Twice in a Lifetime New Cover

And here is my new cover for my re-release of Twice in a Lifetime, Sutter's Bay #2. It's being re-released through JMS Books.  

Twice in a Lifetime Is Now Available

Twice if a Lifetime is now available.

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.

Twice in a Lifetime Contest Begins

As promised, Stumbling Over Chaos is where you will find the contest to win a copy of Twice in A Lifetime releasing September 05, 2010 from Amber Allure.

Check out Chris's site while you are there she has a lot of interesting stuff on there.

Twice in a Lifetime Contest Giveaway

Tuesday Updates

Yes I skipped Monday. This is a Tuesday update.

I finally finished the sex scene I was working on in The Naughty Ones. That chapter is off to Ava for her review. Since this is just a short story (not even a novella) I think I have one, maybe two chapters left and it will be done. I am still hoping to stick a fork in it by August 31, 2010.

This time I am doing my giveaway of my next release different. Usually I give it away here on my blog and sometimes other locations. This time Twice in a Lifetime will only be given away on Chris's Stumbling Over Chaos. I believe the contest starts this Thursday for it so I will post the link Thursday when it is available.

I'll probably return to my usual giveaway format in October for The Beach House.

That's it for me but I think I am going to give you pretty Ashtyn today.

Official Blurb & Excerpt

The Official Blurb and Excerpt have appeared for Twice in a Lifetime on Amber Allure's site so I thought I'd post them here. The excerpt isn't exactly safe for work. Twice in a Lifetime will be released September 05, 2010.

Five years ago, British transplant, Jude, left San Francisco after the tragic murder of his lover, Martin. Heartbroken, he settled in Sutter's Bay and opened a small flower shop, hoping that surrounding himself with bright colors and pretty things—living things—would somehow lessen the anguish he felt over his loss.

Jude never expects to find a love like he shared with Martin ever again. Certainly a love like theirs won't come along twice in a lifetime. But then Jude meets sexy Rex Warner, the new veterinarian in Sutter's Bay, and he can't help but wonder if his luck has changed.

Will Rex be able to stop Jude from dwelling on the painful past and look toward a promising future instead?

Excerpt:

...The doorbell rang and Jude let out a nervous breath. This was a little too much like a date. He had random sex sometimes…sure…but not really dates. He’d tried once with Danny and that had been a disaster for both of them. He straightened and went to the door.

His heart pounded as though he’d ran a marathon as he turned the knob to greet Rex. “Hello.”

Rex stood on his doorstep, wearing tight jeans, a plaid button-down shirt, a black cowboy hat, and a smile. “Hello, yourself.”

Jude stepped aside to let Rex inside his apartment. He went to move away, but Rex pushed him against the nearest wall and threaded his fingers through Jude’s hair. Rex angled his head so his hat wouldn’t hit Jude in the face just before his lips covered Jude’s. The kiss was hard, demanding, thoroughly possessive. It took him by surprise and sent jolts of lust from his toes all the way up his body to his ever-hardening cock.

Rex’s tongue parted his lips, plunging in, running along Jude’s teeth. With a groan, Jude’s arms encircled Rex’s neck and pressed against him as much as being pushed against the wall allowed. His dick now fully hard, Jude whimpered.

The kiss broke, and both of them panted heavily. Rex’s eyes were dark with lust. He stared into Jude’s eyes for just a moment before lowering his lips to Jude’s neck and sucking at the pulse there. Jude almost crawled up the wall. His fingers crept to the buttons on Rex’s shirt, sliding out the first couple.

“Can dinner wait?” Rex asked, his lips moving across Jude’s throat.

“Yes. God, yes.” When he reached the third button, he couldn’t budge it from the buttonhole. Groaning in frustration, Jude yanked. Buttons popped, flying in all directions. “Damn, sorry.”

“It’s just a shirt. You can rip my clothes off anytime,” Rex said just before his lips met Jude’s once more. He ground their erections together, sending Jude’s eyes rolling to the back of his head.

Jude jumped up just a bit until his legs were around Rex’s waist. The man carried him away from the wall and toward the bedroom, their lips fused together.

He broke the kiss, leaned back, pulled off his shirt, and threw it to the floor. Rex tossed him on the mattress and crushed him underneath the weight of his muscular body. Hardly able to breathe as Rex’s mouth devoured his, Jude slid his hands over Rex’s tight abs. Who knew a vet could have such a hot bod?

Rex rose up off the mattress long enough to get rid of his shoes, cowboy boots, Jude noticed as he watched, and then his jeans and briefs. Jude swallowed, his gaze glued to the sight of Rex’s long and thick cock pointed his way. A drop of pre-cum glistened from the fat head. Jude’s ass twitched just imagining it thrusting between his cheeks.

Rex’s eyebrow arched up and he indicated his hat. “On?”

Licking his lips, Jude nodded, not trusting himself to speak coherently. His own cock was so hard he thought it would push right through his jeans. Without bothering to undo them, Jude shimmied out of his pants and black boxer briefs, not caring what happened to them when Rex pulled them out of his grasp. Rex’s eyes looked as hot as molten lava as his gaze raked over Jude’s body. In response to the naked need in the other man’s eyes, Jude’s hand closed over his shaft, sliding down the length with aching slowness.

