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What I'm working on...

IRM Winter Anthology - First draft due September 1, 2012 (Unexpected Winter)

Silver Submission - First round edits due July 15, 2012 - Release Date September 22, 2012 (It Takes A Village)

MLR Hot Vampire Warrior Submission - Due for submission November 15, 2012

DSP Snow on the Roof Submission - Due for submission November 19, 2012 (Loving September)

Self-publishing - no due date (Underwraps)

DSP Evergreen 2012 Advent Calendar - Due for submission September 1, 2012

MLR Going for the Gold Submission - Due for submission July 10, 2012

Pending publisher - no due date - Unlawful Protection

Hot Summer Fun IRM Anthology

My very first foray into an Anthology is out TODAY!! Please check out all the great stories. I am so proud and pleased and thrilled to be a part of such a wonderful group of authors! *squeals* Ahem, ok, calming down. *grins* Hope you enjoy the stories. You can find this Anthology at ARe & Smashwords, and will soon be at Amazon.com and B&N and will be available in PRINT! My first!!

New IRM Anthology Project

Coming soon!! This will be my second IRM Anthology and I can hardly wait!

Flash Fiction Friday

Welcome my friends to another Flash Fiction Friday where a group of creative crazies get together to write 100 words, no more, no less about a picture.

Seduction...

I honestly never imagined I would have Marco at my mercy. The look on his face as I lightly drew the ice down his Adam’s apple was the hottest thing I’d ever seen. He was completely under my seduction and I almost believed I could do anything to him and he wouldn’t object…almost. This was a new twist to our relationship; one that I had fantasized about for ages. That Marco was giving this to me just showed how strong our union was. How strong he was to give up all control. My stud, my courageous man, my lovely husband.Now that you have read my interpretation, please visit my friends for their imaginative take on this photo.

Muffy Wilson: http://muffywilson.blogspot.com
S. J. Maylee: http://SJMaylee.com
Naomi Shaw: http://midnightfantasieswithnaomishaw.blogspot.com
Savannah Chase http://www.savannahchase.com/blog
Angelica Dawson http://angelicadawson.blogspot.com
Julez S Morbius: http://morbiussworld.blogspot.co.uk/
Davee Jones: http://finless.blogspot.com/
Venus Cahill: http://www.venusbookluvr.blogspot.com
Bonni Sansom: http://bonnisansom.blogspot.com/
Sherri Hayes: http://www.sherri-hayes.blogspot.com/
Yvonne Nicolas: http://yvonnenicolas.wordpress.com/
Kendel Davi: http://kendeldavi.wordpress.com
Cyril J. Michael: http://authorcyriljmichaels.blogspot.com

Flash Fiction Friday

Welcome my friends to another Flash Fiction Friday where a group of creative crazies get together to write 100 words, no more, no less about a picture.


              ...confess your feelings...“Caleb! I need a new flash!” I didn’t mean to snarl at my assistant, but watching…and filming Ethan and Jarion was making my blood boil. Stupid me had never told Jarion that I thought he was God’s gift to gay men. The attraction I felt for the porn star was stupid, and over the top, but I couldn’t seem to get my body to understand that. Seeing Ethan’s head bent over as he sucked on Jarion’s nipple made me nearly growl, Mine! That I had fallen for a porn star would, no doubt, thrill my family. But I wanted him!

Now that you have read my interpretation, please visit my friends for their imaginative take on this photo.

Muffy Wilson:  http://muffywilson.blogspot.com/
Bonni Sansom: http://bonnisansom.blogspot.com/
Savannah Chase http://www.savannahchase.com/blog
Gemma Parkes: http://gemmaparkes.blogspot.com/
Venus Cahill: http://venusbookluvr.blogspot.com/
Cyril J. Michael: http://authorcyriljmichaels.blogspot.com/
Angelica Dawson: http://angelicadawson.blogspot.com/
Yvonne Nicolas: http://yvonnenicolas.wordpress.com/
Kendel Davi: http://kendeldavi.wordpress.com/
Sharita Lira writing as BLMorticia: http://blmorticia.wordpress.com/
Naomi Shaw: http://midnightfantasieswithnaomishaw.blogspot.com/
Lisa Worrall: http://lworrall.blogspot.com/

I was involved in a wonderful project, and though my cont...

I was involved in a wonderful project, and though my contribution is small, I wanted to share!   http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-backup-794466-145.html

New Release Date for my first Publishing House Novel!!Loo...

New Release Date for my first Publishing House Novel!!
Look for it September 22, 2012!!!

Hop Against Homophobia Contest Winner

Congratulations to Suze for winning a copy of Phoenix and commenting on this worthy endeavor.

