RJ Scott - Author

MM Good Book Reviews

2012-03-05T07:44:00.000-08:00

The Only Easy Day 4/5

This isn’t a traditional relationship… they are not going to buy a little house with a picket fence, Joseph is going to still be gone a lot but Dale will be his port in the storm, this is a beginning for them and I don’t know why but I think that they still have another story in them.

So I will recommend this to those who love danger, explosive car chases, hot sex, total alpha men, bloody rescues and a happy (for these men) ending.

The Gallows Tree 4/5

Pixie: A really great story that brings together the past and the present while weaving a tale of hardship, fear, trust and love. When Cody starts to hear voices he puts it down to stress but when something appears before him he begins to think that he has lost his mind, with the help of Sebastian he starts to dig into village history only to find it might be the ancestors of not just his family but of Sebastian’s as well.

...if you also liked the Fitzwarren Inheritance Trilogy then you will love this as it is in the same vein.

Portia: The Gallows Tree is a typical RJ Scott angst filled drama, but it is also a brilliant thriller with a touch of the paranormal. Definitely darker, than say, The Christmas Throwaway. I feel like I’ve experienced a shift in the evolution of RJ Scott.

Guarding Morgan 4/5

Pixie: The relationship between these two is hot and sparks fly. The progression is fast and the feelings come quickly. They seem well matched, but it isn’t easy for them. What with worrying about the case and being stuck in a remote cabin for two weeks. The danger is very realistic and wasn’t over the top. The storyline was brilliant and the plot kept you reading. It was smoothly written and there isn’t too much going on that you get lost. The sex is hot and sensual and made me want more of it...

Shattered Secrets by Diane Adams and RJ Scott 4/5

Pixie: I thought the way that Rob handled everything was masterful, Jamie was headstrong and willful the supporting characters were incredible, too. They really added to the story. The story line is fantastic and written really well. Hopefully, this is opening up a new avenue in shifter stories where we have more realistic story lines and a different aspect to the ‘mating’ rules.

Portia: Since this is obviously part of a series, there are some nice tidbits that will make you want to read the next story. The problem, if not the actual bad guys, is identified and the book ends on a deliciously suspenseful note. But, I didn’t have that unsatisfied feeling of incompletion that is too often present in series novellas. If I never read another book in this series, I felt that Scott/Adams wrote a complete story.

Face Value - Wonderful New Art from Reese Dante

2012-03-01T08:46:00.000-08:00

Book 3 in the Sanctuary series

Guarding Morgan (Sanctuary #1)
The Only Easy Day (Sanctuary #2)

Book 3 - Face Value

Beckett Jamieson, AKA Robert Bullen, has been rescued by Sanctuary from a situation in which he nearly died and is left temporarily blind.

Doctor Kayden Summers is the Sanctuary operative assigned to look out for him.

It soon becomes clear Beckett is the key to evidence left by his mom. Evidence that may well destroy the Bullen family. The two men become involved in a critical retrieval situation and when bullets start to fly there is only one thing between Beckett and death. Kayden.

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The Art Of Words

2012-02-27T02:57:00.000-08:00

Contracts signed for *The Art Of Words* written with Meredith Russell...

coming soon... the story of Blu Taylor and Tom Harrington III...

Blurb:

Blu Taylor is an artist. After years of trailing up and down the country with his activist parents, he finally found somewhere to call home. He sees color and art in the world around him, and yet is never truly part of it. Despite the devotion and financial support of his best friend, there's a line he can't see through and that keeps him just on the outside of everything and everyone else.

Thomas Harrington has everything. The money, the car and the designer suits. But there's something missing from a seemingly perfect life. Something he had the misfortune of losing when his mother was taken ill.

After attending a local art show, Blu is contacted by Tom and offered everything he has ever wanted; a chance to show at a gallery. Though there is a growing attraction between the men, their worlds couldn't be more apart. Blu speaks through paint and brushes and Tom's life is wrapped up in words and paperwork.

Though opposites attract, it might be these same differences that push them apart.

Match Maker by Alan Chin - awesome

2012-02-25T09:18:00.000-08:00

Blurb:

In the four years since being forced off the professional tour for being gay, Daniel Bottega has taught tennis at a second-rate country club. He found a sanctuary to hide from an unkind world, while his lover, Jared Stoderling, fought a losing battle with alcohol addiction to cope with his disappointment of not playing on the pro circuit. Now Daniel has another chance at the tour by coaching tennis prodigy Connor Lin to a Grand Slam championship win. He shares his chance with Jared by convincing him to return to the pro circuit as Connor’s doubles partner. Competing on the world tour is challenging enough, but Daniel and Jared also face major media attention, political fallout from the pro association, and a shocking amount of hate that threatens Connor’s career in tennis, Jared’s love for Daniel, and Daniel’s very life.

Buy Link at Amazon and Dreamspinner Press

A completely satisfying romance. I couldn't put this down. I fell in love with the voice of Daniel and what I like to call the redemption of Jared is just perfect.

I only had one niggle and that was to do with a decision one of the characters makes but then, I was so invested in the tennis! A long and thought provoking book that I really enjoyed... it has very little full on heaving-chest-sweaty-sex, instead it focuses on the core of love and exposes some very deep intimate feeling. Very nicely done.

Competition - Win a $30 voucher for Silver Publishing...

2012-02-19T06:45:00.000-08:00

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED

Winner, Julie, advised...

Congratulations!

... to spend on whatever you want available on their website!

This is to celebrate passing 100,000 hits on my blog and the publishing of my second Sanctuary Story - The Only Easy Day!

I invited some of my writery friends to ask me questions and they have posted the answers on each of their blogs... these will only be short posts I promise!

The blogs you need to visit are:

Diane Adams :: Chris Quinton :: Sue Brown :: Lori Toland :: Anna Marie May :: Freddy MacKay :: Pia Valeno

Visit and make a note of my answers (which I promise you will be very obvious!). To win this prize simply complete the questionnaire below and I will put all the responses in a hat and pull a winner at random...

CLOSING DATE - Sunday 26th February, 12 midday GMT (London)

GOOD LUCK! Rj xxxx

The Only Easy Day... excerpt

2012-02-18T04:26:00.000-08:00

One dead girl, one scared witness, and two men trained as Navy SEALs. Whether searching for justice or revenge, the final showdown between them is the same--explosive.

The sequel to Guarding Morgan

Dale MacIntyre, former Navy SEAL, works for Sanctuary. He's the acting handler for a member of the Bullen family's inner circle. He's close to obtaining the evidence he needs to prove Elisabeth Costain's death was ordered by them... until someone gets in his way.

Joseph Kinnon, active Navy SEAL, is back on US soil for the first time in months, and he's told the tragic news that his stepsister is dead, gunned down in an alley by an unknown assailant. He's determined to find out who murdered her... until someone gets in his way.

They both want the same thing but have different methods of accomplishing their goals. They both want the Bullen family brought to account, but one wants justice and the other wants revenge.

What happens between them, however, has nothing to do with either.

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Excerpt:

"Morgan Drake?" he said firmly. The guy didn't move, and Joseph took another step and poked with the muzzle of his gun at the sheets. Nothing there except a tangle of cloth, and he straightened just as he felt the press of a muzzle against his neck. Fuck. Rookie mistake. So focused on the lack of the witness he had misjudged the scene. He knew better than to approach a situation halfassed and exhausted.

"You can drop the gun now, sailor," a strong firm voice said simply.

Joseph weighed up his options. The press of the gun was firm, controlled, and the owner of the gun wasn't shooting outright. Clearly he didn't want Joseph dead; otherwise, that would have happened already. He processed the action needed to bring the guy down.

"Why should I do that?" Joseph wasn't letting this lie. The more they talked the more intel he gathered. "I could have just shot the guy I thought was in the bed," he said softly.

"He's not the person you need to be pointing a gun at." Still the same smooth tone from the owner of the gun aimed at his throat.

"If it had been Morgan Drake, then I would have kept him alive to ask him questions," Joseph said softly.

"Hand me the gun, Joseph." Ah. So it was like that. Whoever had him at gun's length knew who he was. Interesting development. In a split second decision, Joseph flicked the safety and placed the gun in the small of his back. He didn't need firearms to deal with whomever the fuck this was anyway. He was happy to holster the Sig, but hell if he was relinquishing the gun. Slowly, hands raised, he turned to face his assailant, who took a step backwards but still had a gun unwaveringly aimed directly at Joseph. The man's face was in darkness, but Joseph could make out the form as being bigger than him, also taller and wider. What they said was true though; the bigger they are the harder they fall. He knew that better than most. He could have this guy on his knees and begging to live in the time it took for a breath. It was just a matter of waiting for the right time.

The man interrupted his thoughts calmly. "He isn't here. Protocol had him moved as soon as you breached the perimeter. He left with his handler ten minutes ago, and you got me instead." Joseph hadn't observed the exit, but that didn't prove anything. The guy with the gun took a step forward, and the streetlight filtering in through the windows half lit his face. They stood in silence, and Joseph catalogued as much as he could in the gloom. Way tall, way wide and firm in stance, the enemy stood silent and was judging Joseph in equal measures.

"Why does he need a handler?" Joseph chose to ask this out of all the questions in his head. The answer to that would at least give Joseph a direction to move.

"That's classified."

"Bullshit," Joseph snapped back quickly. "He wasn't called to give evidence; Headley admitted to the murder. Clearly some shit is going on. Is there a hit out on him? Tell me what Drake knows."

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Buying Kindle Books before they appear on Amazon

2012-02-16T12:21:00.000-08:00

I have lots of queries about when are books available for Kindle. Silver Publishing release my books to appear on Amazon a week after they are available at Silver

Did you know you can buy the books for your Kindle from Silver the day they are released?

This is how you set up your Kindle and Silver to make purchasing easy and direct. I am sure that other publishers work in a similar way to this...

Hope this helps... RJ...

STEP 1

Find your Kindle e-mail address

Go to Amazon and log in

Find Kindle in the left hand menus

Then find 'Manage my Kindle'

Click on 'Manage Your Devices'

The email address you need is under the 'Send to Kindle Email Address'

Make a note of this address

STEP 2

Add Silver to your list of approved email senders

Remaining logged in to Amazon...

Click on 'Personal Document Settings'

Scroll to the list of approved Email addresses

Add the following to the list: @spsilverpublishing.com

Then press *Add Address*

STEP 3

Add your Kindle address to Silver Publishing

Click on 'My Account'

Click on 'My Account Info'

Type in your Kindle address that you found above
(this example is my old kindle address)

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Reviews: Elisa Rolle

2012-02-15T03:05:00.000-08:00

The Gallows Tree - The relationship between Cody and Sebastian is sweet; I would dare to see it’s not passionate, but that is not what Cody needs now. Cody needs sweetness, reassurance, comfortable; I think Cody would be scared by passion, he would run away from passion. Sebastian’s sweet approach is what allows him to get near to Cody, to quietly and kindly open each protective layer Cody put around his heart.

One Night - There is a trend in romance for novels that make you dream; sure you are of the working class, you will never have the change to spend time in the hotels you read about in these stories, but nevertheless, you don’t want to read about how difficult is to pay the next bill, or the difficulties you will face if you fall in love for someone who lives on the other side of the country… you want to read of Micah and Liam’s trouble, trouble that will be solved in an heartbeat, as soon as Liam will find the courage to finally be the man he wants to be. Micah and Liam will not be touched by the ugliness of the world, and the happily every after will be there, waiting for them.

Oracle - Oracle is a good adventure romance; both side of the story, adventure and romance, are well balanced, and so I think this is a book that can appeal a wider target. Plus, even if there is a main romance in center stage, the supporting characters have some romance of their own, and so, the romantic reader is plenty satisfied.

Author Interview: Chris Quinton

2012-02-11T07:19:00.000-08:00

New books from the awesome Chris Quinton

Chris Quinton's Website can be found HERE

Sullivan’s Yard (Buy Link)

Cal Beaufontaine, trainee chef, is starting his career at the Alhambra in Modesto. He doesn't want the attention of the local super-stud, but Luis is determined to win him. Cal has other problems. He's hearing things -- voices that drove the previous tenant in his apartment to wholesale destruction.

Fox Hunt (Buy Link)

Rob is under commission to clean two Elizabethan portraits painted on wooden panels. But a couple of collectors want them as well, and one will stop at nothing to get his hands on both panels.

The portraits were stolen from Fox Courtney's home, and he wants them back. Fox is a vampire and he, too, will stop at nothing.

The inevitable clash will endanger Rob and his family, but as he grows closer to Fox, there's even more at risk - his heart.

COMPETITION: Win a copy of Sullivan’s Yard and Fox Hunt by commenting on THIS POST. Closing date is Friday 17th February at 10am, GMT (London).

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Hello Chris and welcome to my blog!

CQ: It’s great to be here!

RJ: I know you have had a million new books coming out over the last few weeks and I wanted to grab this opportunity to drill deeper into the writer that is Chris *wonderful* Quinton (Yes, I am biased)... So I am diving straight in with my first question:

RJ: Do you write an outline before every book you write?

CQ: A short outline in the first instance, just to set the main points in my head *g* Then I write the opening lines. If that gels, I fix the title, and start a proper synopsis and build characters. Not that it’s carved in stone, of course.

RJ: So you have this story in your head. Does it ever refuse to be written down on paper - do you ever experience writer's block?

CQ: Do I ever! Mental Constipation is a pain in my virtual arse! [can I say that?]

RJ: As long as it’s a virtual arse then I am happy.... ROFL!
RJ: What do you do to get past the mental block?

CQ: Usually, getting out of the house helps. For instance, I’ve been finding that Finders Keepers, the current WiP, has been sluggish. I get in the train Wednesday and by the time I’ve reached Chester I have a couple of thousand words scribbled. But the simple fact of walking from home to my favorite coffee shop does the trick.

RJ: Do you ever have days where the words flow so fast that you get cramp in your hand?

CQ: Oh, yes! Not as many as I’d like, but when the words flow as if you’re taking dictation, it’s a blast!

RJ: What books have most influenced your life most?

CQ: That’s a hard one. Let’s see - I discovered The Return of the King Trilogy and Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine round about the same time when I was 12 or 13, Then I found CJ Cherryh’s Faded Sun trilogy, and I’d say they probably had the most impact on my reading and writing.

RJ: Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest? In your genre and outside of it?

CQ: If you mean new to me, there have been lots! Far too many to list here. In the new to publishing authors, over the last couple of years and in no particular order, it’s got to be Sue Brown, Stuart Wakefield, Kate Sherwood, and um, Whatsername - RG Somethingorother... But seriously, there are a lot of new writers I like, too many to mention.

RJ: You have helped me a lot since I first started writing. It was your support that had me turning in Oracle and I think there are plenty of people who would hunt you down and shoot you for doing that! ROFL... You were my mentor...If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?

CQ: Mentoring you? You mean nagging, threatening, patting backs and feeding you chocolate and wine? It was a tough job but someone had to do it. *G* Besides, I had help when I started writing many years ago, so I just pay it forward. My mentors? Not that I’ve ever met them, but only devoured their books - CJ Cherryh for deep and complex characterisations both human and alien, world building and convoluted plots. Josh Lanyon for great plots and characters, and bringing the MM plot arcs into the mainstream of mystery and romance fiction. They’ve shown me how to do it, and I do my best to find my own way to emulate them.

RJ: Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members.
CQ: The friends I made when I started writing fanfiction way back in the 70’s. They are still close friends. We’re a widespread band of sisters *g*.

RJ: How do you handle reviews (bad or good!)

CQ: The good ones give me a warm, fuzzy feeling *g*. The bad ones that have absolutely no constructive criticism get laughed at and completely ignored. The bad ones that do have something constructive to say get thought about very carefully and kept in my internal editor’s file.

RJ: Okay, last question... I promise... What are your current projects?

CQ: Right. Okay. Um... Paradox is sitting with Silver Publishing and I’m waiting for the edits.
Finders, Keepers is the current WiP, and the first draft is about two-thirds done.
Bennett’s Folly is the collaboration with you - still in the planning stages. Then there’s Fool’s Rush, Oil and Water, The Lennox Selkie, Cause and Effect, Spiked, Taking a Chance - and about half a dozen more with titles, and even more still in vague outline.

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RJ: I just remembered. I have one more VITAL question to ask you... If you met Alex O'Loughlin what would you say to him? Would you lose the power of rational speech or ask him relevant cutting edge questions?
CQ: LOL! I’d try for the cutting edge questions, but I’d probably end up being a giddy idiot. Hmm... Wonder if those tatts are real?

RJ: And what about Adrian Paul and Peter Wingfield... together... what would you say to them?

More eye candy!

CQ: Guh! Well, I already met Peter face to face and became ridiculously tonguetied, which considering he’s of an age to be my son, is plain silly. I’d almost certainly be the same with Adrian. I am obviously an old cougar at heart but with very little social courage.

RJ: On that note I want to thank you for answering my questions! And good luck with your new books. I have read both and I love them equally... xxx

CQ: Thanks for having me, hon [[[hugs]]] I appreciate the invitation, especially now. It’s been a crazy few weeks.

Sue Brown: The Layered Mask

2012-02-09T00:28:00.000-08:00

"I loved The Layered Mask. Evocative of past era it is a beautiful story..."

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I remember the day I received the exciting bag. It was 1979. I was twelve and I was off of school and home sick with bronchitis.

A simple Tesco Carrier bag in which my Aunty Olive (then a spry forty years old - OMG she seemed SO old) had placed a selection of books for me as I was *old enough now to read them now*.

As I said before, I was twelve, or thereabouts. I was one of those weird readers who had already cleared through Narnia and Lord Of The Rings and decided THAT is where my reading interests lay (note - I probably skim read LOTR). If I wanted romance then there was romance in Narnia, I mean, come on, who didn't read those books and fall in love with Caspian... ROFL... and as for Samwise in LOTR - God I loved his self sacrifice and love for Frodo (even then I was slashing!). Anyway, I digress.

My aunty knew me though. She knew I was ripe for a real romance and boy did she deliver...

Janet Daley was my first ever romance. You know the sort - the one with the girl who does something that breaks through her gender wall and ends up with a stern unforgiving hero who pushes her around and demands things of her... and proves that she is right where she should be - in his arms and back behind the gender wall where he can look after her. Meep...loved it...

Then there were the gorgeous Regency romances, with the Ton, and the season, and old London, and *the country* and dukes and estates... and I WANTED TO BE THERE... of course knowing my luck I would be working in a tavern but still... a girl can dream...

Why am I telling you this? Because in Sue Brown's book, The Layered Mask, she perfectly captures the essence of those first regency romances that I read but brings the story right up to to date in writing style and detail. I loved the characters and the feel of the entire book. It was just pure enjoyment... with the restraint of a careful hand Sue Brown has built a London and a time when so much was made of not being seen doing the wrong thing. Where the fact that men wanted men was only to be found behind the most secure of locked doors.

A beautiful sexy romantic story. Recommended for those who like a *real right proper* regency romance.

To buy The Layered Mask click here

Free Short Story: Alcohol

2012-02-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

From this week, every week, Silver Publishing are asking their authors to write a short story for inclusion in their 'Silver Shorts' free read anthology.

This is available in all formats on the Silver Website.

My first free read is called Alcohol and you can read it here... You can read all of them by downloading the file at Silver including authors such as Chris Quinton, Diane Adams and Freddy MacKay for your Kindle, Nook, as a PDF and others...

For my first story I decided I wanted to try and stick to 1000 words and I was quite pleased with how it all fitted in...

Hope you like... RJ XXXX

Alcohol

Alcohol, I decided, was the reason for nearly every bad decision I made in my life; and shit, it started young. It was always there, it seemed, at the points in my life when I took my sexual experience to the next level. There, wrapping its haze around the moments, muffling them. It made me take chances and it made me brave enough to creep out of the closet for a few minutes each time.

Which is why it was so important that tonight I said 'no'.

Cheap home-made beer was responsible for the half-finished hand job with Ryan when I was fourteen. My brother's best friend Ryan. That was over in mere seconds. Sloppy kissing led to Ryan coming over my hand, all warm and wet, and cooling rapidly, and me coming in my pants. It didn't help when my brother Zach came in the room at the moment of completion and stood there. He was very obviously horrified at the evidence dripping off of my hand. I remember squirming at his shocked expression.

Zach and Ryan went straight to not being friends anymore. Also, Zach found out that hitting Ryan hard really hurt. He didn't talk to me for two days. He said he didn't know what to say. Only that it was wrong and he wouldn't tell Mom or Dad as it would kill them.

An unhealthy large intake of cider was the reason I ended up bending over for Alex Robinson at his sixteenth birthday party. Yes, I was aware that sixteen was young. I was way too young, but teenage hormones are a bitch and I needed to know. What did it feel like? Would it be the same as my fingers? We didn't have lube as such, just a condom and some of his momma's garlic infused olive oil that I stole from his kitchen. Fuck, it hurt. A lot.

There was none of this 'oh-my-god-there-is-my-prostate' kind of feeling. Nothing like the porn I had read on the Internet. It was too fast and I had to get myself off. There were no magic orgasms for me, and no romantic music and happily ever after.

I cried. If I am being really honest, what I cried about on that night though, was the disillusionment, the difference between what I had read in gay love stories and what I had watched in lust-filled porn against what had actually happened. I felt robbed. It was so easy to convince myself my time of experimentation was over. Anyway, it didn't count if what I continued doing with you was in the privacy of our own bedrooms after a few beers.

