4.5 Hearts for A Flight in Ice

There's something exhilarating to starting off a busy work week with a good review!

Lisa over at MM Good Book Reviews took the time to read and review my Winter Games pax story, A Flight in Ice. She gave it 4.5 hearts and called it "refreshing and very tempting."

Check it out!

New release - A Flight in Ice

Yesterday was a new release day! My short novella, A Flight in Ice, came out at Amber Allure as part of the Winter Games pax.

That means today, I talked about it over at the Pax Collection blog. It's all about themes of loss and going home again, plus there's a brand new excerpt for people to read. Check it out! As a bonus, anyone who comments over at the pax blog automatically gets entered to win the entire collection. Five m/m stories all centered on a winter theme. What have you got to lose?

A Flight in Ice over at the Amber Pax blog

Curious about my next release? There's a blurb and an excerpt of it over at the Amber Pax Collections blog today in anticipation of it coming out on Sunday.

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Escaping Those Sizzling Summer Nights

Calling my summer "sizzling" is pretty spot on for how it's going, and not in the fun, sexy way! See, I live in California, and we've had a pretty hot one so far. We're looking at 100+F over the weekend, and August has only just begun. As a girl born and bred in the midwest where a year really was composed of four seasons, it's taken me some getting used to. Sometimes, I think I'm still adjusting to it, and I've been here for a decade now.

So what do I do to escape the heat? It probably sounds counterproductive, but I always turn to winter stories. I may not want to hear about snowstorms and freezing temperatures in the dead of January, but when I turn into a sweat bomb as soon as I step outside my air conditioned house, those kinds of things sound heavenly.

That's why I jumped at the chance to write a story for a collection coming out August 17 at Amber Allure that's winter-themed. It's a story about healing and second chances, and I'm absolutely in love with the cover.

That's Connor, my main character. Just looking at that wintry landscape makes the heat we're currently enduring much more bearable.

Curious about what the story is exactly about?

Life hasn’t turned out like Connor McClure hoped. His relationship is over, he lost his friends in the break-up, and nothing makes him happy anymore. All he wants is to hide from the world, but the only place available to him is his parents’ home in the rural Michigan community he abandoned thirteen years ago. Since they’re in Florida for the winter, he’ll have the whole house to himself.

Except he doesn’t. In their absence, the McClures asked a young neighbor to look after the property. Jerry is young, energetic, and oh yeah, gay. From everything he’s learned about Connor, he might be harboring a little crush, but Connor is in no place for dating. Right now, he needs a friend, someone to help him remember that second chances are always possible…

So tell me. Has your summer been a scorcher? How are you escaping the heat? 

More cover art!

I got a lovely surprise over the weekend, the cover for my August release, A Flight in Ice. Look at how pretty it is!

I just love it. It makes me all that much more excited about its release.

Upcoming release dates

One advantage to working a lot is having consistent stories in the pipeline. Starting in July, I have a release a month coming out at Amber Allure, three of which are solo titles and one is a Jamie Craig title (my collaboration with Pepper Espinoza).

Between the Shadow and the Soul (a Jamie Craig story) - July 20

A Flight in Ice - August 17

Flesh and Kisses - September 21

Placeless (a Bay Wolves story) - October 19

There's more in that time period. I'm hoping to get one or two my older titles that I've had the rights back for a while self-published now that I know more about the process (thanks to all those panels at RT!), and like last year, I'm going to have a story in the breast cancer charity anthology, Shades of Pink. That comes out October 24.

I might complain sometimes, but I do love being so busy. :)

New contract - A Flight in Ice

Another of the stories I finished since RT now is officially contracted. This one is for the upcoming Winter Games pax at Amber Allure, called A Flight in Ice.

Here's the blurb:

Life hasn’t turned out like Connor McClure hoped. His relationship is over, he lost his friends in the break-up, and nothing makes him happy anymore. All he wants is to hide from the world, but the only place available to him is his parents’ home in the rural Michigan community he abandoned thirteen years ago. Since they’re in Florida for the winter, he’ll have the whole house to himself. 

Except he doesn’t. In their absence, the McClures asked a young neighbor to look after the property. Jerry is young, energetic, and oh yeah, gay. From everything he’s learned about Connor, he might be harboring a little crush, but Connor is in no place for dating. Right now, he needs a friend, someone to help him remember that second chances are always possible…

It's a quiet character piece about how to move on when all you want is to run away. I'm rather proud of it. More details as I get them!