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Cover for The Lion and The Crow

Cover for THE LION AND THE CROW

I have a new story I wrote for the goodreads, m/m romance group.  They have a big event running called “Love Has No Boundaries” where group members post prompts and other members can write a story based on that prompt.  The prompt I chose was submitted by Angel, and here is the prompt:

I’ve just won my spurs and a long, hard climb it’s been. Being the youngest of seven sons gives you far too many sets of shoes to fill.  But there are things I haven’t told my liege, things I can’t tell him. These unnatural feelings must mean I harbor a demon. Yet, when I watch him on the practice field…I can’t stop the yearning.

My story is called “The Lion and the Crow” and features two male characters who are both knights in the late 1200′s in England.  One knight, Sir Christian Brandon, is a seventh son and has just earned his spurs (become a knight). The second, Sir William Corbet, is twenty-five and has been a knight for six years.

This story was a ton of fun to write, and I got to research all sorts of medieval goodness (and badness).  It was a time when to be homosexual was punishable by death.  I approached this story seriously and tried to really envision how two men who were born homosexual might end up dealing with it in that culture, both before and after they found one another.  Being two very different characters, they approach it in very different ways.  But the love they feel for each other is timeless.

I made this cover for the story.  It will appear, FOR FREE, on goodreads as part of their event sometime in May.  I will post here when it’s live.  Meanwhile, I will be posting an excerpt in a few days.

You can enjoy MANY more free stories in May as part of this event on goodreads.  Here’s a link to this group:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/20149-m-m-romance

Eli

“The Trouble with Tony” coming from Dreamspinner Press

My novella, “The Trouble with Tony”, has been accepted for publication by Dreamspinner Press.  It will be released in Aug-Sept 2013.  This is the first in a series called “Sex in Seattle” about a sex clinic in, yeah, Seattle.  You can read about the novella here.

Goodreads Author Profile

I now have a goodreads author profile.  You can find it here.

Closet Capers Anthology Cover

Here’s a first look at the cover for the “Closet Capers” anthology that will include my story “A Kiss in the Dark”.  Pub date is April 22, 2013.  You can preorder it here.

“Superhero” accepted for Harmony Ink!

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“Superhero”, a 35K word novella, has been accepted for publication by Harmony Ink, the YA branch of Dreamspinner.  Pub date and cover TBD.  

Visit the Superhero page for an excerpt.

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Before I Wake — Torqued Tales Sip

I have a new short story called “Before I Wake” coming out from Torquere Press as part of their “Torqued Tales” anthology on April 24, 2013.  The anthology theme is mm romance stories with fairy tale themes.  As you may guess, “Before I Wake” is a modern mm spin on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.

Click here for a page with a description of the story and an excerpt.