It was the whisky's fault for what happened in the bathrooms at a club on my twenty-fifth birthday. Dizziness, happiness, a need for affection, and I was back down on my knees sucking cock where I was happy. It wasn't the person I wanted to be on my knees for. Not anywhere close. No. You were what I wanted, but you wanted it to be real and I wanted just a taste every so often when no one could see.

"What the fuck?" Your voice was loud. "Get out of here," you said. You weren't talking to me. I just rested back on my heels as the guy I was halfway through sucking off simply tucked himself away and stumbled from the bathroom. "This is stupid," you shouted at me. "All this back room shit when you get drunk."

You told me I should do something. Come out to my friends. My family. At work.

My point? Hell, it's okay for you. You're out to everyone. You have it easy. You've been out ever since the day my brother found us in my room and you went home and told your parents.

"I like being in the closet. It's safe," I said to you. I know I sounded like a kid who wants it all.

"Are you happy?" you asked me gently. "You're so alone in there."

"Then let's go back to when I was fourteen and come back in the closet with me," I begged. "Then I could love you and it would be okay." It was impossible to make sense of what I was trying to say when pure liquor chased through my veins.

You laughed and then you drawled, "Your closet ain't big enough for the both of us." Your laugh wasn't real; it was sad.

So tonight, I am sober. Tonight is important because I am talking to you and I need you so badly to understand.

"Beer?" you ask me quietly, offering the cold bottle. Just like you do every night.

"No." I had asked for this - to talk. That was all. I had things to say, and you said would listen. I was not going to be drunk to go to the next level. I had so many clever thoughts in my head to explain what I wanted, but in The End, it blurted out in one wave of emotion.

"I want love and kissing and early mornings and late nights. I don't want to hide who I am. I want it to be real. I want what everyone else has."

You — Ryan, the boy I fell in love with when I was fourteen – looked into my eyes and you said that one thing, and I remember it as clear as a carving in stone even years later. On days like today, when we celebrate our twentieth anniversary, you with the start of gray at your temples and me with my laugh lines.

Do you remember what you said? It was two words. And all you said was…

"About time."

THE END

Don't forget there are loads more free stories available in all formats on the Silver Website.

Black Raven's Reviews

2012-02-08T05:48:00.000-08:00

The Gallows Tree 4/5 - Some of RJ Scott’s scenes in The Gallows Tree are touching while others are heart-breaking in their pain and pathos. Ms. Scott’s descriptions of the environs of Mill Cottage are very real. You can almost hear the sounds of crunching fresh powder snow as Cody and Seb trudge across the fields. Likewise, the intimate moments shared by Cody and Seb are sweet in the care they take of each other’s feelings.

The Heart of Texas 5/5 - The Heart of Texas is a delightful novel with many fascinating layers. The love story between Jack and Riley is heartwarming and realistic. Their sex scenes are beautifully written, extremely erotic, and filled with emotion. RJ Scott is an immensely talented and gifted storyteller, and I highly recommend this engaging romance.

One Night 4/5 - One Night is not a typical romance. RJ Scott takes her readers on Liam’s life-altering journey as he becomes comfortable with his sexuality. It is a powerful lesson in living life on one’s own terms no matter what the family’s expectations might be. And yes in the end, this novel is a love story as Micah and Liam explore the possibilities of the future their One Night has opened for them.

Jesse’s Christmas 3/5 - The only shortcoming in Jesse’s Christmas is the brevity of the story. For a small town boy, Gabriel is a little too quick to get involved with Jesse. Still, the writing is good; the flow of the story fine in Jesse’s Christmas by RJ Scott

Deefur Dog 4.5/5- Deefur Dog by RJ Scott is an emotion filled romance that will make you laugh and cry. It is a feel-good read that will have you cheering as they fall in love and sighing when they finally make love. And it will leave you a little wistful when you have to say goodbye to this delightful family. Definitely a book for the keeper shelf.

The Soldier’s Tale (The Fitzwarren Inheritance #2) 4/5 - The Soldier’s Tale by RJ Scott is an outstanding addition to The Fitzwarren Inheritance trilogy. It is a fascinating and interesting series, and I am very much looking forward to seeing how the curse is finally broken in the third installment, The Lord’s Tale.

Shattered Secrets (Shadow of the Wolf #1) by RJ Scott and Diane Adams 35/5 - I loved the banter and camaraderie between Rob and his partners, and Jamie and his best friend, Doug. Rob eventually earned my respect as he warmed up to Jamie and protected him, and the chemistry was definitely off the charts. Shattered Secrets had its moments and those I enjoyed quite well.

The Sanctuary Series: The Only Easy Day

2012-02-08T00:23:00.000-08:00

One dead girl, one scared witness, and two men trained as Navy SEALS. Whether searching for justice or revenge, the final showdown between them is the same—explosive.

Available to pre-order with Silver Publishing

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Dale MacIntyre, former Navy SEAL, works for Sanctuary. He’s the acting handler for a member of the Bullen family’s inner circle. He’s close to obtaining the evidence he needs to prove Elisabeth Costain's death was ordered by them… until someone gets in his way.

Joseph Kinnon, active Navy SEAL, is back on U.S. soil for the first time in months, and he’s told the tragic news that his stepsister is dead, gunned down in an alley by an unknown assailant. He’s determined to find out who murdered her…until someone gets in his way.

They both want the same thing but have different methods of accomplishing their goals. They both want the Bullen family brought to account, but one wants justice and the other wants revenge.

What happens between them, however, has nothing to do with either.

Excerpt

(Unedited)
"Chief, locate for CAS." The shout was passed down the line, barely audible over the gunfire, and into Chief Petty Officer Joseph Kinnon's ear. The lieutenant was situated higher up the steep incline, pinned in that position. He was held down by the whine and thud of AK47 bullets that ripped and spat through the rocks of the mountain, but his message was loud and clear. They were trapped, and only close air support was going to solve this clusterfuck.

Joseph was by far the closest to the onslaught of Taliban forces and crawled on his belly to the viewpoint, only inches below an outcrop of rock and far too exposed for his liking. Gauging distance, he scrambled back to pass the intel.

"Danger close, five hundred," he reported succinctly, and slid sideways as some random shot snagged the rock to his left and gouged a path in the blackness.

Information passed upwards was fast, and the decision passed back just as quick. Despite the team locked down this close to the target, there wasn't another way out of this position. They had to call in close air support and chance getting decimated by friendly fire or killed by the large group of Taliban closing in. Joseph sent up a silent plea the pilot of the F-16 in this airspace was one hundred percent accurate. Bad timing had led a group of Taliban to the same path they traveled, and the small SEAL team was paying the price. No way back up the mountain, and no way forward, the journalist they were here to extract had pasted himself flat against the wall with horror across his face; they were stuck. One well-placed missile into the middle of the Taliban forces and it would be enough for the team of six and the journalist to make it the extraction point.

The terminal controller exchanged brief glances with Joseph. Dexter was his best friend, and their relationship went way back before SEAL training, commonly called BUD/s. Joseph nodded. He knew exactly what was going through his friend's mind as he called in the ten-digit grid reference to command. Joseph lip read as Dexter added detail to the "danger close", forces-speak for telling the F-16 pilot there was the potential to kill the good guys too. Dexter ducked as the Taliban concentrated their fire on the cluster of rocks behind him. They couldn't know exactly where he was, but even random firing was sending bullets too close for comfort. Joseph rolled to his side and focused his fire on the flashes from the forces below them. He just hoped it was enough to give Dexter the space to complete the message on the UHF radio.

Finally Dexter passed a message up and down the team, the LT nodded and indicated heads down. The missile would be there in three. Joseph didn't let up on his targeted shooting, and for a few minutes until "missile on target", he and the rest of the team would be ensuring focus was on them.

The reporter had been an easy extraction. Taken hostage by the Taliban, they'd been keeping him in a safe house in the mountains of Afghanistan. Intelligence had led the US to his location, and they had watched to establish a pattern for his captors. Pattern established, Joseph and his team were inserted three miles away, on the other side of a mountain ridge. It had been, in SEAL terms, an easy extraction, and the journalist had not only still been alive but was able to walk out fairly unhurt.

Then the shit hit the fan. With nothing more than bad timing, suddenly the team was pinned down by the sheer number of freaking Taliban coming at them with the barrage of small arms fire. They were fucked. Dexter signaled a "one" to Joseph and the others. This was it. This was win or fail spectacularly; what a way to go out. Fuentes sat on the journalist, their faces to the wall, hunkered down in a natural ditch formed by a crack in the earth between rocks. Dexter rolled and sheltered amongst the boulders strewn on the pathway. The LT and the rest of the team kept up fire until, one by one, they too took cover. There was no sense in letting the Taliban get any idea things were going down by giving out a ceasefire, and finally, it was only Joseph firing into the darkness in a random pattern. He glanced at Dexter, who held up a fist and then a five. Joseph counted down, and at one, he took final cover, curled in on himself with his head tucked low, every part of him sheltered by Afghan rock.

No noise indicated the targeting of a five-hundred-pound bomb, but when it hit the Taliban, it was deadly and quick. The pressure waves pressed Joseph's eardrums, and he involuntary closed his eyes. The air rent about them, and the sound of violent roaring thunder shook the earth. As it threw debris high into the air, the low-end noise of the pressure wave rolled over the SEAL team, but there was no time to sit and wait to see if the hit had found target. Joseph was first, closest to the insurgents, and weapon high, he slid down the crumbling mountainside. The missile had done its work, but Joseph didn't look for that. He wanted an all clear, and with only a few on target shots, he indicated back that the team could follow. There was still some small arms fire from the few remaining Taliban, but it was nothing the SEALs couldn't handle, dodging forces and jogging with the journalist at the center. Dexter called in final extraction, and when Joseph slumped into the CH-47 Chinook, he closed his eyes. It would be days before his ears were back to normal. The helicopter dipped then took a wide low path over the Afghanistan flatlands.

"So," Dexter started on a shout that broke through his team's fractured hearing, "I'm thinking of asking Emily to marry me."

And there it was. Normality after facing chaos and death. It was what SEALs did. They fought, they extracted, and they were the best. But, at the end of the day, they had survived and were alive. Listening as his best friend received advice from the team on how to propose, Joseph felt a twinge of something inside. The adrenaline inside him was trickling away and the reality of his life was replacing it in every single cell he had.

An empty apartment and a month of sleep. The sleep sounded good, but the empty part? That felt like shit.

Hearts on Fire Reveiws

2012-02-06T10:54:00.000-08:00

The following RJ Scott books can be purchased from: Silver Publishing & Amazon

The Gallows Tree 5/5 hearts

There are several plot lines to follow in this story which keeps it interesting and keeps the pages turning. The wounded Cody and the patient Sebastian are perfect together as the explore the past only to find their future. More>>

Back Home 4/5 hearts

I enjoyed the intensity of the men’s love of family and their willingness to go up against all odds to keep their company. More>>

Oracle 5/5

Luke McKinnon is a linguistic scholar hired to interpret ancient Greek scrolls in an an attempt to discover the Oracle at Delphi. When he meets Alex with his tattooed scars and abilities their lives become intertwined with the help of the gods. I recommend this book to anyone with an open mind.

The Christmas Throwaway 5/5

This book surpasses even my favorite R.J. Scott book Oracle. Anyone interested in The Trevor Project needs to read this amazing and heart warming book of love, acceptance and compassion. I whole heartedly recommend this book to everyone you won’t be disappointed.

Free Short Story Anthology at Silver Publishing

2012-02-06T08:53:00.000-08:00

Title: Silver Shorts, 2012, Week 6.

This is the first FREE anthology from some of your favourite Silver Authors.

Order your copy HERE from the Silver site.

Includes the stories:
Alcohol by RJ Scott
Ambassadorial Closet by T.L.K. Arkenberg
Built on Love by Lily Sawyer
By Any Other Name by LM Brown
Closet Case by Julie Lynn Hayes
Hide and Seek by Cherie Noel
In The Dark by AJ Jarrett
Out of the Closet by Diane Adams
Stuck With You by Freddy McKay
This Closet Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us by Chris Quinton

Excerpt from Alcohol by RJ Scott

Alcohol, I decided, was the reason for nearly every bad decision I made in my life; and shit, it started young. It was always there, it seemed, at the points in my life when I took my sexual experience to the next level. There, wrapping its haze around the moments, muffling them. It made me take chances and it made me brave enough to creep out of the closet for a few minutes each time.

Which is why it was so important that tonight I said 'no'.

Cheap home-made beer was responsible for the half-finished hand job with Ryan when I was fourteen. My brother's best friend Ryan. That was over in mere seconds. Sloppy kissing led to Ryan coming over my hand, all warm and wet, and cooling rapidly, and me coming in my pants. It didn't help when my brother Zach came in the room at the moment of completion and stood there. He was very obviously horrified at the evidence dripping off of my hand. I remember squirming at his shocked expression.

Zach and Ryan went straight to not being friends anymore. Also, Zach found out that hitting Ryan hard really hurt. He didn't talk to me for two days. He said he didn't know what to say. Only that it was wrong and he wouldn't tell Mom or Dad as it would kill them.

An unhealthy large intake of cider was the reason I ended up bending over for Alex Robinson at his sixteenth birthday party. Yes, I was aware that sixteen was young. I was way too young, but teenage hormones are a bitch and I needed to know. What did it feel like? Would it be the same as my fingers? We didn't have lube as such, just a condom and some of his momma's garlic infused olive oil that I stole from his kitchen. Fuck, it hurt. A lot.

There was none of this 'oh-my-god-there-is-my-prostate' kind of feeling. Nothing like the porn I had read on the Internet. It was too fast and I had to get myself off. There were no magic orgasms for me, and no romantic music and happily ever after.

I cried. If I am being really honest, what I cried about on that night though, was the disillusionment, the difference between what I had read in gay love stories and what I had watched in lust-filled porn against what had actually happened. I felt robbed. It was so easy to convince myself my time of experimentation was over. Anyway, it didn't count if what I continued doing with you was in the privacy of our own bedrooms after a few beers.

Order your copy HERE

What's coming in 2012: Shawn Bailey

2012-02-05T23:41:00.000-08:00

So far

Nanny Dearest was published on January 7, 2012 with Silver Publishing.

Single father, Hunter, needs a new nanny for his son. While he interviews candidates for the job, his son sets his sights on Terry, the beautiful fill-in male babysitter--Hunter soon finds his head turned too.

Cosmetician Hunter Monroe is the busy single father of a precocious one-year-old son, Chase. When his nanny gets married and resigns, Hunter is left in the lurch until his best friend suggests the short-term solution of using their family's babysitter while interviewing new candidates for the position. To Hunter's surprise, his friend's solution turns out to be handsome twenty-three-year-old male college student, Terry.

While more of the applicants for the position fail to meet Hunter's expectations, the temporary babysitter impresses with his cooking skills and childcare knowledge. Chase makes the decision that Terry is the one he wants, but has Hunter also grown attached to the attractive babysitter?

Coming Soon

Sweetie, a novella in the Valentine’s Day, A Gift of Love Anthology is scheduled to be released on Feb. 11, 2012 with Silver Publishing.

It's love at first sight for candy maker Gianni Hill. With just one look at the gorgeous new lawyer in the building, Gianni knew he'd found the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, especially when he learned they shared a love for cherry jelly beans.

Mark Me is scheduled to be released February 23, 2012 with Siren-Bookstrand.

It was bad enough to have some guy try to hit on him in the men’s room of the video arcade last night, but to wake up and find two tattoos on his body was just too much. Who in the hell is this Dimitri person? And why is his name tattooed on my butt? Trey and the other friends had pulled some pretty mean pranks on Eli in the past, but this was just too much?

Dimitri took one look at that handsome sleeping face and just couldn’t resist branding his name across Eli’s bottom. Maybe it was the way Eli had turn down his advances earlier that night that spurred him to do such a childish thing. Or maybe he just hoped the preppy violinist would seek him out to remove the tattoos so and he’d get another chance to gaze into those big hazel eyes.

Geisha for Hire – Release Date (TBD) with Phaze Books

Jayce Ito thought there was nothing he wouldn’t do for his childhood best friend, Marley Bonds, until she asked him to help her out posing as a geisha for a client’s birthday party. He’d done a lot of foolish things for Marley, but this just bordered on insanity, especially when the recipient of the gift turns out to be none other than his new boss, Reuben Danza.

Recently Finished and Under Consideration:

Crimson Butterfly, an M/M romance about a police detective and an ambassador’s son.

In my head…

Untitled book – submission for the “A Mind is a Sexy Thing,” submission.

Untitled book – a coming of age story set in Florida.

Untitled Book 1 – A yakuza romance series.

Visit Shawn online:

Website: http://shawnbailey.bravehost.com/

Blog: http://www.myspace.com/568415499/blog/545249997

What is different about my Young Adult writing to my Adult writing?

2012-02-02T01:52:00.000-08:00

I have been asked the following question by at least ten people this week:

What is different about your Young Adult writing to your Adult writing?

My short answer - sex.

My young adult writing, to date, has dealt with young men in the senior year of school who are just starting the journey to new lives. The stories are still RJ Scott books. They have the RJ Scott angst, decisions, situations and the promise of Happy Ever After. Their stories are not gun toting adult stories but stories of family and overcoming obstacles (think Christmas Throwaway / Back Home, that kind of thing!).

They just don't go straight to the penetrative sex. My young guys are GUYS, they don't shake hands and say goodnight - they kiss and rub and generally get off in the most imaginative ways... but none of them are ready yet to go further.

I hope this explains...

Other News

Love Lane Books - the YA side of RJ Scott now has a new Facebook fanpage... I intend to use that to post news, ideas and inspirational photos for my Young Adult Writing. It can be found HERE. Don't forget I also have a blogger site for Love Lane as well and this is HERE.

The Decisions We Make continues to do well. It broke the top ten in Amazon Gay Kindle and in Genre romance and is in the top twenty on All Romance in the gay category. It remains at number one on All Romance in the Young Adult section... I have a happy! That has GOT to be good news for young adult writing...! Thanks to all of you who bought it... x

I have a start on Love Is In The Message (it's a small start but a start nonetheless!!).

The reviews for Decisions on Goodreads have been amazing and I am totally blown away by it. I am just hoping some reviewers will pick it up and comment... watch this space!

Some of the things people have been saying about Decisions:

"...I loved how close Jamie and Daniel were from the moment they met, so it seemed only fitting that their first love was found with each other..."

"These boys were so sweet. Their "first kiss" scene was so hot, I would call it award-worthy!"

"...Jamie and Daniel were so perfect for each other, each others other half. Make sure you have Kleenex, I cried but I also laughed too..."

"...This is a story that challenges labels—whether it’s jock or piano prodigy or being physically branded with a single word that hatred uses to discriminate—and encourages overcoming those barriers to be true to oneself.."

You can buy Decisions at Amazon or All Romance

Random thoughts on reviews, writing and Lord of the Rings...

2012-01-29T05:13:00.000-08:00

A fellow writer friend of mine got their first one star rating on Goodreads a few weeks back. They posted about it and how it made them feel. They even apologised to the rest of us who may read their post that they *knew they were being silly to be worried or upset* (paraphrased to protect the innocent!).

How as authors are we supposed to feel? Can we not be upset without looking like we are idiots. The grown up adult side of us (you know... the side that we try to keep quiet underneath our attempts to stay young) learns something from each review. The grown up writer grows even more with each point they take on board that makes them better at what they do.

When I got my first 'one' I was devastated; my second made me contemplate stopping writing. Now? Now, I think one of my books isn't truly critiqued unless I get a one from someone somewhere. It balances the other reviews and now most of my books sit at or around 3.5/5. As the holder of a statistics degree I am happy that I fall on average above the 3 line. This to me means that, in the main, people *like* my writing. Also as an aside, anything above a three seems to convert to healthy sales.

Empire Magazine rate films on a star rating. I very rarely like the films they rate as a five. I often find these films boring (I am still recovering from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Constant Gardner). I tend to love the films that are rated as threes. The guilty pleasure films- Mission Impossible and the like (I must add that there are occasions we agree ... Return of the King, Shawshank etc!).

When One Night first hit the stands everyone on GRs appeared to hate it. It hovered at 2 point something for days... then I was lucky to receive a few fours and fives and suddenly *yay* my average popped above a three.

The bell shaped curve of a Normal Distribution (skew to the 4)

Still. I knew it - I was doomed. Throwaway may well have done really well for me a few months before, but reviewers were calling Heart of Texas *just a soap opera* and hated it...I even got into my one and only only row over a one star rating. It was an awful time. I hadn't seen proper sales figures for HoT and then One Night came out with the low ratings. One Night didn't have the perfect HEA, and it clearly wasn't what people expected from RJ Scott. I thought I had written hope and expectation when evidently I had just written complete shite. I had really fucked up on that AND All The Kings Horses. I was going to go back to Website Design.

Then... imagine the complete and utter shock when hubby informs me that One Night is selling well. Really well. Apparently. So... someone out there must like it... right? Nah. I told myself maybe people are buying it because they just read Throwaway and there wasn't anything else on the list that had come out at that time they fancied reading. They'd all read One Night and hate it... sales sharply dropping was a scenario that had all the inevitability of an inevitable thing.

Wait. It kept selling. So. How? Why? Because the reviews had been so SO bad. Even though my brain had known reviews are one person's opinion, my heart was still wrapped up in sending my baby out for people to read. My heart wanted so desperately for people to like it.

