It's JUNE! New Releases and New Flash Fic

Holy Moly! Where did the time go?

It's June and I'm a little behind on my normal flow. The end of May was rough as I had a small procedure done and it took more out of me than I expected. The hazards of ageing, sadly. But I'm ready to rock through June and then hit the keys hard in July for Camp NaNoWriMo.

Two New Releases and one to go!

Spin Play

Now in his mid-thirties, college professor Ben is tired of playing around. He’s more than ready to stop with the hide-and-seek and start with the manhunt. The fantasy of his perfect mate becomes reality when the tables are turned during an evening out to celebrate his birthday. The music is cranked up loud, and the startlingly flexible Sawyer tempts Ben with his seductive moves. Ben’s willing to play Sawyer’s game, taking a chance on the adventure with all its twists and turns, and hoping his decision will be the winning move that will last a lifetime.

Warnings: Inappropriate innuendo, Misuse of games people play
Tags: M/M, contemporary, humor, age gap

Cue the Music 

Available 6/15/2021

Every relationship has had it at some point. The singular argument that escalates, that lingers. More often than not, the couple finds their way back to status quo. But what happens when they don’t? What happens when one gives up?
After months of trying to resolve their issues, Ty loses hope. He leaves, with only his music to keep him company. Until one day, he feels someone watching him intently from the bar. Maybe, just maybe, Ty won't end up alone after all.

Cue the Music is a stand-alone short story in the Southern Jersey Shores series.

June Flash Fic - Steel and his Daddy

Before you read this... Daddy Charles is called Daddy Nix by his boys.
Why is a secret! If you figure it out, shh!

“Why are we here, Daddy?” Steel rubbed his nose trying to clear the musty, dusty scent invading his senses.

“I’m looking for a book, and I have it on good authority that what I’m looking for will be here.”

“An old book?” Steel crowded Daddy Nix as they stepped farther inside the dimly lit store. He glanced around and realized that the story was maybe not so dimly lit as it was the full stacks blocking the overhead lights and throwing a multitude of shadows.

“Yes.”

“What kind of old book? Do you think they have a book for me? I like adventure books with lots of magic and dragons? Sometimes I imagine I’m a dragon shifter and I have to save my brother from the evil wizard.”

Daddy smiled at him, a flicker of flame dancing in his eyes. “A dragon shifter, huh? I would have thought you’d want to be Pegasus.” He led Steel through the aisles towards a large counter covered in books and a cash register.

“Pegasus! No way. He’s too white. I’m jet black, so I’d have to be an evil Pegasus, and I don’t want to. I wanna be the good guy.”

“Always best be to the good guy,” a deep voice rumbled behind Steel, startling him. He jumped and clung to Daddy’s arm, annoyed that he’d been so distracted he hadn’t noticed the stranger come up behind them.

Once he got his breathing under control, Steel peeked at the man who’d spoken. He looked up and up, marveling at the giant. It was rare he met someone bigger than himself. The man had a good six inches on Steel and at least fifty pounds---all muscle. He had a thick, bushy head of dark hair and an equally busy beard to match.

“Holy moly, Daddy! He’s huge!”

The giant rumbled, the thrumming hitting Steel in the chest and causing him to laugh along with the huge man. Steel couldn’t stop the question spinning through his brain. “Are you a giant?”

“Nope,” the giant chuckled, “I’m a dragon.”

Steel’s eyes widened. “For real?”

The giant smiled, his teeth gleaming white as it shone through the scruffy, fluffy dark beard. “For real.” He held up a hand and shiny blue scales rippled across the back of it and up his arm. As quick as they appeared, they disappeared.

The dragon studied them for a moment. “A Legendary with a Stallion. Interesting. I smell a third, too, another Stallion. Very, very---”

Daddy cleared his throat.

“As you wish,” the dragon shifter finished. “I have what you are looking for, Legendary, and I may have something for your boy. May I?” He offered a few fingers towards Steel who glanced from them to Daddy.

Daddy stared at the dragon for a long minute.

The dragon placed his hand over his heart. “You have nothing to fear from me. I will keep him safe. The book you desire is there on the edge of the counter.” He pointed to a thick book, bound in a red and gold hardcover.

“The book for your boy is this way.” The dragon swung his hand to indicate further into the store’s depths.

