05 Saturday Dec 2015
Posted in Announcement
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adventure fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy romance, paranormal, Sale, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Series, Writing
For anyone who loves to read Fantasy or Science-Fiction, there’s a multi-author promotion going on this weekend!
Each book on the page is available for only .99 cents each! There’s also a fantasy/sci-fi romance section as well as a couple of box sets, so there are a lot of good deals. :)
24 Tuesday Nov 2015
Posted in Teaser
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A-Z Wilds Duology Challenge, adventure fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy romance, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, paranormal, Romance, Series, Short Fiction, Writing
Having difficulties with U, so I’m giving you W instead. They sound close enough I figured I could swap them.
I have a humanoid race in Haunt of the Wilds called black widows. They’re not actually spiders…that’d be a little too weird for me to want to write about. But they are people who essentially feed off their sexual partners, simply in a magical way rather than a gory, disgusting way.
This little vignette was supposed to talk about how black widows do their thing, but it never ended up getting too detailed, which is probably a good thing. So it’s mostly an introduction of what they are and how they’re received by most other people.
WIDOW’S PREY
“They’re everywhere, you know? A lot of folks are getting wise to their ways, but even those who know to be careful could fall into a trap. ’Cause them black widows, they’ll do everything in their power to pretend to be something they ain’t.
“My daughter—”
The man choked on his own words, looking for just a moment as if he would start sobbing. Then he swallowed the emotion with a grunt and sudden fury sparked to life in his eyes, echoing next within his voice.
“Those widows, they pretend they’re human, pretend they’re anything. All smooth talking and smiles as if they weren’t the despicable people they are. How do they live with what they do? Huh. There I go assuming they care about something other than themselves.”
“Your daughter,” I prompted tentatively. Continue reading
07 Monday Sep 2015
Posted in Fantasy, M/M, Short Story
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Author's Notes, Fantasy, Fiction, Love, paranormal, Romance, Short Fiction, Writing
Copyright © Emmi Lawrence
All rights reserved. No part of this story may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission from the author.
Short Story (2100)
September eighteenth dawned like any other. Mostly clear. Slightly cloudy. Humidity on the low side for the end of summer.
I could hear the squeak of the school bus stopping outside the cul-de-sac of townhomes. Bright cheerful voices. Youthful ones. Laughing.
With a groan that tasted of bitterness, I shoved my pillow over my head and squeezed my eyes shut in the hopes that life and its pointlessness might fade away with a few more minutes of sleep.
Then the firehouse began a long low tone, signaling to my muggy brain that very soon it would be the irritating cry of sirens that would come screaming down the drag. So I reluctantly tumbled out of bed.
Not twenty minutes later I sat at my grooved kitchen table staring at my coffee and listening to those sirens and wondering why I’d bothered taking off. It wasn’t as if I had plans other than to sit on my couch, watch a Netflix marathon and eat delivery. Which now, as I stared morosely into my coffee, I realized that wasn’t a plan at all and certainly was an embarrassing way to spend my thirty-fifth birthday. Continue reading
15 Wednesday Jul 2015
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Author's Notes, Cover, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Love, Mystery, Novella, paranormal, Romance, Short Fiction, Writing
DREAM (Curtain Chasers: Book Three) has been published. It is the third and final novella in a gay paranormal romance trilogy. About 42k words long. You can read chapter one below. Be warned, explicitness involved.
Death is part of Clay’s job, but not generally part of his life. That changes when tragedy hits close to home. Now, he’s forced to start a hunt within his own town. And he has to do it without Jacob by his side.
But not even Clay’s partner, Danica, has faced this danger before, a danger no one has ever discovered how to kill. When an old enemy appears demanding Clay’s help and the police complicate matters, the power of the otherworld invades the town.
With Jacob out of reach and choices limited, Clay watches all his dreams of their future morph into one long sleepless nightmare.
Warning: This novella features fettered spirits, unclaimed dreams and a proposal gone awry.
CHAPTER ONE
Clay had wanted to go with yellow gold and black platinum, but he hadn’t liked the way any of them looked. Plus, he’d decided that gold signified a wedding band, so he’d ended up buying a black platinum ring with the tiniest edges of silver. Simple, with just a hint of humor in the beveled edges.
