Archive for Covers
The Vanguard
I just saw the cover Anne has done for The Vanguard. Absolutely gorgeous and perfect. As soon as I get the okay, I’ll post it for you all to see. I don’t have a release date on it yet, but again as soon as I know, I’ll make sure you can mark it on your calandars…lol.
Writing has been going well for me. Bunch of different stories, but I’m making progress. 😉
Hope you all have a great day.
Writing has been going well for me. Bunch of different stories, but I’m making progress. 😉
Hope you all have a great day.
Pimping Friday….
I’m behind on pimping books. Forever has been out for a couple weeks now, but I didn’t pimp it. That’s my fault. This is a wonderful book. I really enjoyed it. It’s a sequel to Shayla’s first LSB book, Thirty Days, which is another awesome book. The covers are cool as well.
Shayla has several books out, not just with Liquid Silver Books. Stop by her site to see what’s new in her world. 🙂
Hope you all have a great day.
Joyfully Recommended.
Woot! Go Rue and Vlatko…lol.
Ley at Joyfully Reviewed had some great things to say about my boys.
“Stealing Life has some really cool sci-fi concepts. T.A. Chase’s imagination is wild.”
Check out the rest of the review here. Thanks, Ley for the great review and the JR as well. Also to every reviewer who reviews a book. (not just mine), you do an awesome job. 🙂
Have a great day, everyone.
Pimping Saturday….
All the boys from the band are back along with their lovers in Jet Mykles’ newest Loose-Id release, Genesis. I like this cover. 🙂 Stop by Loose-Id to check it out.Have a great day.
CAPAs
Every year The Romance Studio presents the Cupid and Psyche Awards for excellence in romantic and erotic fiction. And this year, Angel’s Evolution was nominated in the Historical Erotic Romance category.Hope you all have a great day.
Pimping Books…
Our first pimpage today is for the wonderful marvelous and enormously talented Miss Lila Dubois. The second book in her Zinah’s series, Savage, was released earlier this week at Liquid Silver. Check out the blurb and excerpt there. This is hot, hot and more hot.
Also, check out Lila’s website to see what else she’s working on. 🙂
Next we have Anne Cain’s newest story, Pawprints, released this week from Loose-Id.
I enjoyed this story. Cute, but serious at the same time. Plus I love this cover. 🙂
And I missed pimping this one. Silly me. 🙂 Red Garnier’s newest Liquid Silver Book, Stroke of Midnight. It’s hot, sexy and has two women and a man in the middle.
Check out Red’s site to see all the new books she has coming out.
So I’ve posted a collection of stories. There should be something for everyone in these. 🙂 Awesome covers all of them and equally talented authors. Hope everyone has a great Friday.
Shifting Perspectives reviews…
I did a small review of Fiona Glass’ Feathered Friend from our anthology Shifting Perspectives. Here you go.
Fiona Glass’ Feathered Friend is an interesting twist on an old fairy tale, The Swan Maiden. In the story, Charlie owns homing pigeons. One day while checking on his birds, he notices he has a new one. He takes it inside and finds there is much more to the pigeon than its pretty feathers.
Avery finds Charlie attractive and reveals his true self. Charlie makes a choice to keep Avery with him, ignoring the young shape shifter’s pleas. Even though their love grows, Charlie knows his lover isn’t happy. Will Charlie decide to set Avery free or will he continue to hold the pigeon captive?
The relationship between Avery and Charlie is interesting. It’s hot and tender, yet poignant. Fiona Glass manages to fill her short story with enough emotion to pull you in, making you root for this couple. This story teaches a lesson of why we should never cage wild creatures and how true love can come even to the most unusual of couples.
Fiona Glass’ Feathered Friend in Shifting Perspectives from Aspen Mountain Press and shows her story telling story.
Pimping Books…
I’m pimping my own book today. Though this isn’t the right cover. As soon as I get the right one, I’ll post it. *new cover* Shifting Perspectives is an shifter anthology featuring me, Emily Veinglory and Fiona Glass. I’ve read Emily and Fiona’s stories and loved them. They did a wonderful job. My story, Understanding Forgiveness, is a sweeter story than I usually write. I hope you enjoy it though.
Here’s the blurb for the anthology:
Not everyone is a shifter by choice. In T.A. Chase’s Understanding Forgiveness a shifter must learn to embrace who and what he is and forgive the son of the man who genetically manipulated him and held him in a cage.
Fiona Glass entertains us with Feathered Friend, a story about a man who finds a surprise in his bird coop.
In Emily Veinglory’s The Rat Burglar a guard protecting an ancient artifact meets a charming man who is intent on robbing his museum.
Poetry Train….
Here’s the cover for the anthology I’m in that’s coming out in October. 🙂 Yep, Emily’s in there with me. Woo-Hoo! Can’t imagine how I got so lucky. Shoot. I thought I had a blurb written up somewhere, but it must be on my computer at home. Or else I told myself I needed to write one and never did..lol.
