Accidentally His Available Again

Accidentally His is available again at JMS Books

Other than the cover, there is no difference in the story I released through Amber Quill. But if you are a new reader, now is your chance.

March 2011 Best Seller List

AMBER ALLURE / March 2011


1. Why I Love Geeks - T. A. Chase (Gay / Contemporary)

*2. Accidentally His - Shawn Lane (Gay / Contemporary)

3. Into The Woods - M. L. Rhodes (Gay / Shapeshifter)

4. Beneath Dark Stars - KC Kendricks (Gay / Shapeshifter)

5. Wrong Number, Right Guy - Mia Watts (Gay / Contemporary)

6. (Boys Of The Zodiac) Pisces: From Behind That Black Door - Pepper Espinoza (Gay / Contemporary)

7. Love Matters - Christiane France (Gay / Contemporary)

8. Mask Of Night - Helen Louise Caroll (Gay / Futuristic)

9. The Wild Bunch: Spark - Deirdre O'Dare (Gay / Contemporary)

10. A Favor For A Friend - Stevie Woods (Gay / Futuristic)

Still Time

There's still time to enter the contest to win Accidentally His over at Stumbling Over Chaos. I believe the contest runs until this Friday.

Accidentally His is a fun, light-hearted read that I think readers will enjoy. Besides the main characters of Elijah and Kirk, it also introduces Toby and Lucas who will get their own story in Becoming His.

Contest for Accidentally His

Aha! Chris started me a day earlier than I thought, but that works for all of us, I think.

For a chance to win Accidentally His go here. Contest runs through March 18, 2011. Good Luck. 

News

I finished Becoming His and it will be released in June (see coming soon on the side there...coming soonish).

Also I am having Chris at Stumbling Over Chaos give away Accidentally His. The contest doesn't start until later this week, but I'll post the link when it does.

A Brief Update

Yes, I am supposed to be working on my vacay story, The Way to Forever. But I'm not. I'm working on Becoming His and I believe I will have it done by this coming Saturday. That's my plan.

Look for details of a contest later. I don't know what I will do yet. But something will be done as I have Accidentally His coming out later this month.

What Was I thinking?

A few things.

I have named my Postcards From Paradise story, The Way to Forever. This is the one where Billy goes to Ireland on vacation and meets the man of his dreams.

I’m currently working on Becoming His. This story is related to Accidentally His in that two secondary characters from the upcoming Accidentally His get their story in Becoming His. I’ve already got over 8,000 words done on the story and hope to get it done and into the schedule in the not too distant future.

Which also brings me to the news that I will be doing a new series for Amber Allure. I’ve been given the go ahead on the series and Accidentally His and Becoming His are the first two in the series. If I do it right I should have as many as 26 stories. Each “His” story will have a title that will begin with a letter of the alphabet. Quite clearly A and B will be the first two, lol.

I doubt all stories in the series will be directed related to Accidentally His and Becoming His. Meaning by the time the series is finished I doubt there will be six degrees of separation from all the cast of characters.

As you can imagine some letters will be more challenging than others so if anyone has suggestions for the following letters please feel free to send them my way via my email of authorshawnlane@gmail.com. Q, V, X, Y and Z. You would be richly rewarded if you suggest the ultimate title for those letters.
This series will keep me busy, of course, and that doesn’t even include all the other stories I have planned. Ah, well, at least the ideas have not dried up.

This Post Is For Drew

I forgot who I borrowed the princes picture from but since I adore Disney and two guys it seemed appropriate.

My dear sweet Drew who is very special to me prompted this post. He told me he missed my posting, so I created this one for him. 

Let's see. I got my edits for Accidentally His my story coming in March and I have to say I liked it better than I thought I did. It amused me quite a bit. It's a fun, lightherted story starring Kirk and Elijah. Eventually I will get around to writing a story for two of the other characters from it, Toby and Logan. 

I've gotten basically what amounts to four chapters done on Galaxy's Heart so definitely making progress. But...er...I have this urge to work on my Regency I wanted to write like two years ago with the butler and the third son of a duke or earl I was calling, Undeniable. I know, gasp. I'm sure this is because I have absolutely no time to write on anything so it sneaks up on me. My brain needs to be put in its place!   

More Updates

I'm going to be blogging slightly less in 2011, I think. I'll still post at least a couple times a week, no fear there, but I decided trying to keep a schedule and posting particular things on certain dates wasn't really working the way I wanted them to work.

This may be good news for some of you who might be going, ugh, she's posting something else again! lol. As I said, I'll still post regularly, but I'm not sticking to a schedule and I'm not worrying about posting on certain days.

