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Hunter's Moon release day!
Hunter's Moon, my latest paranormal MM erotic romance, is now available for purchase at Dreamspinner Press. This is the third in the Lifting the Veil series, but it can be read as a stand-alone.
Here's the blurb:
"Lifting the Veil: Book Three—Sequel to The Wolfing Way
Ten years ago, the Great Unveiling revealed the presence of supernatural beings living on Earth, but not all humans know much about them—or care about them as anything other than a paycheck.
Kieran Knight is a freelance mercenary who hunts mythical beings for money. He abducts a man called Gabriel King, intending to turn him over to his client. But Gabriel isn’t any ordinary cowboy. He’s a powerful werewolf and the beta of his pack—and as he and Kieran soon discover, he is also Kieran’s mate.
Kieran knows next to nothing about how mating works, and he isn’t gay—but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel the chemistry heating up between them. To save Gabriel, Kieran orchestrates an escape, but his clients won’t give up their werewolf without a fight."
Enjoy!
Here's the blurb:
"Lifting the Veil: Book Three—Sequel to The Wolfing Way
Ten years ago, the Great Unveiling revealed the presence of supernatural beings living on Earth, but not all humans know much about them—or care about them as anything other than a paycheck.
Kieran Knight is a freelance mercenary who hunts mythical beings for money. He abducts a man called Gabriel King, intending to turn him over to his client. But Gabriel isn’t any ordinary cowboy. He’s a powerful werewolf and the beta of his pack—and as he and Kieran soon discover, he is also Kieran’s mate.
Kieran knows next to nothing about how mating works, and he isn’t gay—but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel the chemistry heating up between them. To save Gabriel, Kieran orchestrates an escape, but his clients won’t give up their werewolf without a fight."
Enjoy!
Release Day of Lofty Dreams of Earthbound Men and Pre-order of Love of the Wild
Lofty Dreams of Earthbound Men, my new steampunk fantasy novella, releases today from Dreamspinner Press! Yay :) Floating taverns, dangerous assassins, smoldering kisses... What's not to love?
The novella is also available from Amazon, All Romance e-Books, and Barnes & Noble. You can add it to your GR books here.
Here's the blurb:
"On the night of the summer solstice, Obadai Bashim encounters Jules Sterling, a young engineering sage. Jules is on the run from a ripper, an assassin of the Theocracy who has already killed his master. Open atrocities by rippers are unusual in County Isleshire, where freedom and acceptance reign over prejudice.
However, political instability between the Five Kingdoms and the Divine Theocracy has set the theocrats on a mission to crown religious doctrine over science, and the Sage’s Guild is number one on their eradication list. If Obadai helps, he’ll have a price on his head too, but he can’t abandon Jules.
Escaping the ripper’s clutches is not enough. Jules has a mission of his own: to repair a faulty airship inn about to crash into the fortified township of Dunbruth. Luckily, Obadai has a few magickal secrets up his sleeve."
Enjoy!
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And Love of the Wild, my upcoming paranormal werewolf tale, is also now readily available for pre-ordering by Dreamspinner Press. The actual release date is Feb 26, 2014. This long novella is the fifth in the Lifting the Veil series. Check out the book from the title link! And add it to your GR book list here.
Have fun!
The novella is also available from Amazon, All Romance e-Books, and Barnes & Noble. You can add it to your GR books here.
Here's the blurb:
"On the night of the summer solstice, Obadai Bashim encounters Jules Sterling, a young engineering sage. Jules is on the run from a ripper, an assassin of the Theocracy who has already killed his master. Open atrocities by rippers are unusual in County Isleshire, where freedom and acceptance reign over prejudice.
However, political instability between the Five Kingdoms and the Divine Theocracy has set the theocrats on a mission to crown religious doctrine over science, and the Sage’s Guild is number one on their eradication list. If Obadai helps, he’ll have a price on his head too, but he can’t abandon Jules.
Escaping the ripper’s clutches is not enough. Jules has a mission of his own: to repair a faulty airship inn about to crash into the fortified township of Dunbruth. Luckily, Obadai has a few magickal secrets up his sleeve."
Enjoy!
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And Love of the Wild, my upcoming paranormal werewolf tale, is also now readily available for pre-ordering by Dreamspinner Press. The actual release date is Feb 26, 2014. This long novella is the fifth in the Lifting the Veil series. Check out the book from the title link! And add it to your GR book list here.
Have fun!
Release Day: Love of the Wild
Today is release day of Love of the Wild, a werewolf tale about an older man and the wolf who loves to hate him. Hmm, or was it the other way around...? Read it, and find out :)
You can find it from Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Enjoy!
