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New cover – The Dark Side

THE DARK SIDE, Book 2 of The Wild Side trilogy, has a gorgeous cover!

 

At this stage, the book should be out middle of next month! Excerpt coming very very soon.

PS Gorgeous cover design by Kim Killion at Hot Damn Designs

Birthday winners!

Firstly, I’d like to say THANK YOU! to everyone who left lovely messages wishing me happy birthday. You’re all very cool people.

Secondly, I will report that I had a fabulous birthday.  I went to see Robbie Williams on my actual birthday and we lucked out with standing room tickets that put us very close to the man himself, resulting in much SQUEEING and trying to take pictures with my iPhone. If I’d known I’d get so close, I would’ve brought my bigger camera. Still, I got some nice shots.

 

 

 

Then on Wednesday night I had dinner with some friends and got to eat this (note to the world, all birthday desserts should have flames!)

 

And then on Friday, against all expectations, my new toy (aka iPhone 6) was actually delivered on release day. So, all in all, a pretty good festival of Mel this year. I’m looking forward to the next year’s adventures.

And, as promised, to spread the fun around, I’m giving away some books. The winners of a book of your choice (either paper – signed, or e-book (as long as you live somewhere where e-book logistics work!) are:

Jen Schaper

Aubri Hayali

Jazmin Morales

Congratulations, gals! Just email me mel @ mjscott.net and books will wing their way to you.

PS If you do want an signed e-book, I can sign MJ and Melanie kindle books via AUTHORGRAPH. There’s a link in the sidebar of my MJ site.

PPS There will be some MJ book news in a day or so…stay tuned!

Birthday giveaway!

It’s my birthday! Another trip around the sun completed. It’s been a pretty good one despite the busy busy busyness. And because birthdays are good and presents are good and books are good, I thought I’d give some books away to celebrate.

So up for grabs for three lucky peeps: 1 copy of any of my books (either MJ or Melanie) in either paperback (signed) or kindle version (kindle version only if you want The Wolf Within).  To enter comment here or on the FB pages where the post comes up!

Good luck. And eat some cake (but remember frosting and books don’t mix)!

Photo courtesy of D Sharon Pruitt under Creative Commons

 

All the things are happening

Firstly, thank you to all the lovely people who have been reading and reviewing The Devil in Denim. You are all awesome!

Secondly Amazon picked Devil as one of their top Romance books of the month (so yay!)

Right now, the kindle version is discounted (it shows up at $5.49 for me here in Oz, so I’m guessing the US price is around $5.10?) so this gorgeous butt:

 

is going cheap! You know you want him on your e-reader …

Thirdly, The Dark Side, book 2 of my urban fantasy trilogy, has gone off to be edited. I should have it back before the end of this month but because I have a book (The Shattered Court) due at the end of the month and a set of revisions (Lawless in Leather) due by then as well, I’m thinking I won’t get back to TDS until the start of October. So hopefully it will be out in the world by mid October! Sorry but sometimes all the publishing things converge and something has to give a little.

Fourthly I’ve seen the cover copy for both The Shattered Court and Lawless in Leather so that hopefully means there will be pretty pretty covers to share soon. Likewise, I should have the cover for The Dark Side to show you real soon now. I’m also working on another Wild Side thing which isn’t too far away, I hope. To whet the appetite a bit, here’s the blurb for The Dark Side (warning, slightly spoilery for The Wolf Within, so avert your eyes if you don’t want to know:

Monsters used to be just her day job. Now they’re her life.

Newly minted werewolf, Ashley Keenan, thought she’d faced her past when she got her revenge on McCallister Tate, the vampire who killed her family. She wants to build a future with her fiancé, FBI agent and fellow werewolf, Daniel Gibson, but it seems the past isn’t done with her yet. For one thing, she still owes a debt to the vampire who controls Seattle, a fact that doesn’t sit well with Dan. And for another, she knows that McCallister Tate didn’t work alone … and his friends are still out there.

When a vicious attack on the anniversary of her parent’s death leaves her best friend infected with an aggressive new strain of vampirism, Ash is sucked into the fight to save her and to stop a plague of vampires overrunning humanity. It’s a fight that quickly turns deadly when the ones controlling the new vampires decide that Ashley’s family secrets might hold the key to their success—and that the only way to get to those secrets is through Ash herself. To save herself, her friend, and maybe even the world, Ash has to embrace her werewolf abilities, call on some dangerous allies, and take a walk on the dark side …

And now back to writing all the things so that all of the above keeps happening! Have a great weekend, everyone!

P.S. If you’re a reviewer and are interested in reviewing The Dark Side (or The Wolf Within), contact me mel @ mjscott.net!

 

The Devil in Denim is out today!

This gorgeous man is finally out in the wild for your reading pleasure! Hope you enjoy him as much as I did!

 

If you’re looking for places to buy, here’s a few links to get you started. Happy reading!

Closer and closer

It’s Monday morning in the US which means just one more sleep until THE DEVIL IN DENIM is out. What started almost two years ago as a mad idea in my head one Saturday morning is almost here.

From this:

To this:

 

Still can’t tell you quite how that happens but I’m very happy that it does! Hopefully lots of you will be too

 

And one for our hero

He’s kind of determined when he makes up his mind

A Maggie song

Some books I listen to my whole soundtrack for the book over and over.  Other books, I listen to particular songs over and over at particular stages of the book.

For THE DEVIL IN DENIM this was my getting into Maggie’s head song. Plus kind of the journey she needed to take…

A little taste

And here’s a snippet of our hero and heroine together…

“I’m the devil?” He was grinning at her now. She wasn’t sure why. She’d just told him to go to hell. “Why, Ms. Jameson, are you feeling tempted?”

“I’d rather kiss a goat.” Heat raced over her face. Why was she talking about kissing? You didn’t talk about kissing to guys unless you wanted them to kiss you. Which she didn’t. Goddamn tequila.

He laughed. Which was unfair. His laugh was sexy. No, scrap that. Nothing about Winters was sexy.

“A goat? Horns, a beard, cloven hooves? Kind of like the devil?”

She dropped her head onto the bar. She was in no mood to banter with the devil. She knew her folklore. Nothing good ever came of trying to best Beelzebub. Nope, that path only led to lost souls and eternal damnations. Which sounded about right where Winters was concerned.

 

Five short days to more of this!

A hero needs a heroine

And, of course, every hero needs a heroine. And the heroine of THE DEVIL IN DENIM is Maggie Jameson.

 

Less than a week to go!