Steel wanted the book, but he didn’t really want to leave Daddy’s side. The dragon seemed nice enough; he’d be okay. He could be big for a few minutes even though Daddy said he could be little all day.

“I’ll go with you,” Daddy said, wrapping a protective arm around Steel’s waist.

Steel curled into Daddy Nix and kissed his cheek, contentment warming his core. He hadn’t had to say anything; his daddy knew. Steel hugged him tight. “Thank you, Daddy. You’re the best daddy ever.”

The Merry Month of May

 

May is all about being Merry! Got lots of stuff going on this month. Open House for Marching Band, Band Concerts, Books Releasing, Mother's Day. Might not be enough hours to get all the reading in I love to do. And let's not forget writing. Hoping to make goal again this month.

First, that date above! Yup, that's the release date for Ultimate Summer. Frisbees, hot sweaty bodies, shirts versus skins. Oh yeah!

When Brett gets tagged by a flying disc, launched from the hands of ultimate frisbee player Sean, he doesn't expect the mutual attraction to hit just as hard and fast. Sometimes all it takes is a single day to jumpstart an ultimate summer.

ULTIMATE SUMMER

#KU #southernjerseyshores #agegapromance #HFN

Flash Fiction

This month's Flash is the start of the next Forest Edge Story... Flint, Steel, and Daddy Charles. I'm still debating what kind of shifter Daddy is. I've made a preliminary decision which I'm keeping a secret for now. Sorry! I don't have a title yet either. Crazy, right??

 Hello Steel!

Steel (unedited)

“Here.” Flint shoved a large gift bag at Steel.

“What’s this?” Steel took the bag with two hands, expecting it to be heavy and finding it to be surprisingly light. “A present for me?”

Steel lifted the colorful bag decorated for a baby shower or infant birthday party. Lots of cartoon animals and bright balloons. He glanced from the bag to his older brother, narrowing his gaze. Flint bought me another baby toy? His brother was starting to go a little overboard since he’d expressed an interest in age play after seeing all the littles and middles living in Forest Edge. Truth be told, Steel thought the idea appealed to Flint, too, especially with the enthusiasm he’d put into creating a nursery room for Steel to play in.

There hadn’t been a whole lot of toys, games or playtime growing up. Their mom had divorced their dad when Steel was five because his profession put too much stress on her. She’d taken them with her initially, but Dad had fought for custody. Since Mom didn’t have a huge support network and her income wasn’t much even with alimony, they’d ended up moving back and living with him the majority of the time. They’d seen their mom every other weekend until Steel turned twelve, when she remarried and moved away. After that, they’d only seen her a few weeks in the summer and at the holidays. She had kids with her new husband and had a new life, one that had little space for two teenagers.

Their father and uncle owned and ran a security firm and bounty office. The bounty side of things, tracking down criminals who’d skipped bail, got a greater share of the business, but occasionally a high-profile client would come to the city and want an extra layer of protection. Growing up, they’d loved to hear the stories their father would tell them about so-and-so actor at a party or having “a night on the town.”

When Flint was thirteen, their father deemed him old enough to look after eight-year-old Steel. Unfortunately, their father’s job often meant there’d been a lot of nights when he never came home, leaving them to fend for themselves. When their father was home, however, and not occupied with hunting down bail-jumpers, he trained his kids in martial arts and shooting. By the time, Steel was eighteen and had earned his high school diploma, he could take down a guy twice his size and shoot a man-sized target in the heart at 25 yards consistently. His sniper skills exceeded those of any one else working for his dad, although they’d never be used on the job. He was also proficient in fighting with knives and staves. His father had been so proud of “his boy.”

At 19 and 24, Steel and Flint became the most prolific of the bounty hunter teams, but that all changed three years later. Both his father and uncle had teamed up to be bodyguards for an up-and-coming new female singer. She had the voice and the looks, unfortunately, she also had a no-filter mouth on her that pissed a lot of people off. She’d made more than a few enemies and had a couple threats against her; enough that her PR team thought a couple of extra hands on deck would be prudent.

A crazed stalker, shouting how she had disrespected him one too many times, opened fire with an assault weapon at the bar where she’d been holding court after a concert. Their father had been killed protecting the client and their uncle severely injured by a row of gunshots down his left arm and leg. Unable to keep the business afloat, their uncle sent them off into the world.

