01 Sunday May 2016
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Fantasy, fantasy romance, gay romance, LGBT, Love, Romance, Series, Short Fiction, Writing
4/2/2017 EDIT: THIS STORY IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR FREE. I will post a link to the complete novel when it is published :) Author Notes still available below.
Warning: This is the fourth story featuring Roan & Ari. You can read their first three stories to make more sense of this one: (EDIT: Removed Dead Links.) Or you can be wild and just read it by itself. Continue reading
24 Thursday Dec 2015
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adventure fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy romance, Fiction, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, Novel, Sale, Series, Writing
Today’s the day!
Song for the Wilds is now available!
This novel is the conclusion of The Wilds Duology and is a fantasy adventure/gay romance story, heavy on the fantasy with plenty of mayhem and darkness abounding.
Normally I list six interesting facts about the novel being published, however, I already touched on anything remotely interesting for Haunt’s publication post and the things left I want to say could contain spoilers. I’ll save those tidbits for a future post.
For anyone who didn’t know, I have a lot of short free stories available to read on the bottom of The Wilds Duology page if you’re looking for more from the houndmaster world. I have no plans of removing any of them so check them out at your leisure.
Also, I’ve started work on a sequel trilogy! :) It will be featuring two different houndmasters, ruins, a missing sire and a botanist. Plus a trio of mages from Haunt will be taking advantage of their new-found freedom to jump aboard the fresh adventure train!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Since it is the holiday, I’m putting all my novellas on sale for only .99c through Christmas Day. (It might take a few hours for the sale to take effect, but it’ll be live all day the 25th.) If you celebrate, I hope you’re closer to being ready for tomorrow than I am!
05 Saturday Dec 2015
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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. :)
03 Thursday Dec 2015
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adventure fantasy, Author's Notes, Cover, Fantasy, Fiction, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, Novel, Romance, Series, Worldbuilding, Writing
Haunt of the Wilds is live!
The Wilds Duology: Book I
gay romance/adventure fantasy
It’s been a fun month leading up to today and I’ve published a lot of free fiction, but now it’s time for a few non-fiction facts about the book! These are more about the writing-of the novel rather than content :)
1. I wrote the beginning of Haunt back in 2012 and never meant to finish it.
About two days before NaNo that year my plan was to use Nov to finish up another novel I’d been stalled on for a few weeks. In order to jumpstart my creativity and get me back into writing order, I decided to just mess around with some free writing those two days prior to Nov 1st. So, I wrote what ended up being the first draft of De’vii’s part in chapter one.
Nov 1st came around and I just kept going on the new story. Fun fact: that other novel is still unfinished… Continue reading
29 Sunday Nov 2015
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A-Z Wilds Duology Challenge, adventure fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy romance, Fiction, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, Series, Short Fiction, Writing
Here’s a teaser that actually has nothing to do with houndmasters or wilds at all. Imagine that; there is another main character in the duology :)
These are a couple of journal entries from when Caliebb is in his low teens, shortly after he befriends Epsie.
YESTERDAY’S NIGHTMARES
Day One
Epsie says her therapist asked her to keep a journal after she was first rescued and was still recovering in medical. She claims that it helped her from going insane from boredom. That’s what she says, but I suspect she did it more because she couldn’t stand being by herself, too scared she’d close her eyes and wake up back where she started. That’s just an assumption on my part though. Who knows?
That’s really just a long-winded way of saying that she convinced me to give this thing a try. I told her I don’t really remember what I dream about, but I don’t think she believed me given she rolled her eyes and promised not to read it.
But I wasn’t lying. I have a lot of trouble remembering specifics. They’re dreams. They feel real when I’m there, but by the time I’m awake, they’ve become these indistinct muddled flashes with accompanying emotions that make little sense.
They are getting worse though. That’s something I’ve noticed.
Day Two
Woke twice last night.
The first time I only remember feeling as I were drowning. Woke up coughing.
This time I had been walking along the wharf, but the water looked strange. Calmer than the ocean. And bluer. But then the wood gave out under my feet, the planks splitting and sending me into the water. It only seemed to come up to my ankles, but something in the sand gripped me and wouldn’t let me move. The next thing I remember I was running underneath the wharf, with something chasing me. I kept looking back, but never saw anything, though I could hear whatever it was shrieking at me.
That’s it. Not sure writing this down is going to help. Continue reading
27 Friday Nov 2015
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A-Z Wilds Duology Challenge, adventure fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy romance, Fiction, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, Novel, Romance, Series, Writing
I started writing this blog for the escapism. At that point, I’d write shot erotic pieces, always always with some sort of fantastical element because I just can’t write otherwise. One of the things I quickly stumbled across was how boring tab A/slot B could become, both in reading and writing. And when writing becomes boring you’re less likely to want to do it. So here are a few ideas I use for how to keep the excitement in my sex scenes.
