Venero (Veny) Armanno the author of two short story collections and nine critically acclaimed novels...
Almost a month since the last visit from the Donut Patrol? Let’s fix that! Reading my sample chapters and leaving a review by this Friday, March 22nd gets you entered to win a Dunkin Donuts gift card! It doesn’t have to be long--just a sentence or two about what you thought about what you read. Anyone who pre-orders during this time (either newbies or repeats) will receive a bonus entry.
Chapters 1 through 4 available here: www.inkshares.com/books/showtime
Looking forward to everyone’s feedback! 📖
Ricky
P.S. The results of the "Baltimore’s Best" poll will be released by the Baltimore Sun on April 15th, so stay tuned!
Hi, all!
Just a couple of quick announcements - book sales and such!
First, if you like the things I write (or you like romance, especially LGBTQIA romance, or if you like books on sale), JMS Books - one of my publishers - is doing a flash sale today for St Patrick’s Day! 45% all ebooks, including mine! Here’s the link to mine - everything from a single-mom sorceress and her bisexual hero in “Sorceress” to frustrated writer Dan and his adorable witch-neighbor Sterling in “Elemental” to the demons and rock stars of A Demon for Midwinter…
Second, a couple of new release and coming soon announcements!
1) “Sorceress” is out now! The re-release of my very first ever published romance story, courtesy of JMS! Originally published by Ellora’s Cave, way back when! This one’s m/f – a single-mom sorceress and the king’s illegitimate older brother – with a bisexual hero, and a dragon and enchantment and siblings and a lot of tea and compassion. If you’ve read the older version, this version’s been reworked a decent amount, and also it’s about two thousand words longer – so come check out the new one! (The sequel, by the way, will be the story of our titular sorceress’s magician ex, and his own romance with a very enthusiastic knight…that one will be m/m, with a very pansexual shapeshifting magician hero!)
2) my story “Sundown, Holiday, Beacon” for the Happiness in Numbers anthology, edited by Nicole Field, is also out now from Less Than Three Press – and I’ve signed the contract for the sequel story about these characters! This one contains a m/m/m triad of superheroes (well, one superhero, one former sidekick, and one reformed supervillain) in love! Plus lasagna, uses of superpowers for home renovation (and in bed), domestic fluff, and coming home to each other. The whole anthology’s centered around the themes of found families, polyamory and queerness, happy endings, and domesticity – and honestly this is still one of my favorite stories of mine. And the sequel involves meeting the various parents…
3) also out now: “Snowed In: Kit & Harry,” my story for the JMS Books Snowed In themed collection! For this one, I got to go back to the world of A Demon for Midwinter – it’s a historical prequel, so look for some familiar powers and family names, with all-new characters! It’ll stand alone, though, so no worries if you’ve not read Demon. Expect Regency-era wintertime, an ice elemental, a cheerful freckled young viscount and a cranky magical detective, and ALL the fabulous tropes involving bad weather and being snowed in and hurt/comfort and cuddling for warmth and grumpy falling in love…
4) some stories coming soon: “Sound the Fairy-Call,” out from JMS Books probably in May! In which I use my scholarly background to write a m/m story about medieval fantasy healing sex involving a fairy and a tired mercenary! Plus I’ve managed to quote Robert Graves! It’s fun. After that, there’ll be the sequel to “Leather & Tea” (which you may recall was one of the JMS Top Ten Stories of 2018)! So look for those, soon...
Happy St Patrick’s Day, all!
