Just a little note to say...

…TWO of my books (well, one book and one novella) are nominated for the 2020 Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers Choice Awards

Seaworthy (book one of the Character Bleed the trilogy!) in general LGBT Romance (about halfway down as you scroll), and “Sundown, Holiday, Beacon” (my M/M/M superheroes in love story!) in LGBT Novellas & Shorts (last category, near the bottom!)!

 Voting goes live Feb 6! *excited flails*

(I don’t actually know how the voting works; I assume one has to be a member…but I don’t in fact know for sure! So…if you would like to vote for these things I write…or just share and support!…I will love and adore you! and possibly write some form of tiny bonus story? We shall see…

I’m so excited and so honored – look at that fabulous list of nominees! So very cool to be included and to share this with you!

Hi, all - and happy holidays, and I hope you’re all doing as well as possible, in the middle of...well, everything! I do have a couple of exciting updates, so I wanted to share with you!

First, “Cinnamon and Strawberries” is here! It’s a bonus novella for Jason & Colby from the Character Bleed trilogy! And it’s full of low-angst first-holidays-together domestic romance, and breakfast in bed, and picking out perfect gifts, and some interesting uses for holiday ribbon…

Buy links:
Amazon (only $2.99!)
JMS Books (only $2.39!)

Second, the 2020 Top Ten Gay Romance collection will be released from JMS Books December 30, and it has my story “A Demon for Forever” in it! (The “Demon for Midwinter” wedding story, with Justin in a wedding dress!) And the other authors are so marvelous – such good company to be in! Here’s the publisher description: 2020 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books this year. From first love to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in love with them.

Pre-order yours here now! And look at that adorable cover!

It’s release day! For Steadfast, book three of the Character Bleed trilogy – the final (well, sort of final – we’ve got Leo’s spin-off novel coming!) installment of what might be my favorite thing I’ve ever written! It’s certainly the story I’ve poured the most words into – and emotions, and random trivia, and thoughts about their future! And it’s definitely got the most bread-related puns!

Steadfast is out now! It contains happy endings for characters on screen and off, a road trip, an accidental proposal (or two!), the best sheep-themed hotel ever, a completed movie, and the aforementioned bread puns, because why stop when we’re on a roll? You can buy it here at JMS Books (on sale this week – only $4.79!) or here at Amazon !

And it comes with bonus scenes – one about Jason and Colby moving in together, one movie review, one commentary track, one about two grumpy old men finding each other, one about Jason’s best friend (and asexual character!) Evan getting his own happy ending, one with an awards ceremony and Colby deciding to reward Jason after…and more!

These stories wouldn’t exist without everyone reading and supporting and sending me excited comments that make me have more thoughts – really these are all for you, all of you. I love you like Colby loves his giant cinnamon roll. Also, some news – there will be a Character Bleed holiday novella, probably out in early December! Contract signed and everything! It’s Jason and Colby and three chapters that’re snapshots of their first holidays together – decorating for Christmas, New Year’s, and then Colby’s birthday on January 2! So look for that happening soon…

If you haven’t, come pick up Books 1 & 2 from JMS Books here on my author page or here on my Amazon author page, and get caught up!


A new release announcement - what just might be my favorite story I’ve written, so far!

Book One of the Character Bleed trilogy, Seaworthy (essentially the first third of this giant 254k story), comes out tomorrow – August 1 – from JMS Books! I AM SO EXCITED  – as I mentioned, I love this whole story-world so very much, as we play with the contemporary, the historical, and the ways we fall in love with movies and characters. And books Two (Stalwart) and Three (Steadfast) will be out in September and October, respectively, to finish off the trilogy!

Seaworthy contains:

~actors falling in love while filming a gay Napoleonic War-era love story

~slow-burn mutual pining

~very much resolved sexual tension (at last!)

~lots of food/food-related puns

~the purposeful opposite of the “bury your gays” trope

~the most meaningful boot-removal scene I’ve ever written!

And look at this luscious cover art, below! And also I can promise that it comes with a brand-new, not-available-anywhere-else bonus story.

I hope you love Jason and Colby and random conversations about wizards and pastries and history and bread puns and love stories as much as I do!

Buy at Amazon here!

Buy at JMS Books here!

Buy at Barnes & Noble here!


Hi, all! It’s convention time, and Pride Month, and I’ll be doing some author events at the Rainbow Space Magic Virtual Convention soon! Read on for the details...

The Rainbow Space Magic Virtual Convention is happening in two weeks, June 20-21! I’ll be doing an author reading, and also on a panel about outlaws! And it’s free!

Some more details: the Rainbow Space Magic Virtual Convention is designed for LGBTQIA+ sci-fi & fantasy creators and fans - here’s the description from their website:

"...an online LGBTQ+ science fiction and fantasy convention designed to help fill the terrible empty place of canceled in-person conventions during the current crisis as well as offering an SFF convention to those readers and writers in the queer community who struggle to travel or attend physical conventions. Free to participants and convention-goers, RSM seeks to bring like-minded people together, providing LGBTQ+ readings and panels from a safe social distance."