Here's the blurb:
"Trying to jumpstart his waning career in travel and nature journalism, Jim Faulkner jumps out of a plane in the middle of the night to get the inside scoop on werewolves in Connor’s Crossing, Wyoming. Unfortunately, he lands in a tree and gets stuck. His rescuer is a mysterious and solitary man living in a cabin in the woods. Although Jim feels an odd connection to Dakotah, Dak’s silence is all but hostile.
Jim won’t give up though—he finds ways to be around Dak, both for the bond and his belief that Dak is a great source for wilderness information. As Dak continues to dismiss him, Jim is suddenly surrounded by progenitors—the most powerful werewolves in existence—who all seem to want Jim as their mate. After one abducts him, Jim has to fight for his freedom and for his one true mate. No matter how reluctant said mate is."
I hope you enjoy the story as much as I did writing it :)
You can find it from Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Enjoy!
Here's the blurb:
"Trying to jumpstart his waning career in travel and nature journalism, Jim Faulkner jumps out of a plane in the middle of the night to get the inside scoop on werewolves in Connor’s Crossing, Wyoming. Unfortunately, he lands in a tree and gets stuck. His rescuer is a mysterious and solitary man living in a cabin in the woods. Although Jim feels an odd connection to Dakotah, Dak’s silence is all but hostile.
Jim won’t give up though—he finds ways to be around Dak, both for the bond and his belief that Dak is a great source for wilderness information. As Dak continues to dismiss him, Jim is suddenly surrounded by progenitors—the most powerful werewolves in existence—who all seem to want Jim as their mate. After one abducts him, Jim has to fight for his freedom and for his one true mate. No matter how reluctant said mate is."
I hope you enjoy the story as much as I did writing it :)
Release Day: Devil's Own and La voie du loup
Release day of Devil’s Own! This is the second book in the Wheel Mysteries series, but can be read as a standalone, if that suits your fancy.
Coming out by Dreamspinner Press, this tale's got it all: Rugged PIs and twink Wiccans, first time gay sex, murders and blood sacrifices, occult oddities and eccentrict rich folk, and much, much more.
Check it out and enjoy :)
Blurb:
"Sequel to Sparks & Drops
The Wheel Mysteries: Book Two
A month and a half into their relationship, PI Niall Valentine and his occult shopkeeper boyfriend, Gus Goodwin, are hoping for a little time alone, but they’re thrown into another murder mystery.
Niall’s client, Angelina Talbot, is certain her new husband attempted to kill her, ambushing her in their bedroom, half-naked and covered in blood. Scared out of her mind, Angelina hit him with a lamp and ran away. Florian Talbot lies dead in the bedroom, his head smashed in with a lamp—but the door is locked from the inside. Is Angelina truly an unwitting murderer, or are more sinister forces at play?
With a family of eccentrics, borderline criminals, and Satanists, the real killer could be any number of people wandering the mansion that night under the cover of darkness. The entire Talbot clan thrives in secrecy. Still unfulfilled and utterly perplexed, Niall and Gus are tasked with shedding some much-needed light on the shadowy case."
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Yesterday was also the release day of La voie du loup.
This is the French edition of The Wolfing Way, a paranormal MM with werewolves and cowboys. You can find it at Dreamspinner Press.
Blurb:
"Kris Ellis pensait que le temps des mariages arrangés appartenait au passé – mais c’était avant le Grand Dévoilement qui révéla que des créatures mythiques vivaient parmi les humains. Maintenant, un simple test médical de routine a pu déterminer que Kris avait un compagnon, un loup-garou nommé Rafael King.
Kris est fraîchement diplômé de l’université et a des projets bien établis pour sa vie future. Aucun d’entre eux n’inclut d’être lié pour toujours à quelqu’un qu’il n’a jamais rencontré. Mais lorsque Rafe l’appelle, Kris est prêt à reconsidérer sa position. Après tout, qu’est-ce qui est pire que d’avoir attendu son âme sœur pendant près de deux cents ans ?
Rafe est patient, fort et gentil, sans oublier qu’il est très attirant. Exactement comme ce que Kris avait entendu dire à propos des compagnons prédestinés, des étincelles éclatent à la seconde où ils se rencontrent. Mais Kris et Rafe sont très différents et la vie avec un loup-garou peut s’avérer dangereuse. Un combat pour l’amour en vaut-il vraiment la peine?"
Enjoy! :)
Coming out by Dreamspinner Press, this tale's got it all: Rugged PIs and twink Wiccans, first time gay sex, murders and blood sacrifices, occult oddities and eccentrict rich folk, and much, much more.
Check it out and enjoy :)
Blurb:
"Sequel to Sparks & Drops
The Wheel Mysteries: Book Two
A month and a half into their relationship, PI Niall Valentine and his occult shopkeeper boyfriend, Gus Goodwin, are hoping for a little time alone, but they’re thrown into another murder mystery.