“Fuck. Where are the lube and condoms?”

For a second, Jude’s mind went blank. He hadn’t had sex in his apartment since moving to Sutter’s Bay. All of his sexual encounters had been casual and most of them had been barely outside the premises of the bar he’d gone to for hookups. Not that he was a slut, but—

Rex slapped his foot. “Jude.”

He nodded. “Lube is under the sink in my bathroom.”

“And the condoms?”

He had some in his wallet, but he was pretty sure he had a mostly empty box under the sink as well. He’d have to remember to get some more at the drug store. “Right. There, too.”

While Rex was gone for the few seconds it took to get the goods, Jude scooted up on the bed, closer to the headboard. The sheets and blankets were a shambles, really, for he was never one to make his bed each morning he got up.

Rex pounced on him, holding Jude’s arms above his head. His cowboy hat had gone a bit crooked, but that, together with his sexy smile sent a jolt of lust so powerful through Jude he gasped. “You only have one.”

Jude frowned. “One?”

Rex nipped his earlobe, his hot breath tingling over Jude’s ear. “Condom. We’d better make this last...”

Shiny New Cover

Today is my mom's 84th birthday!


So, that's pretty cool, I think.

I'm lucky I've had this many years with her. I hope to have a few more, of course. Three years ago she was diagnosed with colon cancer, but after some scary things, she's been doing very well.

But I know I am lucky. I lost my father some years ago now. Far too young as far as I'm concerned. Many people don't get to have their parents or a parent around as long as my mother has been for me.

She's funny. Very recently she discovered I wrote m/m romance. She knew I wrote "naughty" books but she didn't know they were about two men. We were having dinner somewhere, my sister, mother, and me, when my mother, who reads romance, expressed an interest in them. She's read my old non-erotic het historicals. I just sat there in silence, because really I'm not sure I like the idea of my mother reading my erotic romances no matter who is in them. But, my sister piped in and told her that they were homosexual romances. My mother is a strange one. She's conservative in her political thoughts, but she just shrugged, and went something to the affect, "Oh, that's nice." Not that she continued the idea of reading them, of course.

Anyway, because it is her birthday a large group of us are going out for a fancy steak dinner (paid for thankfully by the lawyer sister, lol). Probably the last time we'll see my brother and his wife as they are moving to Kansas the next day.



Over the next two weeks I'll be around but perhaps not quite as visible as usual. I have little mini-trips planned two weekends in a row. And yes, no suprise here, one is to Solvang and Morro Bay again. The other is to Disneyland (visitors coming). Disneyland in August. Pray for me.



I'm working on two works in progress. Just did my edits for Twice in a Lifetime and they were easy (no cover yet though). Busy, busy.

If I don't pop on here again before the weekend, have a great one.

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.

Monday Updates

I have news!

I did, indeed, finish Twice in a Lifetime this weekend and I sent off the forms and everything. And...drum roll...talk about fast track to published...I have a release date. And wow, is it soon. Septmeber 5th! Yes, you read that right.

As it turns out, Amber Allure had an opening that weekend that needed to be filled and along came my story. That together with the fact The Beach House will probably be an October release, and well let's just say you won't have to wait long for Jude and Rex.

I'm thrilled of course to have a September release because I don't have anything coming out in August.

As soon as I get a cover, I'll share it. I assume it will be soon given the release date.

Just Briefly

I'm down to one chapter to go on Twice in a Lifetime so it is my goal to have it finished by the end of this weekend.

Once that is done and submitted I will be taking a very short break to help a friend with her story before I get involved in the next WIP. It might not be until August that I really get working on the next one since I have an out of state visitor coming at the end of the month, my mother's 84th birthday, a couple of weekend trips planned, etc...

Anyway none of that matters until Twice in a Lifetime is finished and sent off to happy publishing land.

Hope everyone has a spectacular weekend and don't forget to pick up Pieces when it releases from Amber Quill.

Thursday Updates

This picture was just too cute to pass up



You know Twice in a Lifetime has surprised me. I expected to be able to whip right through it and get it done by the end of June and as you know that didn’t happen. I think I underestimated a couple of things. How busy I would be during the summer and the length of the book.

For example, Twice in a Lifetime is the second in the Sutter Bay series, after Sweet Reunion, which yes, came out last September. Sweet Reunion was, I think, about 13,000 words or so. I think I had in the back of my mind, that this one would end up being around that, but Jude and Rex had different ideas and I am already heading for twice that number.

I still want it done this month, July, and I’m pretty damn sure I’ll make this self-imposed deadline. I don’t intend to wait another year before writing the third book, which will be Adam’s and Galaxy’s story (you will meet them in Twice in a Lifetime). Really, I won’t.

Still don’t have a release date for The Beach House (and damn it I am getting frustrated, I am SOOOOOO spoiled). The “rumor” is not until October. I’m trying to wrap my feeble mind over skipping August and September without releases. I have to remember to remind myself to breathe.

