Over on Writer's Evolution, the topic for the week is self promotion.
I currently have More questions than Answers.
If you have any answers, please stop by and let me know what they are!
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Saturday, 4 April 2009
The Gift - New Review!
As you might guess from the pic above - The Gift has just been reviewed by Whipped Cream!I recieved a four out of five cherry rating and the reviewer gave me some lovely comments. Including
"In a twist on the classic Christmas Story tale, Charles is visited by a sexy ghost of Christmas Past to help show him the meaning of Christmas. Mix in chocolate, sex toys, a delicious and obedient pet with a whole mountain of tinsel and the recipe for a great Christmas has never been better."
Thanks Cactus!
The story is also up for the Book of the Week award. It's based on reader votes. You just read the reviews and decide which book you like the sound of best, based on those reviews.
If you get a free second over the weekend - I'd really appreciate your vote. The list of books you can vote for is here. The Gift is second from the bottom. If you scroll down a bit, you can read all the reviews - The Gift is second from the top :)
Have a good weekend everyone :)
Silent Night - New Cover Art!
The cover is by Natalie Winters. It's the first M/f cover for one of the Perfect Timing collection. Very pleased with it - as you can probably guess!
In spite of the title, it's not a Christmas story, lol. It will be released by TEB June 1st and it's M/f, BDSM erotic romance.
Here's the blurb:
Hannah will give Vincent one silent night of pleasure, but that’s it. If he wants more, he’ll have to fight for it.
No one in the club has ever heard Hannah say a word, but they’ve all heard the rumours. She won’t accept any man who approaches her – she insists on picking the lucky dominant herself. And when she makes her selection he can have her submission for one silent night, but that’s it. She won’t speak or agree to a second date.
Vincent is an experienced dominant. He knows how the game should be played. When he finds Hannah kneeling at his feet, he assumes she’s just like every other submissive. But Hannah’s different and Vincent soon realises one silent night isn’t enough. He wants more time and he wants Hannah’s voice.
Hannah really doesn’t care what Vincent wants. She has her own reasons for keeping her relationships short and silent. It’ll take a lot more than a display of dominance to convince her to trust him with the truth.
Gay for Pay - New Acceptance!
Hi everyone,
Gay for Pay - the third Lust Bite in my unofficial collection has just been accepted :)
It's M/m, BDSM erotic romance and it will be available from TEB on the 26th October 2009.
Here's the blurb:
An experienced gay dominant, a gay for pay submissive and an auction. Let the bidding commence!
Nate Lockwood has a plan. It involves slipping away from his security officers, hitting a BDSM club, entering himself in a submissive auction and spending the next twenty four hours as a gay for pay rent boy. If he wishes he could be submitting to someone far closer to home, then at least he’s realistic enough to know it’s never going to happen.
Smith has a job to do. As chief of security for the Lockwood family, it’s his responsibility to track down his boss’s brat of a son and bring him home. The fact that his search leads to the kind of leather bar he considers beneath contempt is not important. The fact he’s been fantasising about being Nate’s master since he first set eyes on him isn’t relevant.
The plan has to work. The job has to be done. And the bidding starts now…
Gay for Pay - the third Lust Bite in my unofficial collection has just been accepted :)
It's M/m, BDSM erotic romance and it will be available from TEB on the 26th October 2009.
Here's the blurb:
An experienced gay dominant, a gay for pay submissive and an auction. Let the bidding commence!
Nate Lockwood has a plan. It involves slipping away from his security officers, hitting a BDSM club, entering himself in a submissive auction and spending the next twenty four hours as a gay for pay rent boy. If he wishes he could be submitting to someone far closer to home, then at least he’s realistic enough to know it’s never going to happen.
Smith has a job to do. As chief of security for the Lockwood family, it’s his responsibility to track down his boss’s brat of a son and bring him home. The fact that his search leads to the kind of leather bar he considers beneath contempt is not important. The fact he’s been fantasising about being Nate’s master since he first set eyes on him isn’t relevant.
The plan has to work. The job has to be done. And the bidding starts now…
Catching Up
Hi everyone,
I know I've been pretty absent lately. Took on too many things at once and ended up making myself knackered. Then I kept on going regardless and made myself ill. And then I caught the fluey sort of bug that's going around.
So um... yeah, not a lot of blogging happening.
I don't know where the time went, but I've only just realised that the first quarter of 2009 is over! I still haven't decided what my new years resolutions are going to be, lol.
Anyway, I thought I'd get back into blogging with a bit of a re-cap of the last three months, followed by a few resolutions for the next three months.
The year so far:
I've worked on 16 different first drafts, re-writes and edits. (No wonder I'm knackered, lol!)
Gaydar - my first project for the year and the first in an unofficial series of Lust Bites - written, edited, submitted and already published. Pretty good way to start the year!
Gay Like You - wrote it in January, re-wrote it in March. Submitted and accepted - It's due out June 22ed.
Sealing the Deal - written in January - edited and submitted in February. This one went to a new publisher. They requested the full, but I don't have a final answer yet. But I said I was going to try a second publisher and I did, so even if they don't accept it, I made progress :)
Fair Play - another one written in January. This is the second in the collection that starts with Sealing the Deal, so I'm holding off on doing anything with it until I know what will happen to the first one.