Niall’s client, Angelina Talbot, is certain her new husband attempted to kill her, ambushing her in their bedroom, half-naked and covered in blood. Scared out of her mind, Angelina hit him with a lamp and ran away. Florian Talbot lies dead in the bedroom, his head smashed in with a lamp—but the door is locked from the inside. Is Angelina truly an unwitting murderer, or are more sinister forces at play?
With a family of eccentrics, borderline criminals, and Satanists, the real killer could be any number of people wandering the mansion that night under the cover of darkness. The entire Talbot clan thrives in secrecy. Still unfulfilled and utterly perplexed, Niall and Gus are tasked with shedding some much-needed light on the shadowy case."
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Yesterday was also the release day of La voie du loup.
This is the French edition of The Wolfing Way, a paranormal MM with werewolves and cowboys. You can find it at Dreamspinner Press.
Blurb:
"Kris Ellis pensait que le temps des mariages arrangés appartenait au passé – mais c’était avant le Grand Dévoilement qui révéla que des créatures mythiques vivaient parmi les humains. Maintenant, un simple test médical de routine a pu déterminer que Kris avait un compagnon, un loup-garou nommé Rafael King.
Kris est fraîchement diplômé de l’université et a des projets bien établis pour sa vie future. Aucun d’entre eux n’inclut d’être lié pour toujours à quelqu’un qu’il n’a jamais rencontré. Mais lorsque Rafe l’appelle, Kris est prêt à reconsidérer sa position. Après tout, qu’est-ce qui est pire que d’avoir attendu son âme sœur pendant près de deux cents ans ?
Rafe est patient, fort et gentil, sans oublier qu’il est très attirant. Exactement comme ce que Kris avait entendu dire à propos des compagnons prédestinés, des étincelles éclatent à la seconde où ils se rencontrent. Mais Kris et Rafe sont très différents et la vie avec un loup-garou peut s’avérer dangereuse. Un combat pour l’amour en vaut-il vraiment la peine?"
Enjoy! :)
Guest Post: Anna Butler
JUST GLUE SOME GEARS ON IT…
A couple of years ago I was at a big fan convention in Houston, invited there to run a writer’s workshop and a panel. I had a great time. One of the highlights was wandering around the convention centre admiring all the people who were *far* braver than I was, and who had turned up in costume. Darth Vader was there, with a few storm troopers as escorts. There were old school BSG Cylons, innumerable robots and more than one weeping angel from Doctor Who (they were just spooky), not to mention the comic book heroes and heroines scattered about.
The ones that caught my eye were the ones cosplaying in steampunk garb: jewel-coloured dresses and tight corsetry, top hats and goggles, one man in a romanticised military uniform (it looked very Ruritanian!) with his left arm encased in a copper and brass frame to mimic a robotic prosthetic. They were just brilliant.
So when I was looking for something that was a change of pace when I’d just finished drafting the second Shield book, I thought about the coffee shop novella, where a young man falls for an archaeologist working at the British Museum, that had been lurking unfinished on my hard drive. But heigh ho, how many contemporary coffee shop m/m romances are out there? What could I do with it to make it different?
And that’s where I remembered those wonderful cosplayers. I could make it a steampunk setting. Not so much about the aesthetics, so not all goggles and corsets, but a world where the city is powered by luminiferous aether, and aeroships and phlogiston guns are just part of the scenery. The young man who owns the coffeehouse might have been, say, a pilot in Queen Victoria’s Aero Corps and served in the Boer War, and the archaeologist he falls for would be an Aegyptology specialist. There would have to be some sort of adventure going on there and why not have it all mixed up with dicey politics and an odd system of government where a privileged few rules everything… Houses, say, based on family alliances and bonds, with an oligarchy in power.
And so the steampunk, coffeehouse, adventure/mystery m/m romance was born.
I probably made a hundred mistakes that an expert on steampunk would laugh at, but I hope that I avoided the worst sort of “just glue some gears on it and call it steampunk” mentality. I might have done just that, if my researches hadn’t led me to this wonderful video from Sir Reginald PikeDevant. He steered me in the right direction.
Here’s his advice, useful for every aspiring steampunker. Do enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE...
BLURB
When Captain Rafe Lancaster is invalided out of the Britannic Imperium’s Aero Corps after crashing his aerofighter during the Second Boer War, his eyesight is damaged permanently, and his career as a fighter pilot is over. Returning to Londinium in late November 1899, he’s lost the skies he loved, has no place in a society ruled by an elite oligarchy of powerful Houses, and is hard up, homeless, and in desperate need of a new direction in life.
Everything changes when he buys a coffeehouse near the Britannic Imperium Museum in Bloomsbury, the haunt of Aegyptologists. For the first time in years, Rafe is free to be himself. In a city powered by luminiferous aether and phlogiston, and where powerful men use House assassins to target their rivals, Rafe must navigate dangerous politics, deal with a jealous and possessive ex-lover, learn to make the best coffee in Londinium, and fend off murder and kidnap attempts before he can find happiness with the man he loves.
