An Inconvenient Lover

Just a quick note to let you know that my latest release, the contemporary romance  An Inconvenient Lover, is out in paperback at Amazon.

I had to mention it because a) the cover is just so stunning (thank you, Dar Albert!), and it looks even better in the print edition, and b) this is a book I have waited sixteen years to see in print.  As I say in one of the forewords in the book itself — these days the ebook format is the primary edition, and print is subsidiary, so now it’s ironic.

But I’m marking the print release of this one in particular all the same.  It’s been a long, hard and sometimes heartbreaking journey to this point.  For me, this is a bittersweet moment, especially as two of the three people the book is dedicated to will never know it — their influence on me and this book lapsed many years ago and they’ve slipped out of my life now.

Yet I have never forgotten that influence.

Have you had people like that in your life, that changed the direction of your life, early on?

Have you ever told them that?

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Quick update. My contemporary romance, Lucifer’s Lover, just hit print.  It looks gorgeous!  Especially with that cover.  And it’s a long novel, so it’s a pretty hefty tome, too.  You can pick up a copy directly from Createspace right now, or wait a few days for the print page to populate over at Amazon.

And The Royal Talisman, my erotic historical romantic suspense, has popped up at Barnes & Noble.com for all you Nook readers.  Although, as usual, no sign of a blurb, excerpt or author information, despite faithfully filing all that guff when I uploaded…  So I’m directing you to the book’s page here, first, then you can click through to B&N…

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I just released Lucifer’s Lover on All Romance eBooks, and on Amazon, and over the next few days will be formatting and uploading to the other distributors — Smashwords, Createspace (print).  So it’s official, Lucifer’s Lover is published.

This may come as a surprise to you because I didn’t really given anyone a heads up about this one.  It’s one of my Author Edition titles, which I’m not releasing with as much fanfare as I would a brand new title, like Bannockburn Binding, as they’ve already been published elsewhere.

But neither are these Author Editions simply regurgitated re-releases with new covers.  I’m reworking all of them and adding additional features.  The Royal Talisman, for instance, became its own stand-alone title by the time I’d finished with it, and it used to be only a novella, when it was first released.

Ditto with Lucifer’s Lover, although I didn’t extend the story nearly as much as I did with Talisman.  Lucifer’s Lover was already very long, so I tightened up and cleaned up as much as I added…I’ve learned a thing or two since the book was first published back in 2006.

The nicest thing about this second edition of Lucifer’s Lover is the cover, which is just amazing.  Dar Albert does it again.  If you have a small monitor, or have this window crunched down, then double-click on the image to the left so you can see it at full size.  It’s really something else.  There’s a whole history about the cover that I explain in the book, too.

You can pick up Lucifer’s Lover in all the popular formats at All Romance eBooks, and in the next twelve to twenty-four hours, the page will build itself at Amazon, too.

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Sherrod Story will be joining me for an interview/guest post on December 16.  She is a fascinating indie author who writes erotic romances of the interracial contemporary kind, and they have a distinct twist of their own — a reflection of their author.  Sherrod’s blog is absorbing reading all of its own, so I’m really looking forward to the interview.

As I’ve written my own share of multicultural and …well, more or less contemporary erotic romance (urban fantasy romances and romantic suspense are both contemporary settings — I know, it’s stretching the point, but…) I feel I have a lot in common with Sherrod.  Besides, we’re both indie published.

And I just love her blog.

Stop by on December 16 to see what else she has to say.

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Fiona Love

by Sherrod Story

available at Amazon

When singer/actress Fiona Love meets Dane Craig she wasn’t expecting love, only extremely hot sex. And that’s exactly what she gets. From playing dress up with beauty products, judging the merits of different kinds of soap suds on skin, and playing games of make believe with spankings and silk scarves for props, nothing is off limits.

But Daney-licious, as Fiona calls him, makes phrases like soul mate and true love feel as natural as the free for all lovemaking they enjoy together. Unfortunately, being famous is about as unnatural as you can get. As her star rises, Fiona’s life heats up and a silly misunderstanding parts the new lovers. But Fiona doesn’t run the charts and the box office for nothing. There’s a new love waiting in the wings.

 Natty is an old friend and colleague, and just what she needs to stave off loneliness. One must guard against withdrawal when a good love is taken away quickly, after all, and Natty is tall, handsome and fond of a different kind of game… As he and Fiona collaborate on her new album, studio time stretches far into the night, and often the next day. But Dane is not completely out of the picture. As Fiona juggles movies and music and works to shake loose a habit that could mean the end of her career, tragedy strikes, and it’s anyone’s guess whose love Fiona will chose…

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