Hitting It Big Contest

Six years ago, Billy Grant had a night he never forgot—losing his virginity to the jock of his dreams, Mitch Crestfield. But Billy fled afterward, not wanting to hear Mitch’s regrets.

 

Now, Mitch has hit it big, winning the lottery, and Billy finds himself invited to Mitch’s celebration. When Mitch suggests another night of passion, Billy can’t seem to resist. But Mitch has something more than one night in mind...

Totally spur of the moment, but if you see this, the contest runs from now until Sunday, July 31, 2011 @  9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

I'll choose one winner and post it after the deadline. Please note this is a SHORT story. Just want to be clear this isn't going to be something long at all. But I think or hope you will find it a fun, cute story.

Commet to enter. The two winners who won earlier this month do not need to enter again.

    

What's New

I'm getting a lot written on More Than Anything, my Hot College Daze story. It's the one and only story I'm working on at the moment so that helps. I've got over 16,000 words done on it. I'm still not entirely sure about whether I will do a Part One: Shayne and Desmond and Part Two: Bart and Evan or if I'll just make Bart and Evan into a separate offering. Right now, the 16,000 plus words are all Shayne and Desmond. Either way you'll get both stories with only two men having a POV at the time.

I'm toying with doing another free Kevin story which, if I do it, I will upload to ARe. The two I already included there ended up doing well and Car Wash got a bump in sales too, so it's all good.

That's about it for now. At the end of the month my very short story, Hitting it Big, about two guys re-connecting after one of them wins the lottery, will be out. It's pretty much a fun little short, but it does have a minor secondary character I might visit at some point in 2012. We shall see since that's still way into the future at this point.

Contest Winners

I wish I could make all of you winners but the randomizer list chose the first two. Jay Ross and Beatrice will both win Lost Between and Hitting It Big. Thanks everyone! 

Okay, here is the list:

There were 27 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1.Jay Ross


2.Beatrice

3.midia

4.Kaetrin

5.Bookwyrm369

6.joder

7.mage424

8.Sharon S

9.Loh Ah Mooi

10.Anonymous --- wildeeper@gmail.com

11. Pete

12.Nikyta

13.Chris

14.Melinda

15.Melanie, mcsc2008

16.Bogusia said...

17.Erica Pike

18.Kelly

19.Jason

20.moniqee

21.Anonymous

22.diannakay M

23.Melora

24.Sharon

25.Rachel

26.kaytee

27.Lily

A Few Updates

Today is the last day to enter the contest to be one of two winners of Lost Between and Hitting it Big. I'll post the winners Saturday, July 9th.

I don't have any releases in August, so after these two go out, the next releases will be Can't Be His in early September and Devotedly His in early October.

That brings me through D in the alpha His series. The first one I will be doing for next year will be Eternally His and will be my first foray into vampires.I won't be working on that one for a while though.

I'm doing good on my college boys story, More Than Anything. I am quite certain I will have it done well before the deadline of September 01.

And that will leave me plenty of time to concentrate on what I want to write the last three months of the year.

Don't Forget...

Hope everyone here in the U.S. has a great holiday weekend and don't forget to enter to win my two July  releases, Lost Between and Hitting it Big. Contest ends July 08, winners announced on July 09.

Lost Between and Hitting It Big Contest

It's me...and I am announcing a contest. I have two releases in July (although one is at the very end of the month), Rather than having two separate contests I am having one for two winners. I will give an ecopy (format of your choice) of Lost Between to two winners on July 10th when it releases and than an ecopy of Hitting It Big when it comes out July 31, 2011. So two winners win both books (Hitting it Big is a very short story).

Famous horror author Curtis Macintyre has recently rented an apartment in an historical building in San Francisco. But the apartment comes with more than just old charm. It also comes with the spirit of Aaron Carmichael, a man murdered five years before.

After Curtis visits a medium, Aaron’s spirit comes to him and asks for his help in finding peace since he’s lost between two worlds, the living and the afterlife. When Curtis decides to visit Aaron’s boyfriend, Robbie Henley, a beautiful hairdresser, Aaron comes along...inside Curtis.

Now with Robbie’s help, it’s up to Curtis to find out what happened to Aaron so he can finally have peace. And maybe, together, Curtis and Robbie can find their own happily ever after...