(Cover by Reese Dante)
EXCERPT
The Boers had smuggled arms shipments though Germany and the Americas. They had cannons. Not popguns, but real laser-guided cannons, throwing out flechettes filled with phlogiston in a mercurial mix with aether and petroleum distillate. They didn’t hit very much, of course. To hit something moving as fast as an aerofighter takes skill and training. But they were enthusiastic about trying, and, heaven knows, tearing around the sky and throwing my ship into one maneuver after another while flechettes flashed past or exploded in a shower of sapphire and olive green sparks, was thrilling. Like flying through fireworks. Sometimes I had the little fighter standing on her nose or flipped over and flying upside down. Pure exhilaration.
But that particular day was a little too exhilarating. I’d dodged through one barrage, dropping a charge right on the heads of a gun emplacement, when another artillery unit got in a lucky shot. The shell glanced against the side of the aether chamber powering my fighter and cracked it open, sending me spinning out of the sky.
I had no warning. A loud bang, a flash of light, and the rudder wheel jerked out of my hands. The ship plummeted, venting aether and steam. I had been an aeronaut for almost ten years, but all my experience and skill didn’t prevent that instant where a man is too dazed and astonished to do anything but react. I yelled something most definitely unfit for the ears of the ladies, and my heart felt as if it were jumping right out of my chest.
Shock—it happens to the best of us.
It barely lasted a second. I grabbed the wheel and fought to get her nose up and keep it there.
Up you come. Up you damn well come!
The Lancaster luck was still with me. The laser shell hadn’t touched the petroleum distillate tanks or the phlogiston augmenter pipes. A little more of the famous luck… and yes! Just enough power in the pipes to trickle through to the engines. I’d get out of this mess. It might be a tight squeeze, but I’d get out of it.
As soon as I got her level again, I pulled in a big calming breath and got her limping back south on half-power. I wish I could say I straightened my shoulders and stared out of the cockpit window with the unwavering gaze, set chin, and steely resolve the illustrated newspapers employ to depict their heroes. But the truth is, I slumped in the seat and rested my head against the control panel while indulging in some heartfelt and inventive profanity. Very inventive profanity, if I do say so myself. Oddly, my breathing was hard and fast. Anyone hearing it would have thought I’d been running.
But there wasn’t time to indulge myself for long. I had to find somewhere to set the bird down, away from the Boers and close to help, before she fell out of the sky. I had to keep an eye on the instruments, of course, to make sure the phlogiston didn’t dip below the red line—that would mean serious, serious trouble—but mostly I stared out through the transparent aluminum canopy, searching the terrain ahead for somewhere safe to land.
My senior lieutenant, Ingram, brought his aeroship alongside mine. He was gesturing wildly through the clear canopy, but I sent him back with a sharp order to take command. Really, what was the boy thinking? He should be looking after my aeronauts, not flying alongside me waving like a coy village maiden spotting her errant lover. It wasn’t as if he could actually do anything, anyway, but watch me go down. He grimaced, waggled his wings, and curved away into a sky of the clearest, purest blue. Not a cloud in it but the man-made ones of smoke and electrified aether, shot through with dark actinic rays.
WHERE TO BUY THE GILDED SCARAB
Dreamspinner as an ebook and in paperback.
From an Amazon near you (Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk links for starters)
All Romance as an ebook
GIVEAWAY
Comment here and get an entry in a rafflecopter to win an Amazon gift card (drawn when the blog tour is over at the end of March).
a Rafflecopter giveaway
In addition, one commentator chosen at complete close-eyes-stick-a-pin-in-it random will get a little pack of Gilded Scarab loot and a free copy of FlashWired (a gay mainstream sci-fi novella).
ABOUT ANNA
Anna Butler was a communications specialist for many years, working in UK government departments on everything from marketing employment schemes to running an internal TV service. She now spends her time indulging her love of old-school science fiction. She lives in the ethnic and cultural melting pot of East London with her husband and the Deputy Editor, aka Molly the cockapoo.
Find Anna:
Website and Blog
Facebook
The Butler’s Pantry (Facebook Group)
Pinterest
Twitter
A couple of years ago I was at a big fan convention in Houston, invited there to run a writer’s workshop and a panel. I had a great time. One of the highlights was wandering around the convention centre admiring all the people who were *far* braver than I was, and who had turned up in costume. Darth Vader was there, with a few storm troopers as escorts. There were old school BSG Cylons, innumerable robots and more than one weeping angel from Doctor Who (they were just spooky), not to mention the comic book heroes and heroines scattered about.
