Another new cover and more edits…
For all of you who are impatiently waiting for Dreaming of Dragons, I reveal my new cover. Makes it all so much more real, doesn’t it? 🙂 Another Anne Cain original. I think it’s a perfect match to Here Be Dragons. I just received my first set of edits for DoD as well. So I’ll be working on that within the next few days.
His Heart’s Home is coming along and so are a few others that I’ve been working on once in a while when I need a small break from HHH.
Hey you should stop by Wave’s blog. She’s having a big blog birthday party with some cool posts and awesome prizes. Also, I’ll remind you all tomorrow, but starting tomorrow, I’ll be hanging out at DIK (Desert Island Keepers) blogging about heroes and music. (maybe…lol.)
Hope everyone has a great Wednesday. 🙂
Two New Covers
Nowhere Diner: Finding Love will be out in July. Here’s the unedited blurb:
Leaving
Stopping at a diner for dinner, Tim finds more than a good meal, he finds a family and meets Bernie Capley, a long haul trucker who isn’t all that he seems.
Falling in love with Bernie is easy for Tim, but the past has a way of barging into the present, forcing decisions that could affect the future.
And Death or Life will hopefully be out in June. I just completed my first set of edits on it. 🙂 Here’s the blurb for this one.
Noah Wiltson wants nothing more than to be left alone. His father’s candidacy for President forces him to have secrets. Imagine his surprise when a hired killer gives him the means to live his life without doubt or fear.
The killer knows this hit is going to be his last. Whether he chooses to walk away or whether they kill him. He’s never been a team player, so he ends the game on his terms.
A few months later, Noah meets Cain Packert, a man who intrigues and excites him. Only one of them knows the truth. Can they find love amid secrets and threats?
Pretty nice covers, don’t you think? 🙂 Oh and for the person who said to get working on the Dragons story. The story is already done and in the hands of my editor. I’m just waiting for my edits. I’m hoping it’ll be released soon.
Hope you all have a great Monday.
Allergies available now (adult excerpt)
Hey everyone, Allergies is live and available on Amber Allure’s site. 🙂 Stop by and check it out. I did expand it a little. lol.
Here’s the blurb and a little excerpt:
What’s a shapeshifter to do when the man he desperately wants is allergic to him?
Raymond Marvels never imagines his call to the IT department at his graphics design job would result in his meeting Lou Canis, the most gorgeous man he’s ever seen. There’s one small problem, though—Ray is allergic to Lou. Yet his allergy is only one of the weird things going on between them.
Lou, a werewolf, isn’t sure how to fix the situation, because it seems his would-be lover’s allergy is to Lou’s human form and not his canine one. Lou decides to tell Ray his deep dark secret, which has unexpected results when Ray embraces both sides of Lou. Yet after a witch doctor gives Ray some medicine to solve his problem, Ray and Lou discover they must also face a dangerous conspiracy evolving around them…
Excerpt:
“Oh, God.”
Ray’s head dropped back, and Lou was forced to grab Ray’s ass to keep the man from tipping over. He traded off, paying equal attention to both hard nubs and feeling his cock throb in time to the noises Ray was making.
Their erections rubbed against each other and Lou became annoyed with the feel of fabric instead of skin. With a flex of muscles, he turned them and laid Ray on the table, his hips resting right at the edge. In almost the same motion, Lou unbuckled, unbuttoned and unzipped Ray’s pants. He hooked his fingers in the waistband and pulled them down, along with Ray’s underwear.
Ray’s cock sprang free, and Lou’s mouth watered. He wanted a taste of that thick piece of meat. He leaned forward, leaving a wet trail with his tongue from behind Ray’s balls to the tip of his prick.
“Shit,” Ray shouted and lifted his hips off the table.
“No.”
Lou pinned Ray to the table and swallowed him down to the root. Licking, nibbling and sucking. Lou did all those things to drive his lover crazy. He freed one of his hands to slide between Ray’s legs and fondle the man’s balls. He tugged and squeezed, taking Ray to the exploding point before backing off. He wanted to hear Ray beg.
Head thrashing from side to side, Ray fisted his hands into Lou’s shirt and cried out, “Please. Now, Lou. Please fuck me.”