He’d thought about adding a quote on the inside of the ring, but lacked the creativity to come up with anything romantic, yet not cheesy. All of Brianna’s suggestions had been over-wrought clichés that had made Clay cringe and finally scrap the idea altogether.
Except, now that he held the ring between thumb and forefinger, he wondered if he should have engraved something like the date they’d met or their full names. Too late now. Besides, Jacob probably wouldn’t care. Clay hoped, at any rate. Continue reading
15 Monday Jun 2015
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Author's Notes, Cover, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Love, Mystery, Novella, paranormal, Romance, Writing
GRAVE (Curtain Chasers: Book Two) has been published. It is the second novella in a gay paranormal romance trilogy. About 37k words long. Read Chapter One Here!
*ALLEY (Curtain Chasers Book One) will be on sale through June 15th-June 17th for only $0.99.*
Links for ALLEY: Amazon | iBooks | Kobo | Nook | Scribd | Inktera
Links for GRAVE: Amazon | iBooks | Kobo | Nook | Scribd | Inktera
A few random facts about this novella:
1) I did not make up any of the strangely named born-agains mentioned in this story. I am, however, tweaking them to my benefit so they are more in line with my system.
2) There are less chapters, but more words, in Grave than in Alley.
3) I created a short glossary to include in Grave and only added it to Alley afterwards.
4) In my original outline, one of the small twists at the end went the opposite direction. I found that it would have made the ending a little more drawn-out and clunky so I scrapped that idea. Can’t say more without giving it away.
5) The character of Ella was created for a different novel. In that story she only exists via emails. I wanted to keep her that way for Grave, but, you know, things happen and that wouldn’t have made sense. Plus, I think she was annoyed at not having a real voice.
6) Grave has my favorite cover in the trilogy.
24 Sunday May 2015
Posted in Excerpt
As promised, here is the first chapter of Grave, Book Two in the Curtain Chasers Trilogy. There are some spoilers for Alley (Book One) in the excerpt so be aware. Grave is available for pre-order right now.
GRAVE
Curtain Chasers Book Two
gay paranormal mystery romance
Forthcoming June 15, 2015
Amazon
When Clay Devlin receives a call from his lover, Jacob Hunt, he hopes for a tryst that might rekindle their fading relationship. Instead, he gets hired.
Jacob wants Clay to help a young boy who is bound to a curtain in much the same way Clay had recently been. Only, this curtain is home to another entity as well, one far more dangerous.
As Clay hunts for a way to save the boy, he finds himself rediscovering the easy companionship and heightened passion he’d shared with Jacob. Just this time with the constant reminder that Jacob might be planning on leaving him behind once the case is closed.
But when the situation turns deadly, Clay must choose between giving up the freedom he’d fought so hard to gain or losing Jacob completely. And time is slipping away with every agonizing step forward.
Warning: This novella features a lost grave, hidden heartache and takes place where death and violence breed powerful beings and not everything is as it seems.
The call came while Clay was stepping out of the shower. He let it go to voicemail, thinking it was Donnie seeing if Clay still planned on stopping by the pub tonight. In fact, he’d dressed, ran the slightest bit of gel through his hair, pretending not to notice the couple that had gone gray near his ears, and was searching through the fridge for leftovers when he remembered.
And he only remembered because his phone rang again.
This time he picked it up to answer, his heart giving a one-two thump out of rhythm when he saw who it was. Continue reading
15 Friday May 2015
Posted in Publication
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Author's Notes, Erotica, Fantasy, Fiction, Love, Mystery, Novella, paranormal, Romance, Writing
ALLEY – Curtain Chasers: Book One has been published. It is the first novella in a gay fantasy romance trilogy. About 28k words long.
Amazon | iBooks | Kobo | Nook | Scribd | Inktera
A few random facts about this novella:
1) This trilogy was meant to be only a couple thousand word short story. Yes, that worked. Obviously.
2) The story takes place in the same town as Kiss. Mouth. Red. (M/M) and Aura of Happiness, Aura of Love (M/F).
3) One of the characters was actually first created for an entirely different story. But I can’t tell you about it because it’s still in progress :P
4) Once created, I didn’t change a single character name, not even by one letter, which is incredibly strange for me.
5) There are only so many ways to describe two walls and a dumpster. Because of the unchanging scenery in this novella I have decided that it will be a long time before I write a story from the POV of someone imprisoned again.
6) My favorite character is Clay Devlin.
Emmi Lawrence 