The ones that caught my eye were the ones cosplaying in steampunk garb: jewel-coloured dresses and tight corsetry, top hats and goggles, one man in a romanticised military uniform (it looked very Ruritanian!) with his left arm encased in a copper and brass frame to mimic a robotic prosthetic. They were just brilliant.
So when I was looking for something that was a change of pace when I’d just finished drafting the second Shield book, I thought about the coffee shop novella, where a young man falls for an archaeologist working at the British Museum, that had been lurking unfinished on my hard drive. But heigh ho, how many contemporary coffee shop m/m romances are out there? What could I do with it to make it different?
And that’s where I remembered those wonderful cosplayers. I could make it a steampunk setting. Not so much about the aesthetics, so not all goggles and corsets, but a world where the city is powered by luminiferous aether, and aeroships and phlogiston guns are just part of the scenery. The young man who owns the coffeehouse might have been, say, a pilot in Queen Victoria’s Aero Corps and served in the Boer War, and the archaeologist he falls for would be an Aegyptology specialist. There would have to be some sort of adventure going on there and why not have it all mixed up with dicey politics and an odd system of government where a privileged few rules everything… Houses, say, based on family alliances and bonds, with an oligarchy in power.
And so the steampunk, coffeehouse, adventure/mystery m/m romance was born.
I probably made a hundred mistakes that an expert on steampunk would laugh at, but I hope that I avoided the worst sort of “just glue some gears on it and call it steampunk” mentality. I might have done just that, if my researches hadn’t led me to this wonderful video from Sir Reginald PikeDevant. He steered me in the right direction.
Here’s his advice, useful for every aspiring steampunker. Do enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE...
BLURB
When Captain Rafe Lancaster is invalided out of the Britannic Imperium’s Aero Corps after crashing his aerofighter during the Second Boer War, his eyesight is damaged permanently, and his career as a fighter pilot is over. Returning to Londinium in late November 1899, he’s lost the skies he loved, has no place in a society ruled by an elite oligarchy of powerful Houses, and is hard up, homeless, and in desperate need of a new direction in life.
Everything changes when he buys a coffeehouse near the Britannic Imperium Museum in Bloomsbury, the haunt of Aegyptologists. For the first time in years, Rafe is free to be himself. In a city powered by luminiferous aether and phlogiston, and where powerful men use House assassins to target their rivals, Rafe must navigate dangerous politics, deal with a jealous and possessive ex-lover, learn to make the best coffee in Londinium, and fend off murder and kidnap attempts before he can find happiness with the man he loves.
(Cover by Reese Dante)
EXCERPT
The Boers had smuggled arms shipments though Germany and the Americas. They had cannons. Not popguns, but real laser-guided cannons, throwing out flechettes filled with phlogiston in a mercurial mix with aether and petroleum distillate. They didn’t hit very much, of course. To hit something moving as fast as an aerofighter takes skill and training. But they were enthusiastic about trying, and, heaven knows, tearing around the sky and throwing my ship into one maneuver after another while flechettes flashed past or exploded in a shower of sapphire and olive green sparks, was thrilling. Like flying through fireworks. Sometimes I had the little fighter standing on her nose or flipped over and flying upside down. Pure exhilaration.
But that particular day was a little too exhilarating. I’d dodged through one barrage, dropping a charge right on the heads of a gun emplacement, when another artillery unit got in a lucky shot. The shell glanced against the side of the aether chamber powering my fighter and cracked it open, sending me spinning out of the sky.
I had no warning. A loud bang, a flash of light, and the rudder wheel jerked out of my hands. The ship plummeted, venting aether and steam. I had been an aeronaut for almost ten years, but all my experience and skill didn’t prevent that instant where a man is too dazed and astonished to do anything but react. I yelled something most definitely unfit for the ears of the ladies, and my heart felt as if it were jumping right out of my chest.
Shock—it happens to the best of us.
It barely lasted a second. I grabbed the wheel and fought to get her nose up and keep it there.
Up you come. Up you damn well come!
The Lancaster luck was still with me. The laser shell hadn’t touched the petroleum distillate tanks or the phlogiston augmenter pipes. A little more of the famous luck… and yes! Just enough power in the pipes to trickle through to the engines. I’d get out of this mess. It might be a tight squeeze, but I’d get out of it.
As soon as I got her level again, I pulled in a big calming breath and got her limping back south on half-power. I wish I could say I straightened my shoulders and stared out of the cockpit window with the unwavering gaze, set chin, and steely resolve the illustrated newspapers employ to depict their heroes. But the truth is, I slumped in the seat and rested my head against the control panel while indulging in some heartfelt and inventive profanity. Very inventive profanity, if I do say so myself. Oddly, my breathing was hard and fast. Anyone hearing it would have thought I’d been running.
