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Release Day - His Slender Embrace

Yet another happy release day to me, and boy am I excited about this one. You've been waiting for it, and His Slender Embrace is finally live.

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HIS SLENDER EMBRACE: https://mybook.to/SlenderEmbrace

MONSTER MATCH: https://mybook.to/MonsterMatchseries

Be sure to join Amanda Meuwissen Books, where I have much in store for members to help celebrate, including a reading playlist, alternate cover possibilities, a live reading, signed paperback/eBook giveaway, and more!

What can you expect from this book?

General Tropes:

tentacles mutual pining hurt/comfort fantasy roleplay HEA

Spicey Tropes:

exhibitionism hentai fantasies (trains & tentacles & being watched, oh my) rooftop grinding fooling around next to a sleeping friend touch but don’t look

Read the full blurb and purchase the book or read on Kindle Unlimited HERE.

COVER REVEAL - His Slender Embrace

You can't imagine how excited I am to finally share my cover for the Monster Match collaboration, with gorgeous art by @Sheilkuroi on IG (https://www.instagram.com/sheilkuroi).

Pre-order His Slender Embrace: https://mybook.to/SlenderEmbrace

Pre-order the series: https://mybook.to/MonsterMatchseries

Gaze long into the abyss and you might fall in love.

Eldritch, Tall Man, slender and strange – Cael is all these things, with a presence humans fear, and among monsters allowed visas to the human world, he still feels like an outsider. The first time someone hears his voice, they’re knocked unconscious, and if they look at him for too long, they risk losing their minds or worse. Handy for a monster who means to menace, but not for one seeking love and hoping to one day feed from the energies of passion instead of terror.

He thought the Monster Match app might finally find him a compatible partner, but no one responds to him as a match. Perhaps the only way he’ll know passion is to switch what he’s looking for from romance to the carnal side of human curiosity.

Coming off a bad breakup with a gaslighting ex, Miles Wainwright isn’t looking for love, though he still longs for it and misses the presence of someone else in his home. Even in his work as a graphic designer, he can’t stand up for himself and always ends up doing what is asked of him. He wishes he could give himself over to a partner and trust that they’ll take care of him. For now, he’ll settle for fulfilling a fantasy and hope it helps him heal.

He doesn’t expect to want more from Cael, the strangely alluring monster with a shark-toothed smile and tendrils who matches his request, but even if it means madness to stare long into the abyss, does Miles dare steal a peek?

An MM standalone novel in the shared world of the multi-author Monster Match series. Expect a shy human seeking confidence through fantasy fulfillment with a magnetic monster, tentacles, hurt/comfort, mutual pining, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

And don't forget the giveaway for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card and an eBook from each author. Enter through the rafflecopter link in Amanda Meuwissen Books for today's opportunity. Remember to join each group as you go, because:

YOU MUST BE A MEMBER OF ALL PARTICIPATING AUTHORS' FACEBOOK GROUPS FOR YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO QUALIFY.

RELEASE DAY - Fighting My Bully

FIGHTING MY BULLY

Now live, a contemporary bully x victim MM romance as part of the multi-author collaboration, Fighting For Love.

Fighting My Bully: https://mybook.to/FightingMyBully

Get the whole series: http://mybook.to/FightforLove

Second chances can hit where it hurts—especially between a bully and his victim.

Bully/Victim Hurt/Comfort Past Trauma Enemies-to-Friends-to-Lovers Recent Bi-Awakening Second Chances

This hurt/comfort romance about overcoming past traumas might heal both former bully and his bi-awakened victim, as they turn the enemies to friends to lovers trope on its head.

At Knockout Gym, happily ever afters are hard-won.

Updated Etsy Store - Signed Books & Stickers

I have finally finished updating my Etsy store for signed paperbacks and my personally designed stickers!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AmandaMeuwissenBooks

Everything I currently have published is up - except for It's a Tenta-ful Life. I might wait to add that to the store until NEXT holiday season and run some specials, but if anyone really wants that one now, let me know.

Series Announcement - Monster Match

Your monstrous mate is only a match away.

Cover reveals begin January 15th, including mine: HIS SLENDER EMBRACE

PREORDER LINK: https://mybook.to/SlenderEmbrace

COVER REVEAL DATE: 1.18.24

RELEASE DATE: 2.23.24

9 MM romance authors are bringing you standalone novels in a connected world where monsters live among us. To ease integrations, the Monster Match app helps humans and monsters make connections to become friends, plan hookups, live out fantasies, and even find the loves of their lives.

SERIES LINK: https://mybook.to/MonsterMatchseries

RELEASING 2.2.24 – 3.30.24

While you wait to learn more, what you can expect from my installment is a shy human seeking confidence through fantasy fulfillment with a magnetic monster, along with:

tentacles hurt/comfort mutual pining, and a guaranteed HEA

Join Ashlynn Mills, Kota Quinn, Morgan Lysand, Ki Brightly, Layla Dorine, Jacey Davis, Kit Barrie, and ME.

It's a Tenta-ful Life - Release Day

Happy release day to me of It's a Tenta-ful Life, my contribution to the Tinsel & Tentacles multi-author holiday collaboration.

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At just over 120 pages, you can expect:

mutual pining strangers to friends to lovers hurt/comfort dark & deadly secrets tentacles with hidden talents

BUY LINK: https://mybook.to/tentafullife 

SERIES LINK: https://mybook.to/TinselAndTentacles

If angels get wings, what do monsters get?

Brody Hawkins was living the good life. Unattached, young, attractive, with a great job at the Shangri-La La Land gay bar and bringing men and women back to his bed most nights without ever being tied down.