It’s in part being run by a lovely author friend (and mastermind of the Queer SF website) J. Scott Coatsworth, and so when they were putting it together, I got asked if I wanted to join in! So...here’s my schedule:

1) Outlaws & Adversaries Panel Discussion, Sunday June 21, 1:00pm-2:00pm EDT (or 10-11am if you’re in California like me): Angel Martinez, Kim Fielding, K.L. Noone, Vance Bastien

2) Author Reading Panel, Sunday June 21, 7:00-8:00pm EDT (or 4-5pm if you’re in California like me): Chloe Spencer, K.L. Noone, Kellie Doherty

Come join us and hang out with a group of LGBTQIA+ sci-fi and fantasy fans and authors! Again, totally free, but they will ask you to register to receive the web links for the panels and such! Here’s the home page link, here’s the registration link, here’s the overall schedule, and here’s the Facebook event link!

Feel free to share and invite people! We’re hoping for an awesome (fantastic?) turnout! (You’ll notice some other awesome people involved...Scott, as I mentioned, but also K.S. Murphy - who you might’ve seen in a book dedication or two of mine! and who I’ll co-author with any time! - and Antonia Aquilante, and more!)

I haven’t quite decided what I’m reading yet - might be the opening of Cadence and the Pearl, or maybe something new...or both - whatever I can manage in 15 minutes! We shall see...

And one more small piece of news: yesterday I signed a contract with JMS Books for a flash fiction lesbian high fantasy erotica short!
It’s called "Honey Witch" and it’ll probably be out in August, priced at 99 cents (or 79 cents for pre-orders)! It’s about, well - an earth-witch who specializes in divination with honey, and desires, and a princess with a question, in need of some...help... And I hope you’ll like it!

Just a quick post to let you all know that my publisher JMS Books is having a Memorial Day Weekend Sale – 40% off on all ebooks, through Monday!

Including pre-orders like my own “A Penny for Your Thoughts” – which you can order right now from JMS for only 59 cents, if you like fluffy high fantasy m/m friends-to-lovers! (Release date May 30!) (It’s still only 99 cents here at Amazon, if you prefer ordering there!)

Here’s the link to my personal JMS author page, but check out all the other amazing books on sale too!

Hi, readers! I hope you’re all doing well and staying safe out there! I’ve been doing a lot of writing, and I’ve got some news that - while it can’t fix the world - might offer a good distraction!

First, look what’s out tomorrow!

It’s my first-ever SF romance (as opposed to fantasy/paranormal) short story! And it’s m/f, with bisexual main characters!

It’s the story I’ve described to people as…basically a Regency-debutante-meets-dashing-captain romance BUT IN SPACE.

And also the captain is a woman. And the person coming of age is the Emperor. And also jelly candies are important.

(In my head, by the way, there’s a subtitle, which is: “How Starship Captain Catherine Everington Became Empress of the Galaxy,” which about sums it up!)

It’s around 7k, and it’s on sale at JMS Books LLC for only $1.59, or at Amazon for $1.99!

And it’s currently at #221 in the overall LGBT Science Fiction category on Amazon! Which is pretty cool for my first-ever proper sci-fi story! (Think we can get it to go any higher…?)

Buy at Amazon here! Or at JMS Books here!



Second, the pre-order link is also up for my next super-short m/m romance - release date May 30!

This one’s part of the JMS Books Hot Flash collection, all under 5k words and always priced at 99 cents or less - right now it’s on pre-order sale at JMS for only 79 cents! 99 cents at Amazon. :-)


"Penny" contains:

~a comfortable sort of domestic high fantasy setting

~a clockwork-magic kitten

~love confessions!

~one very cheerful newly-appointed local magician

~one big bashful artifact hunter who keeps bringing said magician all the cursed items to defuse, trying to make the kingdom safer

~a LOT of mutual pining

~one confession-spell magic coin…

Pre-order at Amazon here! Or at JMS Books here!

That’s all for now - sending you all the love!

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…

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!

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, 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.

Just a quick update, with some new release news, and a book rec!

Refuge at Clifftop is out now – 18k of superheroes (including one supersoldier, one former sidekick, and one former villain), established-relationship m/m/m polyamory, a stormy night and a difficult mission, at least one very close call, a happy ending and comfort sex – and, of course, some pretty terrible puns!

Come pick it up at JMS Books for only $2.39 over here, or here at Amazon or here at BN for $2.99!

This one surprised me – I hadn’t entirely planned the ending, the way it turned out, but I like it! And, of course, Ryan’s parents will be thrilled to hear the news…

Come pick up a copy and find out what happens!

And my next full-length novel – 60k! – will be out from JMS Books 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.

And a book rec – my very dear friend K.S. Murphy (who you might’ve seen in a book dedication or two of mine) also has a novel releasing today, also from JMS Books! It’s called Rock and Roll Chose Me, and it’s all about art and painting and music and hot guys and tattoos and falling in love, and I promise you’ll love it! So come pick that up too – here’s the JMS Books link, though you can also find it on Amazon and everywhere else!

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

Some free books, and some pre-order announcements! And much love.

First, the 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! 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! ❤



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