But there wasn’t time to indulge myself for long. I had to find somewhere to set the bird down, away from the Boers and close to help, before she fell out of the sky. I had to keep an eye on the instruments, of course, to make sure the phlogiston didn’t dip below the red line—that would mean serious, serious trouble—but mostly I stared out through the transparent aluminum canopy, searching the terrain ahead for somewhere safe to land.
My senior lieutenant, Ingram, brought his aeroship alongside mine. He was gesturing wildly through the clear canopy, but I sent him back with a sharp order to take command. Really, what was the boy thinking? He should be looking after my aeronauts, not flying alongside me waving like a coy village maiden spotting her errant lover. It wasn’t as if he could actually do anything, anyway, but watch me go down. He grimaced, waggled his wings, and curved away into a sky of the clearest, purest blue. Not a cloud in it but the man-made ones of smoke and electrified aether, shot through with dark actinic rays.
WHERE TO BUY THE GILDED SCARAB
Dreamspinner as an ebook and in paperback.
From an Amazon near you (Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk links for starters)
All Romance as an ebook
GIVEAWAY
Comment here and get an entry in a rafflecopter to win an Amazon gift card (drawn when the blog tour is over at the end of March).
a Rafflecopter giveaway
In addition, one commentator chosen at complete close-eyes-stick-a-pin-in-it random will get a little pack of Gilded Scarab loot and a free copy of FlashWired (a gay mainstream sci-fi novella).
ABOUT ANNA
Anna Butler was a communications specialist for many years, working in UK government departments on everything from marketing employment schemes to running an internal TV service. She now spends her time indulging her love of old-school science fiction. She lives in the ethnic and cultural melting pot of East London with her husband and the Deputy Editor, aka Molly the cockapoo.
Find Anna:
Website and Blog
The Butler’s Pantry (Facebook Group)
Cover Reveal and Pre-Order: Fireworks & Wild Cards
Fireworks & Wild Cards
is my upcoming murder mystery and it's up on the Coming soon page at Dreamspinner Press and thus ready for pre-orders. This story will come out in ebook and paperback formats on June 1, 2015. Check it out :)
Here's the blurb:
"When Gus Goodwin’s friend and mentor, Juliette Hayes, asks him to find out who’s stealing small sums from the cashbox of her Moonlight Haven Coven, Gus agrees. What’s the worst that could happen? They catch a small-time thief and, with any luck, retrieve a few bucks. Gus enlists the help of his boyfriend, PI Niall Valentine, and Niall’s retired police officer father, Owain, to go undercover and solve the mystery.
On the night of the next full moon ritual, however, the coven is struck with a fatal blow.
Now Gus and Niall face more than a murder mystery. The coven is torn apart, and along comes an eccentric psychic and Tarot master—plus a familiar face both Gus and Niall had hoped was long gone. As fireworks ignite and wild cards are spread, Gus and Niall have their work cut out for them."
Enjoy!
Here's the blurb:
"When Gus Goodwin’s friend and mentor, Juliette Hayes, asks him to find out who’s stealing small sums from the cashbox of her Moonlight Haven Coven, Gus agrees. What’s the worst that could happen? They catch a small-time thief and, with any luck, retrieve a few bucks. Gus enlists the help of his boyfriend, PI Niall Valentine, and Niall’s retired police officer father, Owain, to go undercover and solve the mystery.
On the night of the next full moon ritual, however, the coven is struck with a fatal blow.
Now Gus and Niall face more than a murder mystery. The coven is torn apart, and along comes an eccentric psychic and Tarot master—plus a familiar face both Gus and Niall had hoped was long gone. As fireworks ignite and wild cards are spread, Gus and Niall have their work cut out for them."
Enjoy!
Cover Reveal and Pre-Order: Marshaling His Cowboy
MARSHALING HIS COWBOY, my contemporary cowboy story with action, murder, and BDSM, is now readily available for pre-order in e-book formats by Siren Publishing. The actual release date is June 9, 2015.
10% off! Check it out and enjoy!
Here's the blurb:
"DEA agent Luke Daugherty is reluctant to getting sent undercover to Snow Lake, a small town in Wyoming. But he accepts his job. Based on a nameless tip, his task is to find out if there are drug smugglers operating in the area.
Posing as a ranch hand on Smoking Gulch Ranch, Luke begins his assignment. On the ranch he meets Little Eli Townsend, who is one of cowboys there—and secretly a Dom at the local BDSM club, Stake. Sexually compatible, the two men tumble into bed before they’ve so much as said hello.
Before Luke learns anything useful, a brutal murder rocks the sleepy town. Luke is a professional liar and Eli harbors a secret of his own. Can the agent and the cowboy trust each other and work together long enough to solve the murder? Or will they get themselves killed first?"
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Consensual BDSM Cowboy Romance, M/M, sex toys, HEA]
10% off! Check it out and enjoy!