With nothing to hold him together, Steel grieved long and hard. Flint tried all sorts of things to snap him out of it. He’d cooked Steel all his favorite foods, took him out for meals and to the movies, insisted they play stupid board games together. One night, at his wits end, he’d hugged Steel and then kissed him. Steel had frozen for all of a single second before he grabbed Flint tight and kissed him back. They’d always had each other, neither had dated, both knew they preferred men over women. Flint often said, Steel knew him better then he knew himself, and Steel could say the same. Being with his older brother intimately was just the right progression for them.

That night, they hadn’t done more than kiss and cuddle in bed; they’d also talked until the sun was peeking through the curtains. Flint then dragged Steel into the shower, where he proceeded to wash every inch of Steel’s body before dropping to his knees and sucking him off. Of course, Flint, being the gentleman he was, told Steel he didn’t have to reciprocate, which made Steel angry. Fuck, yeah, he wanted to reciprocate. He shut off the water and tossed a towel at Flint while he dried himself thoroughly. Back in the bedroom, he tackled Flint onto the bed and then took his sweet time ramping his brother up before letting him come.

Following their sexual initiation, they took to learning each other’s bodies as well as they knew each other’s minds and personalities. They watched porn together and experimented with positions and role playing, but neither had an inkling about age play until they moved to Forest Edge. Damn, that had been an eye-opener for sure.

Steel had gravitated right to the littles. He’d left blocks, legos, toy cars and Candyland behind before he’d been ready. Flint was too much of a brat to be a little, but Steel thought he identified with the teenage middles. He’d never been good about making decisions, so the guidance aspect worked for him. He’d always made a better employee than supervisor.

“Aren’t you going to open it?”

Steel glanced at his big brother---older brother, since he was actually the bigger of the two of them. Flint carried a beer he must have gotten from the refrigerator while Steel had been lost in thought. He took a long drag as he peered over the bottle’s edge at Steel.

“I promise it won’t bite.”

Fuck, Flint’s smirk was sexy, but the draw of the present proved too much for Steel to ignore. He knelt on the floor with the bag in front of him and began pulling out the tissue paper and throwing it every which way. If it was a baby toy, then he could be a baby about opening it, right?

The sight of white fur made him pause, the cute black button nose had him leaning closer. “Oh Flint,” Steel sighed as he reached inside and lifted out a large polar bear. He hugged the bear to his chest and nuzzled into the soft fur of its neck. “Gods, he’s adorable.”

New Release! Hustle and Hart

A brand new Young Adult Novella set in the 

Southern Jersey Shores world.

Way back in February, I wrote a quick one chapter story in response to a prompt from my publisher/editor, Debbie McGowan from Beaten Track Publishing. Using ABBA songs only, create a story, poem, haiku, whatever. I'd been tossing around the idea of a basketball themed story ever since I saw one of my daughter's coaches wearing a shirt that read: Hustle and Heart Sets Us Apart. Got a nice ring to it, I thought, and then the thought never left me. 

This is the story of how Hustle met Hart. 

Quinn Hustle’s junior year as a varsity basketball player, starts as any other year…until he literally falls over the new kid. There’s everything to like about Tripp Hart, including the fact that they play for the same teams. Fast friends become best friends, but when hearts get in the way of the game, they may wind up broken. Will their friendship be enough to overrule their heads and earn them both a win?

P.S. No Ace and Dare here, but crossover characters may appear.

BUY LINKS

Amazon - E-book

Amazon - Paperback

B&N

Smashwords

Google Play

NEW RELEASE - Say You Will

Say You Will

Three years ago, Darren Goldman had no idea the man he met on his first day of work in a new town would become the man he'd been waiting for his whole life. With Ace's birthday approaching, Dare sets out to do the impossible: surprise his boyfriend with a party and a proposal. 

"Can't be done," they said. “Never work.” “Don’t bother.” “Are you sure you want to do this?” 

He'd prove them wrong. He was sure of it, until he wasn't.

Book 6 in the Southern Jersey Shores series.

Buy Links:

Say You Will - Amazon

Say You Will - Barnes & Noble

Say You Will - Smashwords

Say You Will - Beaten Track Pub.

Voyeur Valentine - New Release!

Eep.

