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Don't delay! Head on over to JMS books to open the advent calendar for the 15th to get a free story from me! JMS Books Advent Calendar The story is free today only and will be on sale on JMS Books and Amazon and other retailers as normal from tomorrow. Keep on checking the advent calendar page for a free story from a JMS author every day until 24th of December.

Available now! An ebook box set of the Red Dragon series Red Dragon The Red Dragon is a trading vessel fallen far from its former glory, but taking command of it will forever change the life of Captain Alyn Evans. The challenges of bringing the Red Dragon back from the brink of being scrapped are nothing compared to the challenges brought by falling for Jarvez Kashari, the ship’s chief trader and company rep. Get the three books following Alyn and Jarvez from first meeting to choosing a new future together, and the spin off about the ex who considers Alyn the one who got away, but will find his own happiness elsewhere. Contains the books: The Company Man Too Good a Man Tempting the Stars The Champion’s Secret More details about the series here:  Red Dragon Available now at  JMS Books More buy links on Books2Read - more links will be added over the coming days

 My first ever box set is out now - get both books of the To Feed on Dreams duology in one ebook box set. And coming soon, Red Dragon and Travellers. Available now To Feed on Dreams After a night of violence and treachery, two fugitives form an unlikely friendship. Javi and Arien should never have even met, but now their destinies are intertwined and will determine the fates of entire worlds. A two volume space opera, with m/m and ace romances, that should be read in order. Contains the books Exiles and The Way Back - more details about the individual books here: To Feed on Dreams   Buy Links JMS Books More Links - links to more sites will appear over the next few days Coming November 1st Red Dragon The Red Dragon is a trading vessel fallen far from its former glory, but taking command of it will forever change the life of Captain Alyn Evans. The challenges of bringing the Red Dragon back from the brink of being scrapped are nothing compared to the challenges brought by falli...

Out now! Common Cause, a M/M sci-fi romance novel. Available at JMS Books and other ebook retailers. Common Cause "Kiran Grace and Andrelis Rossen meet as cadets at the Officer Training Academy of the Union of Independent Worlds and despite the rivalries and suspicion between their home planets, Akna and Parabellum, they can’t deny the attraction they feel. Kiran’s competence and flair impresses Andrelis and challenges his assumptions about Kiran’s people. For his part Kiran is attracted to the martial society Andrelis comes from, but not their stiff-necked attitude and cultural conservatism. After they graduate and go back to serve their home planets, they know they will probably never see each other again. They can only hold on to the happy memories of that intense academy affair. But several years later both are serving as officers aboard starships which are the first to reach the scene of a devastating explosion at a remote Akna mining colony. The two crews work together for ...

My next release is coming on 4th of October! Common Cause Kiran Grace and Andrelis Rossen meet as cadets at the Officer Training Academy of the Union of Independent Worlds and despite the rivalries and suspicion between their home planets, Akna and Parabellum, they can’t deny the attraction they feel. Kiran’s competence and flair impresses Andrelis and challenges his assumptions about Kiran’s people. For his part Kiran is attracted to the martial society Andrelis comes from, but not their stiff-necked attitude and cultural conservatism. After they graduate and go back to serve their home planets, they know they will probably never see each other again. They can only hold on to the happy memories of that intense academy affair. But several years later both are serving as officers aboard starships which are the first to reach the scene of a devastating explosion at a remote Akna mining colony. The two crews work together for days to help the victims of the disaster and the connection bet...

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 t...

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.)

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 ...

 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...

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 opportunit...

 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 sear...

The king of the zombies is back! If you never got to read my post-apocalypse m/m romance, Patient Z before, it's back out now as part of the backlist bonanza. It's available right now on JMS books and Amazon, and will appear on more retailers over the coming days. Watch this space for news of the re-release of the sequel - Assumed Dead. Coming soon! Patient Z Two years ago the zombie apocalypse wiped out the world police officer Mitch Kennedy had a role in. But he’s found a way to continue doing his duty, serving as guardian of a small community of survivors, living in the safest place they can find. When the group takes in Cal Richardson, Mitch can’t help but be attracted to the first available—and incidentally, gorgeous—man to cross his path in months. Mitch and Cal can’t resist each other physically, but each man tries to hold back his emotions. Though he’s strong on the outside, Mitch is too badly hurt inside to risk more pain. Cal’s very sure he won’t stay for long. He’s b...

Out now from JMS Books and coming to all good ebook retailers over the next few days. Watch this space for more news of backlist releases. Chrysalis Cage Freedom fighter Jarrett Blake’s escaping from prison after months of torture and solitary confinement, but his bid for freedom ends when his stolen ship crashes into a remote moon. He wakes to find himself with two broken legs and helpless in the care of Marc Satie, a technician stationed alone at an isolated monitoring station. Marc saved Jarrett’s life, but was it an act of mercy or does he want to claim the reward on Jarrett’s head? It’s a big reward—as Jarrett’s the galaxy’s most wanted terrorist. Jarrett gradually recovers under Marc’s care and seduces him, hoping Marc will never turn his lover over to the authorities. As time passes. Jarrett begins to think of it as more than a seduction. Marc is beautiful, gentle and kind and Jarrett’s had none of those things in his life for a long time. But Marc has a secret and the exposure ...

It's a double date today! I've got a release and a re-release and news of the next re-release. It's all go around here! New! I have a short story in the charitable anthology Love is Free from JMS Books. All proceeds go to the American Civil Liberties Union Embedded Lucy, a young lesbian woman, is visiting her married uncles, Mike and Baz, once radical queer activists. About to start university, she wants to learn about how to fight for LGBTQ+ rights, as they did for so long. But Mike and Baz seem so domestic now. So settled into the life of a quiet village. Have the two former radicals sold out and given up the fight? To get Embedded and new stories from 50 other authors, (FIFTY!) check out the links below.  JMS Books More Links (Amazon link here now. More will coming soon on this link. Keep on checking.) Backlist Bonanza Ganymede Tilt: Now on wide release Union man Sean Morgan and mining company executive Alex Jackson already know how good they are together, after a few c...

