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Storm Moon Press – Earth Day Celebration

 

As an Earth Day Celebration, Storm Moon Press has released 7 different free stories. One of them is ours – The Carnivorous Vegan

BLURB:

Aiden is not only a vegan, but also into freeganism. Late at night, he often goes off to scavenge the bins of a local supermarket. Unfortunately, this is not his lucky night, and he falls prey to the worst predator of all–the store security guard. His crystal skull didn’t warn him about this! But was that a glimmer of attraction he saw in the guard’s eyes? Maybe luck was turning his way after all!

On Goodreads.

 

Queer Fear anthology

We are happy to announce we’re a part of the “Queer Fear” anthology, published by Storm Moon Press.

You can now pre-order it at 20% off! We just love the cover! Coming out on 14th of May.

Our story takes place in a long deserted asylum, which comes to life in the middle of a porn shoot :>

Clown’d – It’s out!

Excerpt available here.

And the story is available on Smashwords.

Amazon always takes a few hours to catch up, but it will also be available there very soon.

You can mark it on Goodreads and if you need me to refresh your memory, here’s the blurb:

 

— It’s clowns. It’s a gangbang. It’s helium balloons. —

 

Some nights just don’t go as planned. It’s Halloween and Kyle’s rushing home to see his boyfriend after a late evening shift at work. As usual, he takes a shortcut through the local park, but a poster informing about a killer clown in the area makes him apprehensive about being alone in the dark. It’s only when he discovers there is a man in a clown costume following him that he panics. Soon, it turns out his cackling shadow isn’t the only circus freak hiding in the dark, but what does a bunch of crazy clowns do when they catch you?

POSSIBLE SPOILERS (highlight to read):

Themes: clowns, kidnapping, Halloween

Genre: erotica, contemporary

Erotic content: sizzling hot graphic language, gangbang, humiliation, role play, bondage, toys

Length: ~10,000 words

Review of Melanie Tushmore’s “The Green Eyed Monster”

BLURB: Sky Somers is an ex-traveller; the son of a folk musician and a new age hippy. Sky’s form of rebellion is electric guitars, and he wants his own band. His desire is to set the world to rights through music. Brandon Cruikshank is new to London, recently arrived from Glasgow. Charismatic, charming; a natural born performer. Brandon is openly bisexual, with a penchant for dressing in women’s clothes. His desire is to be adored.

From the moment Sky meets Brandon, he knows he has to have him. Brandon, in turn, wants Sky. But that’s when it becomes clear they both have very different desires in mind. Brandon wants Sky as a lover, yet Sky only wants Brandon as a singer in his band. Misunderstanding set aside—or apparently so—Brandon and Sky become firm friends. To escape equally troubled pasts and families, they change their names. Now, Brandon Fox and Sky St. Clair are ready to take over the world.

As the years roll on, Brandon’s desire for Sky still simmers, waiting. Then a chance night sharing a hotel room sparks the desire between them, and this time, Brandon wants it all. Sky has never explored his desires before. Now, the passion and jealousy Brandon has unleashed in him threatens to shake the whole band apart.

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**********(ten) STARS

Where do I even start with this book?

It left me with a feeling of deep satisfaction. I’ll try to write about all the different aspects of this book.

The characters: so well-drawn! I’m a sucker for flawed heroes and I really got what I wanted with this book. It is not a set of tropes, rushing to a HEA. It’s a story of a band rising to fame and the romance side is slow, with ups, downs and misunderstandings. It’s first person POV which I usually dislike, yet here I had no problem to ease into it, thanks to the MC’s voice. Sky is a funny narrator, who makes lots of mistakes and the reader gets to understand that themselves, without being spoon-fed about what’s good and what’s bad about his behaviour. I dislike stories where the blurb promises me ‘bad boys’, yet the story fails to deliver and I end up with mushy sweet characters, who have been just thrown into the big bad world. Sky and his bunch of friends are nothing like it. They swear, drink, take drugs, have casual sex and make fun of people who are not in their group. This is all very natural and human, which makes the reading smooth and fun. Yet seeing a person usually so harsh to the people around and short-tempered, in a vulnerable position, makes Sky endearing and you really feel for him and his lack of proper communications skills .