Slowly but surely (and this has taken me nearly two years) I am pulling myself away from relentlessly refreshing my screen for the first reviews, away from Goodreads. I am certainly nowhere near blasé about reviews from GRs and other sources but I am less prone to fall weeping to the floor. I don't have time; I am too busy using what they say that is good sound critique and making my next book better.

I think we all have to remember - reviews are a lovely thing to validate our writing and to help market ourselves but places like Goodreads are for readers and all readers are entitled to their opinion (me included). As long as I please the majority, and that majority buy my books, then I am happy. Right?

What do you think?

Some cool news from Silver Publishing

2012-01-26T02:48:00.000-08:00

Silver Publishing introduces a VIP Loyalty Program to select customers starting on February 1st, 2012.

Did you know you can get all of your favourite authors books sent direct to your kindle or othe reading devices from Silver?

I received this news from Silver about a new loyalty programme that Silver are offering from 1 February... Some of you buy so many books I reckon you'll be way up the list! Apparently when it goes live and you sign in you will see what level you are at.

"As a show of appreciation for your commitment to purchase directly from Silver, we are now offering a three tier VIP program to customers. Membership into this program is by invitation only and is based exclusively on your purchasing dedication on the Silver website.

Platinum Members:15% Discount on ALL purchases
On your birthday, Platinum members receive 5 free books.
Platinum members receive their pre-ordered books 36 hours before its official release date
100 Reward Points every December

Gold Members:10% Discount on ALL purchases
On your birthday, Gold members receive 2 free books.
Members receive their pre-ordered books 12 hours before its official release date
50 Reward Points every December

Silver Members:5% Discount on ALL purchases
On your birthday, Silver members receive 1 free book.
Members receive their pre-ordered books 6 hours before its official release date
25 Reward Points every December

Additional perks to all tiers:Special Contest for members only throughout the year
Exclusive discount coupons throughout the year

Free RJ Scott read at Cup o' Porn

2012-01-24T04:19:00.000-08:00

Loads of free reads from so many authors you wont believe it!

Go visit HERE and download the PDF of my story 'How much for the whole night'.

Josh is mid divorce, fighting for custody of his son and escaping a marriage built on lies. In a bar the night before final hearings he meets a hooker with a body made of sin. Just one night of being true to himself, one night of being held down and made to feel? Surely that isn’t too much to ask?

p.s. I also have this file in Epub and MOBI... just comment on the cupoporn website and leave your email address there...

The Decisions We Make - Young Adult

2012-01-22T09:24:00.000-08:00

Daniel Keyes is an orphan, fostered by the Walker’s. The product of a lonely childhood, he is thrown into the chaos of the Walker family and into the life of his new foster brother Jamie.

This story is the journey of Daniel and Jamie finding their place in the world. Through Jamie being a victim of hate crime to coming out to family and friends, there are many decisions the boys have to make before they become men.

Available to download:

All E-Romance :: Amazon

Excerpt:

"Do you think he loves Star Wars or crappy Transformers like Mark?" Sue Walker looked down at her middle child and smiled at his question. His bright blue eyes shone with excitement, and he hopped from foot to foot. Jamie never actually sat still for anything longer than ten minutes in any one go. Not even when he played video games; he was constantly on the move in his seat.

Jamie was the most laid-back of her children. Nothing ever appeared to faze him. He was comfortable in his own skin—athletic, above average bright, and just a very happy open child. Sue had wanted more children after Megan, he youngest, but an emergency operation after her daughter was born meant no more children for her. That didn’t mean her heart had stopped wanting more though, and when Megan turned two, Jamie nine, and Mark thirteen, that was when she’d spoken to Don about fostering. He agreed immediately. They were financially secure, and Sue wasn’t alone in wanting a large family.

She and Don, her husband of twenty years, had sat all three kids down and explained they wanted to put themselves forward as a foster family. There was no sense in agreeing to care for a new child if her own family was hesitant. Sue was honest with them all, and one by one, her family told her it was a wonderful idea. She couldn’t have been prouder of a single one of them. Mark, her eldest, who asked if they could get a girl with boobs. Her middle boy, Jamie, who needed reassurance he wouldn’t have to share his room. Lastly, her youngest, Megan, who was just worried it would be yet another boy. All three were excited in different ways to add to their family.

So today, it was happening. Their first foster placement would be here soon, and his name was Daniel Keyes. The authorities had explained he was quiet, shy, and a gifted child, one who needed love and attention to make him blossom as a child. Sue had patience and love to spare. She was determined Daniel would be safe here.

"He's only four months younger than you, so I'm sure he will love Star Wars." Wasn’t that what most nine year olds liked at the moment? It was certainly what Jamie loved.

Jamie took the news in stride, and she loved him for it. Feeling secure was never an issue for Jamie Alexander Walker.

"An' he's not staying forever?"

"No. Fostering means he will stay just as long as he needs to until a new family is found for him."

"And I really don't have to share my room?"

"No. Dad is setting up a bed in the spare room."

The wide grin that Jamie gave her was confirmation enough he was happy about that situation. She only hoped her other two were as easy to win over. Daniel, the boy they were going to be given, was an orphan. He’d lost his father to cancer and his mother to apparent suicide. He was going to be more than a little lost and lonely nine-year-old, and it would be Jamie's good nature that took the brunt of any emotional problems Daniel might have. Being the same age meant the same class at school and similar interests.

"So the only thing he'll use is the den?" Jamie looked up at her. The den was Jamie's domain, where Vader battled with Luke and Han flew to the rescue. Sue nodded and then dropped to her knees in front of Jamie. The den had been taken over by the arrival yesterday of a piano.

"Daniel plays a piano, and apparently, he is very good at playing it. It will be good for him to have something he can have here that is his." She subsided into thought at the worry of just how damaged Daniel might be by everything he had seen in his short life.

"I'm really excited about him coming. Please don’t be sad," Jamie offered gently. Sue realized her son had picked up on her sudden quiet mood, and she hugged him tight. He might be a bundle of excitable drama, but under it all, he really was the most sensitive of her kids.

"I'm fine, sweetie. Are you going to meet him at the door with me?"

"How long is it gonna be?"

"Ten minute’s time."

"'Kay, Mom. I'm going to check his room has make sure it has some more good stuff in it."

Mark was away at football practice, and Megan was at a party for a friend. It was just her and Don and Jamie. Jamie was back at her side, peering out through the frosted glass of the front door. He couldn’t keep still and was again hopping from foot to foot with excitement.

"Calm down, sweetie; Daniel is kind of shy," she warned him.

"Okay, Mom, I’ll try." If Jamie had any faults, it was that he had an overabundance of confidence, enthusiasm, and general all round hyperactivity. They weren’t a family that could be labeled as quiet by any stretch of the imagination. They were a boisterous crowd, but social services said that would be good for Daniel, and when Sue was handed Daniel’s file, her heart just melted.

The car pulled up, and a short boy, dark hair flopping over his eyes, a bag clutched in long fingers, stepped out of the car and stood uncertainly, looking up at his new house. He spotted Sue, and a small smile crossed his face, then he turned, exchanging words with his companion, before nodding and holding onto her hand. He lowered his head as he neared the door, not lifting it even as Sue welcomed his placement officer and him in. He just scuffed his feet on the doormat.

"Hello, Daniel," Sue said brightly. She noticing her son had stopped hopping from foot to foot and instead was staring at the new visitor. She could feel him visibly bristling with excitement but trying to keep it inside.

"’Lo," came the soft reply, still no eye contact.

"Why don’t you let Jamie show you your room, Daniel?" Daniel lifted his gaze, his gray eyes filled with an expression of fear. Sue wanted to say something clever to dispel the young boy's fears, but Jamie interrupted in his usual take-no-prisoners fashion.

"Yeah, Daniel, come with me and see. We got like painted bits, and posters, and I didn’t know what you was bringin’, but I put like loadsa books in your room and some Star Wars stuff and some trading cards. I mean they're the ones I have two of, but you know you can always swap ’em if you already have ’em, and I’ve also got like this second controller for you to play with me. Come on. Quick."

Jamie grabbed at Daniel’s arm, just reaching farther as Daniel backed away a bit startled at the touch, and giving him no chance to argue, Jamie dragged him up the stairs.

Diane Adams is in da house...

2012-01-21T08:26:00.000-08:00

Hi to Diane Adams!

Congratulations of your new release!

RJ: Tell me briefly what A Broken Light is about?

DA: It’s about fighting monsters. Not just the very real physical monsters that exist in the world Jace and Elias inhabit, but the monsters inside themselves as well. Prejudice, fear, pain and sorrow all the things that narrow their choices and make them something less than the heroes their outward actions make them seem.

RJ: A Broken Light is something that I know has consumed you for a very long time. Was it harder to write than your ongoing Making Of A Man series?

DA: Thanks RJ! A Broken Light is the most difficult thing I’ve written. It’s much different than the straight forward “slice of life” type romance I’ve written up until now. A Broken Light took nearly a year to finish.

RJ: Can you sum up the two main characters in three words each?

DA: Elias: Idealistic, self-sacrificing, lonely
Jace: Jaded, focused, lonely

RJ: The cover art is gorgeous - can you explain the significance of the tattoos or is that a closely guarded secret?

DA: Thank you Reese Dante did a fantastic job with the cover. If you saw my original “example of placement” art to her then you would really see what a genius she is.

The significance of the tattoo is not exactly a secret but it is revealed in the book during a very poignant moment between the two Main Characters and so I’ll not spoil that.

RJ: Can you post a buy link for me:

DA: I believe the only place it’s available at the moment is Silver Publishing.

https://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/coming-soon-c-2/a-broken-light-ebook-p-645

If you have a Kindle or Nook you do not have to wait. Silver Publishing has a button to deliver the book to your device, just make sure you have added @spsilverpublishing.com to your approved document email list.

RJ: Imagine you didn’t know me (I know, a sad and somewhat tragic thought) describe yourself to me in five simple words.

DA: Romantic. Procrastinator. Late. Happy. Optimistic.

RJ: What is next for Diane Adams?

DA: You know what’s next...or are we still pretending??

Wolfie 3 of course, officially known as Splintered Lies, In the Shadow of the Wolf Book 3 due to be released in April.
Book 5 in my Making of a Man Series, hopefully Alex and Jared don’t need introduction at this point. There are some twists to their story which I think may come as a surprise.
Hillbilly Hollywood, the romantic comedy I’m going to write with some weird woman I know lol. I can’t wait for this one!
Beyond the Night Book 2, Make Me Believe.
Some kind of Halfway house thing.
MM6 and MM7
Beyond the Night 3

and a host of things impatiently waiting their turn in my to be written folder. I have ideas for about the next five years I think.

RJ: Where can I find you on the Internet if I want to know more?

DA: www.dianeadams.virtualdelusions.com is my blog, it’s wide open so feel free to stop by and check things out. My email is diane.adams@virtualdelusions.com

RJ: Can we have a sneak excerpt from A Broken Light?

You can...how about we steal a look at Elias and Jace...slight context they have finished a rather grueling encounter with some monsters and Jace is just about wiped out from exhaustion.

~*~

Jace nodded, but didn't move. Elias pulled the gloves off Jace's big hands; the sight of which nearly derailed his concentration. Strong, callused hands, big enough to palm a basketball, and a particular weakness for Elias. He took a deep breath. Down boy. Jace wouldn't be touching anything with those hands but a bed. Elias tossed the parka towards the door. Covered with blood and gore, he didn't know if anything could save it, but he'd try. Kneeling in front of Jace, Elias helped Jace remove boots so big he suspected they might be boats in disguise.

Everything about the guy was huge. Elias' position brought him eye level with Jace's crotch, leading to thoughts of proportion. Sweat beaded Elias' upper lip and lust roared through him. It took every ounce of his control not to slide his hands up the inside of Jace's thighs straight to his zipper.

Jace touched Elias' shoulder. "Take off your coat."

Jace's voice sounded heavy with fatigue, but Elias didn't argue, slipping his trench coat off without a word, laying it aside. He knelt in front of Jace without moving, trembling with need.

~*~

The first two chapters of A Broken Light are posted as a free read at my blog.

Thank you for the interview RJ, it was fun and not nearly as torturous as I imagined...

Does Downey Jr do a Johnny Depp?

2012-01-21T03:53:00.000-08:00

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Holmes and Watson do what they do best. A loud quick and incredibly clever film.

4.5 stars

See the film entry on IMDB

The short answer to whether Downey does a Depp is no...

Take the pirate films for instance... I may be the only one but I actually gave up on Pirates#4 because the first almost hour was *look at me I am Johnny Depp dressed as Jack Sparrow and this film is about me and aren't I funny*.

I loved Pirates #1, I love me some Johnny Depp, but gah, when an entire introduction to a film is him repeating stuff we have already seen with boring cameos I really lost interest.

I worried about this as I sat in the first half hour of the Sherlock Holmes movie as well...let me explain.

RDJ has a career I have followed from day one and he was in my opinion perfectly cast as Iron Man and as Holmes. And as for Jude Law, infidelities and nanny's to one side, he is soooo pretty. Yes I am biased!

I was SO excited about seeing Holmes#2 (perhaps a little overexcited) and with babysitter in place we went off for our regular Noodle Bar / Cinema nights out. I couldn't eat my chicken and rice fast enough, bought my sour face chews and a ticket.

Then the first half an hour happened.

Jeez.

It was like put together all the clever stuff Holmes could do, add in the slow motion fighting thoughts and that seems to be the first half hour. Suddenly, with a horror that cut me deep, I was *gasps* bored... I even had the treachorous thought that I am not going to like this film. AT ALL.... Watson off getting married, Holmes being really odd in a forest in his room, the burlesque type stag night with the cliché bad guys... GAH...

And then it happened. Magic. And magic started on the train. The boys back together, Law and Downey are perfect together. Add in big guns and clever lines and I was hooked! Guy Ritchie you are a sly old dog...

The sets are beautiful. I mean not just beautiful, but perfect. Old London captured in all it's chaotic ethnic clash of beauty and dirt and rich and poor. Stunning. I don't care if it isn't historically correct but even down to the guys digging a *London Underground* tunnel and the use of a car was just so damn clever.

Overall this film is a definite four and a half star film... chop off the first half hour (of course the film would make no sense then ROFL) and I could give it a five...

What's coming in 2012: West Thornhill

2012-01-21T00:00:00.000-08:00

Hi, I’m West Thornhill, new author with Silver Publishing. Heck, I’m a first-time published author period. I’ve been writing for years just never had the moxie to attempt to publish anything. I went back to college in 2003 to finish my degree at a small woman’s college. While there, I had planned on obtaining a degree in English Literature but succumbed to the siren’s call of the Classics department. Personally I think Greek and Latin are amazingly fun languages to learn. (I need to brush up on them.)

I started writing M/M erotic romance mainly because that’s what I’d been reading for the last six or seven years and I am a huge fan of Yaoi anime and mange. I love Junjou Romantica and Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi. I attempted to write M/F story but the main characters weren’t working as well as I wanted them too. A minor character, who was very open sexually, started me on the path that became the very first early version of Transcend. Let’s say that the original and the current versions are very, very different.

On my blog I currently have two stories going – Spectral Surprise and Otherworldly Lover. The both have pages so, if you’re interested, you can read them in their entirety. I hope you’ll swing by and check them out as well as take a look at Transcend. Thanks, RJ, for giving the opportunity to play on your blog.

Coming Soon

Fillmore Series: Transcend

When Gael Astley escapes life spent as a sadist's sex slave, his rescuer introduces him to a world he never knew existed. He quickly discovers he has the powers of telepathy and telekinesis, but is confused about what this means for this life. With the help of the one person he knows he can trust, Gael embarks on an intense training regime that ultimately leads to a new career as an agent for Fillmore, a top-secret paranormal group.

Jason Phillips, a member of the Fillmore team, has secrets of his own. Though he tries to keep his distance from Gael, the two men are drawn together like moths to flame. Will Gael overcome his own insecurities and see the possibilities offered or will his past come back to destroy him?

Warnings:

M/M sex, Incest (brother and sister, not shown in detail, and not main characters), Rape (main character in past, secondary character in present) Readers with a history of rape or sexual abuse may find elements of this story disturbing.

Grease Paint

details to follow...

In my head…

Fillmore Series: Rediscover plus three others in the series that don’t have titles yet

Rise – the Dragon and the Phoenix – this is a fantasy that I’m working on created from Chinese and Japanese myth

Spectral Surprise & Otherworldly Lover – my blog stories about two enforcers for the Seelie Court

Children of the Fallen: Ethan’s Quest – this is an LGBT YA story (almost half-way completed) and the sequels to this series are still in the planning stages

I have a ghost story I hope to finish this year and a contemporary that’s still in the development phase. I only know who one of the main characters is and he’s been very quiet lately. I’m also working on a super-secret project with two other authors. I’ll post an update on my blog as soon as I’m free to talk about it.

Visit West online:

http://wthornhillauthor.blogspot.com/

What's coming in 2012: Gale Stanley

2012-01-20T05:21:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

A Chance Encounter - Hybrids: 1

[MM Paranormal Erotic Romance]

Adam is a wolf hybrid, the result of a military research project, splicing animal DNA with human DNA, to create the perfect soldier. Somehow the genetic manipulation went too far and Adam can't control his beast. Slated for termination, a freak gas explosion provides the opportunity for his escape from the medical facility he calls home.

A hunted man, he expects to spend the rest of his life alone, but a Chance encounter changes everything.
Chance is unlucky in love and stuck in a job he hates. Then he meets Adam, his perfect man. But Adam is more than a man and involving Chance in his life could get them both killed.

Available at Silver Publishing:
http://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/coming-soon-c-2/a-chance-encounter-ebook-p-712
Happy Reading!

Visit Gale online:

http://galestanley.net/
http://galestanley.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/galestanley
http://www.facebook.com/gale.stanley.author

Guest Blogging at LM Brown and an excerpt...

2012-01-19T00:54:00.000-08:00

I guest blogged at LM Brown about a website that I found really useful when I was writing Oracle... I had completely forgotten about it but found it on one of my 'clicking-around-the-Internet' sessions.

It helps me with my biggest pre edits problem - that pesky passive voice...

The Website is called Edit Minion and you can find more information (and an excerpt from *The Only Easy Day*) on LM's blog... Here

What's coming in 2012: Victoria Blisse

2012-01-17T00:00:00.000-08:00

Victoria Blisse is a Mother, Wife, Christian, Manchester United Fan andAward Winning Erotica Authoress.

She is equally at home behind a laptop or a cooker and she loves to create stories, poems, cakes and biscuits that make people happy. She was born near Manchester, England and her northern English quirkiness shows through in all of her stories.

Passion, love and laughter fill her works, just as they fill her busy life.

Coming Soon

Coming from Total-E_Bound in July 2012 Point Vamp Book 3 : The Vampire's Choice.

Josh maybe undead but he still lives at home with his Gran and works in a supermarket stacking shelves with his mates. His life hasn’t much changed apart from being dead and having to suck blood from live humans to survive.

Luckily he knows The Point, a vampire bar where the humans are hot and tasty and eager to please. Well most of them are. Janine is the exception. She is cold and distant but from the first time he meets her Josh is smitten.

But he has a problem. A hot but crazy female vamp has got him in her sights and she’ll stop at nothing to get him all to herself.

Josh has a decision to make and it will change his afterlife forever. Who will he chose?

In my head…

Book 2 in the Djinn's Amulet Series: Bollywood Nightmare. Raul and Laura have a beautiful daughter named Kiya who becomes a Bollywood star following in the shoes of her father. She takes things one step further when she's invited to Hollywood to star in a Hollywood Bollywood spectacular! Things go awry when Kiya is kidnapped and Johnny the Djinn has to rescue her from the grips of a super villan and family of Djinns who hate him. But in the midst of the chaos Kiya falls in love...with her jailer.

I've wirtten about a third of this and I'm planning to submit it to Total-E-Bound in the near future.

3 short stories for Xcite anthologies. One Called The Best Handjob in the North is finished and I have another two, one Bollywood themed and another with a historical bent to finish!

Visit Victoria online:

Website: http://victoriablisse.co.uk
The Big Blisse Kiss: http://blissekiss.co.uk
Facebook: http://facebook.com/victoriablisse
Twitter: http://twitter.com/victoriablisse

LRC 2011 Nominee!

2012-01-16T11:40:00.000-08:00

Texas Winter was nominated in two categories and is up against some bloody brilliant authors so I am well chuffed (British for really happy!).

If you liked Texas Winter and you want to vote just click on the links below and comment to the post. Voting is now open apparently!

Best GBLT Book of 2011 Nominees... Texas Winter (Sequel to Heart of Texas)

Best Book of 2011 Nominees... Texas Winter (Sequel to Heart of Texas)

Hugs Rjx

What's coming in 2012: Sue Brown

2012-01-16T00:00:00.000-08:00

Hello R.J. Thanks for giving me the chance to pimp my words to you on this sunny day. Yes, I know it is winter and by the time it’s posted it may be blowing a howling gale, but one can always hope.
So, what’s on the agenda for Sue this year?

Coming Soon

I have two stories coming out within 4 days; Light of Day, the follow-up to The Night Porter. Yes, I can write happy endings… maybe. And The Layered Mask, part of the Masquerade series with Lisa Worrall and Patricia Logan.

