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I know I've been a little quiet - sorry! Lots of family stuff; my dad's been in the hospital, and Awesome Husband and I were out there last week, helping out my mom and doing some cooking and such. He's doing better - he's home - but still on oxygen, possibly just sort of for good now.

Anyway! News! A couple of things...

Cadence and the Pearl is now out in paperback! So you can have a shiny physical copy! It's slightly cheaper directly from JMS Books over here, but you can also find it on Amazon here, and wherever else you like to buy books!

The pre-order link for my next little flash fiction short story is up at JMS, too! (I don't think it's on Amazon yet, or at least I can't find it.) "A Sonnet for a Thunderstorm" is historical and a little steampunk (a retired pirate! a wealthy merchant's son! 18th century submarines!) and very sweet - and currently only 79 cents, for pre-orders! Release date April 17.

And some more cool things...I'll be doing a little Zoom talk about Batman as part of the DePaul Pop Culture Conference Celebration of Superheroes on May 1 - the conference is free, if you want to come hang out with us! Details here.

And I got to do a tv interview! Nothing big, and I won't say too much more now (after all, who knows, they might have more news and end up not airing it or something), but it was very fun. We talked about romance and representation. :-)

Current Mood: tired

Today is the book release day for Cadence and the Pearl! If you’ve seen me mention this one, you’ll know how much I love it – it’s my next proper full-length novel (just over 60k), and it’s full of ocean magic, and opera plots, and the Northern Isles, and merpeople, and a schoolteacher with a secret, and homecomings, and second chances, and, oh, a whole lot of enchanted things…

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I also really love my language and writing in this one – is that odd to say, as the author? I do, though! I was aiming for a tone that’s very…almost nineteenth-century (but modern in word choice and sentence structure!), very fairytale, Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, Susanna Clarke, and full of magic. And I hope you love it as much as I do!

Buy Cadence at JMS Books (on sale for 20% off – only $3.99!) here! Or at Amazon here (for $4.99)! Or Barnes & Noble here! Or anywhere else you might like to buy books!

(It's also almost my birthday - about a week - so if you would like, well...I would be delighted if you wanted to buy a copy! *laughs*)

In other upcoming story news, I have two short stories in the works at JMS – one a return to m/f (with bisexual protagonists) romance, and one a super-short fluffy m/m fantasy confection!

The m/f story is called “Of Starlit Balls and Starship Captains,” and it’s scheduled for May 9 – it’s essentially Jane Austen meets space opera, with a coming-of-age ball, a Galactic Emperor in need of a bride, and a very grumpy starship captain who’d rather wear her uniform than a gown…

The m/m short (part of the JMS Hot Flash line, priced at 99 cents and under 5k) is called “A Penny for Your Thoughts,” and it’s scheduled for May 30 – it’s high fantasy, with a magical artifact hunter (with a big soft heart) who finds cursed items and brings them to the local magician (who he’s secretly in love with) to help cleanse of dark magic…and, of course, the latest artifact happens to be a coin with a truth-telling confession spell on it…and it just might turn out the feelings are mutual…

I’ll update with book covers for those two stories once I’ve got them!

Finally, a book rec – the utterly wonderful Rock and Roll Chose Me by K.S. Murphy (who you might know as kellyscams and who I love deeply as a friend and sometimes co-author), which is contemporary m/m romance with main characters who feel so fantastically real, and who we care about so deeply, even when they make mistakes – they grow and learn and try, and they deserve their happy ending. And the side characters are delightful too! Here’s the Amazon link, though you can also pick it up from JMS Books, BN, etc.

Current Mood: excited

Want some free romance stories to help brighten everything up? My publisher, the lovely JMS Books, is offering ~96 titles~ for free until Saturday April 11! Primarily LGBTQ, in all flavors, though I think there’re also one or two m/f stories in there!

You’ll find stories of all length, short stories to full novels, and varying heat levels! My own contribution is the first “Leather & Tea” novella, introducing Ben & Simon – my happily married (and mildly kinky!) ex-spy and his romance-writer husband!

Come check out all the free offerings here!

And, if you’re so inclined, my next full-length novel, Cadence and the Pearl, is scheduled for release April 11! It’s m/m, around 60k, in a more or less alternate-17th-century setting – very fairy-story, Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, sort of feeling – and it’s got opera plots and ocean magic and a Northern Isles schoolteacher with a secret, and I honestly really loved writing this one! I hope you like Cadence and Jeremiah and their magic…

Pre-order link at JMS Books here! Only $3.99!

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And a book rec – Kay Simone’s One Giant Leap, which I’ve probably mentioned before, but I just. Really love this book. A long-distance falling-in-love m/m romance! With a bisexual astronaut and his adorable ground controller (inexperienced, but shoved into the job by Circumstances)! So much mutual pining and mutual thinking-the-other-could-never-feel-the-same! Two people who both grow and become stronger together! Hurt/comfort! Realistic space-program research! AHHHH SO MANY FEELS.

Current Mood: busy

First, free books! I’ve mentioned before how lovely my publisher JMS Books is – and here’s one more example! To help get us through these…complicated times, they’re offering 51 titles for free over on their website! Available for a week!

So if you’re in need of some happy endings, some romance, some comfort…come check them out! (The book I offered for this is Elemental, if you’d like a dark & stormy night, a first meeting, a ghost puppy, a writer with terrible writer’s block, and the adorable psychic new neighbor he falls for…)

Second, some upcoming releases now have pre-order links and cover art!

The third Extraordinary novella – with my M/M/M superhero guys: Ryan, John, and Holiday – will be released March 28 – coming up soon! Here’s the JMS Books link, where it’s currently on sale for only $2.39! I can promise some more action, some hurt/comfort (a lot of both, really!), and some tender comfort sex and taking care of each other…

And my next full-length novel – 60k! – will be out from JMS on April 11! (So close to my birthday! Come celebrate with me!) Cadence and the Pearl is one of my favorite stories – it’s the one I’ve described as…about a lot of things, including m/m romance, merpeople, enchantment, the Northern Isles, grief and healing, attractive schoolteachers, secrets, coming home again, heroes (and not being the hero), and a sort of alternate-universe seventeenth-century setting, including theater and opera. And it will come with a bonus story in which someone’s father gets his own happy ending, because fathers need love too. Here’s the link for Cadence – currently on pre-order sale for $3.99! I’m looking forward to sharing this fairytale world with you.

Stay safe, take care, and – to borrow a line – be excellent to each other! ❤

Current Mood: hopeful

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