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Silver Publishing: December Promo Scavenger Hunt

December Promo Scavenger Hunt With Free Holiday Story Book Give Away and Site Wide Discount Code Scramble!

I’m participating in a Promo Scavenger Hunt with Silver this season, so read on for your chance to win cool e-book discounts and stuff!

Happy holidays! Silver Publishing wants to give our fans more than 60 chances to win either a free Holiday Story from our 25 Days of Christmas Releases or for a lucky random five 20% off codes! And if you are really dedicated there is a Word Scramble inclu...

Dungeons? Check. Dragons? Pending.

I'm so excited to finally get to share this one with you. Eighteen months in the making, and What Happens in the Tavern Stays in the Tavern from Circlet Press is coming out next week! I got an email last week giving us fellow anthology authors very little warning with a happy surprise.



I'm trying not to read into it too much, but I'm just going to say that my story is first in the anthology of excellent adventuretime/sexytime stories.

Encounter at the Lonely Dragon

Gavin Thorne is returning to the questing life under duress of a failing economy, and he's not happy about it. But work is work, and Gavin figures getting back into professional adventuring is something he can handle. What he may not be ready to handle is sharing a loft with an ex-lover and having to confront all the pent up feelings that go with it, including the lingering sense of betrayal of a quest gone wrong.

It's very D&D inspired, and Gavin is a big grumpy idiot, but I kind of love it to death. I hope, when this long awaited collection finally arrives, you will to. It's out on the 27th: don't think I won't remind you.

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Dungeons? Check. Dragons? Pending.

I’m so excited to finally get to share this one with you. Eighteen months in the making, and What Happens in the Tavern Stays in the Tavern from Circlet Press is finally here! I got an email last week giving us fellow anthology authors very little warning with a happy surprise.

I’m trying not to read into it too much, but I’m just going to say that my story is first in the anthology of excellent adventuretime/sexytime stories.

Encounter at the Lonely Dragon

Gavin Thorne is returning to the quest...

What Happens at the Tavern Stays at the Tavern – Circlet Press

‘Encounter at the Lonely Dragon’ inWhat Happens at the Tavern…fromCirclet Press

Since Tolkien’s time, many authors have taken readers along on elaborate treks through fantastic worlds. In What Happens at the Tavern Stays at the Tavern, we asked writers to tackle the pauses and interstices in a fantasy quest. What kinds of steamy adventures happen behind the scenes, when our heroes and heroines are trekking along their journey?

Gavin Thorne is returning to the questing life under duress of a fai...

Silver Publishing: December Promo Scavenger Hunt

December Promo Scavenger Hunt With Free Holiday Story Book Give Away and Site Wide Discount Code Scramble!

I'm participating in a Promo Scavenger Hunt with Silver this season, so read on for your chance to win cool e-book discounts and stuff!

( Happy Holidays! )

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New Release: Busy Doing Nothing! M/M Summer Romance

It's here! There was a week or so there in June that I was worried it wasn't going to come together in time (completely my fault), but it's here!

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Busy Doing Nothing
by Elinor Gray
(novella length: 141 pages, ~28,000 words)

Available now from Silver Publishing!

Jake is overqualified for scooping ice cream, but what better way to spend the summer before senior year than living at the beach with his best friends and working on the boardwalk? Plenty of sun and surf, not to mention Michael, the hot lifeguard who comes to the stand to flirt.

When he invites Jake to a party, Michael sparks a hot, playful fling that Jake almost can't believe is happening to him. But summer has to end, and Jake has a policy against long-distance relationships. He breaks up with Michael and heads back to college.

Will Jake realize how special Michael is before he slips away for good?

This was a novella borne of my love of the beach house my grandfather owns on the Eastern Shore. I used to go down every summer for at least a week, and that house owns such a big piece of my heart. Now, I can get down there maybe one weekend a year, but I'm hoping as my transition out of school life and into real life, I'll be able to get there more often. Ahh, the Atlantic.

And now, the important bit. Leave me a comment if you want a chance to win a copy of this e-book! The drawing will be open until August 11th at midnight (EST).

\o/ BEACH.

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New Release: Busy Doing Nothing! M/M Summer Romance

It’s here! There was a week or so there in June that I was worried it wasn’t going to come together in time (completely my fault), but it’s here!

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Busy Doing Nothing

by Elinor Gray

(novella length: 141 pages, ~28,000 words)

Available now from Silver Publishing!

Jake is overqualified for scooping ice cream, but what better way to spend the summer before senior year than living at the beach with his best friends and working on the boardwalk? Plenty of sun and surf, not to mention Michael, the hot...

Boys of Summer

I've got another one for you. This month I edited and submitted a story for Silver Publishing's special call: Boys of Summer. Not a week later, I had a contract in my inbox! Hooray!

This self-indulgent beach story, clocking in around 25,500 words, will be coming out with the others in the collection in July 28th, 2012. I was wrong about original art all for me. :P

Jake is overqualified for scooping ice cream, but he can't imagine a better way to spend his last summer before senior year than living in a tiny bungalow at the beach with his two best friends and working on the boardwalk. The sun is shining, the ocean is cold, and there's a hot lifeguard, Michael, that comes to the stand every other day to flirt. When he invites Jake and his friends to a house party, Michael sparks a hot, playful summer fling that Jake almost can't believe is happening to him. But the summer has to end sometime, and Jake has a policy against long distance relationships. He breaks it off with Michael, goes back to school to finish his college career, and doesn't realize until Christmas how serious they really were. Just friends isn't going to cut it. Can Jake get their summer romance afloat again before its too late, or will Michael always be the one that got away?

\o/

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Dreamspinner's 5th Anniversary!

Dreamspinner's been having a 5th Anniversary celebration for the past couple weeks, giving discounts on their authors by year of signing. They're finally got to me this week!

My stories are 20% off right now. That's Experimental Repeatability and the Men of Steel anthology, for your reading pleasure.

Enjoy!

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Men of Steel winners!

Thank you guys all so much for your support. ♥_♥ You're all awesome.

But I only had one copy of the book! And the random number generator gave me #5, which was juice817 !

And as a bonus, I drew a second name (#8) for an e-book version, which was deirdre_c !

Congrats, friends, and thank you all again for leaving comments. It means a ton to me.

If you want to buy the ridiculous thing after all, you can do that here.

xoxo

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