New review for What the Heart Thinks

I'm ending the week on a huge high. My recent release, What the Heart Thinks, got 4.5 stars from Lisa at the Prism Book Alliance!

It's one of those reviews where I breathe a sigh of relief, because honestly, not only did she have wonderful things to say, but she completely got Joe and Fess. It's always so rewarding to hear people enjoying heroes who mean so much to you!

Go check it out, and have a fabulous weekend!

Over at the pax blog

Today is my day over at the Amber Pax blog, where I talk about puns and how What the Heart Thinks originated.

Check it out, and if you leave a comment on it or any of the posts at the pax blog done this past week, you could have a chance to win all five stories!

Another excerpt of What the Heart Thinks

The excerpt on the publisher site for What the Heart Thinks is the moment Joe, the DJ, first sees Fess. Today, I'd like to share how Fess sees Joe. This takes place after they've been chatting on the phone for a few weeks, and Joe has finally agreed to meet Fess in public. A breakfast date that started off on the wrong foot.

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...He topped six feet by several inches, with legs like tree trunks and hands that would leave no doubt they’d touched you when the time came. His auburn hair was done neat and short, and if it was more Super Cuts than super chic, that just fit with Joe’s no nonsense personality. Fess was rather enamored with the beard Joe so blindly sported, and his hazel eyes were clear and intelligent, unblinking and intense when he decided to fix them on a person.

That didn’t happen enough, as far as Fess was concerned. Too often, Joe would look elsewhere, or duck his gaze, anything but look at Fess directly.

But what Fess couldn’t resist, what he’d never been able to resist ever since the first time he heard Joe on the radio, was that voice. When Joe spoke, thunder rolled in the distance. It was slow and hypnotic, like every word meant something, sinking beneath Fess’s skin to take root deep in his gut and send tendrils of smoke and fire out to every single nerve ending he possessed. He hadn’t heard a word of Joe’s broadcast that first time, too lost in how molten his body became just listening to him. He’d jerked off as soon as Joe went off the air, coming so hard he’d crashed for hours afterward.

That voice was his porn of choice over the next few months, but as he listened, he discovered the man behind it. Meeting him in person hadn’t changed a single thing about how attracted he was to him. If anything, it had enriched his fantasies since he now knew exactly what Joe looked like.

Joe didn’t know any of this, of course. After Fess’s stupid stalker comment, he couldn’t afford coming across as an even bigger groupie freak than he was. That might change down the road, or if Joe continued to be a dumbass about believing Fess would want to go out with him, but for now, Fess was going to keep his mouth shut on that particular detail.

New release - What the Heart Thinks

My new story is out, woo hoo! What the Heart Thinks is a romantic comedy about a radio DJ who doesn't think he's nearly attractive enough to merit the attentions of a gorgeous actor/stripper who thinks he's the best thing since bacon-flavored lube. It came out yesterday as part of the Vive La Difference pax collection at Amber Allure, along with stories by Pepper Espinoza, A.J. Llewellyn & D.J. Manly, Marie Sexton & L.A. Witt, and Sean Michael. Look at that author line-up!

It's a great value this week, too. If you buy all five stories, you get a 35% discount. That's less than $20 for all five stories. You can't beat that.

On a scale of one to ten, DJ Joe Salinas considers himself a four, five on a good day. Actor/part-time stripper Fess Kedley is definitely a nine, however, though Joe’s pretty sure that slides into a ten as soon as the clothes come off. So when the outgoing Fess recognizes a shy Joe at a bachelorette party from his midnight radio show and proceeds to ask him out, Joe turns him down, convinced he’s either crazy or stupid.

The only problem is, Fess takes rejection as reason to keep on trying.

The two become unexpected friends, so when the thought of trying a date comes up again, Joe decides to take a chance. Though he doesn’t understand what someone like Fess would see in someone like him, it’s hard to say “no” when everything else feels so right. 

Two more days!

Two more days until my m/m rom com, What the Heart Thinks, comes out, woo hoo!

The blurb and an excerpt from how they meet is up today over at the Amber Pax Collections blog, so head on over to check it out!

Vive la Difference Pax

On Sunday, the Vive la Difference Pax will be released at Amber Allure. I've got a rom com called What the Heart Thinks that's part of it, but there's another reason the pax should interest you.

Pepper Espinoza has a story in it, too.

For those not in the know, Pepper and I wrote together as Jamie Craig for five years, but Pepper took a large part of the last couple years off from writing to concentrate on real life stuff. This will be her first pax story in a few years, so that's definitely reason to celebrate.

On top of that, we're doing a little bit of writing together as well. Nothing long right now, but there will be a Jamie Craig story in the July pax.

But seriously. A Pepper story in less than a week. A western, which she excels at.

Get excited. I sure am.

New Cover Art - What the Heart Thinks

We are back from Las Vegas, which means catching up on everything. One of the surprises in my email this morning? The cover art for my April pax release, What the Heart Thinks.

Those are my two guys to a T. It's a romcom of sorts, about a radio DJ and an actor/stripper who meet at a bachelorette party. Here's the blurb:

On a scale of one to ten, DJ Joe Salinas considers himself a four, five on a good day. Actor/part-time stripper Fess Kedley is definitely a nine, however, though Joe’s pretty sure that slides into a ten as soon as the clothes come off. So when the outgoing Fess recognizes a shy Joe at a bachelorette party from his midnight radio show and proceeds to ask him out, Joe turns him down, convinced he’s either crazy or stupid.

The only problem is, Fess takes rejection as reason to keep on trying.

The two become unexpected friends, so when the thought of trying a date comes up again, Joe decides to take a chance. Though he doesn’t understand what someone like Fess would see in someone like him, it’s hard to say no when everything else feels so right.

What the Heart Thinks

On Tuesday, I got my novella in for the Viva La Difference pax coming out at Amber Allure in the spring. It's a rom com piece of fluff that makes me laugh every time I read it. The blurb is a little rough, but it'll give you an idea what it's about:

On a scale of one to ten, DJ Joe Salinas considers himself a four, five on a good day. Actor/part-time stripper Fess Kedley is definitely a nine, however, though Joe’s pretty sure that slides into a ten as soon as the clothes come off. So when the outgoing Fess recognizes a shy Joe at a bachelorette party from his midnight radio show and proceeds to ask him out, Joe turns him down, convinced he’s either crazy or stupid.

The only problem is, Fess takes rejection as reason to keep on trying.

The two become unexpected friends, so when the thought of trying a date comes up again, Joe decides to take a chance. Though he doesn’t understand what someone like Fess would see in someone like him, it’s hard to say no when everything else feels so right.