Lou took one of Ray’s hands and wrapped it around the man’s cock. “Stroke yourself. I’m going to get you ready.”
Kneeling, Lou spread Ray’s legs farther apart and brought the man’s ass closer to him. He teased Ray’s hole with his finger and tongue. Piercing Ray’s tight opening with both at the same time, he felt Ray almost levitate off the table. Lou didn’t take his time. He got Ray stretched good and fast. There was no way he’d be able to last much longer and he wanted to come in Ray’s ass.
Standing, he opened his jeans and pulled out his dick. He spit in his palm and slicked his cock before positioning the flared head at Ray’s hole.
“I’ll do it better next time, love. I can’t last much longer now.”
Ray curled up and gave him a quick kiss on the chin. “Just fuck me, Lou. I don’t care about next time.”
He snarled and slammed into Ray. Ray’s scream rang out and the scent of Ray’s pleasure filled the air. Lou glanced down and saw pearly strings of cum squirt out of Ray’s cock, covering the man’s stomach, chest and hand. The rhythmic spasms of Ray’s inner channel took Lou right over with Ray and he howled, spilling his seed into Ray’s body. He thrust a few more times, letting the last bits of cum empty into his lover.
Falling forward, he braced his hands on either side of Ray’s head and stared down at the smaller man. Ray’s passion-stunned gaze met his and widened. Fear and some other strange emotion danced in Ray’s eyes.
“What are you?”
Friday Update…
Well, it’s a raining Friday here, but I guess I shouldn’t complain too much…at least it’s not snowing. 🙂
Writing is going well. I’m plugging away at His Heart’s Home mostly, but I have done a little work on two others. In addition, I have my first set of edits to finish up on Death or Life, and I just got my first set of edits on Tabloid Star. So I’ll probably be doing edits most of the weekend. Yay!…lol. Actually I don’t mind doing them.
I just saw the cover art for Death or Life and Anne Cain has done it again, everyone. She’s managed to get just the right feeling of suspense and sexiness that I think you (as the reader) will feel with this book.
She’s doing my cover for Dreaming of Dragons as well and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with on that one. For anyone who is still wondering, DoD will be available some time in May, I believe. No firm dates yet and the month/date is always subject to change, but May was what I was hitting for.
Also, Allergies will be out this weekend, April 5th to be exact. I’ll make sure to post the link as soon as it goes live. In addition, it’ll be available in print by the end of the month…if you’d like ot have your own personal print copy of it.
Hmmm…let’s see, I think I covered everything so far. lol I hope you all have a great day and weekend. Though stop back on Sunday and I’ll have a little excerpt from Allergies for you all. 🙂
Darn it…
Big importune creative meeting called. I’ll try to post Bitter Creek as soon as I can, but it might not be until late. 🙁Enjoy the eye candy though.
Excerpt Monday..
Here’s another excerpt from His Heart’s Home. (I’ll be coming up with a blurb soon, so everyone can know what the story’s about. I promise..lol)
Excerpt (Unedited & uncontracted):
“You wound me,” he pouted, reaching out to tug on Derek’s jeans. “I really don’t want you to get sick.”
“So wet country singers get you hot, huh?”
Derek stripped the t-shirt off first, letting the soggy fabric hit Max in the face when he dropped it.
“Only if it’s you.”
Sitting up, Max tore off his own shirt, thanking God that he wore one with snaps instead of buttons. He flung it to the side just as Derek straddled him and pushed him back.
“Omphf…”
Derek followed him down and crushed their lips together. He speared his fingers through those brown curls he loved to touch. He dueled with Derek over who would control the kiss, but when Derek bit his bottom lip hard, he yielded.
While he sucked on Derek’s tongue that got swept into to tease his, he rocked his hips up against Derek’s groin.
He tore his mouth away and swore, “Shit. I want you to fuck me.”
Derek shook his head. “Can’t. No condoms or lube.”
“Fuck. Guess maybe I need to start packing those in my saddle bags then,” he joked.
“It’s all right.”