Light of Day was written because readers wanted a conclusion to Max and Robert’s story. Oh, all right then. Robert gets married, has 5 kids, gets two Oscars and lives happily ever after. Max… doesn’t.
What do you mean that isn’t what you want to read? Oh, what you want to read is Robert doesn’t get married, doesn’t walk out the door, stays with Max and they jump each other’s bones? Is that better?
Um, no…

The first time Max laid eyes on Robert Armitage, he knew exactly what he wanted to happen. But Max was just a night porter and Robert a guest at the hotel before his wedding, and Max knew even as they slept together that in the morning he’d have to send the groom on his way. Max’s heart was broken when Robert left, and so he ran home to Texas. When Robert’s marriage failed, Max waited for Robert to come looking for him, and waited….

A year later, Max’s dreams come true and Robert finds him, but there’s a catch, and Max has to decide if he wants Robert enough to be satisfied with hiding their relationship.

Light of Day is published by Dreamspinner on 1st February 2012: Buy Link

Have you ever wanted to write something for a long time but never had the idea or the nerve? Well, The Layered Mask is mine. For years, I’ve wanted to write my Barbara Cartland story but never had the plot. When Lisa and Patti approached me with the idea about a Masquerade ball I finally had the idea. I’m hoping that although I used the time-honoured tradition of the virgin and the lord, this isn’t a story of chicks and dicks.

Threatened by his father with disinheritance, Lord Edwin Nash arrives in London for one season to find a wife. While there, Nash discovers he is the lamb, the sacrifice of the society matrons, to be shackled to one of the girls by the end of the season.

During a masquerade ball, Nash hides from the ladies vying for his attention. He is discovered by Lord Thomas Downe, the Duke of Lynwood. Nash is horrified when Thomas calmly tells him that he knows the secret that Nash had hidden for years and that he sees through the mask that Edwin presents to the rest of the world.

What will happen when the time comes for Edwin to return home with a suitable bride?

The Layered Mask is published by Silver Publishing on 4th February 2012, together with Behind the Mask by Lisa Worrall, and The Slaves Mask by Patricia Logan. Link to Sue's page at Silver here.

In my head…

I have several other stories planned for this year: Stolen Dreams, where encountering your ex makes life really complicated, and Complete Faith, the sequel to Morning Report. Plus a paranormal, a holiday romance and a series of stories set around a gym.

Hey, I’m busy! See you soon, Sue xx

Visit Sue online:

http://suebrownsstories.blogspot.com

The Only Easy Day

2012-01-15T12:31:00.000-08:00

The Only Easy Day (A Sanctuary Story)

Sequel to Guarding Morgan

Blurb:

One dead girl, one scared witness, and two men trained as Navy SEALS. Whether searching for justice or revenge, the final showdown between them is the same—explosive.

Long Blurb:

Dale MacIntyre, former Navy SEAL, works for Sanctuary. He’s the acting handler for a member of the Bullen family’s inner circle. He’s close to obtaining the evidence he needs to prove Elisabeth Costain's death was ordered by them… until someone gets in his way.

Joseph Kinnon, active Navy SEAL, is back on U.S. soil for the first time in months, and he’s told the tragic news that his stepsister is dead, gunned down in an alley by an unknown assailant. He’s determined to find out who murdered her…until someone gets in his way.

They both want the same thing but have different methods of accomplishing their goals. They both want the Bullen family brought to account, but one wants justice and the other wants revenge.

What happens between them, however, has nothing to do with either.

Pre-Order at Silver :: Add to Goodreads

What's coming in 2012: Freddy MacKay

2012-01-15T00:00:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by while RJ pimps me out. :)

Coming Soon

Beginning Again: Finding Peace #1 to be released from Silver Publishing February 25th! Buy Link

Pain and loss are nothing new to David. They were old friends who stayed too long. Finally being able to full-fill a longtime goal by transferring to Capstone Ridge University, David McCourt was hoping to put his past behind him. Even if it meant keeping his head down and staying away from his roommates and everybody else. All David really wants is an honest chance to start over with a clean slate and a new life, complications he does not.

Short replies and avoidance were new to Bobby. Everybody liked him. Bobby Daniels didn’t want a robot for a roommate. After seeing the hurt David carried around, Bobby made up his mind to help his awkward roommate come out of his shell. Dragging David if he had to, with the help of friends and a nutty professor.

Being attracted to guys wasn’t anything for Jackson Black. It was something he ignored and tried to change for years. Thinking if he found the right women or she found him, Jackson would have his problem fixed. What he wasn’t counting on was the intense stare of David McCourt.

Between friends, a one-night stand and Jackson, David has his hands full trying to figure life out. When David gets hurt, will he be able to recover? Or is it the final straw that sends him over the edge? To keep David together, friends and lovers surround him trying to help close the wounds, but will it be enough?

Please Note: This title is a TBC and is a cross genre series, including m/m, m/f and menage relationships.

Incubation: Finding Peace #2 is being released in May of this year.

After David’s attack, the makeshift group that has become his friends, tries to form a protective cocoon round him. Holding him together. The problem is, they don’t know the whole story and David finds the constant noise a distraction instead of helpful.

Can this makeshift rag-tag group of friends make a family, or will old secrets bury them all? And how well will the community and campus react to David?

In my head…

Days Gone By: A Finding Peace Back Story - currently being edited for submission

The year is 1980, the senior year of four friends at Capstone Ridge University. Junnosuke Ito, Absalom Feld, Neil Cook and Henry Wilson have bought a house together off campus and are in the process of renovating it, making it a home. All of the friends are close, but Abby’s unspoken preferences are put to the test when his feelings for Neil come to a front. One particular day, during a presentation gone wrong for Abby, their relationships change turning friends into something more, but less than lovers.

Neil’s boundaries are tested when feelings of lust and attraction lead him to look at Abby in a new light. But he isn’t gay, just Abby, right? Neil just knows he doesn’t want anybody but him touching Abby. And when Abby runs, what will Neil do?

Henry and Jun watch as the friendship between Abby and Neil get tested. The problem facing the two friends is, do they interfere or stay out of it? And the question remains, will Abby be able to handle his confusing, and at times painful, circumstances?

The Winding Path: Finding Peace #3

The conclusion of David’s arc in the Finding Peace Series

Untitled: Finding Peace #4

Conclusion of Becca’s arc

In My Darkest Hour: Finding Peace #5

Conclusion of Chris’s arc

Untitled: Finding Peace #6

Untitled: Finding Peace #7

Moving Mountains - A short story I’m working on.

George Sanders is collecting data for his doctoral thesis in the great outdoors with his friend and lab assistant Max Flint. Something has been bothering George for months, but he hasn’t been able to put his finger on it. While in the field, Max’s unusual behavior makes George aware of his friend in a way he hadn’t considered before and he’s not sure he likes it, Max is leaving for graduate school in the fall. Will George finally get a clue or will a missed opportunity haunt him once his friend is gone?

Lay Me Down: Sheltered #2

This is a sequel to Tears for Christmas, a continuation of Danny and Gabriel’s story.

Danny finally admitted his love for Gabe, and Gabe feels it’s time to take the next step. Or in their cases, next several steps. Gabe wants the two of them to make their relationship official, move in together and have more kids. Riding high off of Danny’s confession, Gabe’s feelings are wounded when Danny doesn’t hop immediately on board, making him question his lover’s commitment.

Dan loves Gabriel, wants more than anything to make him happy, his lover saved him from rock bottom. But when Gabriel asks Dan about moving in and getting married, he hedges. Worries over his son and in-laws, and how they’ll react to a more permanent relationship between the lovers, weigh heavily on Dan. Roger may have condoned his relationship with Gabe, but Lilia still isn’t a hundred percent on board, and will Roger really be okay with Dan marrying again or the rest of Luke’s family for that matter? Can he continue to make the family he started with Luke or is it too much to ask?

Moving On - my NaNo project.

Photojournalist Michael Davis is driving across the country to visit the one person he promised to never, ever see again. Nate Williams was his best 'friend' in college and his wife, Sarah, had been a good friend of Michael's too. Watching them get married, start successful careers and have something Michael thought he could ever have or with the person he wanted, broke something inside him. He knew he had to let his friends go when they moved away from the midwest to California. But despite his efforts, phone calls, emails and Facebook have managed to keep them as a part of his life.

And now, seven years and Nate and Sarah’s two kids later, Michael finds himself talked into a cross-country trip to visit his friends as Sarah waits to give birth to their third kid after experiencing a rough pregnancy. Can Michael really stand to see his friends so happy and in love? Will Michael be able to watch Nate and Sarah in their marital bliss or will their happy home push Michael further to the edge?

As he tries to reconcile his long-time unrequited love, Michael will be pushed past his boundaries of solitude and longing. Can Michael be able to let everything go on the journey back to redemption and find what he's been looking for? Even if it's someone he found on the side of the road?

Visit Freddy online:

freddy.m.mackay@gmail.com

http://freddymackay.blogspot.com

http://freddysstereograph.weebly.com

https://www.facebook.com/freddy.m.mackay

And the winner is...

2012-01-14T06:23:00.000-08:00

The competition to win every single RJ Scott e-book published in 2012 is now closed...

And the winner is...

...someone who left a comment on 8th Jan and who was picked by my hubby using randomising software...

...congratulations...

Marie!

(m****@fsmail.net)

I will email you as soon as I can!!!

RJ XXXX

"You've failed, your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

2012-01-14T05:00:00.000-08:00

These words are the culmination of Star Wars IV, V and VI in the final battle between Vader and Luke.

It is the most passionate stirring scene in any film I have ever seen. It is the absolute certainty in Luke that he would rather die than turn to the dark side that makes the simple words he says so meaningful.

If they had made Jedi in 2012 it would have a complicated fight scene with stunts and flips and tons of explosions... but the almost simple (and I know I have used that word twice now!) way that the fight happens is redolent of sword fights in old black and white movies. It is intense. Added to which is the perfect William's music building to a crescendo.

What is your favourite scene in any film and why??

What's coming in 2012: Anna Marie May

2012-01-14T00:00:00.000-08:00

Hi, this Anna! Thanks to RJ for having me on her lovely blog! Here is what is coming up for me in early 2012:

Coming This Spring

Being Human Release Date: Tentative date, 31 March 2012

Being (almost) human after his forced fall from heaven isn't quite turning out how Kai had pictured it. Still, there are perks. Like seeing Alex naked and for the frist time, being able to appreciate his friend's fine body.

But his newly found attraction is honestly the last of Kai's worries. There is Lucifer, an old friend, who is free for the first time in Millennia and out to get reacquainted. And on top of everything, the world is about to spiral out of control with forces of good clashing with evil. But here's the tricky thing: how do you decide what is truly evil?

Ancient prophecies, cryptic archangels and really, is it any wonder Kai feels totally overwhelmed by the simple task of making a sandwich?

Can the newly formed love between Kai and Alex really conquer all? Or will their feelings doom not only them but the rest of the world along with them…

Over The Rainbow (#1 Watchtower Series) Release Date: Tentative date: 05 May 2012

Missing: Prophesized warlock to the King. Has anyone seen him? Please contact your nearest guard station if you do find him.

Aidan never knew he could do magic until a cat dared him to have sex. His life truly must be tragic if even felines knew he was too pathetic to find someone to share his bed with. Unfortunately for him, the cat turned out to be his familiar leading him not only to his First Time but also to King James who in turn refuses to let Aidan slip through his fingers again.

For there is a prophecy: James can only truly unit the lands and bring prosperity to all if he has his trusted warlock by his side. Roping Aidan into coming home with him wasn’t the happily ever after everyone had expected. Instead, it set in motion a chain of events which would lead both Aidan and James further away from home than they could have ever imagined.

Series Info:

# 1: Over The Rainbow (Aidan and James) - COMPLETE
# 2: Over the Moon (Aidan and James) - COMPLETE, in editing stage
# 3: Out Of The (Werewolf) Closet (Rick and Tom) - almost complete, editing stage
# 4: Icelands (Aidan and James; Raphael and Vivian) - in planning
# 5: Siren Song (Raphael and Darren) - writing

This series is also called 'moon bunnies' - the reason for this will become clear later...I swear!

In my head…

I do have many other projects currently going on but I do not like to talk about them until they have taken somewhat shape. If you want to stay in touch, I would recommend visiting me on my FB page or on my blog.

For full details on my already published books and upcoming things, my website is the best place to be. See details below...

Visit Anna online:

website: http://www.annamariemay.com/index.html
blog: http://amariemay.blogspot.com/
fb: http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Anna-Marie-May/100001772499983

What's coming in 2012: Nicole Dennis

2012-01-13T04:47:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

A Family Found –Hamilton River Series Book 1 (January 21 – Silver Publishing)

A promising baseball star, DimitriMichelakakis, left it all behind when his troubled sister called, begging himto raise her baby boy. Now a chef and a single father, he runs the successfulcatering arm of local bistro, Terra Verde. Dimitri never suspected that one ofhis catering jobs would lead him to a new love.

Since receiving a note about his son’sbirth, millionaire MasonHarrisonhas done everything he can to find the baby and the man who raised him as hisown. Couldfinding his son mean finding the family Mason has always longed for? Pre-order.

Ghost on a Wing – On aWing Series Book 1 (February 25^th – Silver Publishing)

Finding the nerve to meet his crush isdifficult for accomplish high school senior, Anderson Saint John. Often, hestands outside Morgan Brookes’ store during his training runs to watch theolder man. Shy and teased off the cross-country track, Anderson keeps to himself,his treasured artist mother, and his beloved animals. Hope always lingers inhis heart for him to speak and kiss Morgan. Until the week of Halloween, whenhis dog initiates contact outside Morgan’s store.

Intrigue by the teenager running byhis store and peering inside, Morgan wants to know his young ‘stalker.’ Hearinga bark, he greets both, tugging Anderson into a conversation. This leads tomore dates and an invitation, almost a push, to get Anderson to go to his highschool Halloween dance with him. Creating outfits for them from hiscollections, they never expect a WWII ace pilot to make his presence known.

Prayeron a Wing – On a Wing Series Book 2 (June 2^nd – SilverPublishing)

An unexpected death disrupts the newfound love of Anderson and Morgan.While Anderson tumbles deep into despair and mourning, Morgan refuses to leavehis side. Can their fledgling relationship survive or unravel?

After the haunting Halloween, Anderson Saint John and Morgan Brookescontinue to progress with their unusual relationship. Anderson's mother,Regina, a strong supporter, fights a quiet battle against a mysterious illness.Until Anderson returns home after school and finds her unconscious on thefloor. Thrown into an unknown world, full of grief, loss, and darkness,Anderson clings to Morgan and his mother's lifelong friends.

Could life and love return to 'normal' for this teenager and hisnewfound relationship? Or would this tender relationship unravel under theweight of reality?

In my head / active WIP…

Loveon a Wing – On a Wing Series Book 3 (For Silver Publishing)

Fighting through depression anddarkness after the loss of his beloved mother, Anderson graduates from highschool and finds himself at an unknown crossroads in his life. Morgan isn’tnext to him, because he pushed him away with his anger and depression. Instead,he gets unexpected visitors in the forms of two angels – well one angel and oneangel-in-training. The ghost from his Halloween possession and his lover returnat the last wish of his late mother’s bequest to straighten out his love life.His best friend gets his life screwed up with the beating from hell. Who elsecan Anderson can turn too, but his one love. Morgan. Only question is. WillMorgan answer?

UntitledProfessor Story – For Silver Publishing’s A Mind is a SexyThing Anthology

A brilliant scientist, MicahTarrellton, is painfully shy and prone to panic attacks but determine to teachand deal with his doctoral students. He squeezes the hell out of the squishystress balls in one pocket and may cover his walls with Post-it notes to handlehis complexes. In college since his tenth birthday, he never mingled, dated, orknew what it meant to be around others his age.

During an evening store robbery, he frozewhile a muscled giant knocked out the robbers and saved the loot. When nothingbut time brings him out of an attack, this man’s touch woke him. Could he bethe one to wake him and teach a professor who knows everything the one thingabout he’s innocent?

HamiltonRiver Series Book 2 (For Silver Publishing)

Dimitri and Mason’s story continues

Untitled–Fire Moon Jaguars Book 2 & 3 (For Siren BookStrand)

Alexander’s story – the new High Alphaof the Fire Moon Clan finds more messes his father left behind along with hisown Goddess blessing of two lovers – a powerful vampire and a shy jaguar.

Collin’s story – a guardian to the newHigh Alpha, he never expected to find his old lover sitting on a back patiounder the moonlight. Or they would have another Goddess blessed third lover.

Wolf’sBandit – Lightning Shifters (For Siren BookStrand)

Can a fox and an Alpha wolf be mates?Especially if the fox is a special Lightning Shifter with magical powers andhunted by some nasty shifters? Here’s one way to find out.

Okay… I think that’s all thecharacters talking to me. For now.

Visit Nicole online:

http://nicoledennis.weebly.com/

Love Is In The Message

2012-01-12T06:39:00.000-08:00

The third book in the *Love Is In The...* Series of young adult books is available 2 April 2012 and the cover art is ready to show you.

oOo

The hallways are a scary place for a new relationship -- with Eddie targeting both Cameron and Luke every way he can and Mary Beth stirring up trouble in the 'it' crowd.

It doesn't help one little bit when Ryan Kitchener, the boy who had attacked Luke when he was younger, pays a visit to Luke's house and leaves a message that could change the growing love between Cameron and Luke for ever.

Add to Goodreads

The Only Easy Day (Sanctuary #2)

2012-01-12T02:37:00.000-08:00

Sequel to Guarding Morgan

Joseph Kinnon is back on US soil after six months in Iraq. The Navy SEAL is looking forward to downtime and to reconnect with family. His CO is waiting for the team and tells Joseph that his step-sister sister, Elisabeth Costain, has been murdered.

Dale MacIntyre, Sanctuary operative, is helping Morgan Drake and Nik Valentinov to track down who ordered Elisabeth Costain killed. As an ex-SEAL he knows as soon as Elisabeth's brother comes home that the shit really will hit the fan. He expects a one man war to be waged by Joseph on the Bullen family and doesn't want any part of it.

However, when their missions collide, they have to work together to find the real reason Elisabeth died, and find a way to stay alive.

What's coming in 2012: LM Brown

2012-01-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

Hey, Baby (Gift of Love Anthology – 11th February 2012)

Can a wrong number lead to Mr Right?

Nick Davis’s life is stuck in a rut until a stranger starts leaving messages on his answer machine. Connor Hayes has mistaken Nick’s number for that of his boyfriend, giving Nick an idea of what it would be like to have Connor in his life. Connor seems like his ideal man and although Nick knows he’s not Connor’s ‘baby,’ he can’t stop himself wishing he were.

After the wrong number issue is resolved, Nick doesn’t expect to hear from Connor again. He's pleasantly surprised when he does. Unfortunately for Nick, Connor isn’t looking for a boyfriend. He already has one and now he wants Nick to help organise a surprise Valentine’s weekend for the couple.

Can Nick put his own feelings aside to make sure Connor’s Valentine’s Day plans go smoothly?

Between Heaven & Hell (Heavenly Sins – Book 1 – 3rd March 2012 (tentative release date)

What happens when an angel and a demon fall for the same mortal man? Tristan is about to find out and it will change his life forever.

The ménage the trio forms is filled with jealousy and insecurities, passion and love.

Only time will tell if their relationship is forged in Heaven or Hell.

In my head…

The Heart of Eden (under revision for resubmission later this year)
Since the death of his wife Luke Eden has lived for two things, his son, Mike, and his garden centre. Now his son is getting ready to fly the nest and Luke knows it’s time for him to come out and tell him why he has never remarried. He doesn’t realise Mike already knows about his preference for men, and has plans of his own to find his dad a boyfriend.

Between Good & Evil (Heavenly Sins – Book 2)
It isn’t always easy to do the right thing, especially when you’re bound to a demon. Sometimes people get hurt. That’s when you find out it isn’t just the demons you need to worry about, because a wronged human can be far more dangerous.

My Boyfriend is an Alien (A Young Adult m/m story)
Ever wondered if your boyfriend was from another planet? In Ashley’s case, it’s true.

Forbidden Waters
Banished from the ocean because of his sexuality, merman Kyle finds a new life and love amongst humans.

The Life Not Lived
What if you got to relive your life and had a second chance with the one that got away?

Visit LM Brown online:

Website – http://lmbrownauthor.webs.com/
Blog – http://lmbrownauthor.blogspot.com/
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Goodreads – http://www.goodreads.com/lmbrown

What's coming in 2012: Elizabella Gold

2012-01-11T23:21:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

Hollow in My Heart
https://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/hollow-in-my-heart-ebook-p-702

Giving it a Name, to be published by Dreamspinner Press in summer 2012

Submitted for Consideration

I’m working on a submission for Silver Publishing’s A Mind is a Sexy Thing anthology. *fingers crossed*

This year I hope to get a publication offer, somehow, someway, for a psychological/historical novel I’ve been working on. It’s been my cherished baby for a few years now, and I think it’s ready for the world.

In my head…

I’m hoping to write one or two m/f romances sometime this year, for a change, although m/m will always be my first and best love:-) I’m also hoping to write some more m/m historical fic.

Visit Elizabellaonline:

Twitter: @ElizabellaGold

Livejournal: http://elizabellagold.livejournal.com/

Blogger: http://elizabellagold.blogspot.com/

What's coming in 2012: Amylea Lyn

2012-01-10T00:00:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

So far this is what I’ve got….