Even though you see the world through Sky’s POV, you get to be the onlooker and judge his actions for yourself. I absolutely hate when a book is preaching to me and there was nothing of that sort here. I always assume that an adult reader knows by the time they read a story that taking drugs is bad, homophobia is bad, cheating is bad, etc.

I won’t go into spoiler details about who the MC’s are, the blurb is enough for that, but it’s the way they act and interact that makes this story what it is. Lots of times I would read something outrageous they were doing and think „So true! That’s exactly what guys do!” Talk about poo, make nasty jokes, have hygiene problems, etc ;D

I do have to give a separate paragraph to the bisexuality or m/m/f bits in this book. I read a story to get the full picture of character growth and change, including mistakes or experiments people make, if it’s important for the story. I really don’t see how a bit of pussy, that isn’t even a love interest, but a prop to help the MC’s connect and understand each other, is a problem, but hey, to each their own. I actually enjoyed seeing one of the character’s bisexuality to be a background feature. Just because he’s slept with girls doesn’t make him any less valuable as monogamous relationship material.

Last but not least, the language and setting. I was instantly drawn in by the way the author pictures the very British landscape and language, with all the details. And then the way Brandon’s Scottish accent is written is great because even if I didn’t understand a particular word, it was easy to get what it meant from context. It gives a flavour without being overwhelming.

And then when it comes to setting – I was simply smitten. This is a proper band story! I’ll try not to ramble on for too long, but the way they progressed from zero to hero as a band felt so real. I’ve written a punk rocker story before and reading The Green-Eyed Monster made me realise just how bleak it was ;D The Green-Eyed Monster is not only about how cool looking rockers are, but what is needed at gigs, what makes a band, how it can progress, all those inside workings that you either need to research or you know because you’ve been close to bands. The band aspect is not just a background, it all ties in. It makes the characters real people with passions and ambitions, not just puppets with no other life purpose than romance.

The plot is spread out over a few years, which gives a good realistic time for the romance and attachment to form. There is no ‘I love you!’ after two weeks, so when the story gets there (without overflowing with emotional confessions), it really feels the characters earned it. I love that it’s such a big story and I got to immerse in it. You get to see the character’s emotions through their actions, not get told about them. Anyone can say they ‘love’, but it’s what they do that proves it.

So from me, an absolute 10 freaking stars! Just because I can .

PS. Melanie Tushmore also achieved the near to impossible – created a hippy character that I couldn’t help but like!

Thank you Melanie for hours and hours of entertainment!

News

So what have we been up to lately

We’re writing about being anachronistic on purpose at Kay Berrisford’s blog and we’re also holding a giveaway there for “Off with Their Heads!” until the 25th of March.

We also blogged about redesigning the Scavengers covers at Pants off reviews.

Another release is hopefully happening next week: “Clown’d”.It’s now in it’s final edits and we can’t wait to publish it and see what you guys think of it!

“Special Needs” is also in editing stage, but will take more time, since we want it to be great. Hopefully the clown gangbang will sweeten your wait ;D

Kat&Agnes Merikan

 

Clown’d – Coming Soon!

We’re releasing another erotic short quite soon (yep, we’ve been writing and not releasing for too long). Had lots of fun working on this one, it’s quite porny ;D

Cover art by Kkohaku, title and cover design by Book Cover Master Class.

And here’s the blurb:

— It’s clowns. It’s a gangbang. It’s helium balloons. —

Some nights just don’t go as planned. It’s Halloween and Kyle’s rushing home to see his boyfriend after a late evening shift at work. As usual, he takes a shortcut through the local park, but a poster informing about a killer clown in the area makes him apprehensive about being alone in the dark. It’s only when he discovers there is a man in a clown costume following him that he panics. Soon, it turns out his cackling shadow isn’t the only circus freak hiding in the dark, but what does a bunch of crazy clowns do when they catch you?