He trailed his hands over Derek’s shoulders and down his chest to twist those nipples when Derek reared up on his knees. Devouring his lover with his gaze, he watched the man struggle to open his jeans and push the sides out of the way as his cock sprang free of its confinement. He sucked in his breath at the sight of that thick shaft. He really wanted to feel Derek riding him with it, but that would have to wait.
“Hey.”
“Ouch.” Max rubbed his chest where Derek had pinched him. “What?”
“Help me get yours out and then we can have a little fun.”
His eyes lit up. There wouldn’t be any fucking or sucking, but there could be some jerking and rubbing. They would both be able to come and he’d be able to ride fence without causing serious injury to himself.
Fumbling together, they managed to uncover his own cock and they sighed as their heated flesh brushed against each other. He wrapped his hand around their shafts and Derek joined him, stroking hard and fast.
“Oh God,” Derek cried out.
Max pumped the way he liked it with a little twist of his palm over the heads, gathering the pre-cum pooling there. Somehow, Derek bent to kiss him without breaking their connection. He tasted the coffee and bacon the singer had for breakfast. Nibbling along Derek’s bottom lip, he trailed his kisses over the stubble-covered chin to his neck.
Derek’s head dropped back, giving him more skin to play with. He scraped his teeth over the man’s jugular and Derek jerked.
“Max, soon,” Derek warned.
“Come on, baby,” Max growled and squeezed.
“Ah,” Derek grunted as heat spilled over Max’s hand onto his stomach.
As the hot liquid washed over his cock, Max let his control go and came, adding his to the mess. Derek collapsed on him, trapping their hands and pricks between their bodies.
Wincing, Max wiggled and shimmied until their hands were free. He threaded the fingers of his clean hand through Derek’s hair and stared up into the blue sky. The strangest feeling of contentment swelled in him and he imagined that this was the most relaxed he’d been in a long time. Since he left Sydney for America, he’d been searching for elusive happiness and though he knew the relationship he had with Derek wasn’t going to end well, he would grab what he could before the singer had to go back to the real world.
Yay!
Thank goodness it’s Friday. Only seven more hours before it’s officially the weekend. 🙂
Not much to report….working is coming along wonderfully on all three of the stories I’m working on. His Heart’s Home is the one that’s the furtherest along at 31k, The Uprising (urban fantasy/post nuclear war) is at 11k and Feast of Dusan (based on a Christmas carol) is at 8k. While I focus most of my attention on HHH, I do try to do a little bit of writing on the other two, just to keep my imagination fresh. 🙂
I hope everyone has a great weekend. 🙂
Another Coming Soon…
Amber Allure will be releasing Nick of Time on August 30th (or at least that’s the date they gave me, but as always, dates aren’t set in stone until the book comes out…lol) The print version will be out in September, I believe. 🙂 So you will finally know what happened with Nick and Gryphon.
Still working on His Heart’s Home and those boys. I have edits to start on Death or Life. I’m hoping to get those done by this weekend.
I’m listening to Blue October’s newest album Approaching Normal…(came out yesterday and I had to get it.) I love their other cds. Such an unusual mix of music and the lead singer’s voice is amazing.
Well, I hope everyone has a great Hump day and stay dry.
Monday again…
I did want you all to know that I finished Nick of Time, just going over it once more and writing up a synopsis before sending it to Amber Allure. When I hear anything, I’ll let you all know.
That means I’ve been working on His Heart’s Home and I’m well over halfway done with it. Hopefully that means I’ll be done with it by the middle of April, if not sooner. Yay!…lol
Have a great Monday, everyone. (Yes, I do realize that might not be possible simply because it’s Monday, but just think, it’s one day closer to the weekend.)
Friday
Our warm weather has disappeared again, but I’m hoping that this will be the last really cold spell. 🙂 That’s probably just wishful thinking on my part.
Hey, it’s Friday and that makes it a good day anyway.
I’m almost done with Nick of Time, possibly about 2-5k more left to write. So I should have it finished today, sent off to some people to check out for me and then submitted by next week sometime. Woo-hoo! Then I’ll be working on His Heart’s Home and a totally different story (urban fantasy, post-nuclear bombs setting). Need a change from all the contemporaries I’ve been writing lately.
Well, I hope you all have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend.