Love’s Crash Landing is scheduled to be released February 4th with Silver Publishing.

Gavin Howard lives a simple life on his farm; staying to himself and keeping under the radar due to his past military career. That is all changed late one night when a spaceship crash lands in his corn field. So what is a simple farmer to do when he finds an injured alien lying in his back yard? Take it inside and care for it until it can “phone home” of course.

But Prince Mi’Kel Ta’Rulen is not what Gavin expected. Beautiful, gentle, and on a mission to save his dying planet, Mi’Kel needs Gavin’s help for more than just his injuries. Can Gavin help Mi’Kel find the solution to save his people all while keeping the little alien safe from the Earth governments hunting him?

And when Gavin finds himself falling in love with a being from outer space, can he find it in his heart to let the little alien go when Mi’Kel’s ship is finally fixed? Or will Mi’Kel’s secrets drive them apart when the alien needs his farmer the most?

The Beast’s Promise, book 2 of my Outside the City series, is scheduled for release on March 24th with Silver Publishing.

Owen Sanders has a lot on his mind. Ever since being kidnapped from the City, he’s been trying to get back in order to rescue the twin baby brothers he had been forced to leave behind. The only thing stopping him is leaving behind his newly found mate, Maltok, and the feelings he has for the other man.

Katrian Co-Alpha Chief, Maltok doesn’t know why his human mate refuses to bond with him. When he finds out about Owen’s forgotten family, Maltok is hurt that the smaller man would keep something so
important from him. Maltok agrees to help retrieve the children on one condition; Owen must agree to mate him when they return to the Village. Owen reluctantly agrees.

The two men begin their journey and on the way learn that some misunderstandings must be resolved before they could have hope for their future. And when the City retaliates against their actions, the two men must make a decision that could save them all…

And possibly destroy the City forever.

There should be more *crosses fingers* at least I hope there will be… I’ll keep you all posted should anything else pop up!

Recently finished and under consideration:

Solid as Stone, book 1 of my new series called The Brotherhood.

In my head…

In order of most important… at least according to the characters living in my head…

Book 3 of my Outside the City series, tentatively titled Redemption of the Beast. (This is Sashan and his mate’s story. And no I wont tell you, it’s a surprise! *winks*)

Book 2 of The Brotherhood. (No name yet, but the basic outline is ready to be plotted. *sigh* I just need to quit procrastinating and do it.)

Whispered Secrets, Hidden Eyes. This is my weekly blog story. So, while I’m working on edits and writing the other two stories, I’ll be busy working on this too. A new part is posted every Monday.

And lastly on the list there are of course…

Un-named series, book #1

Untitled story #1
Untitled story #2
Untitled story #3

And so on … and so on… eventually I’ll work on all the other outlines and random ideas bogging down my computer. LOL.

Eventually… *whimpers and hides from the unfinished projects*

Visit Amylea online:

www.amylealyn.webs.com -Amylea’s Website
www.amylealynromance.blogspot.com -Amylea’s Blog
You can also find me on Facebook!

What's coming in 2012: Edward Kendrick

2012-01-07T00:00:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

Jan. 14th - 'Mage of Silence'

Castien, an elf mage who cannot speak except with the aid of a magical dagger, has been captured while on a mission. He is freed by his companion, the warrior elf Daeron, and returns with him to Daeron’s homeland. There they will join forces to rid the land of a Lord bent on the destruction of the elves.

Theirn, a young half-elf thief, attempts to rob Castien during his stay at an inn and is caught by the mage. Much against Theirn’s will he is enlisted into the group of rebel elves. But as Theirn's infatuation with Castien grows, he becomes more than eager to risk treachery, betrayal, and even death on dangerous missions just to be close to the man he is growing to love.

Feb. 4th - 'Shadow Men'

Agents Rafe and Steele are on the run after discovering their boss is a traitor. Single father, Grant, gets sucked into the intrigue and must elude capture with the help of Agent Anders until the information they hold can be given into safe hands.

The rest of the blurbs are unofficial at this point:

Mar. 3 - 'Melange'
When two vampires, one vampire’s ghoul, and a shifter fight to protect each other from a vicious creature bent on survival at all costs, unrequited love and new love are awakened in the process.

April 7 - 'Abstract Realism'
Tonio, an artist, is in self-imposed hiding after an attacker scars him both physically and emotionally. When the attacker reappears Tonio seeks help from the handsome bodyguard Jonam. It falls on Jonam’s shoulders to keep Tonio safe, and in the process teach him to live, and perhaps love, again.

May 5 - 'Phoenix Rising' - Book One of Phoenix Rising Series
Hex Phoenix, entrepreneur, businessman. Hunted because of what he is, the Phoenix. Assisted by his lover, Urbain, he escapes the most recent attempt to capture him. Resurrected as Conleth, he is again hunted, by the RIRA and the mysterious Giuliana. Mix in Urbain and Roger and fireworks will explode.

June 2 - 'Forbidden Fruit'
Theft and murder are all in a day’s work for PI Sam Young, as is protecting Jamie, a young man living in terror of his ex. Love however is another thing. Can he convince Jamie their growing attraction is real?

June 30 - 'We Are the Guardians' - Book Two of the Phoenix Rising Series
Mayhem and murder, Giuliana, Robin, and bitter foes Roger, who is gay, and Rico, who is straight, handle both. Recruited into the ‘old man’s’ clandestine organization, to which the others belong, Rico must deal with job gone wrong and his growing attraction to one of the other members of the organization.

July 21 - 'Weekends'
Over six holiday weekends can the developing friendship between confirmed forty-year-old bachelor Marcus and free-spirited twenty-three-year-old Demitri turn into more? Will Marcus realize it is possible for Demitri to love him or will he fight their developing May-December romance?

Aug. 25 - 'You Can't Change the Past' - Book Three of the Phoenix Rising Series.
An assassin targets Conleth, going after his people to reach him. Policewoman Ginna Smith becomes involved and is recruited to join Vance’s team. As their attraction for each other grows he must stop a stalker before Ginna too is attacked.

Visit Edward online:

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Email: edward.kendrick002@yahoo.com

What's coming in 2012: Lindsay Klug

2012-01-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon

Delila 2, The Reign of Delila Scheduled for release in 2012, not sure exactly when:

When you rule the vampires, you can expect a few hiccups here and there.

But Delila McAllister hardly expects to find newborn vampires wreaking havoc on her world. No one is sure where the little beasts are coming from, or why they’re not decimating unknowing human populations.

Even as she’s trying to figure out one problem, another arises. Her Alpha werewolf daughter, Ana, is torn between her loyalty to Delila and her pack’s desire for war.

Delila knows what she must do. But can she save herself, her daughter, and her race?

In my head…

Charlie, who must battle a demonic ex-husband bent on killing her while keeping the seductive new private investigator neighbor at bay.

Adelaide, the junkie who knows the secret behind a blast that rocked the world and brought democracy to an end.

Jonah, a soldier who must put his past behind him to love the woman standing in front of him.

Sloane, a young assassin in a post apocalyptic world who is told to kill the one man she loves.

Madeleine, haunted by ghosts and hunted by werewolves.

Chelsea, the widow of an Alpha wolf and unwitting ally to a rogue pack bent on taking over.

Visit Lindsay online:

Website: http://lindsaysbooks.webs.com
Email: lindsayktheauthor@yahoo.com
Twitter: @infidelqueen
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What's coming in 2012: Silvia Violet

2012-01-04T23:16:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! I'm Silvia Violet and I'm excited to have joined the wonderful list of authors at Silver Publishing. Thanks for having me here, RJ! Here's what's on for me this year….

Coming This Spring

Abandoned

Lark Zaccaro and Derek Carlson were partners and friends. Lark wanted more. Then someone at the Intergalactic Investigations Bureau sold them out to enemy aliens. Lark was forced to abandon Derek to the enemy, and Derek bought the IIB’s story that Lark betrayed them all.

When Lark’s deep cover mission and Derek’s new job in search-and-rescue collide, the desire simmering between them explodes. Lark needs Derek’s help to escape a new enemy, and Derek needs to discover the truth about what really happened on that alien planet. Can they overcome lies and betrayal and find the love and comfort they seek, or will their past forever keep them apart?

Submitted for consideration

Finding Release
When Coleman Wilder inherits his grandparents' horse farm in Cranford, TN, he decides to run it himself even though the town isn't friendly to gay men or shifters, Cole is a half-breed werewolf, and though he doesn't change form like a full-blood, he feels constant tension between his human side and his werewolf instincts. The farm provides a welcome distraction, but one person in Cranford makes Cole's primal needs flare to life more than anyone else, Jonah Marks, an eighteen-year-old horse shifter who comes to Cole asking for a job. Cole turns him down, afraid he'll lose control around the boy. Then Jonah disappears, and Cole blames himself. Rumors has it Jonah's homophobic brother killed him, but no proof is found.

In my head…

Astronomical – an nearly finished m/m contemporary with an astronomy professor and a librarian

Deceived – the sequel to Abandoned

A Matter of Convenience – two FBI agents hook up whenever they are both in the same town, then a convoluted case brings them together long term complicating their relationship

Untitled - A Regency set m/m in which a former Naval officer finds romance in a brothel

An untitled contemporary m/m - a restaurant owner confronts his feelings for the friend he ran away with when they were both eighteen

Visit Silvia online:

Visit me: http://silviaviolet.com

Facebook: http://facebook.com/silvia.violet

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Silvia_Violet

What's coming in 2012: Chris Quinton

2012-01-03T23:25:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my wonderful friend CQ AKA Chris Quinton for whom 2011 was a very good year!

Fool's Errand - Manifold Press - received an Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards of 2011.

Starfall - Silver Publishing - received an Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards of 2011.

Home and Heart, Game On Game Over, Fool's Errand and Fools Oath all have Silver Stars on All Romance eBooks.

AND Home and Heart is among the nominees for Love Romances Cafe's 2011 Best Contemporary Award, and I'm among the nominees for Best GLBT Author!

Coming Soon

Fox Hunt - February 1st from Manifold Press
Rob is cleaning two Elizabethan portraits. But other people want them and one will stop at nothing to own both panels. Fox wants them back, and he, too, will stop at nothing. The inevitable clash will endanger Rob and his family, but as he grows closer to Fox, there's even more at risk for him - his heart. More here>>

Sullivan's Yard - February 4th, A Sparkle from Silver Publishing
Cal Beaufontaine, trainee chef, is starting his career at the Alhambra in Modesto. He doesn't want the attention of the local super-stud, but Luis is determined to win him. Cal has other problems. He's hearing things - voices that drove the previous tenant in his apartment to wholesale destruction. More here>>

Paradox - somewhen in 2012 from Silver Publishing
Phil is trapped in a coma, and he's sharing a parallel life. Centuries ago, someone is trying to kill Caius Marcellus Niger - Phil must find out who and why. He appears to be alone, but nothing is the way it seems.

In my head…

On my To-Do List - and believe me, I'm trying to keep these in order with a whip and a chair.

Top priority is Fool's Rush - first refusal to Manifold Press - this is the last of The Fool's Odyssey, my vampire trilogy and I *must* get this finished in 2012!!

Xavi is hired to trace the true owners of the gold found in the crypt of San Pedro-by-the-Wall, but it's a tangled and dangerous web. Andreas is there for him--which is not always a comfort.

Then, in no particular order, there's:

Bennett's Folly, which I'm co-writing with RJ Scott [a lot] later in the year. It's set in the same town as Riding For A Fall [see below]

How to turn a failing farm in the heart of England's West Country into an unusual going concern in one not so easy lesson. Sceptical neighbours, half a dozen bison, a piebald pony with an attitude problem and a belligerent tom turkey, are the least of Jason Bennett's problems.

Riding For A Fall - which I'm aiming for Silver's Fathers' Day call *if* I can keep it under 15k

Luke Petrie is back home in Fordingbridge, running the family bookstore. His ex-wife is about to go abroad for a lengthy period, so his young daughter comes to stay. Which is great as far as they are both concerned. Luke has no romantic interest in his life, until he reconnects with the first boy he crushed on. The trouble is, Steve is no more interested in him now as he was then.

And the others are further down on the To Do List

Finders, Keepers
Oil and Water - the sequel to Aloes and first refusal to Manifold Press
Spiked
Cause and Effect
The Carandor Interface
The Lennox Selkie
Tribulation
Amethyst

and sundry other wisps of ideas not yet solidified into a plot line.

Visit Chris online:

http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.com/

The Soldier's Tale gets a Recommended Read on ARe

2012-01-03T08:36:00.000-08:00

The story opens in a British village with Daniel, a bomb-squad soldier back from Afghanistan and suffering great physical and mental trauma.

He is psychologically isolated, tormented by survivor guilt, and unable to adjust to civilian society. He also suffers pain from a wrecked knee but refuses to take his meds for fear of addiction.

(There is a gorgeous description of his eyes as "...deep mink brown and the lines of amber that specked to the centre.")

Daniel and his concerned and compassionate doctor Sean start a tentative relationship. However, Daniel has troubling dreams of a murder from medieval times that may have something to do with a curse upon a local family, the Fitzwarrens. When a psychic helps Daniel and Sean to piece together their connection to long-ago events, they must figure out what to do in the present to help break the curse.

2012 and all that jazz... oh yes, and a competition...

2012-01-03T07:17:00.000-08:00

Licks...

What's due at Silver Publishing...

This Saturday 7th January - The Gallows Tree
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Cody Garret is only just finding his way after an abusive relationship ended with his ex in prison. Coming to England to restore Mill Cottage is his way of running so he has time to heal. His goal is simple—hire a company to help make the mill cottage saleable then go back to the States.

What he doesn’t count on is meeting Sebastian Toulson-Brown, the brother of his contractor and the man who may be able to show him he can stop running.

But first Cody and Sebastian must deal with the ghosts of lost loves and the destinies that are woven into the story of the mill and the sycamore trees that stand on its land, one of which might be the gallows tree.

oOo

Mid February - The Only Easy Day (A Sanctuary Story and the sequel to Guarding Morgan)

What's in my head... (just for the next four months!)

There are others I have on my WIP list but the next four books on my list are...

Face Value (*Sanctuary #3* Doctor Kayden Summers and Robert Bullen)
Still Waters (*Sanctuary #4* Olympic Diver's, characters TBA)
Then and Now (*Sanctuary #5* Manny Sullivan and A.N. Other)
My Brother's Keeper (*Sanctuary #6* characters TBA)

Books I am writing with other people this year...

Splintered Lies, Book 3 in the *Shadow Of The Wolf* trilogy with Diane Adams
The Case of The Cupid Curse, Book 1 in the *End Street Detective Agency* series with Amber Kell, and other books in this series
Bennett's Folly with Chris Quinton
Hillbilly Hollywood with Diane Adams
Super-sekrit-cant-say-anything-about-them-books, inspired by Reese Dante and written with Diane Adams (details TBA)

Young Adult Writing - Self Published

Love Is In The Message (Book 3 in the Love Is In The... series) - April 2012
The Decisions We Make - January/February 2012
Serve and Protect

NEW YEAR COMPETITION ***

IS NOW CLOSED - RESULTS TO FOLLOW...

Would you like to win every single RJ Scott book published from 1 February to 31 December 2012? Would you like the PDF's a few days before everyone else? Just add a comment TO THIS POST with a valid email address and I will pop your name in a hat... closing date and time 10am (Greenwich Mean Time - GMT) on Saturday 14 January 2012.

** Idea not stolen from Amber Kell... coughs... much...no one tell her...

Festive Holiday Book Of The Year

2012-01-01T12:46:00.000-08:00

The Christmas Throwaway has won *Festive Holiday Book Of The Year* at Kelly's Place for Words...

Thank you so much Kelly...

See the full list here

Kelly said - "Total tear jerker, one of the best holiday theme books I've read in a long time."

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LRC Best of 2011 nominations

2012-01-01T08:52:00.000-08:00

Texas Winter has been nominated for two awards in the LR Cafe awards for the best of 2011...

For Best Book 2011 and Best GLBT Book 2011

*Dances*

Author Interview - Nicole Dennis

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

When He Came Home

Part of Silver Publishing’s Dreaming of a White Christmas

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Fifteen years after his father kicks him out following years of abuse, Blake returns home with long-time partner Sullivan. Things aren't what he expects. Everything is different. His father isn't home, but his essence lingers. Could it ruin this Christmas?

Welcome to the FIVE interview Nicole…

Your five favourite…

Authors and how they inspired you…

Nora Roberts – Pretty much everything about all her writing inspires me. I collect all of her books. I adore her trilogies of families, the characters she creates, and the relationships she builds.
Sherrilyn Kenyon – the battle she went through just to get published in the first place gives hope to any writer! Then there are the gorgeous men (swoon!) and the fabulous ladies she created to love them and keep them in line.
Laurell K Hamilton – has two heroines who aren’t afraid to kick-butt, show weakness, and have sex.
JK Rowling – again the battle she went through to get published! Wow! So inspirational to any writer. And her imagination, the world behind HP and his friends, I adore it every time I open one of the books.
JR Ward – I’m a relative newcomer to her books, but quickly fell in love with her fabulous hunks – both vampires and angels.

Books in general

Just 5? I can’t name 5 single books??? How about series???

Series 1 – JD Robb’s In Death – One word – ROARKE! Hello!
Series 2 – Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter Series and spin-offs – Crack open any book of this series and you’ll see why any paranormal lover goes nuts for her handsome hunters.
Series 3 – JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood – same with Sherrilyn, just need to crack open and dive into this series and you’ll be hooked.
Series 4 – Harry Potter – not only was it a damn good series, it got kids to love reading again!
Series 5 – Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel Series – an intriguing mix of passion, a twist of history, a touch of BDSM in the earlier ones, and gorgeous storytelling. Each set is a trilogy, but they’re all set in the same world and build on the previous series.

Movies

Labyrinth – by Jim Henson – yes with David Bowie... Still, the movie is wonderful to watch, mixture of puppets and people, fantasy, dreams, and ahh... Still love it.
Dark Crystal – another Jim Henson film – all puppets on this one – those dark creatures are soooooo creepy, but one I always love to watch.
Avatar – yeah, I’m a avid fan of this movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean – all of them!! – hey, it’s Johnny Depp!
Beauty & the Beast – Disney – my all time favourite Disney movie. I love Belle, she’s a reader like me!

TV Shows

Law & Order – when I’m bored, I always click on one of this series and let the marathon play. I’m an inner geek when it comes on. You never know when you get a good idea out of a show.
Charmed – 3 sisters get to kick butt – I liked it much better with Paige, than Prue.
Grimm – a new show, but I’m enjoying it.
Once Upon a Time – another new show, can’t believe they killed the hunky Sheriff, but still I’m enjoying it.
Terra Nova – humans killed the planet in future, but have chance to go back to time of dinosaurs and start again. Of course there are a few issues. I loved the first season and hope there will be more!!

****

Blurb
Kicked out after graduation by his strict, abusive father, Blake Denton didn’t return home for fifteen years. Now a psychiatrist and counselor to the GLBT community, he found forgiveness and love with his long-time partner, Sullivan Fitzgerald, and a home in Vermont. A phone call to his mother to wish her happy holidays ends with a plea for a visit home. This time, with Sully’s support, they drive to the farm and spend Christmas with his family. Things have changed since he left. All of his younger siblings have married and are parents. His mother is standing on her own at the door. His father isn’t within the home, but the memories of years of abuse linger everywhere. Can it ruin the first Christmas Blake has with his family?

Excerpt:
Fifteen years had slid by since Blake Denton last drove this winding route. For some reason, this path off the country lane that led to the old-fashioned farmhouse seemed to have lengthened since that long-ago night. His knuckles whitened around the steering wheel, gripping it harder than needed to control the SUV. The tires hit a pothole the shock absorbers couldn't quite handle.

"Holy crap, Blake! Isn't this thing paved?" Sullivan Fitzgerald cursed and grabbed the oh shit bar on his side of the car.

"Never. Around a farm, they put money where it's needed most." Blake maneuvered around another pothole in the driveway. Rather, he maneuvered around the ones he could see under the layers of snow. "Around here, everyone has big-ass trucks and Jeeps to handle this kind of shit, or they're on tractors, which roll over anything in their path. They probably don't even know about them."

Sully grumbled and flexed his fingers around the handle when the SUV rocked.

Blake glanced at his partner and lover. Peeling his fingers from the steering wheel, he reached down for Sully's hand. Their fingers entwined. "I wouldn't make this trip without your support, Sully."

"Taking a step forward and driving down to backwater, small-town North Carolina to start over with your family," Sully said.

"Does anyone know we're coming?"

"Just my mother."

"Did she tell anyone else?"

"I asked her not to, considering Dad's reaction to when I left fifteen years ago."

The Gallows Tree - excerpt

2011-12-31T09:30:00.000-08:00

Out 7 January from Silver Publishing

Available to pre-order from Silver

Blurb

Cody Garret is only just finding his way after an abusive relationship ended with his ex in prison. Coming to England to restore Mill Cottage is his way of running so he has time to heal. His goal is simple—hire a company to help make the mill cottage saleable then go back to the States.

What he doesn’t count on is meeting Sebastian Toulson-Brown, the brother of his contractor and the man who may be able to show him he can stop running.

But first Cody and Sebastian must deal with the ghosts of lost loves and the destinies that are woven into the story of the mill and the sycamore trees that stand on its land, one of which might be the gallows tree.

