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Today in the Comfy Chair – Tara Lain

My guest today is award winning author Tara Lain who writes some of the quirkiest and probably the prettiest heroes out there. She also has a sure hand with the world building for fantasy with two great titles to her credit.

Welcome Tara. I hope you find my chair really comfy! Now, on to the questions.

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Elin: Although you are justly well known for your M/M romances, I know that you also write M/F fiction. Which came first and do you find that the two genres require a difference in how you st...

Six Sentence Sunday

Here we go again with Six Sentence Sunday, a weekly event where up to 200 authors share six sentences of their work, published, unpublished, self-published and experimental works in progress.

I don’t actually have many coherent bits of A Fierce Reaping left to share unless I write some more. As you may have guessed from last weeks post, the wood gathering expedition didn’t end well and to work off his troop’s energy, Cynon decreed that they should take another little trip.

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They rode on thr...

Free fiction

Here is the my entry for the Speak Its Name advent calendar, a daily event with prizes and a quiz leading to a bigger prize. I thought I would post it here, just because I had such fun writing it.

Frost On The Thorn

The balnea in Massilia was well appointed with all the usual facilities. Quintus had had his swim, a rub down, a massage from one of the bath house slaves whose skills could have graced any of the great thermae in Rome, and now he was waiting for his own personal attendant to bring...

New release – On A Lee Shore

Here it is then! And once I’ve got the obligatory promotion posts done I can get back to normal

On A Lee Shore

Published 14th December, 2012 from Etopia Press

Blurb:

“Give me a reason to let you live…”

Beached after losing his ship and crew, and with England finally at peace, Lt Christopher Penrose will take whatever work he can get. A valet? Why not? Escorting an elderly diplomat to the Leeward Islands seems like an easy job, but when their ship is boarded by pirates, Kit’s world is turned upsi...

Preliminary squee

Tomorrow I’m going to have to be all professional about it so I’m allowing myself a yelp or two today because I’ve just got my formatted copies of On A Lee Shore. I wasn’t sure whether it would happen or not because I didn’t get the proofs until Monday evening and 110K is a hellacious amount to read aloud! But – I did it and the book is formatted into all the different necessary files and ready to go. I just need a blurb to go with it!

Over the next few days I’ll be visiting various blogs and...

Six Sentence Sunday

Time for another dose of Six Sentence Sunday! Click herefor a list of all participating authors and a plethora – I just love that word – of styles of writing and genres of work. Sci-fi, horror, inspirational works, sweet and fluffy romance, raunchy detectives, sexually frustrated werewolves, ldies of all shape, sizes and states of undress, and some really delectable blokes too.

I forgot to sign up last week so posted a BIG excerpt of my WIP, A Fierce Reaping, as a penance but this week I’m goi...

Today in the Comfy Chair – April Angel AND Milly Taiden

Today in the Comfy Chair you have two for the price of one – not just fellow Etopia author April Angel but her close compatriot, and fellow Etopia author, Milly Taiden.

Milly writes paranormal heterosexual romances – Sharp Change, Fate’s Wish and soon-to-be-released Wynter’ Captive. April writes steamy erotic contemporary heterosexualromances – Mr Buff and her most recent release Stranded Temptation.

Both are selling well and both are one and the same person!

Thanks, April and/or Milly, for agre...

*facepalm* I forgot Six Sunday again.

Honestly, it’s not as though there’s a narrow window of opportunity, either. But I’ve got a decent excuse this week in that I’m full of cold and, an unrelated problem, am seeing double with my right eye. There’s something VERY unpleasant about not being able to see properly. Very unpleasant and very scary when one relies on ones eyes as a reader, writer, reviewer, artist and general admin dogsbody at work. Yuk. I hope it sorts itself out soon.

Meanwhile, if you’ve come here for a bit of fictio...

Free Book!

For one day only – TODAY – “Tea and Crumpet” is free from JMS Books!. Well woth the effort of clicking! There are some cracking stories in the collection.

Tea and Crumpet

Raise your rainbow umbrellas high and celebrate!

Available now in paperback and ebook fromJMS Booksand from many other ebook retailers.

Discover an enchanting, entertaining and thought-provoking window into what it means to be queer in Britain, past and present. All these stories reflect the iconic sights and national character...

Pirates!

Or rather, one pirate!

I have the final version of the cover for “On A Lee Shore”, designed by Mina Carter!

No fixed release date yet and no official blurb but here’s what I put on my CAM form:

“Give me a reason to let you live.”

Beached after losing his ship and crew and with England finally at peace, Lt Christopher Penrose will take whatever work he can get. A valet? Why not? Escorting an elderly diplomat to the Leeward Islands seems like an easy job until the morning their ship is attacked by...