Hop Against Homophobia

Hop Against Homophobia

Homophobia
Dictionary.com
unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals  and homosexuality.
Merriam-Webster
irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
Oxford Dictionaries
an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people.
 Do you see a pattern? Unreasoning and irrational. A phobia. Exactly. And let’s not forget discrimination. Something that should have been eradicated a long time ago.
A phobia is a condition to be overcome with the right direction, information and experience. Homophobia should not even be a word found in the dictionary. And where is the fear coming from? Are homophobes afraid the gayness will rub off on them? That homosexual individuals will turn them gay? Really? And I suppose if an African American person, or Asian person stands too close, you will become African American or Asian? Same principle.
I don’t understand it. But then again, I don’t understand most phobias. And most homophobes cannot justify their irrational and unreasoning fears on childhood traumas like so many phobias can. Fear of spiders? Maybe you were bitten as a child. Fear of heights? You might have fallen out of a tree. Fear of open spaces? Maybe you were separated from your parents and lost. Who knows, but homophobia? What? You saw two men or two women kissing? Big whoop. They weren’t kissing you.
Homophobia is learned, homosexuality is not. Homophobia is a choice, homosexuality is not. I once read somewhere, and I don’t remember where, but it was so appropriate, that I want to share it here.
Straight man: When did you know you were gay?
Gay man: When did you know you were straight?
Let me ask the homophobic straight people of the world. Did you consciously think about being straight when you started noticing the opposite sex? Did you look at a girl and think, “Damn, she’s cute, I must be straight”. Or, “He’s so hot, I must be straight”. I didn’t think so.
And then there is the violence that so often comes with homophobia. It’s simple really, if you believe you have the right to torment, beat or kill someone for being gay, then they have that exact same right to torment, beat and kill you for being straight. No one, and I mean no one has the right to lay hands on another in hate. It makes me ashamed to be part of such a brutal species. Which brings me to the religious aspect of homophobia.
Religious zealots have often times hidden behind their faith to justify what they say and do. I will not ever condemn an entire religion for those few cowards that smear the doctrines that so many do try and live by. I believe the best example is what happened to Jesus himself. Jesus was different. He could walk on water, cure the sick, blind and dying and speak to God himself. That scared the general populace. And what did they do? They chose a thief over the son of God just because he didn’t conform to what they thought as ‘normal’. I use the example loosely only because it is the faith I have. I’m sure there are other examples in other religions.
Back to the definition of homophobia. It’s irrational to hate homosexuality. It is unreasonable to condemn a person for loving someone of the same sex. Do I believe that homophobia will disappear in my lifetime? No. Do I wish it? Absolutely. I would love to see the day when homosexuality and heterosexuality mean nothing. Where being gay is no different than being blue-eyed or blond-haired. Where same sex couples can live their lives openly and be normal,because in reality?
They are.I'm doing a giveaway associated with this Blog Hop. Comment and you will be entered to win an ebook of Phoenix.Please visit the Hop page for more interpretations of homophobia and stories of other's experiences: http://hopagainsthomophobia.blogspot.com.au/

Men of May Blog Hop

It's May and time for Men of May Blog Hop. It is always a great time to celebrate the beauty of men and their lives and loves in books. I decided to write about how I got into the m/m erotic romance genre in the first place. Hope you enjoy a peek into my life and be sure to click on the link at the bottom to "hop" on over to my fellow authors stories.
Let me tell you how I first got into reading m/m erotic romance, then writing it.The first three m/m stories I bought were His Convenient Husband: Innamorati, Book 1 by J.L. Langley, Eros Rising by Ally Blue and Str8te Boys by Evangeline Anderson.
I have read those three stories at least a half dozen times. They were the beginning. They were the spark that ignited my journey into man love that I can hardly live without now.
I have over 900 m/m stories loaded on my Kindle. I have read nearly every one of them at least twice. Yes, there are a few that are my favorites, enough that I go back to them time and again. I am pathetically hooked.
I was in the middle of reading Touch Me Gently by J.R. Loveless when I decided I could do this. I could write these kinds of stories. I haven’t looked back. My first, my baby is A Mechanic’s Dream. That one took me longer to write than many other subsequent ones. I poured my imagination into that story, and Croy Fischer and Kagan O’Conner are most definitely my all time favorite characters. That's why I decided to have them in a series, Valley Love.

CONTEST: Give me your email and the name of two of my books not mentioned in this blog and win an ebook copy of BOTH!! I will pick the first person who answers.

Writing m/m erotic romance is wonderful. The ability to create men that are multi-layered, complex and flawed is both challenging and rewarding. Every time I pick up another book, it gives me more fodder for the men I create in my own stories. I was never into romance growing up, though I read just about everything else that was fiction, mainly fantasy. I always thought, if…no, when…I become a writer, it would be fantasy that would be the genre I wrote. And I do. I have several WIP that are fantasy. I also have two that are science fiction and many that are paranormal. But if you look at the WIPs that I have, most of them are m/m erotic romance. The love between two men is beautiful. I love reading about it, I love writing it. I love the hard road many must take to get their happily ever after. And I believe all human beings, men and women, no matter the combination deserve their happily ever after. Oh! And J.L. Langley!! I am so waiting for Innamorati, Book 2!!Click below to hop along to the next interesting Men of May blog:
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