Excerpt

They reached central Milton Keynes in very little time at all. The change from village in the middle of nowhere to huge modern city was kind of eerie, almost as creepy as hearing non-existent horses and murmured words that made no sense. Sitting in Pizza Hut and ordering food was a welcome shot of normality, and grabbing the seat diagonal to Seb meant he could concentrate on his food rather than worry about staring at the poor guy. They talked about the film they were going to see, about American football versus rugby, and about the cute waitress that hovered every so often and stared at Tristan.

"So you didn't want to bring your girlfriend over from the States with you?" Justin asked coyly.

Cody stiffened at the personal question. "No."

"What's her name?" Justin added another question with a teasing glint in his eye. "Is she pretty? What does she do?"

"I don't have a girlfriend."

"At the moment?" Tristan interrupted.

"Guys—" Seb said through gritted teeth.

"No. No girlfriend at the moment." Cody sipped on his Coke and concentrated hard on the poster proclaiming two for one on Thursdays. He could handle teasing; it's what his sister did best.

"No girlfriend at the moment or no girlfriend at all?" Justin asked in a far too innocent tone of voice. Cody
looked at him suspiciously even as Seb snapped at him.

"Bloody hell, Justin."

"Cody, are you gay?" Tristan was clearly the one who had drawn the short straw. Cody put his drink down
and took a deep breath.

"Why? Is it a problem if I am?" Cody asked.

"Hell no…" Seb started, and then buried his head in his hands as Tristan handed a twenty pound note over to Justin with a resigned sigh.

"Wait. You bet on whether or not I was gay?" Cody asked carefully. He wasn't entirely sure whether to laugh or shout, stay or walk.

"They bet on anything. They bet on when I would come out to our parents. Tris won that one," Seb said with
more than a little sarcasm in his voice, which was muffled by his jacket. Cody felt amusement bubble inside, and he couldn't have held in his humor if he tried. Within seconds, he was laughing. He hadn't laughed like this in so long, and he couldn't stop. Seb lifted his head in bemusement, and Cody snorted at the expression.

"Your brothers just won me ten dollars," Cody said, finally managing to get the words out. "I had this bet with my sister about how long it would take you all to ask."

Tristan and Justin stared like he was mad, and then as they put two and two together, they joined in with the laughing.

Seb simply buried his face again with a muttered "I'm surrounded by idiots".

"Hey, Cody," Tristan said suddenly, and Seb raised his head with a look of pure horror. "You like Seb?" Cody smiled; he knew where this was going.

"Don't start this, Tris; I can get my own bloody dates."

"Just saying, little brother. You don't get to meet many guys in Lower Ferrers—"

"Tris—"

"Yeah," Cody interrupted, "I like Seb. What's not to like?" Wow. That was kind of a brave thing he had said
there, putting an actual opinion out there. Seb cast him a grateful look and mouthed "I'm sorry", but Cody dismissed it with a shake of his head. This was normal. This was sibling rivalry, teasing, and it was easy to lose himself in it.

Reviews from Literary Nymphs

2011-12-29T14:30:00.000-08:00

Thank you Literary Nymphs for some awesome reviews...

All books on this page can be found at Silver Publishing, Amazon and others...

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Broken Memories (written with Diane Adams) 4/5

Sam Harrison’s world is a scary, unsettled mess. He doesn’t remember anything of his life before being taken prisoner and later rescued from the warehouse where he was held. Now he’s nervous, jumpy, has nightmares and is scared of shifting into his wolf form.

Doug McKenna is a true Alpha wolf and has little respect for those he considers weak. He doesn’t understand how Sam could have experienced something so terrible he would be as broken as he is. But he also realizes Sam is in desperate need of someone to take care of him and believes he’s the one perfect for the job…and his wolf agrees.

Guarding Morgan 4/5

Guarding Morgan is the first release in R.J. Scott’s new series, A Sanctuary Story. Having a character go into a witness protection situation isn’t a new premise but in this case, Ms. Scott twisted it around and started with action and Morgan running for his life.

Oracle 4/5
It’s a balancing act between romance and suspense {...}There’s even a little romance between two of the secondary characters that fits in nicely with the story. So, the crux is that I enjoyed this intriguing action filled book and think you likely will too.

Shattered Secrets (written with Diane Adams) 4/5

Shattered Secrets is the first book in the new series In The Shadow Of The Wolf by Diane Adams and R.J. Scott and it’s a promising look into their shifter world.

Back Home 4/5

Back Home is another intense emotional story by author R.J. Scott that’s filled with drama, pain and what it means to be part of a family.

The Heart of Texas - A Golden Blush Recommended Read

The Heart of Texas is the first book by R.J. Scott that I’ve had the pleasure of reading and after experiencing the quality of the writing and the depth of the storytelling, it won’t be my last.

Honestly, I don’t gush about a book very often but I really liked this one. It grabbed me on the first page and didn’t let go until the very end.

All Romance eBooks, LLC 2011 Trend Analysis

2011-12-29T08:29:00.000-08:00

As a self published author with All Romance Ebooks (Love is in the title and Love is in the Hallways, YA) I receive emails from them every so often and I have just have a *review of the year* email and thought you may be interested in some of their results:

They receive 5.8 million hits/month to their website - I wish I did...

All Romance, has an Alexa rank in the U.S. of 6,330 (trust me as an ex web designer that is *very good*)

Total publishers with ARe in 2011 = Approx 7600

Romance titles in inventory 2011 = over 65,000 - around 7,300 of those are labelled *GAY*

What amazes me is that it is often *GAY* books that end up in the top ten on the right hand side! We rock!
The bulk of sales are to U.S. customers. The top ten markets sold to are: United States, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, India, New Zealand Philippines, Malaysia, and the Netherlands.

*YAY UK!* ROFL

Incidentally the top ten U.S. markets are California, Texas, New York, Florida, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Last but by no means least... the most interesting statistic to me... Buying gender for all romance books: Female = 89% - Male = 11%... I wonder if that is the same for *gay* books... interesting...

Dark Diva's Reviews

2011-12-29T07:13:00.000-08:00

Deefur Dog Deefur Dog is wonderful. There were times I wanted to cry but most of the time I was smiling and falling in love with characters. In Deefur Dog, Ms. Scott finds love in the unlikeliest of places and carries us along for the breathtaking journey. I could not put this one down. Rated 5 Delightful Divas and a Recommended Read by Samhain Queene!

Moments - Moments by RJ Scott is a multi-layered novel of redemption with an engaging cast of characters. Jacob’s recovery is realistic and sometimes painful to read as he realizes he is ultimately responsible for the path his life has taken. Ethan and Jacob take the time to slowly and carefully cultivate their budding relationship, and the passion between them is explosive. RJ Scott delivers a well-developed character driven novel that you don’t want to miss. Rated 4 Delightful Divas by K.B.!

The Soldier’s Tale Together with Mark and Jack, Sean and Daniel help to weaken the curse and learn more about what could break it completely. The Soldier’s Tale is a heartfelt and a painful journey toward seeing yourself as others see you. Daniel is an amazing character. RJ Scott has done a brilliant job continuing the tale. Rated 4 ½ Delightful Divas by Samhain Queene!

Shattered Secrets by RJ Scott and Diane Adams Rob and Jamie are sexy, hot, and you want them to push through all the ugliness to reach their happily ever after. I look forward to reading more of the intriguing world [they] have introduced us to in Shattered Secrets. Rated 4 Delightful Divas by Samhain Queene!

Back Home - Back Home by is a delightfully engaging novel. Strong family ties and flawed characters provide added depth and authenticity to this well-plotted story. RJ Scotthas once again written a powerful and passionate romance that will resonate with her readers. Rated 4 Delightful Divas by K.B!

Kian - Overall Kian: The Fire Trilogy Book 1 is a tale of love, magic, and fulfilling destiny. I certainly plan on reading more from this talented author. Rated 4 Delightful Divas by Doug!

Night Owl Reviews

2011-12-29T06:34:00.000-08:00

Guarding Morgan A Sanctuary Story - rated 4.5/5 and a 'Night Owl Top Pick Review'

I liked the premise of not only the story, but of Sanctuary as well. I found the characters likable and I liked that they were not one-dimensional. Morgan has a cubicle job and doesn't like to cause waves, but is stronger - physically and emotionally - than he appears to be and that comes out as the story progresses. Nik may, to all appearances, be "all about the job" and may not know the meaning of the word "quit", but he has his vulnerable side as well.

Back Home rated 4.5/5

One would have to be living under a rock not to recognize the name RJ Scott. Although she is new to the writing scene, relatively new that is, she has produced a large, yet quality, mass of writing. This is the second of her books I have had the pleasure of reading. The first being Kian: The Fire Trilogy #1. angst-filled plot line. While there is certainly a driving story line behind the main characters which pushes the story forward, the bulk of attentionis spent on our two heroes, Kieran Addison and Jordan Salter.

What I loved about this book was how Ms. Scott took her time to flesh out each character, what made them tick, their internal struggles. With each action and reaction, I felt as if I was there, with the character, feeling their frustrations, nervousness, elation. The way Jordan and Kieran slowly danced around one another, slowly closing in, until finally the ice was broken and they expressed their feelings for each other was equisite pain/pleasure.

Darach

The emotions were also brilliantly drawn out. Darach begins his journey struggling against his feelings for Ceithin, but through artful uncovering of thoughts, feelings, and processing, we can truly believe Darach has transformed by the end of the story.

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Buy books from RJ at Silver Publishing and others - Silver Publishing :: Amazon

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 1 - Band Aid (original) - Do They Know It's Christmas

2011-12-25T00:00:00.000-08:00

Did you know?

That Christmas is my favourite time of year?

Happy Christmas Everyone...

RJ X

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

Band Aid (original) - Do They Know It's Christmas
Greg Lake -I Believe In Father Christmas
Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Take That - Babe
East 17 - Stay Another Day
Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Johnny Mathis, When a child is born
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Wham - Last Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 2 - Greg Lake -I Believe In Father Christmas

2011-12-24T00:00:00.000-08:00

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

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Greg Lake -I Believe In Father Christmas
Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Take That - Babe
East 17 - Stay Another Day
Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Johnny Mathis, When a child is born
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Wham - Last Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 3 - Bing Crosby - White Christmas

2011-12-22T00:00:00.000-08:00

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

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Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Take That - Babe
East 17 - Stay Another Day
Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Johnny Mathis, When a child is born
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Wham - Last Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 4 - Take That - Babe

2011-12-21T00:00:00.000-08:00

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

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Take That - Babe
East 17 - Stay Another Day
Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Johnny Mathis, When a child is born
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Wham - Last Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 5 - East 17 - Stay Another Day

2011-12-20T00:00:00.000-08:00

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 6 - Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

2011-12-19T05:18:00.000-08:00

Did you know?

Though wood engravers produced prints with religious themes in the European Middle Ages, the first commercial Christmas and New Year’s card was designed in London, England in 1843.

John Callcott Horsley (1817 – 1903), a British narrative painter and a Royal Academician, designed the first Christmas and New Year’s card at the suggestion and request of his friend Sir Henry Cole, who was the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Horsley designed the first Christmas card in 1840, but it went on sale only in 1843, when one thousand cards were offered for 1s each.

The card was not received without controversy, for it showed a family raising their glasses to toast Christmas. Puritans immediately denounced it. The idea was a hit with others. Christmas card became very popular, and other artists quickly followed Horsley’s concept. A particularly popular card was designed by English artist William Egley in 1849.

The first Christmas cards were printed in 1843 in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick Court, Holborn, London, and hand-coloured by an artist named Mason. They were lithographed on stiff cardboard, with the greeting, “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.” It also states that is was “Published at Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, 12 Old Bond Street, London.

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

Christmas recipe and Jesse's Christmas six days and counting...

2011-12-19T04:23:00.000-08:00

I am over at Silvia Violet's blog today with an awesome Christmas recipe that uses the three main food groups - caramel, chocolate and shortbread... brilliant for your five-a-day!

Go see>>

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Pre-order Jesse's Christmas Here

For Jesse Connor, Christmas is nothing but a series of bad memories. It takes a man imbued with the spirit of Christmas to help him realize that the Christmas spirit lies in everyone--if they only know where to look.

Excerpt

"Guys," Gabriel started, "this is Mr Connor. He's a beginner. I think?" Gabriel added the last with a quirk of his dark eyebrow and a smile on his full, kissable lips. Jesse found it difficult to speak at first.

"Totally a total beginner." He tripped over the words and then dropped his gaze at the amused look on Gabriel's face. Gabriel sat on the chair next to him, so close their arms brushed. Jesse had a sudden wish that, instead of winter, it was actually mid-summer, just for the potential of skin touching.

"So we'll start you with the wax, okay?" Gabriel was instructing him. "This is blended, moldable paraffin wax, and this is the wick and the metal tabs for fixing the wick to the bottom of the mold. Don't worry, we have plenty of spares."

"Okay." Jesse wasn't feeling anything like worried at that point. This was easy, and if a five-year-old could do it, then he certainly could. Instead, with the scent of Gabriel in every single one of his inhalations, it was actually desire that buzzed inside his head and not concentration on the matter at hand. This was different, sitting here and listening to Gabriel talk. He couldn't remember really listening to much of what Jonah ever said, simply because money and investments bored him after month three. Pity, though, that he hadn't taken more time to listen. Maybe he would have seen what Jonah was up to. Gabriel's voice was firm and smooth like honey, and Jesse was mesmerized.

"These are wick pins for keeping the wick straight while the wax dries properly. The putty for sticking the wick to the wick pins is over there and finally…" Gabriel held up a small pot. "This is candle dye, and there are quite a lot of colors to choose from.”

"Blue," Jesse blurted out. He barely stopped himself from adding something really inane such as “like your eyes”.

"Cool." Gabriel reached for a pot marked “cerulean”, and companionably, the two men sat in a cold hall, wrapped in sweaters, making candles with kindergarten kids. It was the most fun Jesse had experienced with his clothes on since he was a child himself. Of course sitting with Gabriel helped, and that reaction was distinctly adult.

Critically, he looked at his forming candle. He winced as he realized his attempt was looking somewhat like a dick, and pressed down at the top to lessen the whole mushroom roundness of it. Gabriel chuckled next to him, but when Jesse looked sideways at him, he saw Gabriel wasn't actually observing his phallic symbol candle. He was instead staring directly at Jesse's face, almost like he was searching for something inside of Jesse.

"You look so cute sitting there with such a look of concentration on your face," Gabriel finally said. Inclining his head, he asked, "Are you having fun?"

Jesse mumbled something low in his throat approximating a yes, and then resumed his concentration on making his candle less phallic so it would sit in the mold. Cute? Gabriel had definitely called him cute. Straight men didn’t call other men cute. Right?

He'd never been called cute before. It felt nice.

"So, Jesse, you coming to the choir practice?"

New York Blue free read... new chapter added...

2011-12-16T03:50:00.000-08:00

The new chapter on the RJ Scott Christmas blog tour is up (no one mention it is three weeks late...)

It is called Biscuits and an argument and is available at Diane Adams' blog here.

Thanks Diane xx

Jesse's Christmas - Excerpt

2011-12-15T02:24:00.000-08:00

Available to pre-order from Silver Publishing

Blurb

For photographer Jesse Connor, Christmas lost it's shine when last Christmas, Jesse's lover, the man he thought had been the one, absconded with millions of dollars from the company he traded for. The FBI landed on Jesse's doorstep on Christmas Eve, and that was the nail in the proverbial Christmas coffin.

Now, alone in the city, facing another Christmas with nothing more than apathy, he's offered a chance to see Christmas in a different light.

Can the residents of Eden Vale, and in particular the son of the hotel owner, Gabriel, show him that he can start again and that Christmas and love can live inside everyone, despite hurtful pasts?

Excerpt

The 4x4 stopping next to him scared the ever living daylights out of him, and he stumbled to a stop. The window wound down, and Jesse, for the second time, was face to face with Gabriel McClurey and his azure-sky-meets-the-calm-sea eyes.

"You want to get in?" Gabriel asked. Jesse hesitated only because he was busy cataloguing the new skin revealed to him because Gabriel wasn’t wearing a coat. Glimpses of a tanned throat and the suggestion of broad shoulders in a stretched cable-knit sweater was a sight for sore eyes.

"Huh?" he finally managed. He was actually kind of proud of himself for making a single coherent sound.

"I'll get you there," Gabriel said. His mouth moved in all sorts of interesting ways, and Jesse was more concerned with watching the movement of his lips than listening to the actual words.

"There?"

"Up the hill. Get in," Gabriel said patiently. He gestured with his thumb out of the window. "Snow tires on. I'll take you to the hotel."

"Oh, thank you." He didn't want to come across looking any more of an idiot than he already had, and with a smile of thanks, he opened the door. He took a step to get in the car, slid on the snowy curbside, and promptly fell on his ass on the cold, hard and wet ground. Winded, he was at first unable to move. He could do nothing except listen to the sounds of Gabriel opening his car door to investigate.

"Hey, man," Gabriel said, "you okay?"

Jesse looked up into the sapphire eyes, but he didn't see concern. What he could see caused him to feel instantly embarrassed. Seemed to him Gabriel was holding back laughter. And Jeez, what a photo that would make.

Pushing aside a visceral need to capture the restrained mirth in Gabriel and mustering as much dignity as he could, Jesse scrambled to stand. He refused Gabriel’s help, using the open car door to help him instead.

"I'm fine," he said, caught between being angry at the contained laughter and wanting to laugh himself. Even he could admit that seeing someone fall on their ass in snow was kind of funny. Pushing his way past an insistent nagging pain in his left butt cheek, he clambered into the car. Gabriel shut the door for him, and suddenly the laughter bubbled from Gabriel's mouth. Jesse huffed and then strapped himself in. They didn't talk on the way up the hill. Jesse didn't want to call it sulking, but it probably was more than a little bit of sulk and one hell of a load of pure embarrassment. Thankfully the journey wasn’t long, and Gabriel was concentrating on the road and on controlling the car. Within minutes, they were at the top of the hill and parked outside the hotel.

"Thank you," Jesse said politely, and climbed out of the car as quickly as he could without sliding on his butt again. He heard chuckling, but he chose to ignore it and to rise above the need to confront the laughing bastard. Back straight and chin held high, he walked carefully to the hotel door, determined not to turn and look at the source of his embarrassment. For God's sake, how could one snowfall added to one hot man reduce him to clumsy idiocy?

Once safely back in the hotel and up in his room, he tested the arm that had taken the weight of the fall and experimentally rubbed his ass through his now wet jeans. He would probably ache tomorrow. Freaking snow. Freaking blue eyes. Maybe he should have another bath.

The Gallows Tree moves publication date...

2011-12-14T06:28:00.000-08:00

Good news! The Gallows Tree is now coming to a Silver Publishing site near you on 7th January 2012 (originally 14th)...

Pre order here

Cody Garret is only just finding his way after an abusive relationship ends with his ex in prison. Coming to England to restore Mill cottage is his way of running so he has time to heal. His aim is simple. Hire a company to help make the mill saleable and then go back to the States. What he didn't count on was Sebastian Toulson-Brown, brother of his builder, and owner of the biggest bluest eyes.

Then there are the ghosts of lost loves and the destinies that are caught up in the story of the Mill and the Sycamore trees that stand on Mill land.

Excerpt:

"No one knows what you went through, sweetheart." Damn it. She could see through him so easily.

"Mom—"

"And I understand why you don't want to talk about it."

"It's hard to." He realized his free hand was curled into his shirt just over his heart. The pain inside him was an incredible pressure.

"It wasn't your fault."

"I'm not a kid anymore, Mom. I'm twenty-six. No one needs to tell me it wasn't my fault. I could have walked away." I should have walked away.

"Social isolation and physical abuse are nearly impossible things to walk away from. There was no one to help you find your way."

"I'm a man; I didn't need help." God. How many times had he thought that? Said that? Nothing anyone said to him made that any better. No one could understand what it was like to have every little part of him destroyed, his self-esteem in shreds, with nowhere to hide. Shame, low self-worth, denial… none of that was as powerful as Vincent promising he would never do it again. Cody had never asked for help. Men handled things themselves. They didn't go crying to the police every time things got a little too physical. Only on a ventilator, with the power to decide for himself taken away, had he finally had anyone help him. He couldn't stop them.

"Yes, sweetheart. You did."

Standing here, looking at the scarlet door, he pushed the memories down. He was here now, and for the first time in a long time, he was doing what his mom thought was right for him. That had been a long time coming. The door was stuck, welded tight by expanding wood and the last few years of remaining shut. The cottage had been rented long term to a college professor, but when he moved on in '08, the letting agents they'd used couldn't find anyone that was happy to put up with an old cottage in need of repair. Using his body weight, he leaned on the wood and pushed hard, and finally, with a groan and the noise of splintered wood, the door opened.

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 7 - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

2011-12-13T23:39:00.000-08:00

Did you know?

Christmas was once a moveable feast celebrated at many different times during the year. The choice of December 25, was made by Pope Julius I, in the 4th century A.D., because this coincided with the pagan rituals of Winter Solstice, or Return of the Sun. The intent was to replace the pagan celebration with the Christian one.
Long before it was used as a "kiss encourager" during the Christmas season, mistletoe had long been considered to have magic powers by Celtic and Teutonic peoples. It was said to have the ability to heal wounds and increase fertility. Celts hung mistletoe in their homes in order to bring themselves good luck and ward off evil spirits.