Here's the blurb:
"DEA agent Luke Daugherty is reluctant to getting sent undercover to Snow Lake, a small town in Wyoming. But he accepts his job. Based on a nameless tip, his task is to find out if there are drug smugglers operating in the area.
Posing as a ranch hand on Smoking Gulch Ranch, Luke begins his assignment. On the ranch he meets Little Eli Townsend, who is one of cowboys there—and secretly a Dom at the local BDSM club, Stake. Sexually compatible, the two men tumble into bed before they’ve so much as said hello.
Before Luke learns anything useful, a brutal murder rocks the sleepy town. Luke is a professional liar and Eli harbors a secret of his own. Can the agent and the cowboy trust each other and work together long enough to solve the murder? Or will they get themselves killed first?"
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Consensual BDSM Cowboy Romance, M/M, sex toys, HEA]
Release Day: Fireworks & Wild Cards
RELEASE DAY!
FIREWORKS & WILD CARDS
comes out today by Dreamspinner Press.
Here's the blurb:
"When Gus Goodwin’s friend and mentor, Juliette Hayes, asks him to find out who’s stealing small sums from the cashbox of her Moonlight Haven Coven, Gus agrees. What’s the worst that could happen? They catch a small-time thief and, with any luck, retrieve a few bucks. Gus enlists the help of his boyfriend, PI Niall Valentine, and Niall’s retired police officer father, Owain, to go undercover and solve the mystery.
On the night of the next full moon ritual, however, the coven is struck with a fatal blow.
Now Gus and Niall face more than a murder mystery. The coven is torn apart, and along comes an eccentric psychic and Tarot master—plus a familiar face both Gus and Niall had hoped was long gone. As fireworks ignite and wild cards are spread, Gus and Niall have their work cut out for them."
The first two stories in the series are also available in paperback format, THE WHEEL MYSTERIES . Now you can get the whole, thus far three-book series, in one by Dreamspinner Press.
Here's their blurb:
"Sparks & Drops
Magic is in the air when Gus Goodwin, a pagan shopkeeper, meets a Niall Valentine, a mysterious PI investigating the disappearance of a local witch. What starts out as harmless flirting and information gathering soon turns into a partnership, with both men determined to solve the case.
Bodies pile up as someone uses fire and water to kill witches, and it is up to Niall and Gus to find out what’s going on. But when their friendship blossoms into something else, the unknown dangers ahead become even more frightening. If they can’t solve the murders soon, they’re going to get themselves killed.
Devil’s Own
PI Niall Valentine and his occult shopkeeper boyfriend, Gus Goodwin, are thrown into another murder mystery.
Niall’s client, Angelina Talbot, believes her husband attempted to kill her. Terrified, Angelina hit him with a lamp and ran. Florian Talbot lies dead in their bedroom, his head smashed in—but the door is locked from the inside. Is Angelina an unwitting murderer, or are more sinister forces at play?
With a family of eccentrics, borderline criminals, and Satanists, the killer could be any number of people wandering the mansion that night. The Talbot clan thrives in secrecy, and Niall and Gus must shed some light on the shadowy case."
Check them out and enjoy :)
Here's the blurb:
"When Gus Goodwin’s friend and mentor, Juliette Hayes, asks him to find out who’s stealing small sums from the cashbox of her Moonlight Haven Coven, Gus agrees. What’s the worst that could happen? They catch a small-time thief and, with any luck, retrieve a few bucks. Gus enlists the help of his boyfriend, PI Niall Valentine, and Niall’s retired police officer father, Owain, to go undercover and solve the mystery.
On the night of the next full moon ritual, however, the coven is struck with a fatal blow.
Now Gus and Niall face more than a murder mystery. The coven is torn apart, and along comes an eccentric psychic and Tarot master—plus a familiar face both Gus and Niall had hoped was long gone. As fireworks ignite and wild cards are spread, Gus and Niall have their work cut out for them."
The first two stories in the series are also available in paperback format, THE WHEEL MYSTERIES . Now you can get the whole, thus far three-book series, in one by Dreamspinner Press.
Here's their blurb:
"Sparks & Drops
Magic is in the air when Gus Goodwin, a pagan shopkeeper, meets a Niall Valentine, a mysterious PI investigating the disappearance of a local witch. What starts out as harmless flirting and information gathering soon turns into a partnership, with both men determined to solve the case.
Bodies pile up as someone uses fire and water to kill witches, and it is up to Niall and Gus to find out what’s going on. But when their friendship blossoms into something else, the unknown dangers ahead become even more frightening. If they can’t solve the murders soon, they’re going to get themselves killed.
Devil’s Own
PI Niall Valentine and his occult shopkeeper boyfriend, Gus Goodwin, are thrown into another murder mystery.
Niall’s client, Angelina Talbot, believes her husband attempted to kill her. Terrified, Angelina hit him with a lamp and ran. Florian Talbot lies dead in their bedroom, his head smashed in—but the door is locked from the inside. Is Angelina an unwitting murderer, or are more sinister forces at play?
