Playing Catch Up

I swear it feels like it’s been a hundred years since I’ve been here. My spring and early summer sort of exploded with travel, work commitments, a conference, graduation, a wedding, a yard sale and about a million other things that have kept me hopping. I’m happy to say today is the first day in what I hope will be a month of NOTHINGNESS. My plan for the next four weeks is to get back to what I love–writing. I have several projects going at the moment and I just spent the last hour or so updating my Coming Soon page as well as several series pages. Thought I’d take a minute to catch you all up to speed on all of this because I don’t think I’ve talked about any of this…which is crazy because I’m super excited about all of it.

Let’s see…what’s first? Oh! I have a HUGE contest starting next week in conjunction with the release of Say Something on July 14. It starts next Wednesday. Big prizes and fun! Be sure to check back for that. Say Something is Georgie’s story and it’s a fun one–I love writing romantic comedy. Georgie reminded me a lot of Riley from the Wild Irish series. It was a blast writing another zany character. Georgie made me laugh. A lot. Though I will admit I was damn sad to say goodbye to the wine girls. Say Something is available for preorder everywhere right now. The buy links are here at the bottom. If you haven’t had a chance to read this series or if you’ve been waiting for all of them to release, I hope you’ll give them a peek now.

Other projects on slate include my participation in a .99 cent box set. First Taste is available for preorder now and includes 6 very hot alpha Dom stories. If you’re into 50 Shades and the BDSM scene, this group of books is worth a peek. It includes first in series stories by Sidney Bristol, Michele Bardsley, Sadie Haller, Sasha White, L. Dubois and moi. Heehee. It rhymes. Grab it now because that low price is only there for a short while.

I’m also currently working on two series that I love. First is the Boys of Fall that I’m writing with Erin Nicholas and Cari Quinn. Basically the three of us have created a world of football and romance because what says happily ever after better than a tight end and a little scoring. LOL. There will be nine books in the series in all–we’re each writing three. The first batch (Free Agent, Going Long and Out of Bounds) released in January. Buy links here. The next three (Red Zone, Going Deep and Illegal Motion) are hitting the shelves on Oct. 1. They will be available for preorder right around July 1. I’ll post the buy links when they go live. I plotted Red Zone during a train trip from London to Edinburgh last week and today I wrote the blurb. Then my amazing editor Kelli Collins rewrote it because mine sucked so bad. That woman can write the hell out of a blurb!

Dying to show it off, so here goes:

Unlike so many of his teammates, Joel never left small-town Quinn after high school. Coach Carr offered him a full-time job on his ranch, and Joel was more than happy to stay near family. In his downtime, Joel good-naturedly competes with his best bud Oakley for the sexy local bartender’s attention, but Sadie repeatedly turns down their frequent requests for dates. She doesn’t want to come between the two friends…until a little too much champagne at a wedding reception leads to a sizzling encounter. In that moment, Joel and Oakley know they’ll never make Sadie choose — she can have them both.

A no-strings affair between the trio turns complicated when it becomes clear there’s nothing casual about their feelings. Add in a sensual, accidental touch between Joel and Oakley, and those feelings become intense times a thousand. It’s an emotional game of chance, one they may ultimately lose…but if they can reach the Red Zone, Joel, Oakley and Sadie have a chance at the biggest score of their lives.

Warning: This is a full-contact story with scenes of m/m/f sex.

And finally, I want to mention my newest series, Sparks in Texas. Just like Harry was the horcrux Voldemort never intended to create, this was the series I never really planned to write! I participated in a holiday-themed collection last June, contributing a little story called Sparks Fly. I really thought it was just going to be a standalone story, but as soon as the words hit the page, I realized I had WAY more to write in that world, so the Sparks family was born – a big, raucous group of cousins, aunts and uncles (not unlike my real family). Evan was the first cousin featured in Sparks Fly. The second in the series, Waiting for You, is currently a part of Brenda Novak’s Sweet Seduction box set (all proceeds raised from the sale of that set goes to diabetes research). That set is only on sale for one more week. At that point, Waiting for You will be available for individual sale. Waiting for You is the story of Sydney Sparks and her first love, Chas, a former Marine who returns from the Middle East intent on winning Sydney’s heart. However, his time overseas has left him with some deep scars and suffering from PTSD. Next up in this series is Something Sparked. See my pretty new cover? Guess that says it all, right? It’s an m/m/f menage with sexy firefighters and sparks flaring up in and out of the bedroom. It’s coming out September 1 and I hope to have it up for preorder by the end of July.

I guess that’s it for now, though I suspect I’ll remember three more things I planned to tell you as soon as I publish this blog! Hope everyone has a lovely week.

Mari