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

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The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Johnny Mathis, When a child is born
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Wham - Last Christmas

Queer Magazine Online Reviews

2011-12-09T09:31:00.001-08:00

I have had some wonderful reviews from Queer Magazine Online... many thanks guys... xxxx

The Only Easy Day (Sanctuary, #2) - This book has thriller, mystery, and a high-tension character study all balled into one, and kept me on the edge of my seat. The links to Guarding Morgan, the first book in the series, were fascinating, and the overarching mystery as to why Elisabeth was killed moved a little closer to being solved. Not too close, though, there is plenty left for the next few books.
Jesse's Christmas - This is a wonderful story which made me smile and re-appreciate the meaning of Christmas ... the gradual thawing of his heart as he meets and gets to know Gabriel is the perfect setup for a heart-warming story. it is an interesting variation on the Christmas grinch storyline.

Guarding Morgan (Sanctuary, #1) - If you like stories about strong bodyguards taking charge, men who know what they want and learn to stick together, and want some tension in your romance, don't miss this book!

Deefur Dog - This is a wonderful love story which portrays that a nontraditional family has the same joys, sorrow, problems, angst, and love as any other family and does it extraordinarily well. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a wonderful, emotional love story with a happy ending.

Back Home - Back Home is a really touching story that showed me the power of communication. When I started reading this story, I started having an idea about what I thought the story is about and by the end, it was a completely different picture. I love how RJ has taken on such a complex subject matter and turned it on its ear, smoothly incorporating family opinions and history to build tension and drama. Written in a contemporary style, if you enjoy drama, or family style stories, this is for you.

The Christmas Throwaway - ‘The Christmas Throwaway' is a charming, heartwarming love story about second chances, overcoming obstacles, and the importance of a loving, supportive family. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone in the mood for a sweet story which will not only leave you feeling good, but will also remind you to count your blessings.

The Heart of Texas - There are so many levels to this story, which is wonderfully lengthy in a luscious way. I feel I could read this book over just to pick up on all the little things I missed the first time around. For anyone who enjoys stories about men who just needed the right man to knock them over the gay fence, who enjoys stories that contain more than one romance or couple finding their happy ending, or for anyone who likes a bit of juicy family drama, this story, written in a contemporary style, is just the thing.

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 8 - Johnny Mathis, When a child is born

2011-12-09T08:22:00.001-08:00

Did you know?

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there are 2,106 million children under age 18 in the world. If there are on average 2.5 children per household, Santa would have to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, traveling 221 million miles. To reach all 842 million stops, Santa would need to travel between houses in 2/10,000 second, which means he would need to accelerate 12.19 million miles (20.5 billion meters) per second on each stop. The force of this acceleration would reduce Santa to “chunky salsa.”

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

The Christmas Throwaway gets 6th place in the Rainbow Awards Best Gay Contemporary Romance category

2011-12-07T11:45:00.001-08:00

Beautiful cover art by Reese Dante at Silver

I'm really pleased that The Christmas Throwaway has received an honourable mention and 6th place in the Rainbow Awards Best Gay Contemporary Romance category.

From the awards page:

'From the first chapter, the author draws you into the story and you cannot put the book down until the very end. I like how the author described just enough about the setting and did not bog it down with a description of everything. You still got the feel of the people of the town and the feeling of the season. Oh wow! I just can't say enough about the characters. Plain and simple, every now and then a reader can come across a story and you FEEL what the characters are feeling and that is exactly how I felt reading this story. -- Rachel '

*A special thank you to Elisa for running the awards and to Silver Publishing for all their hard work in promoting and supporting their authors*

Blurb:

Christmas is a time for giving - what do you do when no one gives a damn?

For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go. Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn.

Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?

BUY LINKS - Silver Publishing :: Amazon

Author Interview - Toni Griffin

2011-12-05T04:23:00.001-08:00

Buy Link for My Christmas Present

Welcome to Toni Griffin, fellow Silver author and writer of the best selling Holland Brothers series... So many questions so little time...

RJ: Being in the Southern hemisphere do you really have Christmas in the heat?

TG: Lol. Oh yeah. The temperatures are usually between thirty and thirty-five degrees Celsius and that doesn’t even include the humidity. If it rains then the day can get extremely hot and muggy. Thank god for air conditioning and my pool is all I have to say.

RJ: *shudders* I hate the heat! ROFL... *sends you some ice*... So I love *My Christmas Present* just saying... how about telling us something about the book... and my favourite demand... sum up your characters in a FEW words...

TG: You kind of get used to it after you’ve lived here your entire life. I love the place, heat and all. So...My Christmas Present...Is my first endeavor into cowboys. It’s about Lucas a fresh faced twenty something, who’s just finished university and is finally coming home to stay. And Mitchell, a nearly forty year old seasoned cowboy, who Lucas has been in love with for the last nine years. The one big problem is that Mitchell is Lucas’ father’s best friend.

RJ: Well I read it in one sitting and I loved it! I notice it is in the Silver top ten so I must not be the only one!

This isn’t your first published work with Silver, as I mentioned up there you have the Holland Brother’s books... they were incredibly popular...congratulations! Was that quadrilogy your first foray into writing …?

TG: Thanks, I’m really glad you liked MCP. I find it extremely nerve racking when i have a new release. This one especially as this was my first contemporary.

To tell you the truth I'm still stunned at how popular the Holland Brothers has been. It was my first foray in to writing and I never thought I would have my first book published let alone five of them. It still amazes me sometimes. I’m so much more a Maths person than an English one. My editor really must hate me. lol.

The wonderful Reese Dante covers for the Holland Brothers series with Silver Publishing

RJ: Had you done any writing before?

TG: Never. I was reading a fair bit due to a few personal issues, I would just pick up a story and lose myself in the words on the page and get to forget about all the drama at home. Then one day as I was leaving work Brian popped into my head and started talking. The man just wouldn’t shut up, so I gave in and wrote his story. Can’t say I'm too mad at him now.

RJ: How do you like writing for Silver? Oh and name check your editor! My editor is Devin and she is a goddess amongst goddesses... her and Kathy save my life daily... otherwise all of my heroes would have three arms, changing eye colour and different names!

TG: I love writing for Silver. Devin was fantastic and actually was the editor for my first two books. But at the moment Jason has done my last three and I love him. He catches so many of my stupid little mistakes. Sometimes I just have to roll my eyes at myself and wonder what the hell I was thinking when I typed that.

RJ: So a successful series, a wonderful Christmas story... what is next for Toni Griffin?

TG: I Have Frankie’s Vamp submitted and due out in April 2012. This is book one in my Hot Encounters Series. At the moment I am currently writing Dealing with the Dead. This is book one in The Thompson Agency series. This is about Necromancers. So I'm hoping to have a little fun with that. And for everyone who keeps asking me about my wolves, I will then be starting The Atherton Pack. So that should keep me pretty busy for a while.

RJ: Lastly the, before I let you go write, tell me quick answers to the following questions:

Castle in bullet proof Writer vest... something all writers need.

Favourite Film: How the hell do I answer that.... Ummm. Love the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Seen the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies more times than I can count growing up. Any girly movie really. there’s nothing wrong with a good romantic comedy in my book.

Favourite TV Show: Love Bones and Castle... oh and Big Bang Theory for a laugh

Favourite Christmas Song: Don’t really have a fave xmas song but my fave normal song is Bruno Mars - Just the way you are. I listened to that song so many times when I was writing Forbidden Mate

Your most wonderful Christmas Memory: Every Christmas with my Daughter is a memory I will cherish and keep forever

Your favourite Christmas present *EVER*: When I was a kid my brothers and I got a Trampoline from Santa. As an Adult …. I honestly can’t think of a single gift I've received in the last ten years that is truly memorable.... hmmm Will have to spend some time and think on that. I’m sure there has to be something. lol

RJ: Thank you so much for taking the time to come chat with me! Have a wonderful Christmas and your daughter too!

TG: Thank you so much for inviting me along. I’ve had a blast.

oOo

Toni’s books can all be found at Silver Publishing and her website is www.tonigriffin.net

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 9 - Jona Lewie, Stop the Cavalry

2011-12-05T00:02:00.001-08:00

Did you know?

Each year there are approximately 20,000 “rent-a-Santas” across the United States. “Rent-a-Santas” usually undergo seasonal training on how to maintain a jolly attitude under pressure from the public. They also receive practical advice, such as not accepting money from parents while children are looking and avoiding garlic, onions, or beans for lunch.
Early illustrations of St. Nicholas depict him as stern, commanding, and holding a birch rod. He was more a symbol of discipline and punishment than the jolly, overweight elf children know today

RJ's Top Ten Christmas Songs...

The Christmas Throwaway - One Year on

2011-12-03T01:33:00.001-08:00

This Saturday last year my third book with Silver was released.

The Christmas Throwaway, the story of Zachary and Ben, was a story of hope at Christmas, of family and of love.

It isn't a huge sprawling complicated book and it has been labelled as too simple and too cliche by some. I wrote it from some very raw feelings I had inside at the time and also because I wanted to give a sad thought a happy ending. I will forever be a romantic at heart. Christmas for me is a time for miracles and possibilities.

This book was huge and that in itself scared the living daylights out of me. It stayed in the top ten of AllRomance for weeks and it won the title of best selling book of 2010 on their site. It sold and sold and sold. All the time it was there and it was being reviewed. It had fives and fours and it appeared to touch a nerve with so many people.

The cover is beautiful. The red and the green and young Ben and an even younger Zach along with the church bench where Ben finds Zach make this my second favourite Reese Dante cover ever (after Oracle!). A lot of readers, I am sure, bought this Christmas Story on the cover alone.

Would this story happen in the real world? Would a cop take in a young guy sleeping on a bench back to his Mom and the rest of his family? Would that family share their Christmas gifts with him? Or would they place him at the police station awaiting removal? Would any of us open our doors to a total stranger on Christmas Eve? Probably not will be your honest answer. Not in this day and age. I wish it was different. I want this story to be real so bad.

I received a beautiful review for Throwaway today from Tom and I link it here - "The Christmas Throwaway". It was the most perfect of timing as it reminded me a whole year has passed since the story was released and I opened it eagerly because Tom labelled it as very highly recommended.

Then I read what he wrote.

We should all read what he wrote.

Ignore the review. Just read the story about the young man that touched Tom's life and hope that one day he finds his own Christmas miracle.

Thank you Tom... x

Jesse's Christmas Excerpt

2011-12-02T10:39:00.001-08:00

For Jesse Connor, Christmas is nothing but a series of bad memories. It takes a man imbued with the spirit of Christmas to help him realize that the Christmas spirit lies in everyone--if they only know where to look.

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Excerpt:

"You the photographer then?" the shoveling guy asked. Jesse groaned to himself. Talk about stating the obvious. What a thing to say. Not only that, but the guy probably expected an answer. Snow guy, the hotel owner's son presumably, had a low and husky voice, but Jesse didn't want or need interruptions if he only had five minutes to capture a whole post. The more photos he took the more likely it was that he would take a photo that mattered. Perhaps, if he ignored the other man, he would shut up. "Do you want to see something?" Shovel Guy asked. "A way up the garden is an old shed. It's where we store the wood for the winter—"

"No, that's fine," Jesse interrupted with an abrupt wave of his hand. Maybe the man clearing the path was a sandwich short of a picnic. Why the hell did he think Jesse wanted to see a shed? Jesse bent low at the waist to examine the petals of some winter flower burned at the edges by the sun and filled with small deposits of snow.

"It's a good photo." God, the guy was persistent.

"Jeez, man, will you leave me alone to concentrate?"

Jesse spun on his heel to face the guy as he spoke, the same guy who had now pushed the hood of his huge parka away from his face. Jesse wasn't sure who was more shocked—the guy who looked utterly gobsmacked at what Jesse had just said or Jesse at seeing more face. Jesse couldn't stop himself, photos or no, post or not. He stared. And he probably had his mouth open. It certainly felt like it as the cold air hit his throat. Snow guy was gorgeous. Beautiful, with a strong stubble-darkened jaw and the same brilliant blue eyes as Diana.

"Sorry, I was…" Jesse began weakly, but he really had no explanation. Hell. Those were really intensely cerulean eyes. Blue Eyes shrugged at the apology and then smiled. He took off a glove and held out his bare hand, a warm, wide and very strong hand that gripped Jesse’s firmly.

"Gabriel McClurey," he said, introducing himself on the shake.

"Jesse Connor," Jesse responded quickly. "I get involved," he explained weakly with a wave of his now freed hand at the snow around them. Then he stopped talking because he didn't want to come across as an idiot.

"I need to get shoveling," Gabriel said finally to break the uncomfortable silence. Jesse realized he’d stood there with an open mouth and had been staring. "Shed's up that way if you want to go yourself."

Gabriel dismissed him. He was sending him off to find the shed himself. Damn. Eye candy like Gabriel McClurey was something he didn't want to lose sight of.

"Could you show me—"

"Sorry, man, I need to shovel," Gabriel said quickly. He pulled up the scarf back over his mouth. Clearly the conversation was over.

"Okay," Jesse said reluctantly. "Thanks."

Gabriel resumed the long sweeping motions that cleared the pathway, and Jesse hovered for a while out of sight. He took a few shots of the tall, broad, blue-eyed Gabriel bent over and flexing to clear snow. Gabriel was too wrapped up for Jesse to see what he wanted to see, but a few photos of “man in action” would be okay. Wouldn’t it? Who was to know? He wasn’t taking them for the blog, just for himself. Ass up in the air, Gabriel moved to attack a new path of white. God. Now that was an easy part of body to see, jeans molded Gabriel to like a second skin, stretched across a firm tight butt. Feeling suddenly guilty, Jesse slunk away in the direction indicated. For the first time in nearly a year he was appreciating the male form and it felt odd and more than slightly like a betrayal of his wish to wallow in angst.

FestiviTea - Autism and Christmas

2011-12-02T09:04:00.001-08:00

I was asked by Sylvia Violet to post a recipe for Christmas on her blog and it got me thinking about something we have in the UK called *The FestiviTea Party*, a fundraising initiative from the National Autistic Society in the UK.

As The National Autistic Society (UK) say – “For most of us the Christmas season is full of fun, laughter and family, but for people with autism it can be a particularly difficult time: they may be confused and frightened by sudden changes of routine, unusual foods and new social activities.”

It seems unreal at times but the things we take for granted that neurotypical (‘normal’) kids can handle impact on autistic kids in different ways. Take, for example, changing lessons in a school day to practise a school play for instance. Or parents watching said play when very often autistic kids don’t want to be looked at. How about a sudden change in food? One day sweets are rationed, the next it seems kids are receiving treats from everyone, everywhere, and chocolate first thing in the morning from an advent calendar is positively encouraged! That confuses the 'normal' kids let alone the ones with issues!

Then...how about the stranger in red who visits you when you are asleep? Try explaining that one to a child who has no concept of Christmas. My son only started to accept Christmas and the man in red at the age of eleven and now one hundred percent expects Santa will be visiting his room. Difficult when Matt doesn’t actually sleep much…

B and Matt

Anyway to me, the point of bringing the FestiviTea to people’s attention isn't the whole fundraising thing, although y’know funds are cool. It’s just an excuse to pass on a few interesting facts that may get people chatting about the Autistic Spectrum.

Did you know?

Autism doesn't just affect children. Children with autism grow up to be adults with autism.
Over 40% of children with autism have been bullied at school.
Autism is a hidden disability - you can't always tell if someone has it.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them.
It is a spectrum condition, which means that, while all people with autism share certain difficulties, their condition will affect them in different ways.
People with autism may also experience over- or under-sensitivity to sounds, touch, tastes, smells, light or colours.

If you want to know more... The National Autistic Society

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 10 - Wham, Last Christmas

2011-12-01T07:27:00.001-08:00

Did you know?

Most of Santa’s reindeer have male-sounding names, such as Blitzer, Comet, and Cupid. However, male reindeers shed their antlers around Christmas, so the reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh are likely not male, but female or castrati.

Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph’s red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system.g

HUGE Silver Publishing Competition! Win iPad2, Nook Color, the new Kindle Fire or Vouchers!

2011-12-01T01:00:00.001-08:00

Example graphic only
The real one for RJ is hidden
somewhere on this site!

Why not start on this very website and find the hidden graphic!!!!!

Announcement from Silver: Christmas comes early this year!!!

More information on the Silver Publishing Forum - HERE

During the month of December, SP will be holding an author web hunt. From December 1-17th, participating SP authors will display a Web Hunt graphic somewhere hidden on their site containing a web hunt unique word. Participants in the web hunt are required to search the various SP author sites to locate the total hidden words and submit their entry. All words must be included in order to validate the contest entry.

Winners will be announced on the SP Website on December 19th.

Grand Prize: iPad 2
$500 Gift Voucher (Readers choice of ANY retail or ebook store)
SP Promotional Items: 2 T-Shirts, 4 Mugs, Mousepad, 2 Sweatshirts, 1 Totebag and 1 Notepad

2nd Place: B&N Nook Color
$150 Gift Voucher (Readers choice of ANY retail or ebook store)
SP Promotional Items: 2 T-Shirts, 4 Mugs, Mousepad, 2 Sweatshirts, 1 Totebag and 1 Notepad

3rd Place: NEW Kindle Fire
$50 Gift Voucher (Readers choice of ANY retail or ebook store)
SP Promotional Items: 2 T-Shirts, 4 Mugs, Mousepad, 2 Sweatshirts, 1 Totebag and 1 Notepad

Mystery Raffle - Surprise Gift!

We will hide a few words in our SP Forum. Participants who find these bonus mystery words will be eligible to participate in a Surprise Gift raffle.

There is a total of 27 words hidden on our author website, including our Forum.

The participating authors and their websites are:

Freddy Mackay :: Amber Kell :: Trillium :: SJD Peterson :: AJ Llewellyn :: Olivia Brynn :: Marie Sexton :: Jessica Subject :: Naomi Bellina :: RJ Scott :: Ashlynn Monroe :: Elyzabeth Valey :: Mathilde Watson :: Anna Marie May :: Casey Holloway :: Pia Veleno :: Heather Thurmeier :: Silvia Violet :: Jeanne Oiler :: Carol Lynne :: Toni Griffin :: SA Garcia :: Edward Kendrick :: Jen Thorne :: Diane Adams

Freddy MacKay Interview

2011-12-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

After his partner dies Dan, is left to care for their six-year-old son. Gabriel is a new volunteer at a shelter and meets a 'client' running scared. Can Gabe teach Danny to love again? Or will Dan keep running?

oOo

Welcome to Freddy MacKay and her book *Tears For Christmas* out with Silver Publishing on 1 December

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Blurb:

Daniel Galarza lost his partner of twelve years, leaving Dan to take care of their six-year-old son and to move on with his life. Dan has been trying for six months to juggle his career and his volunteer work while teaching the virtues, he and Luke, wanted to instill to their son. Unfortunately, life hasn’t been going so well and his in-laws have expressed concerns about his abilities to handle everything.

Gabriel Huber is a new volunteer lawyer at the OCVAC shelter and meets a ‘client’ running scared. All Gabe knows is he can’t ignore the man who ran into his life and Gabe wants to help any way he can. Danny, however, thwarts his attempts. It doesn’t help that Gabe has a nasty habit of losing the ability to speak properly when Danny is around.

Interview

Hi Freddy! Thank you for sparing some time to come over and chat with me... We are Christmas story buddies at Silver; yours is the first book and mine is the last!

RJ: So first question - are you nervous about going first?

FM: Yeah, I’m the one that kicks everything off, so I want to be able to start the Christmas releases on a positive note for everyone. :)

RJ: So your story... Tears for Christmas... Is it a sad story? (Let me rephrase that! I KNOW it isn’t a sad story because I have read it! BUT... the title... is kinda sad?)

FM: I can see how people could see ‘Tears’ and think sad...but IT IS a Christmas story. ^.^ Tears can be many different things and have many different meanings. My story covers a gambit of feelings and issues, I wanted to show how a person can go from a dark place in his life to a more positive one.

RJ: Sometimes when you are overwhelmed with grief you hold it all in, and you need to find someone you can trust who will listen to you and let you get the grief out in the open. I found the story to be a very emotional one, and I found myself pulled along.

FM: Yes, I agree. Having even just one person to be able to turn to is important for everyone, holding on and finding a way out of a turbulent time can be hard.

I pulled you along eh? Not by your hair I hope. ^.^

RJ: No! I love books that take me on an emotional journey, especially at Christmas time!

FM: You wouldn’t know anything about that would you? I mean...a Christmas story...you?

RJ: ROFL... I do like me a good Christmas story! So can you tell us about your main characters in a few words...

FM: Hmm, yes, I can...but you have to promise not to tell or no Christmas goodies for you! :) Of course the challenge here is a ‘few words’ LOL...now let’s see

Dan is a father and volunteer who is in over his head since his partner died...Oh and he likes to tease Gabe.
Gabe is a somewhat clumsy lawyer who tends to put his foot in his mouth around Dan.

How’s that? It was only a little over the few words. :D

RJ: That is awesome!

FM: I try making awesomeness a requirement for me at least once a day. **Nods**

RJ: Well I am glad it happened during this interview! So... what do you and yours do for Christmas? Have you started the countdown already? Is the tree up? Have you finished your present shopping?

