Taking a Break

I have finished my fairytale Sleeping Beauty story, Waking the Prince, a month early. Go me! This is part of a group of MM fairytales with four other writers so I am not sure of the exact release date at this time.

I started this story, to be honest, a long time ago. Probably years ago,with a particular publisher in mind who was going to do a theme of fairytales. I never finished it and it languished on my hard drive. In all honesty I am not sure I would have ever finished it except that Amber Quill decided to do a fairytale pax and I remembered my Waking the Prince story and volunteered for it. I'm glad I did now because I really love Prince Roland and his warrior, Magnus.

Now with my having finished Waking the Prince and turned it in (release date to be determined later), that is the last of my stories that will release in 2012. And so begins my basically two month writing vacation. Yes, you read that right. From now until October 01, I am on a writing vacation.

Here's the thing. Though release-wise I am still down from other years I have been writing a lot. I worked on One More Time coming from Loose Id this month for the first part of the year. Then I saw the antho call from Evernight and decided to do a story for that, Getting Wade. Then I saw the submission call from MLR Press for a Christmas story. I'd been wanting to submit there for a while and that seemed the perfect opportunity, so I wrote There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays. Then I remembered I really needed to write Leo's story in the Sutter's Bay series and so I wrote Finding Forever. And then out of the blue I decided to write Maybe This Time.

I've been writing, writing, writing, and my brain is tired. It needs a recharge. Which is hard for me. Because I have other stories I need to write, including more Sutter's Bay stories, maybe more His stories, definitely a trilogy, my cop story, and other stories that come to me all the time. I can't turn them off. And I can't really say I won't write anything during those two months, but I'm going to do my best not to get crazy.

I have a couple of real vacations in that time and so the timing is perfect for me to relax. I plan to read, watch movies, play in paradise, play in sin city, play some role playing video games (used to love these but don’t have much time these days), just all kinds of lovely things. I am greatly looking forward to not feeling like I just have to have something done. I deserve this break.

When October 01 arrives I will begin work on my planned trilogy in earnest as well as something else I have in the back of my constantly spinning mind. Anything written from October on will of course be released sometime in 2013.

This has been a very interesting year for me writing wise. While I’m still writing and producing work for Amber Quill I also expanded to include being published with Loose Id, MLR Press, and Evernight Publishing. Since I no longer publish with EC, Silver or DSP, I felt the need to branch out rather than have all my stories with one publisher. I look forward to a happy relationship with all my publishers in 2013.

I'll be checking in here of course as needed for information and releases and contests, etc.

Quick Antho Update

The release date for the Lover Unexpected Anthology is August 09, 2012

Lover Unexpected News

I found out who else was in the Evernight Publisher's Lover Unexpected: Manlove Edition anthology  coming in August and thought I would share the list with you.

Lover Unexpected: Manlove Edition


Diamond: The Men of Rock Candy by Alex Bowman
Quench by Xondra Day
A Little Bendy by Erin M. Leaf
Coming Home by K. Williams
Between Marriage and An Octopus by Rebecca Brochu
Getting Wade by Shawn Lane
Squeezable by Penelope Rivers
Jay's Addiction by Chrissie Lee
Gypsy Psychics Can't Be Wrong by Giselle Renarde
Being Stupid by Sean Michael

So I hope you will give it a try come August.

Some Progress

The best laid plans as they say.


I had been saying I intended to get Finding Forever (Sutter’s Bay 4) done by the end of May, but I have to say that’s just not going to happen.

I’ve been working on it, but I put it aside to work on a couple of other things, Getting Wade, my anthology story, being one of them, and so that has, unfortunately, delayed my progress on Finding Forever.

I’m still working on another project but I am also back to working on Finding Forever and it is still my intention to have it done in June. If all goes as I wish, then I expect probably a September release for that one.

Yes, I know there is a rather big gap between my last release in March and any release later this year. I think at this point my anthology story is probably the first one to be released and that isn’t until August. But this year has been different as I’ve been expanding my publishing horizons.

All is going well, though, if not at the breakneck speed of past years.

Another Contract - Short Story for an Anthology

Recently I saw a call for short stories for an M/M anthology where the theme was friends to lovers and the publisher is called Evernight Publishing. I was only vaguely familiar with them through Facebook and an online writers site I am a member of, but they seem pretty cool from what I knew of them. Since the story could be anywhere between 5,000 and 10,000 words, I set out to craft a short little friends to lovers story and named it Getting Wade. I submitted my story and I am pleased to say I was offered a contract to be included in the anthology. Once I have more details, I will post them, but I am pleased to be able to announce that I've had two contract offers in the last week. Not bad!