New-ish Release - Embedded

Earlier this year I had a short story in a charity anthology called Love is Free, which raised money for the ACLU. The anthology is still available, but an expanded version of the short is now available individually, with an additional scene added.

Embedded

Lucy, a young lesbian woman, is going to university soon and wants to learn all about how to fight for queer rights, just as her Uncle Mike and his husband Baz did, being radical activists for many years. Mike literally wrote the book about it; a book Lucy considers her inspiration. Now she’s going to spend the summer with Mike and Baz at the rambling old farmhouse they have restored, and learn all she can from them.

But Mike and Baz seem so domestic now. So settled into the lives of the quiet village where they live. They spend their time organising church fetes, or doing volunteer shifts in the village shop rather than organising protests and picket lines. Lucy can’t see how giving old ladies rides to hospital appointments helps to smash the patriarchy. Have the two former radicals sold out and given up the fight?

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This might not be the last you see of these characters. I've got a bunch of thoughts Mike and Baz's back story, and am working on plans for a novel about them and their relationship, and how they develop the philosophy they are living in Embedded. So watch this space!

Mid Year Reading Review

It's been a good reading year so far. I've finished 40 books, which according to The Storygraph is 9,606 pages read and 203 hours listened. Hours listened might be slightly off, as I have done a couple on 1.1 or 1.2 speed. (Oh god, I'm turning into one of those people. I'll keep nudging it up and then be on 2x speed before you know it!)

I've now completed my read of the Iain M. Banks' Culture series, which I began last year. Loved pretty much every one of those. One was a bit of a slog in the middle, but it picked up by the end. I've also started and finished a read of the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons. I have in fact been totally derailed this year by the Hyperion Cantos (a series of four books, structured as 2 duologies.)

New release - Chasing Ghosts

My newest release is available now - Chasing Ghosts is the latest in the Ghosts series, which are loosely related stories, so you don't have to have read the others to enjoy this one. But please, feel free to do so. 😁

This is the first time I've mixed in an F/F pairing with M/M pairings in the same series, so it will be interesting to see how that goes. How many readers are there out there who enjoy both M/M and F/F, as I do?

Petra got her intro to the series as a guest character in Memory's Ghosts, now she gets her own story in...

Chasing Ghosts

Bad choices by overconfident maverick, Dani Novak, left a fellow marine dead and Dani cooling her heels in jail for five years. Now she’s out, with few prospects and fewer friends. Dani’s ex-commanding officer, Petra Hawkins, leader of the military contractor the Hawkins Free Company, offers Dani a job on her ship, the Persephone, after a chance meeting on the Red Palace space station. Petra still believes Dani has the potential to regain some of what she lost, still believes she let Dani down before, and now believes she has a duty to help her.

As the lowest ranking crewperson on the Persephone, with her history of a court-martial and jail, Dani faces distrust and suspicion from the company’s squad of marines and the ship’s officers. But after seeing the squad in action, Dani knows she wants to become a marine again, and Petra agrees to train her. What looks like an easy escort mission gives Dani and Petra lot of time to work together on Dani’s fitness, and to wrestle with feelings they’ve repressed for a long time.

F/F sci-fi romance novella.

Out now!

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And I'm working on another story in this series, in which Petra, Dani and the Persephone will pop up for a guest appearance. So the gals will return.

Coming Soon - Chasing Ghosts and the Backlist Bonanza is over!

 My next release comes out next weekend! It's another story in the same series as Palace Ghosts and Memory's Ghosts. If you read Memory's Ghosts you already met Captain Petra Hawkins, and this book is hers. 

Chasing Ghosts

Bad choices by overconfident maverick, Dani Novak, left a fellow marine dead and Dani cooling her heels in jail for five years. Now she’s out, with few prospects and fewer friends. Dani’s ex-commanding officer, Petra Hawkins, leader of the military contractor the Hawkins Free Company, offers Dani a job on her ship, the Persephone, after a chance meeting on the Red Palace space station. Petra still believes Dani has the potential to regain some of what she lost, still believes she let Dani down before, and now believes she has a duty to help her.