And Monday I came up with yet another idea for a new story. I really wish that part of my mind which thinks up stories would have an off switch because believe me it would totally be switched off right now.

Monday Updates

Managed to get another chapter done on Twice in a Lifetime this past weekend. I think I have one chapter to go, maybe two. I don't think I'll be done by the 15th but hopefully by this weekend. Then I can get it and the forms off to AQ. Then, I'll move on to the next project.

You know what they say about never saying never, but anyway....

Things I Will Never Do:

Write in first person

Write another ménage (see backlist, did one), whether m/m/f or m/m/m

Write a brutal rape or physical attack (this does not include the aftermath of any such events)

Add a third to an established couple (yes this basically falls into the no ménage category but I wanted it said).

Write a sequel where one of the heroes of an established couple cheats. No one-night stands, no two-month affairs.

Write another cheater. I loved Brad. Really. But it was hard to make a cheater into someone sympathetic. I don’t think I’d be capable of doing it again. I love angst but not that kind. No.

Write another het romance. Um, sorry, really not interested.

Have a great week.

Friday Updates

I've got two contests going now, one for Pieces, to be released on July 18, 2010, ending July 17, 2010, and one for the paperback edition of the Only Forver series, ending when the paperback becomes available. Don't forget to enter if you are interested in either or both.

Twice in a Lifetime is making great progress this week. I'm hoping to wrap things up with a couple more chapters. So far there's angst, sex, more angst, car sex, and now on to a bit more angst.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I plan to spend much of it writing.

Still Plugging Away

So I finished another chapter on Twice in a Lifetime today. It's already July 5th though and I thought I'd try and get this done by the 15th. That's only 10 days and I'm wondering if I will make it. I think not at the moment. Oh, well, anyway I'm pretty sure I'll be done sometime this month.

The best part of today is I didn't have to work.

Have a good week

Sometimes All the Wishes in the World Don't Make it Happen

I'm missing someone terribly. That's right, it's Shayne. It's been a while since I've heard from him. I have no idea if he is okay or what is happening with him. I used to hear from him practically every day, even just a little note to make me smile, but that doesn't happen anymore. I think maybe I lost him. It feels that way and I'm broken-hearted.

So, sorry if I am a little bit of a downer. You know that old saying about losing your best friend? It hurts. I hope things get better no matter what happens. And I, of course, wish nothing but the best for Shayne. Always.

On a hopefully more positive note, I made progress on Twice in a Lifetime yesterday, so writing is going well. I'm looking forward to the long weekend quite a bit though. Anyone have any big plans?

UPDATE - Shayne is okay. He hasn't dropped off the face of the earth, thankfully. So, I'll stop whining I promise.

The Monday Updates

Made it back and had a great time.

But now I need to get serious. I had given myself a deadline to finish Twice in a Lifetime of the end of June but there is no way for it to be finished by Wednesday. So, I am changing my deadline to have it finished by July 15th. Ah, well, it's my own deadline.

This will be a busy week at work and at writing as we come up upon the Independence Day holiday this coming weekend in the Unites States.

(yes, that is cutie Ashtyn)

Yes, I'm Vacationing Again (writing too)

I've been working forever on the chapter I'm on for a while. It's the first sex scene between Rex and Jude. I want it to be hot and good. Needless to say my self-imposed deadline isn't going to be made. Grrrr.

I'm off for the next few days. I am bringing my precious laptop this time.

The first day I will be in Solvang. Here are some pictures.





After that, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I will be in Morro Bay. This is the view from our hotel last time.


So I'll be around (I think)

Monday Monday

This promises to be a short week at the evil day job as I am off Thursday and Friday. Looking forward to it greatly.

I'm making some changes again to the blog. Sunday will remain for eye candy but I think I'll be dropping excerpt day. I'll leave it up to whim if I post anything on Saturdays. Wednesday Musings will be a day I will be posting poetry or quotes that move me at that particular time.

Mondays and Thursdays will be for updating my progress on current works in progress.

Other days...whatever I feel like if anything.

Update on the Ashtyn Long interview. He's pretty much disappeared so I am guessing there will never be an interview posted. I am disappointed since he was the one who approached me, but since I can't force him to answer questions, well...Sorry. I'm rather embarrassed by the whole thing at this point.

Anyhow, I didn't get as much done on Twice in a Lifetime this weekend as I hoped. I goofed off A LOT. Bad Shawn.

Sometimes It Just Doesn't Go the Way You Want

Okay, so Twice in a Lifetime isn't going as fast as I wanted it to. There's no problem. I'm not stalled or anything, I just think it's going to end up being a wee bit longer than I originally thought. I think it means I'll be going into July before it is finished. I will be working on it extensively over the weekend (I think), but I'll be away again next week/weekend, though this time the laptop will be with me. And my calendar tells me July is coming at breakneck speed.

This will mean a slight delay in getting to The Same Side, but those interested never fear, I am getting to it next.

Um, though I admit I did start a new story. Just started it. Honestly. I am not going to bump anything else in place of it.

The Only Forever series concludes at last this weekend.