With a family of eccentrics, borderline criminals, and Satanists, the killer could be any number of people wandering the mansion that night. The Talbot clan thrives in secrecy, and Niall and Gus must shed some light on the shadowy case."
Check them out and enjoy :)
Release Day: Marshaling His Cowboy
Today is the release day of
Marshaling His Cowboy
by Siren Publishing. The story is a contemporary cowboy tale with action, murder, and BDSM.
Though part of the Cowboys of Snow Lake series, this can be read as a standalone.
Note: This book is on sale, 10% off, for another week!
Here's the blurb:
"DEA agent Luke Daugherty is reluctant to getting sent undercover to Snow Lake, a small town in Wyoming. But he accepts his job. Based on a nameless tip, his task is to find out if there are drug smugglers operating in the area.
Posing as a ranch hand on Smoking Gulch Ranch, Luke begins his assignment. On the ranch he meets Little Eli Townsend, who is one of cowboys there—and secretly a Dom at the local BDSM club, Stake. Sexually compatible, the two men tumble into bed before they’ve so much as said hello.
Before Luke learns anything useful, a brutal murder rocks the sleepy town. Luke is a professional liar and Eli harbors a secret of his own. Can the agent and the cowboy trust each other and work together long enough to solve the murder? Or will they get themselves killed first?
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Consensual BDSM Cowboy Romance, M/M, sex toys, HEA]"
Check it out and enjoy :)
Though part of the Cowboys of Snow Lake series, this can be read as a standalone.
Note: This book is on sale, 10% off, for another week!
Here's the blurb:
"DEA agent Luke Daugherty is reluctant to getting sent undercover to Snow Lake, a small town in Wyoming. But he accepts his job. Based on a nameless tip, his task is to find out if there are drug smugglers operating in the area.
Posing as a ranch hand on Smoking Gulch Ranch, Luke begins his assignment. On the ranch he meets Little Eli Townsend, who is one of cowboys there—and secretly a Dom at the local BDSM club, Stake. Sexually compatible, the two men tumble into bed before they’ve so much as said hello.
Before Luke learns anything useful, a brutal murder rocks the sleepy town. Luke is a professional liar and Eli harbors a secret of his own. Can the agent and the cowboy trust each other and work together long enough to solve the murder? Or will they get themselves killed first?
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Consensual BDSM Cowboy Romance, M/M, sex toys, HEA]"
Check it out and enjoy :)
Release Day: La luna del cacciatore
Today comes out
La luna del cacciatore
which is the Italian translation of Hunter's Moon. The book is available from Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, as well as other retailers.
Here's the blurb:
"Seguito di Il desiderio del genio
Serie Sollevando il Velo. Libro 3
Dieci anni fa, la Grande Rivelazione ha mostrato la presenza sulla Terra di creature sovrannaturali, ma non sono in tanti a sapere molto su di loro o a dare loro molta importanza, a parte quando si tratta di ricevere uno stipendio.
Kieran Knight è un mercenario che dà la caccia alle creature mitologiche per denaro. La sua missione è rapire un certo Gabriel King per portarlo dal suo cliente. Ma il suo obiettivo non è un semplice cowboy: è un potente licantropo e il beta del suo branco e, come scopriranno presto, Gabriel e Kieran sono compagni.
Kieran non sa praticamente nulla di come funzioni un accoppiamento, e non è neppure gay, ma ciò non vuol dire che non senta l’attrazione bollente che c’è tra lui e l’altro uomo. Per salvare Gabriel, mette in atto un piano di fuga, ma i suoi clienti non lasceranno andare il loro licantropo senza lottare."
Enjoy & Godere :)
Here's the blurb:
"Seguito di Il desiderio del genio
Serie Sollevando il Velo. Libro 3
Dieci anni fa, la Grande Rivelazione ha mostrato la presenza sulla Terra di creature sovrannaturali, ma non sono in tanti a sapere molto su di loro o a dare loro molta importanza, a parte quando si tratta di ricevere uno stipendio.
Kieran Knight è un mercenario che dà la caccia alle creature mitologiche per denaro. La sua missione è rapire un certo Gabriel King per portarlo dal suo cliente. Ma il suo obiettivo non è un semplice cowboy: è un potente licantropo e il beta del suo branco e, come scopriranno presto, Gabriel e Kieran sono compagni.
Kieran non sa praticamente nulla di come funzioni un accoppiamento, e non è neppure gay, ma ciò non vuol dire che non senta l’attrazione bollente che c’è tra lui e l’altro uomo. Per salvare Gabriel, mette in atto un piano di fuga, ma i suoi clienti non lasceranno andare il loro licantropo senza lottare."
Enjoy & Godere :)