As the lowest ranking crewperson on the Persephone, with her history of a court-martial and jail, Dani faces distrust and suspicion from the company’s squad of marines and the ship’s officers. But after seeing the squad in action, Dani knows she wants to become a marine again, and Petra agrees to train her. What looks like an easy escort mission gives Dani and Petra lot of time to work together on Dani’s fitness, and to wrestle with feelings they’ve repressed for a long time.

Coming 21st of June

Pre-order available now at JMS Books

In other news - the backlist bonanza is over and all my ex-Loose Id books are now available again through JMS Books, and available on all the usual retailers.

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Backlist Bonanza - Red Dragon 1: The Company Man Out Now

The dragons have returned! Well the first one anyway. The first book of the Red Dragon series, an M/M space opera series, following Alyn Evans and Jarvez Kashari is out again now. Watch this space for the rest of the series to follow soon.

Red Dragon 1: The Company Man

The Red Dragon is a ship in trouble. It was once the pride of the Outer Spiral Trading Company’s fleet, but is neglected and fallen from its old glory. It’s a ship in need of love – and a new captain.

Alyn Evans is a man in need of a new challenge. He’s an ex-warship captain and peace has put him out of a job. A man of his experience should have no trouble commanding a merchant ship… he thinks. But of all the challenges he faces on his first trip out, the hardest one is keeping his hands off his gorgeous and fascinating company rep, Jarvez Kashari.

Jarvez Kashari is a man with a plan. He’s determined to make a name as the company’s best trader and thinks reviving the fortunes of the Red Dragon is the perfect opportunity to prove himself. Jarvez travels light, sacrificing personal relationships to focus on his ambitions – until he meets Alyn Evans. Falling in love was not part of the plan.

It’s four months to Earth. Four months for Alyn to juggle passengers, prisoners, suspicious officers, a resentful crew and the intensifying relationship with Jarvez. Four months in space with a traitor aboard…

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More zombies and a heads up for a bargain

 The latest re-release in the Backlist Bonanza is here!

Assumed Dead

The zombie apocalypse left twelve people trapped, but safe, at a scientific research base on an Arctic island. Three years later, with supplies critically low, they know they can’t survive another harsh winter. But all of them fear what awaits them on the mainland.

Former grad student, Matt Warner, has retrained as a nurse under the group’s doctor, Peter Lane. Training is not the only thing Matt wants to be under Peter for, but Peter has always resisted responding to Matt’s interest in him. Before all this started Peter had a husband, Harrison, back home. A husband he desperately hopes is still alive.

Despair finally weakens Peter’s resolve and he and Matt begin sharing a bed. It’s Matt’s dream come true, even if he knows Peter’s feelings for him aren’t as strong as his for Peter. But everything changes, when the group learns of the existence of a vaccine against the zombie virus and they escape the island to search for the people distributing the vaccine. Matt fears their relationship won’t survive, because Peter wants to search for his husband—even if only to confirm his death. And Peter knows if he goes looking for Harrison, he’ll lose Matt forever.

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And advance warning for a bargain. My F/F paranormal historical romance, The Haunted Diamond, is the Daily Deal on JMS Books tomorrow, 3rd March. You should be able to buy the ebook there for 99c.

The Haunted Diamond

Flapper Bobbie Morgan is always a welcome house guest at weekend parties. But the young woman her hosts think is only a jolly fun girl with nothing but dancing and fashion on her mind, is actually a jewel thief and her latest job is to steal a South American diamond with a long and bloody history, for a buyer waiting in New York. While Bobbie is crossing the Atlantic with the stolen diamond, Iandara, a ghost bound to the cursed stone, manifests, with one mission—free herself forever by destroying the diamond.

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