It’s out! At long last, another story and you can get it here, along with another excerpt:

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=2265

It’s been a long time and you don’t want to know but I do apologize for not being around.

Excerpt here:



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Meet Grey Randall, a hard-boiled detective whose sense of humor makes it hard for him to stay strictly noir. It's 1948 in Las Vegas—the newborn Sin City—and he's just landed his first murder case. He's more at ease among the lowlifes, but his new client, a beautiful, wealthy woman, a real femme fatale, moves in the upper crust of society.

Grey's hot on the trail of a killer, despite obstructive cops who don't want a private dick sniffing around and digging up secrets. And he starts getting close to the truth, but one of his suspects, Phillip Martin, AKA Mr. Big—AKA Mr. Beautiful—proves to be a man who could force Grey to reveal a dark secret of his own.

It's out! At Dreamspinner:http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=55_101&products_id=1896

I've been watching Ken Burns' documentary on the history of America's National Parks. It's pretty amazing, with both current and historical photographs and film.

So here's the irony wrapped in irony. The Gold Rush inspired the U.S. government to drive Indians off their land. Manifest destiny and all that, dontcha know. An army battalion chased a group of Indians into the Yosemite Valley in 1851, whereupon they "discovered" the beauties of the valley. The company physician, Dr. Lafayette Bunnell was most awestruck with the scenery and decided to name the valley after the tribe they were intent upon dispossessing. He thought the the tribe's name was Yosemite, and thus the name of the valley came about.

Later he "discovered" that the tribe actually called themselves the Ahwahneechees, and the word yosemite was part of the Miwok language (yohhe'meti).

And the meaning of the word?

They are killers.

If you wrote that in a story, people would not believe it.

The day Dash and Dingo was released, I celebrated (can you tell irony is coming?) by going to the periodontist. He yanked a tooth right out of my head.

I am a champion flosser and brusher, so big shock. In earlier years, a wisdom tooth had impacted the root of the last molar and apparently it caused some damage that developed to the point of no return.

The goal was to try to save the tooth, but once the periodonist had a look (I will spare you the gory details) it was a no go and out the tooth came. In with a bone graft. Most likely I'll have to get an implant to prevent bone loss. And I certainly don't want a domino effect on the other teeth.

So I've been a bit missing in action lately.

Of course, being a freelancer doesn't help. When work calls, I gotta make money.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it. *g*

You can currently buy it here. Amazon links, etc, to follow.

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Sorry for the lack of updating. I plead real-life shenanigans.

But I do have some good news. I have a new book set for release from Dreamspinner Press on September 28th. It is called "Dash and Dingo: In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger" and is co-written by kennsea (Sean Kennedy), who wrote "Tigers and Devils". Seems he can't escape tigers!





Stodgy British archivist Henry Percival-Smythe slaves away in the dusty basement of Ealing College in 1934, the only bright spot in his life his obsession with a strange Australian mammal, the thylacine. It has been hunted to the edge of extinction, and Henry would love nothing more than to help the rare creature survive.

Then a human whirlwind spins through his door. Jack "Dingo" Chambers is also on the hunt for the so-called "Tasmanian Tiger," although his reasons are far more altruistic. Banding together, Dingo and the newly nicknamed Dash travel halfway around the globe in their quest to save the thylacine from becoming a footnote in the pages of biological history.

While they search high and low, traverse the wilds, and fight the deadliest of all creatures—man—Dash and Dingo will face danger and discover another fierce passion within themselves: a desire for each other.



We think it's a bit of a hoot, and we hope you will as well. Keep you posted!

Well, this came and went without an announcement from me.

I had a cold when it was released and I've never caught up since. However, it's out there.

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Here are some reviews, somewhat mixed.

Like I said, BDSM-LITE™!

One thing that set me back was that some thought there was a Gay-For-You theme. I totally thought I was writing a Gay-But-Lying-To-Myself story. To me it was ironically funny that Nick is allowing all these things to be done to him but worries that one thing in particular is "too gay". Snork! However, I guess that's on me for not being clearer about it.

Enjoy! (If you like reviews)

http://reviewsbyjessewave.blogspot.com/2009/04/strong-hand.html

http://manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviews&bookid=3894

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6397121-a-strong-hand

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/616564.html?view=2270580#t2270580

http://rainbow-reviews.com/?p=1245

Nicholas Sayers, needing money for college, takes a job as assistant to infamous photographer Damian Wolfe. It's just taking pictures, right? Wrong. While Nick has never questioned what kind of man he is or what he truly wants in life, working for Damian during a BDSM photo shoot opens his eyes to all sorts of sexual possibilities, and many of them include the handsome Mr. Wolfe.

Damian has serious doubts about getting involved with a younger man who knows nothing about the BDSM lifestyle, but Nick's adventurous and humorous approach to new experiences is far too alluring to resist. Although he knows it might be a mistake, Damian takes Nick into his life.

Flirting on the edges of control, submission, and pain excites Nick more than he would have ever dreamed possible. With Damian, Nick learns about his own deeply hidden desires and finds out that relinquishing control doesn’t make him weak—having someone else in control of his sexual pleasure simply heightens it. And the reverse is true for Damian: Control turns him on. So they set out to explore these sensual boundaries together, neither expecting to find love along the way.

Available at Dreamspinner.com April 13th in both ebook and paperback here: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/comingsoon.htm

I'm still getting a handle on this self promotion thing. It's daunting, especially to a retiring person.

This is my first book, which fills me with joy and trepidation. I think it has a plot outside of the sex; I only hope others will too.

This story is BDSM-Lite™. I don't think it contains anything that would squick, nothing that will require brain bleach afterwards. Not a subject I thought I would be tackling, but I wrote it at the request of a friend and it proved to be extremely interesting. (More ruminations after the jump.)






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Dreamspinner is doing a lovely Advent Calendar of stories by all their authors. Mine is only one. When you sign up, you get one story a day until the new year.

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/advent.htm

Summary: Andy’s Mom sends him to his childhood home to check on the house for Christmas -- and he can’t avoid memories of the past, especially when Jake shows up on his doorstep to spark a fire in the unheated house.

And Elisa likes this one too!
http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/#asset-elisa_rolle-450815