Hot on the heels of Passion’s Last Promise, the latest addition to the Club Aegis series, I am happy to announce the release of Ask Me, a short read of just under 20k words. I wrote this story for a boxed set of BDSM-themed romances. Unfortunately, the set isn’t going to be published now, which is why it’s ready so quickly after the latest Club Aegis story. Elements of this story take their inspiration from my trip to the BDSM Writers Con in New York in 2015—the incident with the suitcase, for example. Yes, that happened to me—not once, but twice. With about 40 minutes until the car arrived to…
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It’s here! Passion’s Last Promise (Club Aegis 4)
With apologies for the huge delay, I am very pleased to announce that Passion’s Last Promise is now available for pre-order. The publication date is 19 July 2016 – from now until 10 July, you can pre-order it for only 99c / 99p. On that date, it’ll go up to the normal price of $2.99 / £1.99. It’s currently available on Amazon and All Romance eBooks, with Kobo and iBooks to follow. You can also read the first chapter here.
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Club Aegis Series Title and Numbers – information
Those of you who are really observant may have noticed that the images of book covers on this website and on the retailer websites have changed slightly. There is a reason for this. While there is a suggested reading order that may enhance your enjoyment of the series, there’s no real need to read the books in order, as they are all complete stories, with no cliffhangers. I took the decision to remove the sequential numbers from the Club Aegis books, because Amazon, through which a great many sales are made, doesn’t allow decimals in the numbering of books in a series. This being the case, A Wanting Heart hasn’t been…
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Blogging and me
I thought I’d dust the cobwebs off and dip into the blogging corner of my website. I don’t visit here often, as you can probably tell from the lack of recent entries. Blogging and I are not comfortable bedfellows – we eye each other suspiciously from across the room, and don’t willingly get up close and personal with each other. From my point of view, blogging is a strange and alien creature, which I don’t know how to feed. No, that’s not quite true – I know the theory of how to feed blogging, but I don’t really have much to offer by way of tasty food. I spend my…
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The book that turned me from a pantser to a plotter…
Passion’s Last Promise, the next book in my Club Aegis series, is finally in the hands of my wonderful editor. I am so relieved to be able to type that line. This story has been a long time in the writing – the first file I have for it goes back to September 2014. Between then and now, it’s undergone many changes – the main male character has had three different names, and I can’t even remember how many scenes have been added and then removed. Even the physical structure of the story has changed – until very recently, there was a prologue, but I decided that the content was best…
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Club Aegis 2.5: A Wanting Heart – News
In the interests of making the Club Aegis series available in full to all my readers, I’m delighted to announce that a paperback version of A Wanting Heart will soon be available. It’s going through the proofing process now, and will hopefully be on Amazon and CreateSpace very soon.
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Club Aegis 3: Passion’s Last Promise – Update
I thought it was about time to give you the latest news about Passion’s Last Promise. I wanted to have this available for you before Christmas, so I apologise – I failed miserably there. The good news is, I’ve finally finished the initial draft. The better news is, I’m working on polishing it right now, and I hope to send it to my editor within the next ten days. The next stage is dependent on my editor’s schedule, but as soon as the edits are back and processed, I can have the book formatted and up for sale. So thank you for bearing with me so far – I can’t…
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The Velvet Ribbon – second place, 2015 International Digital Awards
This is the certificate I received from Oklahoma Romance Writers of America, for second place in the Erotic Novel section of the 2015 International Digital Awards. If you would like to find out more about Alex and Beth, please click on the image below:
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2015 JABBIC Contest – Result
The Houston Bay Area chapter of Romance Writers of America has just announced the winners of the 2015 JABBIC (Judge A Book By Its Cover) contest, and I am delighted to inform you that Love Is Danger (Club Aegis 2) came second in the Long Contemporary category, as judged by a group of booksellers. Congratulations to all the winners and finalists!
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A is for…
Arugula. Okay, in the UK, we call it rocket, so maybe I’m cheating slightly, but I recently found out an interesting fact about this unassuming salad leaf. My current work-in-progress has a scene that includes rocket, and as someone observed, who would get turned on by salad? Good question. I didn’t have a good answer at the time, but days later, I did. It turns out that rocket is an aphrodisiac – which does start with A – and has been documented as such for almost two thousand years. I didn’t know that, either. All I can say is, I’ll never look at a plate of salad the same way…