Until the night he stumbles upon an injured man in the snow.

Wary of the circumstances that might have left someone for dead so near to Christmas, instead of taking the man to a hospital, Brody brings him home. He dubs the man Goldie, having no other name offered to him when Goldie wakes, but his golden hair and eyes are like tinsel on a tree.

Goldie couldn’t have anything to do with the murders or missing person from a few blocks down. He couldn’t. He’s too sweet and soft-spoken and even a little sad. He’s no monster.

But he also might not be human.

It’s a Tenta-ful Life is part of the Tinsel and Tentacles multi-author collaboration and a complete standalone. Expect to find a lifelong bachelor who never planned to fall in love, an eldritch horror in disguise who longs for love, mutual pining, strangers to friends to lovers, dark and deadly secrets, tentacles with hidden talents, and more in this slightly darker take on a holiday MM romance.

Want more tantalizingly tentacular winter holiday romances? Grab the whole series! https://mybook.to/TinselAndTentacles

2023 Year in Review

Many of my newer readers and author friends may not know this, but I've actually been publishing for over a decade. I consider my born-again publiversary to be 2019, and I've only been a full-time author since 2021, but I actually published my first book in 2012, and my Incubus Saga series began releasing in 2013.

I still feel like I'm playing catchup most days, as I know many of you do too, but I honestly couldn't be prouder of all my author buddies, and I'm more certain than ever that there is nowhere I'd rather be than here in the trenches with you.

It has been a monumental year for me. Incubus turning 10 had me get a tattoo of the titular character in commemoration. I finished two series, Tales from the Gemstone Kingdoms and Moonlight Prophecies, participated in two multi-author collaborations, including my last book of the year, It's a Tenta-ful Life, still to come on December 22nd, recorded the audiobook version of Gardening with a Ghost with Kevin Earlywine and Curtis Michael Holland, and my highlight of the year was definitely the release of Last Courtesan of Olympus.

All of that is on top of releasing hardcover versions of my Lovesick series, more Moonlight Prophecies French translations, and pocket paperbacks of all my previously published shorts. Somehow, I also managed to attend multiple conventions, including the Gay Romance Literature Retreat, and I am hard at work on several upcoming collaborations for 2024, most of which haven't even been announced yet.

Next year is shaping up to be even better than 2023, likely with fewer releases, but ones I am ecstatic to share with you. I hope you'll stick around to experience it with me.

RELEASE DAY - The Dragon and the Emerald King

Today is the release for the LAST book in my fantasy MM romance series, Tales from the Gemstone Kingdoms.

It is also my FIRST foray into writing a dragon MC, or dragon shifter, since Pax has multiple forms. And this CAN be read standalone, so if you haven't yet dived into this series, you can start here or binge the other books all on Kindle Unlimited.

THE DRAGON AND THE EMERALD KING

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Be careful what you wish for—especially from a dragon.

When the last dragon in all the kingdoms, Pax, wakes from his centuries-long slumber, he seeks adventure again—by finding a worthy mortal to gift three scales which will grant three wishes. When the wishes are completed, he plans to move on and never return to the Gemstone Kingdoms. For now, he craves experience—and a new partner in his bed.

He chooses Bertram, the recently crowned Emerald King.

It's been thirty years since the Gemstone Kingdoms entered a new golden age, but the peace proves fragile. With opponents of magic reappearing, Bertram doesn’t know what to do… except to wish that he knew what the future might hold if he never became king.

Bertram and Pax embark on a journey through time, across kingdoms, and into their own hearts to learn what they’ve been missing and what they might want of a different future together.

3 Wishes Tall & Smol Dragon Shifting Tail (and forked tongue) Play Time Travel Hot Spring Fun Tragic Past HEA

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Moonlight Prophecies - Now ALL on KindleUnlimited

Did you know you can get the entirety of my paranormal MM romance series, Moonlight Prophecies, on KindleUnlimited?

With shifters, vampires, and magic, oh my!

In a world where shifters, vampires, and other paranormals are at each others' throats, these Alphas are just trying to hold their cities together and maybe find the time to fall in love. But prophetic visions and an unknown enemy put their new relationships--and their packs' loyalty--to the test.

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COVER REVEAL: It's a Tenta-ful Life

IT'S A TENTA-FUL LIFE: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance

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Get ready for the winter holiday M/M tentacle romance collaboration, TINSEL AND TENTACLES.

My book, IT'S A TENTA-FUL LIFE, features:

a lifelong bachelor uninterested in love an eldritch horror who's a fool for love mutual pining strangers to friends to lovers dark and deadly secrets tentacles with hidden talents

MY PRE-ORDER LINK:https://mybook.to/tentafullife

The book will be out December 22nd!

Be sure to check out the next book in the series by L Eveland, REBEL WITHOUT A CLAUS, coming your way December 25th!

Tinsel and Tentacles Lineup and Release Schedule:

Nov. 24-All I Want for Christmas is Tentacles (Chloe Archer) Nov. 29-Tentacles and Other Stocking Stuffers (Delaney Rain) Dec. 1-Tentacles Rock (K. C. Carmine) Dec. 4-A Sucker for Christmas (JP Sayle) Dec. 8-Jingle Bells and Elder Gods (Kiernan Kelly) Dec. 11-Kraken Klaus (Charlotte Brice) Dec. 15-Twelve Days of Squidmas (K.L. Hiers) Dec. 18-Tentacle Wonderland (Reese Morrison) Dec. 22-It's a Tenta-ful Life (Amanda Meuwissen) Dec. 25-Rebel Without a Claus (L Eveland) Dec. 29-Cthulhu for Christmas (Meghan Maslow)