A new year, a new release day. Yay! My new release, Memory's Ghosts is a bit of a surprise follow up to Palace Ghosts - which was intended as a standalone and now has this sequel and a third one in the works. This (and the third one) focus on different characters, but there are guest appearances from the characters from Palace Ghosts. Memory's Ghosts (Ghosts Book 2) Months after the liberation of the Red Palace, freed prisoner Max Murphy is still there, hoping for the return of his stolen ship and trying to forget the day he lost everything. Meanwhile, ex-Li pilot Jiang Tai is keeping his head down and wishing he could forget the secrets he carries. Or just forget anything at all. When the station is blockaded Max and Tai are sent off on a desperate mission to end the siege. Spending weeks on an awkwardly small ship with a weird, sleep-obsessed, former pirate of the most fanatical sort is not Max’s idea of a good time—even if Tai is kind of cute. Tai never reckoned on a long tr...

Looks like goat’s back on the menu, boys! Goaty McGoatface returns for another GoatWatch. Wot?  Okay, a primer. The Gävle Goat is a 13 meter straw Yule Goat erected every year in the town of Gävle in Sweden, in the run up to Christmas. And sometimes it’s burned down or otherwise destroyed. Security has become tighter around the goat every year, especially in these days of live streaming - and clout chasing. Read more about the goat: Gävlebocken | Visit Gävle  - includes a live feed of the goat. Gävle goat - Wikipedia I first heard about it on the Hypnogoria podcast, and back in December 2022 I started keeping an eye on the goat, as I got a bit emotionally invested in it surviving to Christmas without burning down. I blogged about that here . The next year I began doing the same in December, and what a strange year for the goat it was! It didn’t burn, but due to there being an unusual amount of seed still in the goat’s straw, it was gradually eaten by local birds over the mont...

 Happy release days to me! Out now, Entanglement, m/m sci-fi romance novella.  Entanglement Two-hundred years ago the captain of a plague-ravaged spaceship set course for deep space. Elliot Stoll, an ambitious pilot, with a ship equipped with a hyperspace Tangle drive, is assigned to secure the derelict Iredoi , only to find salvager Kass Tyczkowski has reached it first. Arguments about authority and legitimate salvage are interrupted by an attack by rival salvagers, which ends with Kass rescuing Elliot from his destroyed ship, and jumping away with the Iredoi in tow, back to his home base - the Tumble. Elliot soon learns he’s landed in the middle of a family feud, but now the stakes are higher than the salvage value of an old derelict. A flotilla of pirate ships is heading for the Tumble to snatch the Iredoi , and whatever secrets it holds about the deadly virus that wiped out its crew. Kass’s mother Dominika—the boss of the salvage company and the station—assigns Kass to gu...

I'm back with the latest news, after briefly breaking up with Blogger, for reasons. Entanglement - NEW! Coming on 2nd of November from JMS Books - Entanglement, a new m/m sci-fi novella Pilot Elliot Stoll is assigned to secure a long-lost spaceship, only to find salvager Kass Tyczkowski got there first. A pirate attack ends with Kass rescuing Elliot and taking him and the derelict, Iredoi , home. Stranded on a station run by salvagers hip deep in a family feud, Elliot’s forced to work with Kass to keep the Iredoi and its secrets out of the hands of pirates. Why is life so complicated ? Available for pre-order at JMS Books Higher Ground - backlist re-release Now on wide release Books2Read Links Zach is impatient and likes to hurry. Adam likes to take it slow and to tease. But, they’d have worked it all out – if only the end of the world hadn’t gotten in the way. Ganymede Tilt - backlist re release Currently exclusive to Amazon, and available on Kindle Unlimited Books2Read Link Union...

My next book is now available  from JMS Books. It's a M/M novel with a near-future setting. Fool's Gold Seven years ago as the economy collapsed amidst ever more serious climate disasters, Ethan Casey went into a billionaire’s survival bunker in the wilds of Alberta. Now suspecting his boss is not telling the bunker’s staff the truth, Ethan sneaks out to learn if the world is really in chaos. He meets forest ranger Jules Martell, who tells him the world is changed but is rebuilding, and that he and everyone in the bunker would be welcome in the nearby town of Goose Lodge. Ethan returns to the bunker to tell the others the truth, prompting many of them to leave with him. Ethan had to go back to bring the others out, but he had to return to Goose Lodge to find Jules again. This time, he knows he will never return to that hole in the ground. Jules becomes Ethan’s guide to the town, and the way they live there, introducing him to strange ideas Ethan must learn to embrace. As they ...

Well it’s come to this, National Novel Writing Month has been enshittified . The whole organisation had been a bit dodgy for a few years, but they’ve finally fully lost the plot with a bizarre defence of the use of A.I. tools, claiming that to decry the use of A.I. in writing is “classist and ableist.” Despite the very real issue of large language models being trained on the work of authors who never gave consent for that. Despite the threat generative A.I. poses to writers, especially freelancers. In what I’m sure is an entirely unrelated matter , they currently have a sponsorship deal with a company, ProWritingAid, that sells A.I. tools to writers. Various writers have stepped down from the board of the non-profit and lots of writers are deleting their NaNoWriMo accounts from the website. There are plenty of articles if you want to get into the weeds about it.  NaNoWriMo is in disarray -The Verge NaNoWriMo Shits the Bed on Artificial Intelligence - Chuck Wendig NaNoWriMo gets AI ...