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What Happened In Vegas blog hop!

I’m a little late on posting about this, considering the Hop has started, but better late than never, right?

I’m taking part in the “What Happened in Vegas” blog hop! Each stop is an original short (less than 5000 words) story based on waking up married in Vegas. My story Enemy to Husband will be posted on August 21st.

Each stop also highlights an LGBTQ+ charity of the author’s choosing.

Here’s all the stops along the hop. I’ll try to remember to update this with the actual links when the sto...

News, News! And some art!

I have some news! First up is that I’ve signed with Berkley Intermix for two more office romances:

They should come out in June and December of next year, I believe. I may include a few Due Diligence WIP teasers in a newsletter soon.

The second piece of news is that we sold the audio rights to all four novels:

And production is starting on those. I don’t know when those will be out, but I’ll keep you posted!

Oh! I also commissioned some artwork of Justin and Eli from Catherine Dair for swag...

Thoughts on Charater and Conflict

In an email thread, a couple of writer-friends and I were talking about writing issues. One of the difficulties was character conflict: making it real and rough and not easy to solve. I kind of spewed forth a bit of a mini lesson, gleaned from my time at Seton Hill’s Writing Popular Fiction MFA, ’cause this stuff gets packed into your head and pops out occasionally.

So here are my thoughts on character and conflict!

Note that there’s a wee spoiler for Just Business here, as well as a spoiler...

Behind the scenes in Just Business: Top/Dom drop

I’m going to do a little set of “behind the scenes” posts about Just Business, probably on a random basis. If you have anything you particularly want to know about the book or the characters or whatnot, you can contact me, and I’ll do my best to answer.

Earlier today, I posted on Tumblr a link to aftercare for dominants, and highlighted a bit about Top Guilt and mentioned that this was why there’s that scene of Eli sitting in the dark, holding his cat, and thinking the worst about himself.

I...

Happy Book Birthday to ZA Maxfield!

I’m not the only InterMix author with a new release today! My good friend ZA Maxfield’s latest is out, too!

A real man needs a real love…

To become the man he’s meant to be, one cowboy will have to be the man he never wanted anyone to know he was…

Ryder Dent is a true-blue cowboy. A devoted son, husband and father, but one who is living a costly lie. When they were both young, Ryder and his closest female friend Andi thought they’d found the perfect solution to both their problems—she was sin...

Happy Book Birthday, Just Business!

Well, it’s release day for Just Business, my latest romance. This one is very close to my heart.

I adore both characters, but Eli… Eli walked into my brain pretty fully formed and more or less set the stage for the book that was to come. Eli also terrified me in a way…because it wasn’t until I was about half way through writing the book that I realized I was, in fact, writing from the point of view of a gay Jewish disabled man with PTSD. Who is a Dom and a sadist.

And I had a bit of a panic,...

One Week Until Just Business! And some new releases to keep you busy.

Just Business releases into the wild next Tuesday! It’s already gotten some pretty good reviews. I’m rather fond of this one from the Bookworm Bettie’s. OMG, the teaser graphics! I want the skill to do that, ’cause they are HOT.

Speaking of teasers, here’s one for Just Business:

“All settled in?” Sam gestured at the laptop.

“Tech’s done,” Sertab said. “Rest is up to you guys.” She stood and paused at the door. “Justin, Ping-Pong starts at four thirty, if these guys let you loose.”

“You know w...

Quick Update: Just Business is “Read Now” on NetGalley for 24 hours

Berkley Romance has opened up next month’s InterMix books to “Read Now” until Tuesday at 11am (EST), including the e-ARC of Just Business!

So it’s a chance to read about Justin and Eli before the book comes out.

https://s2.netgalley.com/catalog/book/64622

Takeover and Just Business ARC giveaway at RT!

I have two each of rare-ish paper ARCs of Takeover and Just Business to give away at RT Booklovers.

They’re really kind of adorable. Slightly larger than trade paperbacks:

So if you haven’t read either yet, hunt me down and you might get one!

Quick Notes: Just Business is up on NetGalley and I’ll be at RT Booklovers

If you’re a book reviewer, and would like an e-ARC of Just Business, Penguin has released it to NetGalley:

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/64622

Also, I’ll be at RT Booklovers! You can find me:

Thursday at Riptide Publishing’s Cards Against Humanity from 1:30 to 2:30pm Friday at Club RT, from 10 to 10:30 am Saturday at the Giant Book Fair from 11 am to 2pm Saturday at Penguin Random House’s Passport to Romance from 3 to 4:15 pm Saturday at the FAN-tastic Day Party from 7 to 7:35 pm...