1. Change setting
This one’s easy and, as such, is commonly used. People generally engage in a bed, but there are also kitchen tables, couches, closets, on top of dryers and even public settings—whether actually done where people are watching or simply in a place where someone might catch the couple. Don’t rely on this too much simply because club sex and bending someone over the kitchen table is a bit commonplace in fiction now.
2. Change positions/roles/type of sex
Again, another easy and commonly used idea. This can range from hand jobs/bjs/anal/vaginal to missionary/doggy/kamasutra extraordinaire you name it.
3. Have something important, other than sex, occur in the scene
This is one that gets forgotten by a lot of people. Instead of making the scene a continuation of the story as a whole, the story will read as if you’ve pushed the pause button during the plot, dropped in a sex scene and then picked the story back up afterward. Everyone’s guilty of it at some point or another. The trick is to recognize it and make sure to have something other than orgasms as the focal point of the next sex scene. Which leads me to… Continue reading
26 Thursday Nov 2015
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A-Z Wilds Duology Challenge, adventure fantasy, fantasy romance, Fiction, LGBT, Novel, Series, Short Fiction, Writing
So I switched W in for U on Tuesday, so here’s U, as promised. Seems silly that now the alphabet isn’t in order for this challenge. Only three more to go though. Getting close!
Urban Hunt is a short story about the first day De’vii goes to the city of Crafton. The day he meets Mi’saa. They are both probably around twenty years old in this story. Give or take a year or two for each of them.
URBAN HUNT
Stone architecture, most of it blackened with age and mildew, replaced the trees and grasses over time. The hills remained, with buildings squished into place on the sloping angles, closer and closer together the farther De’vii strode into the city. The sky above them never truly changed, sitting heavy with stars and the moon a crescent to the east, but as the lights of the city claimed the darkness as their own, the stars seemed to fade.
Crafton, they said, was the best place to get a job. Crafton, they said, was a hub of houndmaster activity. Crafton…a place devoid of everything De’vii considered familiar.
De’vii stopped in the middle of the active street, feeling jostled despite no one daring to touch him or his pack. Beside him, Sou growled in the back of his throat, feeling threatened and overwhelmed, his gaze drifting upward where the windows and rooftops seemed to stare down at them like watchful hunters waiting to strike.
Fel didn’t like the place either. None of the pack did. They all told De’vii so. Loudly and vividly, sending flashes of the vines of Ay’ril Woods and the lush forests of the wilds.
“Yeah, I know,” he said with a hint of exasperation. But he sure as hell planes wasn’t planning on turning tail and running home. And when he put it that way, neither were any of his pack. Continue reading
25 Wednesday Nov 2015
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adventure fantasy, Author's Notes, Fantasy, fantasy romance, Fiction, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, Novel, Romance, Series, Writing
More unartistic maps!
These maps are primarily of the one country Haunt of the Wilds takes place within. The name Virdaemn refers to the entire plane/world as a whole so it’s a little misleading. The country itself is called Nabia.
This first map is the one I used while writing the story. As you can see, it’s all kinds of messed up. My “pass” into the Empire above the country goes straight into the water, I misspelled Neit Valley and I’m sort of falling off the left side of the page because I didn’t realize I needed more space.
I do that often, actually, since my artistic ability is nil so I tend to guess horribly wrong when visualizing spacing. You should see when I write people’s names on their birthday cards–like a little kid would do, the last couple of letters tend to get squished in. Continue reading
24 Tuesday Nov 2015
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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
23 Monday Nov 2015
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A-Z Wilds Duology Challenge, adventure fantasy, Fantasy, fantasy romance, Fiction, gay romance, LGBT, Love, M/M, Novel, Romance, Series, Short Fiction, Writing
Following the aftermath of the destruction at the Games, leading members of Families and Packs from both the wild and civilized sides met at a hostel along the original treaty boundary. There, they grudgingly set down new territory lines.
Because of the altered terrain that extended slightly both north and south, the strip of land separating wilds and civilized—the Braken—was spread. Houndmaster ancients had already made the neutral territory large, not only so the space would serve to dissuade accidental trespassing, but also so it could be used as a site for annual games, yet now the Braken extended even wider out of necessity.
No houndmaster or dog could possibly cross without full knowledge of what they were doing. Not only that, but because of the dangers now existing upon the Braken, no houndmaster or dog would want to. Both sides were at least in agreement on one thing—the farther away the territory lines and the less likely sides were to encounter one another, the better. The assumption being that any encounter would result in unfettered bloodshed. Continue reading
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