the cover and blurb for my upcoming Dreamspinner Press release,
Chasing Alex
!!!
Now, onto this week's reading. The audio book madness continues as I work on In the Penalty Box, and since it's Royal Wedding Week, what better choice is there than an audio book with a wedding-ish theme? Just omit what happens to the bride in this book (yikes). I have to say, the narrator is one of the best I've ever heard.
Veil of Night by Linda Howard
Ballantine Books/Random House Audio
Contemporary Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-0345506894/978-0307577634
Description from Amazon.com:
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed.
The problem is, most everyone—from the cake maker and the florist to the wedding-gown retailer and the bridesmaids' dressmaker—had his or her own reason for wanting the bride dead, including Jaclyn. And while those who felt Carrie's wrath are now smiling at her demise, Jaclyn refuses to celebrate tragedy, especially since she finds herself in the shadow of suspicion.
Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there's too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrie's death. Being a prime suspect means that Jaclyn is hands-off just when Eric would rather be hands-on. As the heat intensifies between Eric and Jaclyn, a cold-blooded murderer moves dangerously close. And this time the target is not a bride but one particularly irresistible wedding planner, unaware of a killer's vow.
Now, onto this week's reading. The audio book madness continues as I work on In the Penalty Box, and since it's Royal Wedding Week, what better choice is there than an audio book with a wedding-ish theme? Just omit what happens to the bride in this book (yikes). I have to say, the narrator is one of the best I've ever heard.
Veil of Night by Linda Howard
Ballantine Books/Random House Audio
Contemporary Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-0345506894/978-0307577634
Description from Amazon.com:
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed.
The problem is, most everyone—from the cake maker and the florist to the wedding-gown retailer and the bridesmaids' dressmaker—had his or her own reason for wanting the bride dead, including Jaclyn. And while those who felt Carrie's wrath are now smiling at her demise, Jaclyn refuses to celebrate tragedy, especially since she finds herself in the shadow of suspicion.
Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there's too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrie's death. Being a prime suspect means that Jaclyn is hands-off just when Eric would rather be hands-on. As the heat intensifies between Eric and Jaclyn, a cold-blooded murderer moves dangerously close. And this time the target is not a bride but one particularly irresistible wedding planner, unaware of a killer's vow.
April 21, 2011
What's on your nightstand?
This week I finished going through the galley copy of
Chasing Alex
, my upcoming release (June 1st) from Dreamspinner Press. I'm really excited for Chase and Alex's story to be released. Within the next two weeks, I'll be posting the cover and blurb for
Chasing Alex
both here and on my website :)
I'm still hard at work on In the Penalty Box - Lord save me from heroes who change the plot of their book multiple times. I think Samson and Landon might be my biggest PITAs yet. Still, I'm enjoying writing their journey, detours and all.
Since I'm pounding away at the keyboard, I haven't had much time to read. Thank goodness for audio books:
Cruising by J.P. Bowie
Total-E-Bound
Contemporary Male/Male Romance
ISBN: 978-0-85715-198-8
Click here to buy from Total-E-Bound
Adam Brenner is looking for a life change when a long-time friend and associate, Tom Hathaway, offers him a position as casino manager aboard The Maid of the Seas, a luxury cruise ship out of Port Canaveral, Florida.
Trying to leave behind haunting memories of an alcoholic boyfriend on a path to destruction, Adam succumbs to the Latin charm of Vittorio Borghese, the ship's architect. After a night of hot sex, Adam thinks he might have found the one to help him forget the misery of the past, but Adam soon discovers that life on board a floating resort has its drawbacks to go hand-in-hand with the perks.
Dismayed by the hostility shown toward him by the ship's captain, and Vittorio's seeming indifference, Adam finds comfort in the company of Brett Jarvis, a talented singer/guitarist who plays nightly in the ship's lounge bar. The two men quickly form a warm and loving relationship, and Adam starts to look forward to 'a life on the ocean wave', thinking that it will now all be plain sailing.
However, he soon discovers that out on the vast regions of the Atlantic, sudden squalls, both natural and man-made, happen all too frequently—and some people are definitely not the great guys they appear to be.
I'm still hard at work on In the Penalty Box - Lord save me from heroes who change the plot of their book multiple times. I think Samson and Landon might be my biggest PITAs yet. Still, I'm enjoying writing their journey, detours and all.
Since I'm pounding away at the keyboard, I haven't had much time to read. Thank goodness for audio books:
Cruising by J.P. Bowie
Total-E-Bound
Contemporary Male/Male Romance
ISBN: 978-0-85715-198-8
Click here to buy from Total-E-Bound
Adam Brenner is looking for a life change when a long-time friend and associate, Tom Hathaway, offers him a position as casino manager aboard The Maid of the Seas, a luxury cruise ship out of Port Canaveral, Florida.
Trying to leave behind haunting memories of an alcoholic boyfriend on a path to destruction, Adam succumbs to the Latin charm of Vittorio Borghese, the ship's architect. After a night of hot sex, Adam thinks he might have found the one to help him forget the misery of the past, but Adam soon discovers that life on board a floating resort has its drawbacks to go hand-in-hand with the perks.
Dismayed by the hostility shown toward him by the ship's captain, and Vittorio's seeming indifference, Adam finds comfort in the company of Brett Jarvis, a talented singer/guitarist who plays nightly in the ship's lounge bar. The two men quickly form a warm and loving relationship, and Adam starts to look forward to 'a life on the ocean wave', thinking that it will now all be plain sailing.
However, he soon discovers that out on the vast regions of the Atlantic, sudden squalls, both natural and man-made, happen all too frequently—and some people are definitely not the great guys they appear to be.
April 14, 2011
What's on your nightstand?
I've been in a mood lately where I haven't wanted to read anything on my bookshelves (literal or virtual). Not because the books are uninteresting, merely that I haven't decided what I'm in the mood for. So, if you've read something lately that blew you away, I'm trolling for recs this week.
This week on my nightstand is Stranger, the fourth book in Zoë Archer's Blades of the Rose series:
Stranger by Zoë Archer
Blades of the Rose, Book 4
Zebra
Paranormal Historical Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-1420106817
Description from Zoë Archer's website:
He protects the world's magic—with his science. But even the best scientists can fall prey to the right chemistry...
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story—even if the boys in Chicago's newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she's sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there's magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn't caught her eavesdropping...
LIGHTING HIS FUSE
Catullus Graves knows what it's like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he's a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain red-headed scribbler, he's thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma's insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus's inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway....
This week on my nightstand is Stranger, the fourth book in Zoë Archer's Blades of the Rose series:
Stranger by Zoë Archer
Blades of the Rose, Book 4
Zebra
Paranormal Historical Romance [image error]
ISBN: 978-1420106817
Description from Zoë Archer's website:
He protects the world's magic—with his science. But even the best scientists can fall prey to the right chemistry...
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story—even if the boys in Chicago's newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she's sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there's magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn't caught her eavesdropping...
LIGHTING HIS FUSE
Catullus Graves knows what it's like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he's a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain red-headed scribbler, he's thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma's insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus's inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway....