But I thought I post an excerpt from Understanding Forgiveness…my story. It’s a sweet story…no sex really. Just tension. Having my heroes have sex didn’t really seem to fit in the overall story. I did write UF after I finished Stealing Life and I couldn’t keep those two guys away from each other. I think I went into overload…lol. 😉
Here you go:
But I thought I post an excerpt from Understanding Forgiveness…my story. It’s a sweet story…no sex really. Just tension. Having my heroes have sex didn’t really seem to fit in the overall story. I did write UF after I finished Stealing Life and I couldn’t keep those two guys away from each other. I think I went into overload…lol. 😉
Here you go:
The buzz of conversation had quieted when he arrived. He silently counted the seconds waiting for someone to get the nerve to approach him. Five minutes later, someone sat across from him.
“Hi, I’m Basil.”
Mason looked up to see a thin young man sitting in front of him. Shooting a glance over his shoulder, Mason saw Lisa watching them with a worried expression. He wondered if she was afraid he’d attack or hurt Basil in some way. Mason frowned. Being isolated from human or shifter contact made him gruff and unable to deal with idiots, but he still knew enough to be polite to people when he needed to be.
Basil’s shoulder length hair gleamed black as a raven’s wing. Bright shiny black eyes stared at him with curiosity. Those eyes combined with the prominent nose and tilted head conjured images of a crow.
“Mason.” He didn’t offer his hand. Basil looked so fragile, Mason was afraid he’d break a bone by shaking hands with the man.
“Right. The new one Zev and Doc brought in.” Basil’s head bobbed.
“Guess so. Where are they?” He wondered why they weren’t eating with the rest.
“Zev stopped by earlier. He doesn’t like all the noise. Too many people. Too much talking.” Basil shrugged. “Doc had a rough night. We won’t see him until lunch or maybe even supper.”
“Rough night?”
Basil leaned in as he was sharing a classified secret. “He’s sick and sometimes he has bad nights because of it.”
“Sick? What illness?” Mason thought of how he’d breathed in the doctor’s air last night. Shifters were pretty immune to most diseases, but he didn’t want to risk catching anything.
“No one knows, but it isn’t communicable. At least no one’s gotten sick since coming here.” Basil plucked an apple from Mason’s plate. “What kind are you?”
“Kind?” Mason felt a hiss rise in his throat. He didn’t like sharing, but he fought the urge to rip the apple out of Basil’s hands. There was more food and the man didn’t know how possessive Mason was.
“Animal? Breed? Species?” Basil pointed to himself. “I’m a raven.”
“I’d never have guessed that,” Mason said with a slight smile.
“It’s pretty obvious. Jess, over there, is a monkey.”
Mason looked over to where Basil gestured. A brunette woman nodded to them both as she grabbed a bowl full of fruit. Aside from the fruit though, there was nothing to hint at what she shifted into. A petite woman pulling wiggling bugs from a pan and swallowing them caught Mason’s gaze. He gagged.
“Yeah, it takes a while to get used to watching Fern eat.” Basil lobbed the apple core at Fern.
The woman flipped them the finger as she stuck a cricket in her mouth. Mason turned around before he lost his appetite.
“Fern’s an amphibian. Hey, what kind are you, Fern?” Basil yelled at the lady who calmly flipped them off again. “Fern’s not much of a talker. Oh right, she’s a green tree frog.”
“A tree frog? What the fuck was Von Mertz smoking when he mixed those genes?”
Mason turned to his right as a huge man sat down next to him. The stranger stuck his hand out and said, “I’m Boris and I’m a bear.”
“Yes, I can see you are.” Mason shook the large hand and managed not to whimper as Boris squeezed his bones together.
“Boris, you’re doing it again.” Basil tapped Boris on the arm.
“Oh sorry. Sometimes I forget.” Boris released Mason’s hand.
Mason wiggled all his fingers, making sure they all worked. “No problem, man. What are you doing here? I can’t see a lot of naturals messing with you.”
“I don’t have any control over my change. When I get mad or excited, I tend to shift and then things get nasty. It’s easier here. Less pressure and if I make a mistake, my hide’s not likely to end up spread out in front of someone’s fireplace.” Boris’ moustache twitched as the man chuckled.
Mason couldn’t believe how brown and hairy the man was. It looked as if the bear genes almost overrode the human genes in Boris’ body.
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Mason is the shifter and the doctor mentioned in this excerpt is Heinrich Gunther, a doctor with an interesting secret himself. 🙂
Don’t forget to stop by Rhian’s blog to check out the other poetry train stops.
Don’t forget to stop by Rhian’s blog to check out the other poetry train stops.
Pimping Books…
I haven’t read this book yet, but I read Sedonia’s first book in this series, His Beautiful Samurai and enjoyed it. So I’ll definitely be reading Beautiful Samurai, White Tiger. I love the cover. 🙂
Stop by Sedonia’s website to check and see what else she has coming out.
Anne Cain (cover goddess extraordinare) and her equally talented writing partner, Barbara Sheridan have a new book out at Loose-Id. Parallel Process looks good as well. Haven’t read it, but it’s definitely on my list of to be read. 🙂
Plus Anne has two new books coming out soon. (Solo books at that.) Pawprints at Loose-Id and On Wings of Blue from Samhain. I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at OWoB and I have to say it’s a wonderful story. It has a very Fairy tale feel to it and you have to check out the cover. Yum. Pawprints has an adorable cover as well.
There are several books coming out in October, so I won’t be short on pimping books, that’s for sure.
Hope you all have a wonderful Friday. 🙂