I'm very close to having Accidentally His finished, which is good, because I'm ready to get working on Sutter's Bay 3, Galaxy's Heart while there is still time. Yeah, yeah, I have two real deadlines to meet by June 01, but I'm trying to get Accidentally His and Galaxy's Heart in there before I have to worry too much about the others.

Accidentally His is the start, sort of, to a mini-series. And by mini-series, I mean there will be another related book (different couple). I don't think there will be any others after that but you never know as series books seem to do very well for me (Only Forever and Sutter's Bay have been quite successful). The next one can't come until after June though. Busy, busy until then.

Somehow, I get myself talked into agreeing to write themed books and so the two "deadline" books fall into this category. I really need to stop that nonsense, lol. More on those books as the time comes closer.

Monday Updates - the first for 2011

Update: Chris and Luciatea have correctly answered the too easy questions and are the winners of the upcoming release of Pulling Apart on Jaunary 09, 2011. Congrats!

Hope everyone had a great holiday season. Hard to believe we've started 2011.

I've been busily working on Accidentally His. I've given myself a due date of January 15th, and I intend to meet this date. If it kills me. Or something.

I'm really itching to get working on Sutter's Bay #3, Galaxy's Heart. I've been doing some light stuff lately and Accidentally His is no exception and that's fine. But I'm wanting to get back to the angst a bit and that story will fulfill that for me. And I so want to do it before I get too heavily involved in the stories I must have done later this year.

Okay, a few newsie things.

Beginning in 2011, I am going to be doing a mostly monthly newsletter. It will probably come out around releasing books, so don't expect to get bombarded with meaningless stuff. That's not my intention. If I don't have a release for whatever month, I may not even send a newsletter for that month. Anyway, the fabulous Ava March is helping me with this since I am fairly clueless about tech stuff. She has added a sign-up form for the newsletter on the blog and on my website: authorshawnlane.com so either will work to sign up. Try it!

Two, it's time for the Pulling Apart contest.

Now, honestly, I think you need to have read Pulling Away in order to read Pulling Apart. But that's up to you. Rather than doing a comment contest, I'm going to do it this way:

I'm giving away two copies. In order to win one, you must be the first person to leave your answer here on the blog to one of two questions. Please do not answer both questions. Just one of the two. If you are correct, you win one copy. I hope that makes sense.

Here are the two questions (first to answer one question wins)

1) What is the name of the West Hollywood Bar that Noah goes to with Kevin?
2) Is Noah a top or bottom? *grins*

All right. That's it for now.

Updates

Updates are going here today since I’ve been posting free holiday stories on normal update days.


I’ve been working on Accidentally His again lately. I hope to have it completed by the middle of January, if not before. I should have another story related to this one but with different heroes later in 2011.

I’d like to turn my attention to Galaxy’s Heart, Sutter’s Bay 3, once Accidentally His is finished. If I can get that story done by the end of February or earlier, that should still give me plenty of time to work on my “Postcards From Paradise” story I volunteered for at AQ. My paradise vacation story will be in Ireland though. That’s paradise to me.

Once that is done, I have to look to my other obligated story, which is a ghost story. Yes, you can hear the enthusiasm, can’t you? Just how do you get a HEA when one of your heroes has been dead for hundreds of years? Beats me, too. But I shall try.

As you can see, this is already taking up the first six months of 2011. Sigh. And there is a story I really want to get to. Ah, well, I’ll get to it and several others before 2011 is finished, I am sure.

Speaking of free stories, Kevin’s latest free story, Viva Las Christmas, will be posted on Monday, December 20th, if it kills me. Might. At this point I am looking at one long part but I may be forced to split it into two. I’ll try not to make it too many parts though.

Once that free story is finished posting, I will be posting a best wishes for the holiday season blog and probably taking the remainder of 2010 off, with the blog returning January 03, 2011 (in time for a contest for my first release, Pulling Apart).

Thursday Updates

I finished my Christmas story, The Naughty Ones. Go me! I'll let you know when/if I have news on it.

I wanted to have it finished by the end Of August but went over it by one day as I finished it September 01. Not bad I would say.

I can now fully concentrate on getting Accidentally His finished in September. Since I already started it I suspect I should be capable of completing it since the entire month is ahead of me. Most of it anyway.

Don't forget this weekend is the release of Twice in a Lifetime.

Monday Updates

I've finished the first chapter of my new work in progress, Accidentally His. The guys, Kirk and Elijah, meet when the commuter bus they both take to work crashes in a rain storm. Should be a slightly lighter book than Pieces and my next two releases are (Twice in a Lifetime and The Beach House).

I'm also toying (pun intended) with the idea of working on a Christmas story titled, The Naughty Ones. It will involve two naughty Christmas Elves (think adult full sized elves ala Lord of the Rings elves rather than Hermie from Rudolph).

Those are my updates for now.