Six years ago, Billy Grant had a night he never forgot losing his virginity to the jock of his dreams, Mitch Crestfield. But Billy fled afterward, not wanting to hear Mitch’s regrets.
Now Mitch has hit it big, winning the lottery, and Billy finds himself invited to Mitch’s celebration. When Mitch suggests another night of passion, Billy can’t seem to resist. But Mitch has something more than one night in mind...

Contest runs from June 29- July 08. Winners will be chosen randomly. Add your name in comments.

Weekly News

I've been busy, so I have some news.

I completed my ghost story, Lost Between, and submitted it with the forms to AQ. It's scheduled for July 10, 2011 and will be part of the A Ghostly Affair Pax.

This means Hitting it Big has been scheduled for the very last day of July, July 31. It's a very short story, might be my shortest yet.

Also, the first three Sutter's Bay stories will be out in paperback at the end of August, simply titled Sutter's Bay, Volume One.

Now...on to the next work in progress.

New Cover - Hitting it Big

Some Changes in Plans

Well, chances are fairly high that Hitting it Big will be pushed back to an August release. I don't know for sure yet the day in August so for now I'll leave it with August 2011.

More probably I'll have a different release in July, though. I mentioned earlier working on something I thought I wasn't going to have to work on, but I now am. I changed the story though. I decided to start something entirely new rather than re-work a story I had little enthusiasm for.

I had signed up many months ago for A Ghostly Affair pax coming from Amber Quill. I had planned to rework a m/f ghost story I was writing a million years ago but soon realized it wasn't really my thing anymore. I had started it years and years ago and I just didn't care even changing the girl Haley into the boy Harry. Thinking myself clever, I quietly deleted myself from our Pax tracking system at Amber Quill, but I forgot to mention it to the editorial director (oops), who was still expecting my Ghost story (as were my fellow AQ authors). Since I had already backed out of the Vacation story, I knew I couldn't back out of this one as well.

I created a new ghost story called, Lost Between, and so far I am loving it. Basically one character, Aaron, was murdered five years ago, and in order for him to be at peace, the main characters, Curtis and Robbie need to put the pieces together to find out what happened to Aaron. Robbie was Aaron's boyfriend at the time of his death. It won't be scary and there won't be any graphic murder details for those of you who are squeamish about that sort of thing, but it will be all rather sad and tragic, but will end good.

There are actually six authors signed up for the pax and only five stories make it into it so it's very possible Lost Between will be a separate story from the pax but either way it will be released. If things change around, I'll report here.

So that's the latest.    

Upcoming Releases and Plans

So, in other news, while I was on hiatus, I wrote a short story for Amber Quill called Hitting it Big. It’s an Amber Kiss sized story so more along the lines of Manfred’s Curse as far as length is concerned. A light-hearted story about two guys who reconnect after one of them wins the lottery. We can dream, can’t we? It’s a bit of a departure for me in that the story is entirely from one character’s point of view. Not first person, though. I don’t plan to make a habit of it but for this story it worked.


The tentative release date for Hitting it Big is July 17, 2011, however this is most definitely subject to change..

I’m working on Waking the Prince and had hoped to have it done and submitted to a publisher by early summer. Not sure that's possible now, may be later summer, given that there was a project I had hoped to escape, but it's looking like I will not. I’ll keep you posted on when it’s finished and off to find a home.

For now I am working on the project I had hoped not to have to work on, but alas...well I am. I hope everything will turn out great on that score. And this is not the vacation story I bowed out of earlier, at least.

After that, I have another story I started that I will need to complete by September 01. Don’t anticipate any issues with that though. I can’t name it since I haven’t got a title yet, but I’ve started it.

Not sure if I will have time for anything else the rest of 2011 at this point. My schedule is really filling up. I still hope to work on my cop partners story later this year. I also have Sutter’s Bay 4 to tackle (Leo Winthrop’s story) and another “His” story, Can’t Be His.

If I can get that all done by the end of 2011 I’ll be surprised! LOL. Likely some of that will be pushed to 2012.

Briefly

Okay, we're in the last few days to win the contest. Next week I'll reveal who the five lucky winners will be of a Shawn Lane story of their choice (including upcoming releases).

I'm working on my current work in progress which I hope to have finished and submitted to a publisher somewhere around June.

In the meantime, I'm working on a short story for Amber Quill which I hope to have done in the very near future. The story is called, Hitting it Big.

That's my brief update and reminder. Carry on.