Saturday 25 May 2013

Everything He Needs

Sam Carver is only an intern under the mysterious, devilishly handsome billionaire businessman Caleb Royce. He’s nursed an impossible crush since the day he was hired, but when a company party takes a turn for the unexpected, Sam discovers one of his boss’ kinky secrets.

Caleb is gay but long closeted. His conservative family would disown him if they knew. When Sam and Caleb spend a passionate night together, it awakens all the fantasies he’s suppressed for years. The only way they can be together is a secret relationship… But it makes the thrill of being caught all the sweeter.

This 11000 word story contains explicit gay sex, collaring, and domination.

Available on: Amazon - B&N - Kobo - All Romance Ebooks

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Wine and Honey (The Roman Boy, Book 2)

Though newly a free citizen of Rome, Anselm Kahler is still a slave at heart. Especially on his knees before his master, the patrician Septimus Tuditanus. Thrust back into public life Septimus takes Anselm with him, and Anselm is introduced to all the debauchery that follows it.



Dropped into a world where a party can become an orgy with a snap of the fingers, Anselm is wary at first. Soon, he’s hungry for more, and he no longer knows which one of them is leading the other.



As they struggle with what they are to each other, Anselm gains another admirer. His loyalty is put to the test, but when his admirer takes a turn for the insistent, can Septimus rescue Anselm- before it’s too late?



This 32000 word novella contains rough gay sex, exhibitionism and bdsm.

Available on: Amazon - B&N - Kobo - All Romance Ebooks

Friday 17 May 2013

On Selling Books

Russel Blake has an interesting post up about what exactly it takes to publish and market books (see it in full here). I've found a lot of what he says to be true- but nothing more so than the advice to write quickly and make your releases frequent.

Now, that's the hardest part, of course. Getting all the words down on paper as fast as you can. What I need is a brain to page translator. My hands just aren't fast enough.

One thing I don't agree with, though, is going back and rewriting old novels years later. If you start in with that, you'll never stop. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, admit you weren't always as skilled as you are now, write more and write new.

Saturday 4 May 2013

More! Faster!

I was reading Rachel Aaron's 2K to 10K - if you've never heard of it, it's a book (adapted from the linked blog post) on how to, essentially, write faster.

I always feel like I'm not writing fast enough. Writing, especially these days, is a numbers game. You can't spend two years writing the novel of your dreams (much as I'd like to), you have to get your work out in numbers, make it good, and you have to get it out yesterday.

Her book's helped me out already. (I sound like I'm shilling, here. I'm not! I promise!) All it took was one simple little thing I didn't think to do- I used to shoot for pure word count in a single day, and when I reached it, I'd stop. Now, I start a timer when I start writing (I use toggl, it's free and I couldn't find any other timer that would give me nice graphs for what I did over weeks and months), and I don't stop writing until my time's up.

I'm not writing anything like 10,000 words a day- it's still kind of mind-boggling to me that anyone can manage that- but I'm producing more than before, and I'll count that as a win.