Then, February and in my infinite wisdom I decided I should write some short stories - in spite of the fact I've never really been able to get to grips with them. I wrote the first drafts of four short stories. I now have the first drafts of the first chapters of four different novellas. Did I mention I really suck at short stories?
One short is going to be a Collared novella. Another will be the start of a new collection of novellas planning. Another will be a Perfect Timing novella. The fourth might well end up in that series Sealing the Deal is starting.
I guess it goes without saying that these are all now in my to-re-write list, lol.
Next project was editing up Yes! into an anthology submission. I wrote the first draft in 2007. Re-wrote it in 2008. Edited it in February. It's been accepted, but the final decision for the anthology has yet to be made, so not entirely sure where it will be be published yet, but it will be published. My second acceptance of the year.
Then I moved on two three more stories for the Lust Bite collection - one is still a first draft and needs to be re-written before I can do anything else with it. Another is in the same stage, but is my next editing project - so hopefully it won't linger at the first draft stage for too long :)
The other is Gay for Pay - which was written in February, edited in March and accepted earlier this week. It's due to be released October 26th. (More about that in a separate blog post.)
The other two are paranormal anthology/seasonal submissions. The werewolf one was written in March. It's on my to-edit list. I'm finishing the vampire one today.
So all in all - a lot to be happy about!
On the slight downside. The one resolution I managed to make while it was still January was to cut down the number of projects that I had left lingering at first draft stage. The idea was - once they are finished I can get them out of my head, so I have less stories whirling around all the time.
I started the year with 52 projects that needed further attention. I now have 54.
Therefore, my big resolution for the second quarter of 2009 is to cut that down to at least below 50. That means submitting at least five stories that I've already written in some form or other. If I start any new ones they'll be added on to the end of the list, I'll have to submit more old ones to make room for them.
Other resolutions. Blog more and keep up to date with other peoples blog posts more.
Rest more to make sure I get healthier again - and then do my best to stay that way.
And that's it.
I've got a few other things to share, but I think they warrent their own blog posts, so they'll be up in a minute.
I know I've been pretty absent lately. Took on too many things at once and ended up making myself knackered. Then I kept on going regardless and made myself ill. And then I caught the fluey sort of bug that's going around.
So um... yeah, not a lot of blogging happening.
I don't know where the time went, but I've only just realised that the first quarter of 2009 is over! I still haven't decided what my new years resolutions are going to be, lol.
Anyway, I thought I'd get back into blogging with a bit of a re-cap of the last three months, followed by a few resolutions for the next three months.
The year so far:
I've worked on 16 different first drafts, re-writes and edits. (No wonder I'm knackered, lol!)
Gaydar - my first project for the year and the first in an unofficial series of Lust Bites - written, edited, submitted and already published. Pretty good way to start the year!
Gay Like You - wrote it in January, re-wrote it in March. Submitted and accepted - It's due out June 22ed.
Sealing the Deal - written in January - edited and submitted in February. This one went to a new publisher. They requested the full, but I don't have a final answer yet. But I said I was going to try a second publisher and I did, so even if they don't accept it, I made progress :)
Fair Play - another one written in January. This is the second in the collection that starts with Sealing the Deal, so I'm holding off on doing anything with it until I know what will happen to the first one.
Then, February and in my infinite wisdom I decided I should write some short stories - in spite of the fact I've never really been able to get to grips with them. I wrote the first drafts of four short stories. I now have the first drafts of the first chapters of four different novellas. Did I mention I really suck at short stories?
One short is going to be a Collared novella. Another will be the start of a new collection of novellas planning. Another will be a Perfect Timing novella. The fourth might well end up in that series Sealing the Deal is starting.
I guess it goes without saying that these are all now in my to-re-write list, lol.
Next project was editing up Yes! into an anthology submission. I wrote the first draft in 2007. Re-wrote it in 2008. Edited it in February. It's been accepted, but the final decision for the anthology has yet to be made, so not entirely sure where it will be be published yet, but it will be published. My second acceptance of the year.
Then I moved on two three more stories for the Lust Bite collection - one is still a first draft and needs to be re-written before I can do anything else with it. Another is in the same stage, but is my next editing project - so hopefully it won't linger at the first draft stage for too long :)
The other is Gay for Pay - which was written in February, edited in March and accepted earlier this week. It's due to be released October 26th. (More about that in a separate blog post.)
The other two are paranormal anthology/seasonal submissions. The werewolf one was written in March. It's on my to-edit list. I'm finishing the vampire one today.
So all in all - a lot to be happy about!
On the slight downside. The one resolution I managed to make while it was still January was to cut down the number of projects that I had left lingering at first draft stage. The idea was - once they are finished I can get them out of my head, so I have less stories whirling around all the time.
I started the year with 52 projects that needed further attention. I now have 54.
Therefore, my big resolution for the second quarter of 2009 is to cut that down to at least below 50. That means submitting at least five stories that I've already written in some form or other. If I start any new ones they'll be added on to the end of the list, I'll have to submit more old ones to make room for them.
Other resolutions. Blog more and keep up to date with other peoples blog posts more.
Rest more to make sure I get healthier again - and then do my best to stay that way.
And that's it.
I've got a few other things to share, but I think they warrent their own blog posts, so they'll be up in a minute.
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