POSSIBLE SPOILERS (highlight to read):

Themes: clowns, kidnapping, Halloween

Genre: erotica

Erotic content: sizzling hot graphic language, gangbang, humiliation, role play, bondage, toys

Length: ~10,000 words

Playing with Food

This short story was written as a birthday present for Melanie Tushmore and it’s about a red haired merman. It contains themes that might be considered disturbing, but we encourage you to take a leap into the deep water anyway

 

Just days ago, Llawan was taken from his underwater dwellings by Ossentharian slavers. Left in a tank with other merpeople, he awaits his death on a spit roast, but the arrival of an unusual customer might change his fate. To win his freedom back, he must enter a pact with the stranger, but what if the price is too much to bear?

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POSSIBLE SPOILERS:

Themes: merman, slave, captivity, dehumanization of merpeople, dark magic

Genre: high fantasy

Erotic content: explicit, dubious consent

Length: ~5000 words

You can read it on-line on our website or go to Smashwords for other formats.

Once again: Happy Birthday Melanie!

Scavengers:September and Scavengers:Eton Mess – now available :)

Scavengers:September is now available on Amazon and Smashwords and Scavengers:Eton Mess is a freebie erotic special available on our website, as a PDF download or on Smashwords for more formats!

We are always grateful for any comments or reviews and love to hear from readers. Amazon, Goodreads, email, you name it

Scavengers: September – cover and blurb

Finally! Long overdue, “Scavengers: September” is all wrapped up, including the cover.

On this occasion, “Scavengers: July” is now 0.99$! – Amazon

The story itself will be out in the upcoming days!

(On Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17567323-scavengers )

— Keeping his wife happy was hard enough without a gay lover and the zombie Plague. —

In July of 1893, James Hurst, a perfect English gentleman, had retrieved a treasure that would secure the financial future of his family, got scarred by a zombie and lost his virginity to Ira Russell, the mercenary he hired. After a rocky start, their mutual fascination makes James happier than ever.

Despite initial worries, Ira has no trouble blending in with the aristocratic household. Even James’ young son comes to adore the new teacher of survival tactics and his maritime stories. His wife on the other hand takes a different sort of interest in Ira. Her infatuation with him is the living proof of James’ failure as a husband, but is it too late to pick up the pieces? With a political opponent watching his every move and the threat of a terrorist attack on London, James is walking a tightrope. Can he keep his family safe without giving up on his newfound happiness (and Ira’s skills in tying him up)?

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“Scavengers: September” is the third and last book in a three part series and is set in the universe of “Gentlemen’s Tales of Love, Lust and the Undead”.

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WARNING: Contains graphic m/m sex scenes, gore, zombies, violence, angst, BDSM, lots of deliciously dirty talk  and a confident, tattooed ex-sailor.

Highlight to read – POSSIBLE SPOILERS!:

Themes: (zombies, living in a white marriage, blackmail, turn of the century London, class differences, alternative history, tattoos, terrorism)

Erotic content: explicit M/M sex scenes (including BDSM elements, dirty talk, spanking, shibari – rope play)

Length:  ~34,400 words

Upcoming releases and plans

We are happy to announce Scavengers: September, the final part of the Scavengers series is almost ready to publish. Unfortunately, there were some problems with the cover art and we needed to commission another artist for the job. This put the release off by a few weeks, but it still should be published in March.

Other than that, we are doing some additional edits for The Copper Horse: Fear, the first volume of a pony play-themed novel set in the world of Gentlemen’s Tales of Love, Lust and the Undead. The first part of Special Needs and an Earth Day – inspired short story  need some minor changes, but we’re going to start reworking the drafts as soon as we’re done with more urgent projects.

Queuing for our attention is also a  Gentlemen’s Tales of Love, Lust and the Undead novella called Stung. We need to rework the draft because of certain changes in concept for the story, but this one will need to wait for its turn.

For additional information, check out the Work Progress page.

Also, Birthday Burglar is available as a free read in pdf