Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Friday 1 March 2024

A leap back into self-publishing

Check out my newest indie release, Vacant Possession. If you enjoyed my non-romance sci-fi books Shoot the Humans First and The Battle of Hollow Jimmy, then check out my new release Vacant Possession. A fun sci-fi story I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2020, which I guess makes it my pandemic book.

It's exclusively on Amazon for now, enrolled in Kindle Select, making it available to Kindle Unlimited subscribers. It will go wide in the summer and be available from Smashwords and all the usual places.

Vacant Possession


An alien race is trying to take ownership of the Earth, decades after rescuing the survivors of an attack which killed most of humanity. The oldest woman alive, one of the last Earth-born humans, gathers a group to launch the smallest ever invasion of the deserted planet, in a bid to reclaim their lost home.

Eighty years ago, hostile aliens scoured most of humanity from the surface of the Earth with a monstrous weapon that left the planet uninhabitable for humans. Friendly alien rescuers helped the survivors build a refuge on the moon and people from all over the world united in this new home they called Tranquillity City. 

Only a handful of the original survivors are still alive. Now the city is populated by their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Most of those don't even think about their ancestral home planet.

But when the oldest human alive learns that the same aliens who rescued the last human survivors are petitioning the galactic court to allow them to take ownership of the uninhabited Earth, she knows what has to be done to reclaim their lost home planet.

It's time for humans to invade the Earth.

Out now on Amazon - and available on Kindle Unlimited



Saturday 27 January 2024

Palace Ghosts - out now

My latest book is out now! It's a standalone M/M space opera called Palace Ghosts. It's available to buy now and this weekend only is half price on JMS Books as part of a sitewide sale.

Palace Ghosts

When evidence emerges hinting that a long lost starship wasn’t destroyed after all, Ishir Jha has to investigate. His father sent the last desperate message from the ship before it was lost in a battle with pirates. Ish must learn the truth, even if he has to do it alone. But his husband Finn Moran isn’t going to let him run off alone and get killed in the outer system, where the influence of the Li pirate empire is spreading again. This time under the command of the daughter of the warlord who once terrorized the colonies and the ships that plied their trade there. But Li Xhing doesn’t want to terrorize. She wants to rule.


When Finn and Ishir end up as prisoners at Li’s stronghold, The Red Palace, Finn appears ready to accept a recruitment offer to join their captor’s ranks, since the other alternative is a life of slavery. Ishir can only wonder if his husband is losing his mind. But thanks to Finn, plans are being laid elsewhere, to breach the Red Palace’s impenetrable defensive barrier. One that only a few people can navigate, all of them ready to die before giving up the secret. The plans that will change the destiny of the whole outer system and set Finn and Ishir onto a whole new path.

JMS Books
Amazon UK
Amazon US


Monday 22 January 2024

Backlist Bonanza - Liar's Waltz available again now

Just over 13 years since my first published book first came out in January 2011, Liar's Waltz is out again, this time published by JMS Books. 😀

It's currently available exclusively on Amazon, available to users of Kindle Unlimited to read for free. It will be widely released to all the usual retailers and the JMS Books website in April.

Liar's Waltz

Bar owner Karl thinks his new lover is an ally in the fight to save Eternity — the last gay bar on space station Saira. But Greg is actually a reluctant spy desperately trying to salvage his military career.


Lieutenant Greg Matthews took a transfer to space station Saira to make a fresh start. But a rogue military intelligence officer has discovered the closeted Greg’s secret and forces him to spy on Karl Webster, the owner of the last gay bar on Saira. The disapproving military authorities want Karl’s bar closed, and he’s feeling the heat. He thinks his new lover is an ally in his fight, but Greg is reporting on all of Karl’s plans to save the bar. Despite his fear that Greg is too jittery and unstable to bother with, Karl wants him too much to give him up.

He can’t guess the real reason behind Greg’s anxiety—fear of what will happen when Karl discovers his deception. As the campaign against Karl escalates, Greg becomes ever more reluctant to deceive the man he’s falling in love with. The inevitable revelation shatters their relationship and their lives as the blackmailer takes drastic action to silence Karl. Greg must sacrifice everything he’s been trying to protect to undo the damage and save Karl.

Monday 20 November 2023

Backlist Bonanza - Dream for Me

The Backlist Bonanza continues. Dream for Me is now available again, exclusive to Amazon for three months, and available on Kindle Unlimited. It will be available widely in February 2024.

Saturday 30 September 2023

News update - an interview and a cover reveal

A couple of quick news items.

  • I did an interview with Veronica Scott on Amazing Stories blog. Check it out for some insights into what I've been up to with my writing.


  • Mapping the Shadows re-release is coming on 21st of October, from JMS Books. Check out that new cover below!

Cover of Mapping the Shadows by Becky Black

Mapping the Shadows


Ash Bowman is lost. Two years ago, he and his cop partner, Evelyn, walked in on a murder in progress that left her dead and him maimed. He left the force and became a private investigator, but Evelyn’s ghost still haunts him when he prowls the dark corridors of the Core of the space station Fraxin Yari. Ash is making a map. If there’s a map, then he won’t be so lost…

Journalist Gabe Whitfield is on a mission to learn the truth behind that same murder. He doesn’t expect to stay on Frax after he finishes the job. But meeting Ash Bowman changes his plans. He came to the station a man without ties. He isn’t going to leave the same way.


Released 21st October 2023


Saturday 16 September 2023

The backlist bonanza begins!

Bring Me the Dead, the first of my m/m erotic romance backlist books to be republished by JMS Books is out now!

It's currently available on JMS Books and Amazon - and if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription you can read it for free. In three months it will be released to the other usual ebook retailers.

Check out the Release Schedule page on my website for release dates as they're available for the other books.

Wednesday 6 September 2023

Please excuse the temporary inconvenience

Some of my older books aren't currently available, but will be back soon, published by JMS Books, and in some cases will eventually be available in paperback again. They will go into Kindle Select for three months, so if you have a subscription to Kindle Unlimited you can read them for free. Or you can buy from Amazon, or the JMS site. After three months they will be published on all the usual ebook stores.

Check out this Release Schedule page for dates of all the books as they become available.

Wednesday 12 July 2023

New Book Release: To Feed on Dreams Volume 2: The Way Back


Volume 2 of To Feed on Dreams, called The Way Back is out now!

To Feed on Dreams is a space opera with two couples - m/m and an ace couple. It should be read in order.

Volume 1: Exiles


Javi is rebuilding his relationship with Razz, even as his friendship with Arien is torn apart by other people’s schemes. Arien fears they will never be able to claim the happiness they want with Tapuh, chained by duty as they are. Only when Javi and Arien find each other again can they regain control of their destinies.

Published by JMS Books

Saturday 19 November 2022

State of the Bee

I feel like this is a very transitional time. Like everything is new. 

  • New king here in the UK, which is a very odd thing to get used to
  • New PM (closely followed by another new PM.)
  • New owner for Twitter (I have Thoughts about Twitter, but that will be its own post eventually) who's apparently doing his best to kill it off, so that means... 
  • Now new social media to try out. Find me on Mastodon.
Other things, like the pandemic, like menopause and other personal stuff going on have me feeling that it's time for a fresh start. But one old thing is new again - I'm publishing once more! Woohoo!

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Some of my older books aren't currently available, but will be back soon, published by JMS Books , and in some cases will eventually be ...