Well, so much for blog posting once a month. But, I did get a lot more posts in this year than the year prior. 2018 isn't starting off so well either. My goals for 2017, however, were mostly achieved, and I even managed one short story release. Cue the Music arrived at the beginning of December, both as a single purchase and part of the anthology, Never Too Late. The anthology consists of 9 authors joining forces for stories about men and women older than 50 years of age keeping love, finding love, and discovering love across the spectrum of sexual identity.

Cue the Music:

Every relationship has had it at some point. The singular argument that escalates, that lingers. More often than not, the couple finds their way back to status quo. But what happens when they don’t? What happens when one gives up?

After months of trying to resolve their issues, Ty loses hope. He leaves, with only his music to keep him company. Until one day, he feels someone watching him intently from the bar. Maybe, just maybe, Ty won't end up alone after all.

Cue the Music is a stand-alone short story in the Southern Jersey Shores series.

   

Never Too Late Amazon                        Cue the Music Amazon

Never Too Late - BTP Page                    Cue the Music - BTP Page

And now, today in fact (February 1, 2018), I'm releasing my first self-published book. I'm blessed to say I had quite a bit of help, and I'd like to take a moment and just show you all how Cupid's Arrows came about and make thanks to these special individuals.

It all started when author Paula Wyant told me about an open call by Dale Lowry Cameron. Myths, Mayhem and Magic. Three protagonists, erotic, LGBT spectrum and of course, paranormal. A month of writing, a month of editing and off for submission. Unfortunately, I was not selected, so back to do a bit more editing. And with Valentine's Day looming, it was time. It took a bit until I came across the three arrows, and then Wulf Godgluck happily made my simple but perfect cover. He also formatted the story for me, and then , with a little trial and error, got it uploaded to Amazon Kindle. I need to add a shout-out of thanks to Wendy Rathbone for insisting on having me create an author profile, which I hadn't realized I didn't have.

So now, I present to you: Cupid's Arrows, book one of a new series entitled: Divine Connections.

Himeros wants what any God of Love wants: his disciples to be happy in love. When Eros comes to visit his sexually-charged modern-era bar, Himeros grabs opportunity with both hands. Arrows fly, and three best friends join, but the voyeuristic Himeros needs more. He coaxes Eros to follow, and once they secret the boys away, it’s time for a little show and tell. 

Amazon Link

Spin Play and Spring Musings

My goal of posting monthly fell by the wayside, crashing in dramatic fashion, but not forgotten. The last few months I've been pulled in a variety of directions.

First there was the request to join an ARC review team. I jumped at the chance to read a new contemporary author, not knowing she had a slew of backlog titles and I'd be reviewing a new book every 10 days. Keep an eye out for Sierra Riley, she's got a few worthwhile reads, and some not so good ones. Read my reviews on Goodreads first to make sure you don't waste your time.

Then there the opportunity to review for QUEERcentric Books. After writing a few reviews for the website, I was officially accepted onto the team, and now you can follow me here. What started as just reading and writing the reviews, recently became posting my own reviews. It was a learning process that quickly enabled me to write better blogs for you, my fans. I learned how to insert pictures, and highlight quotes, how to create links and further customize this blog. There's still tricks I've got to figure out, but I'll get there.

Spin Play

One goal accomplished was finalizing my fourth book in my Southern Jersey Shores series. I give you Spin Play...

The cover was created by Francu Wulf Godgluck with the critical eye of KC Faelan lending a hand on both cover and beta reading. I also want to send out some cyber love to my betas: Jonathan Penn, Eric Alan Westfall, Al Stewart and Dawn Sister, and my editor: Debbie McGowan over at Beaten Track Publishing. Thank you all for your continued support and help in getting Spin Play from the first words to the final release. It's now available for preorder at Amazon, Smashwords and ARE.

Spin Play wasn't the only cover I had Wulf and KC collarborating on. I also had them help me redo Ultimate Summer (SJS #3). Check it out...

Nice, right??

Another chunk of time was a bucket list vacation item, and I headed to Las Vegas for a week of playtime. What a fantastic city, but I was too tired at night to actually see much of the Sin that gives the city its nickname. Absinthe, though, now there's a show. Fantastic: raunchy and breathtaking in more than one way. Also while I was there, my husband and I also joined fellow author Hunter Frost and her significant other for dinner. We got an eyeopener into the history of the city, while Hunter and I got to compare "notes".

So now, I'm back to writing...reviews and the follow up to Lion's Hero. Among other family obligations. NaNo camp is going slow, but that's okay. Just keep writing...