FM: LOL, Christmas is the only time of year that is actually bigger than Halloween (my parent’s anniversary) around our house. In part because it’s my grandmother’s birthday and the family always gets together to celebrate. She’s going to be ninety-three this year!

RJ: Blimey! My mum is going to be seventy on the 21 December... makes me feel old... ROFL... so does your Christmas start at Thanksgiving?

FM: No, actually, it doesn’t. My family is the one that avoids Black Friday like the plague (we heard it’s deadly) and we wait to decorate till the week before Christmas. I can remember a few years we got the tree two or three days before Christmas. But even though we wait to decorate, we do get our shopping done. We do a volunteer shopping gig for those in need, so it makes us get it done sooner rather than later. Everyone year we go and pick someone (or someones) from the giving tree and shop for that person(s), trying to get stuff off of his or her wishlist.

RJ: That is very much the Christmas Spirit right there. *hugs*. My last question to you today is threefold but easy!

Question 1: Favorite Christmas toy you received as a child...
Question 2: Favorite Christmas Carol...
Question 3: Favorite Christmas pop song...

FM: Hmm... can 20 qualify as a child still?

RJ: Yes! I still have the heart of a child and I am a few years past 20... ROFL

FM: Ha ha ha....but it’s people like you that make the word happy. My Mom’s like that too. We (my siblings and I) always have her cover her ears when we have to talk about ‘adult issues’ (we’re teasing but it’s soo true sometimes).

RJ: ROFL! My mum whispers the word *toilet*... as in DOES ANYONE NEED THE toilet... it makes me laugh...

FM: I would too, your mom rocks! Ok then my answer for question 1 would be...a toll pass system for my car. If you’ve ever had to deal with the Chicago Toll system, you’d understand. It really is my favorite present.

Question 2: My favorite Christmas carol?? Hold on, let me remember what they forced us to sing growing up...*coughs*...I mean encouraged us to sing in school...it would have to be “Here We Come A-Wassailing” because I liked the beat of the tune and it didn’t sound so depressing. Have you ever noticed how somber some of the traditional carols are? I always thought that was odd because I felt it was supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. “Good King Wenceslas” is up there for me too. The same reason, it’s a faster beat and seems happier.

Dang that was a long response **pokes RJ** you awake? ;P

RJ: Still here!

FM: Let’s see the answer to question 3 would be, my favorite Christmas pop song is “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” It fits my sense of humor to a tee. It really does.

RJ: Thank you so much Freddy for your time and I hope you get some great feedback on your new story.

FM: Thanks so much for having me! I hope we get to play...ehem...I mean do this again sometime. I wish you the best for your story as well.

RJ: Happy Christmas!!!!

FM: Merry Christmas! XD

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http://www.facebook.com/freddy.m.mackay

Temptation of the incubus - S.A.Garcia

2011-11-27T00:00:00.000-08:00

First off, thanks to RJ for letting me take up space here.

Second off, Temptation of the Incubus has a damned fine cover. Let’s stop here to admire Reese Dante’s delicious creation:

Come on, stop drooling and move along.

Buy here from Silver Publishing

It’s always difficult to talk about your own book. When you finish a book, send it off and experience the joy of the book being selected for publishing, you think, “well hell, they like it enough to publish, but what will readers think?”

Reality is always a tougher road. Temptation of the Incubus offers characters quite different from the characters in my previous Dreamspinner releases. Narrator Amando, the arrogant, funny, selfish ex-incubus, wants to be your best friend. He wants to tell you his story direct from the heart. This ancient soul wants to tell you how he has reformed. He loves to break in and offer you his opinion about the modern age.

This “rambling” approach has freaked out a few readers. What can I say, Amando determined how he needed to be written. He was a joy to write in that he occupied my mind and cut loose. Writing him was like being possessed by sassy confidence times a million. Denying him would have been a lie. He demanded to be mad, bad and beautiful.

On the other side of the coin, Amando’s lover Mads is the true blue everyman, seeking to educate himself and trying to break free from society’s automatic pigeonholing. He possesses his own quiet, humble confidence, but a confidence soured by life’s pitfalls. At first Amando regards Mads as a mere snack, but when they connect, Amando realizes that this human owns power over him. He wonders why? How? Sadly Amando’s love for Mads is tainted by fear.

The romance they build is fraught with tension, from Amando’s fear of discovery and his fear of a religious mythology long held to be impossible.

Temptation of the Incubus is unlike many m/m tales since my characters embrace their sexuality. Sexual tension is not the novel’s driving force. Instead my characters need to deal with issues involving good and evil and all those bleeding shades of gray. Those issues prompted me to write this novel, to explore the ultimate good and evil clashing and falling in love although neither one regards themselves as simple good or evil. Innocent Mads doesn’t even understand what side he is on.

Worst of all is this: I regard this book as a romantic comedy. Yep.

This is a novel for readers wiling to take a chance. It’s not easy. It’s different.

Perhaps reading too much Peter Straub, Elizabeth Hand or the divine Terry Pratchett encourages me to write beyond the romantic norm. The wax holding my wings is melting, but I will still keep trying. All I can do is hope to reach readers who want to fly with me.

Well now. Did I send the offend-o-meter off the scale?

If you want to take a chance on reading Amando and Mads’s tempestuous love story, you can purchase Temptation of the Incubus directly from Silver Publishing, or at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other outlets. The novel will be released in the dear old actual hold in the hand book form in the near future.

Here’s a little teaser for your reading pleasure:

Excerpt:

After I dressed, I hovered in the now deserted hallway, trying to act casual, not needy. This early in the new semester students rarely stayed late; there was no need to abuse their free time. Twenty-five tense minutes passed by in relentless boredom. Somewhere in the offices a clock chimed 6:00PM. Hmm, did the handsome handyman stand me up? Did he gain mental revenge against someone else by using me?

No. I refused to accept the damaged notion. Someone else might display such pettiness but not Mads. My senses told me the truth. I patiently leaned against a wall. I fidgeted. I nodded greetings at two professors who glanced at me in question but merely nodded in return. Rita bustled past and halted. "Amando? Is something wrong?"

"I'm waiting for someone who is running late."

She winked. "I hope you're going to enjoy the beautiful evening."

"If he doesn't arrive soon we'll enjoy full night." I pouted in high style.

"Naughty boy. See you next week."

What a cheerful soul. Three kids and a lawyer husband, eh? I wished Rita well.

Silence. 6:30 chimed at me.

Quickly moving footsteps approached me. Mads rounded the far corner and walked toward me, he now dressed in a snug aquamarine T-shirt which truly matched his eyes and well-worn tight jeans that left little to my happy imagination. I sighed in relief. It took considerable will not to drop and worship his thigh muscles.

His capable hands fluttered toward his shoulders in quick apology. "Amando, sorry for arriving late; the kiln turned into quite a stubborn old cranker. At least I managed to cram in lunch." He cocked his head in query. "Do we stroll right to your place? No wooing each other over fancy drinks and dinner in some clever little café I can't afford? I admit since I ate late I'm not hungry."

More subtle sarcasm. Instead of reacting to his arch words I shrugged, smiled and artfully shook my hair. "There's no need for such nonsense. If you wish, woo me as we walk."

Mads's piercing sea-soaked gaze drilled into me. He slowly shook his head and smiled in true confusion. "What is it about you, Mr. Amando Renato? I don't believe I've ever met someone like you before and that confuses me. Hey, since we're alone, may I kiss you right now? I always like to check if a beautiful guy appreciates the fine art of kissing. I am damned fond of the act."

Kissing thrilled me. During the past centuries I leaned numerous special lip tricks designed to conquer a man. I smiled and pursed my lips. "Come here, big boy, and pucker up." As he leaned close, Mads pressed his lips to mine. I opened in slight need, opened to capture his true spirit. Curiosity washed over me. Mint and maturity spiced his tongue. Sweet of him to eat a breath mint before we met. My lips parted further, there, glorious. My sparked allure refused to stand down, the force wiggling up like a curious puppy. No. Careful, don't…

My body convulsed in abject confusion.

Angels on High! I jerked back and slammed into the beige wall. Alarmed gasps ripped from my lips. My watery knees barely held me upright. A startled Mads stepped back, sucked in his breath and dazedly shook his head in slow disbelief. His silky hair haloed in slow-motion.

Fear rattled through my flesh.

I gave.

I GAVE my life energy to a human without even trying.

Why? Heaven Above, why? Who authorized that unhappy event? What the fuck happened to me here?

A chorus of startled male gasps flooded the moment. Mads blinked at me in further confusion until words stammered free. "A-A-Amando, wow… did you experience that weird zap? I-I felt like something… wow. Did we step on a faulty wire? No, that's completely impossible. There's nothing on the floor that would cause such a stupid short. But… shit… I don't understand what happened to us." Of course thinking he consumed my life force floated beyond Mads's comprehension; hey, anyone order a slice of my life force with a side of fries?

Seconds roared past. Poor practical Mads anxiously peered down at the floor as if seeking a dangerous, spark-spitting wire waiting to strike at us again. His thick blonde hair almost swayed in fresh vitality.

My shaking fingers drifted and touched my slack lips. Nothing abnormal happened. Crazy shock invaded every last cell. I gave my life force to Mads!

Why? How? Click tape loop: why, how, why, how…

Mads looked up from frantically examining the floor and shrugged in fresh confusion. He stared at me. His high forehead displayed worried webbing. "I don't know what… my God, Amando, are you sick? Do you need to sit down? You look real shaky and pale." His hands reached toward me.

No. I defensively held up my hands. My back pressed against the wall. Touching me was not a wise option, no, not until I learned what the fuck mondo weirdness happened to me. An instinctive lie tripped free. "Mads, I am fine, it's…you also suffered that strange, erm… surge."

Mads smiled in sincere wonderment. "I sure as hell experienced the surge. Damn, I kissed you and I swear a little zap entered me. Kissing your lips makes me tingly inside. I gotta say if that's what kissing you feels like, let's run to your place right now and resume the fun."

My normal kissing style did not involve passing out life force in gay mad abandon. Glad Mads enjoyed the unique sensation. I enjoyed our sincere kiss until I released life to this unknown human without logical reason. What in Belail's Flaming Chariot happened to me? Why? As my frantic thoughts tripped over each other, I offered Mads a tight smile. My right hand stiffly gestured toward the empty hall. "We can walk there now. It's not far, over at A and 11th."

oOo

Amando and Mads thank you for your attention. After all, they are the stars here.

S.A. Garcia

S.A. Garcia's World of Words

What's next from Diane Adams and RJ Scott?

2011-11-26T09:37:00.001-08:00

Want to see what Adams and Scott are up to in 2012?

Go to Diane Adam's blog and read more details about:

The last in the Shadow of the Wolf series.

A Stand alone Romantic Comedy: title TBA, working title Hillbilly Hollywood

And a new series inspired by our friend Reese Dante. Second chances and bad boys trying to make a new life, tattoos, muscles and lots of pure HOT.

The Christmas Throwaway wins December Book of the Month at Goodreads M/M group

2011-11-25T09:52:00.001-08:00

Oh my goodness, this is such an exciting piece of news! Thanks to the wonderful Beatrice who put this book forward for the vote...

I am totally blown away that the story of Zachary and Ben has been chosen...

Buy from Silver or Amazon or others.

Blurb:

Christmas is a time for giving - what do you do when no one gives a damn?

For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go.

Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn.

Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?

Excerpt

"How old are you?" the cop asked, looking concerned and very much in authority.

"Eighteen," Zach lied quickly. He took a step back until his thighs hit the back of the bench he had been resting on. The cop stepped with him, looming large despite being a few inches shorter than Zach, his face creased in a frown.

"How old are you really?" the cop persisted, his expression calm, his voice low and curious.

Zach bit his lower lip, feeling the hot blood against his tongue, the shivering inside him starting to manifest in shakes he knew even the cop would see. Carefully Zach lifted the blanket, damp and ice cold, trying to create a barrier between himself and the police officer with the intense gaze.

"Seventeen," Zach finally said, willing his teeth to stop chattering, "but I'll be eighteen in a few days." He added the last bit, giving the cop an out. He wanted to add just leave me alone, I won't hurt anyone.

"Ben Hamilton," the cop said softly, holding his hand out as if he wanted to shake Zach's. Zach was confused, waiting for the glint of cuffs, uncertain, and he dug his hands deeper in the wet blanket he was holding. The cop, this Hamilton, didn't move his hand, just held it firm and steady. Finally Zach thrust his cold hand out, the texture of the officer's leather gloves soft and strange beneath his touch.

"Zach," he introduced himself softly, remembering not to mention his surname. The cop didn't push him on it, just nodded and pulled his hand away.

"So, Zach, what's happened to you? Why are you lying on the bench at the Church of St. Margaret on Christmas Eve?"

The officer wasn't shouting; he was asking quietly, but Zach immediately started to go on the defensive. There was a concerned twist to the cop's mouth, and he had narrowed his eyes as he asked.

"I…" Zach stopped, assessing the lies he could spin, thinking of the stories he had used to persuade people to leave him alone. Nothing crystallized as right for this moment in time. There was something to this cop, a man who seemed not much older than he was, an officer who wasn't a city cop, but a small town cop. He wouldn't be part of the system the same way as the cops in the city who said he should go home. I don't have a home. Maybe… maybe he should tell him the truth?

"I can't be at home right now," he said finally, wincing as the cop's gloved hand traced the bruises over his left eye and down his jaw line.

"Who did this to you, Zach? Did this happen here in this town?" The officer's words spun a safe haven for sharing secrets, soft, insistent and not very cop-like. Zach shied away instantly from the gentle touch, an icy blade of uncertainty pinching his skin as he contemplated being in the dark church grounds on his own with this man. He seemed friendly enough, but what if it was just another act? Cautiously, and trying not reveal his intentions, he looked to his left and then to his right. If he was going to run, he needed a head start and being held or cornered would take that head start away. To the right, dense foliage blocked an exit, to the left was the gate to the churchyard and the shadowy grave stones. That was his best bet. He shifted his weight to his right foot, ready in a moment to push himself away and to vault the gate. His leg shook with the added pressure, and he knew he would probably fall at the first hurdle. Still, any plan offered more hope than no plan.

"I fell," he said firmly, the same line he had used for most of his life, the same line that earned him looks that ranged from pity to doubt. When he had said those words to people from organizers at the soup kitchen, to cops on the corner, to the owner of the homeless hostel, he had been sworn at, propositioned, cried at, or pushed away in disgust. He wasn't expecting much from another man in authority.

"Uh huh." The officer didn't push for any more information, just nodded at the simple statement and took a step back and away. He spoke directly into his radio. "I'm heading home now. It was nothing to worry about at the church." Static broke the calm of the snow-deadened air, and a tinny voice acknowledged the radio message with a series of codes and a single name, Ben. The cop looked back at Zach, and Zach gauged that now the cop was two steps away from him, heading for the gate would be easier. "You can't sleep here. I'll find you a room for tonight, and we'll deal with the rest in the morning."

Zach's eyes widened. He wasn't going anywhere with any stranger, not unless he was under arrest. This cop was going to find him a room? Probably some out of the way no-tell motel. Shit. No way this side of never was that happening. He had barely got away with his life two nights before from a proposal far more wrapped in the suggestion of hope than what the cop was giving him. Zach was so past being gullible.

Pulling himself to his full height, he thinned his lips in determination. He was not swapping one hell for another, not a chance.

"No. Thank you, but, no, I have to… go to the station for the train." He tried not to let hopelessness into his voice, attempted to sound self-assured around the chattering of his teeth. He sounded out the words in his head, and he knew exactly what he was saying. He clearly had some sort of purpose for being on the bench in the snow on Christmas Eve and the cop should respect that. It was a free country.

"Okay, Zach," the cop sighed, "we can do this one of two ways. It's late, and it is the night before Christmas. I really want to go home to be with my family and you are kind of making this all very difficult. Now you can come with me, get a decent meal, a shower and maybe some warmer clothes and then you can sleep for the night in a warm bed. This can be all your own choice, or I can make it official and arrest you, then force you to go."

Happy Thanksgiving and a new Free Read Chapter

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The latest Chapter on my blog tour is at my friend Lori Toland's website HERE.

Thanks Lori!

Also... wanted to wish all my American friends Happy Thanksgiving... Hope it is a good one for you all...

RJ X

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COMPETITION - do you want to read this before everyone else??? ENTER HERE!!

oOo

Pre-order from Silver

by Diane Adams & RJ Scott

Blurb

Sam Harrison remembers nothing of his former life. All he knows is that he has nightmares that won't leave him alone and an irrational fear of shifting from human to wolf.

Doug McKenna has little respect for any wolf that isn't strong. That Sam was nearly broken is something he can't reconcile. Still, Sam needs looking after, and Doug decides to prove to Sam he has nothing to fear with an Alpha by his side.

Competition Results

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Today is the start of announcing who has won the chance to choose from the following prize...

The first winner *pulled from the hat* will win their choice of prize from the list, the next winner will get to choose from the remaining prizes and so on...

The following people are my top seven winners:

1. Chris (C Lamb) - Signed paperback copy of Heart of Texas.

2. Beatrice - Signed paperback copy of Moments.

3. booklover0226 - A $20 gift certificate to spend at Silver Publishing on any book by any author.

4. LindaC - Signed paperback copy of One Night.

5. 79efe426-0288-11e1-a312-000bcdca4d7a - PDF e-book of Texas Winter

6. Sassy - PDF e-book of Guarding Morgan.

7. Loveless3173 - PDF e-book of Jesse's Christmas (released 25 December)

I will be contacting the winners in order for their choice of books/PDFs/gift certificates...

CONGRATULATIONS!
RJ

A $20 gift certificate to spend at Silver Publishing on any book by any author.	booklover0226
Signed paperback copy of Heart of Texas.	Chris (C Lamb)
Signed paperback copy of Moments.	Beatrice
Signed paperback copy of One Night.	Linda C
PDF e-book of Guarding Morgan.	Winner to be announced
PDF e-book of Texas Winter.	79efe426
PDF e-book of Jesse's Christmas (released 25 December)	Winner to be announced

Competition now closed... results to follow...

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This competition is now closed and results will be available soon...

To celebrate the launch of my new all singing all dancing website I am running a competition from today until the 20th November...

The prizes for seven separate winners are:

1. A $20 gift certificate to spend at Silver Publishing on any book by any author.
2. Signed paperback copy of Heart of Texas.
3. Signed paperback copy of Moments.
4. Signed paperback copy of One Night.
5. PDF e-book of Guarding Morgan. (** see note below)
6. PDF e-book of Texas Winter. (** see note below)
7. PDF e-book of Jesse's Christmas (released 25 December).

First drawn out of the *hat* gets to choose first... then the second gets to choose from what is left and so on...

Simply comment on this post only with your email and I will enter you into the draw.

Closing date 20 November 2011; 12 midnight GMT.

Good luck!! RJ xxxx

** Re PDFs, in the event of a winner being left with a PDF option they already have then an alternative can be requested.

UPDATE - if you seem unable to post a comment then please email me rj@rjscott.co.uk and I will add you manually. Many thanks...x

UPDATE - if your comment doesn't appear straight away it is just because it is in the queue for me to accept! Apologies... x

RJ Scott - Author

MM Good Book Reviews

Face Value - Wonderful New Art from Reese Dante

The Art Of Words

Match Maker by Alan Chin - awesome

Competition - Win a $30 voucher for Silver Publishing...

The Only Easy Day... excerpt

Buying Kindle Books before they appear on Amazon

Reviews: Elisa Rolle

Author Interview: Chris Quinton

Sue Brown: The Layered Mask

Free Short Story: Alcohol

Black Raven's Reviews

The Sanctuary Series: The Only Easy Day

Hearts on Fire Reveiws

Free Short Story Anthology at Silver Publishing

What's coming in 2012: Shawn Bailey

What is different about my Young Adult writing to my Adult writing?

Random thoughts on reviews, writing and Lord of the Rings...

Some cool news from Silver Publishing

Free RJ Scott read at Cup o' Porn

The Decisions We Make - Young Adult

Diane Adams is in da house...

Does Downey Jr do a Johnny Depp?

What's coming in 2012: West Thornhill

What's coming in 2012: Gale Stanley

Guest Blogging at LM Brown and an excerpt...

What's coming in 2012: Victoria Blisse

LRC 2011 Nominee!

What's coming in 2012: Sue Brown

The Only Easy Day

What's coming in 2012: Freddy MacKay

And the winner is...

"You've failed, your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

What's coming in 2012: Anna Marie May

What's coming in 2012: Nicole Dennis

Love Is In The Message

The Only Easy Day (Sanctuary #2)

What's coming in 2012: LM Brown

What's coming in 2012: Elizabella Gold

What's coming in 2012: Amylea Lyn

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What's coming in 2012: Lindsay Klug

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The Soldier's Tale gets a Recommended Read on ARe

2012 and all that jazz... oh yes, and a competition...

Festive Holiday Book Of The Year

LRC Best of 2011 nominations

Author Interview - Nicole Dennis

The Gallows Tree - excerpt

Reviews from Literary Nymphs

All Romance eBooks, LLC 2011 Trend Analysis

Dark Diva's Reviews

Night Owl Reviews

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 1 - Band Aid (original) - Do They Know It's Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 2 - Greg Lake -I Believe In Father Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 3 - Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 4 - Take That - Babe

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 5 - East 17 - Stay Another Day

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 6 - Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

Christmas recipe and Jesse's Christmas six days and counting...

New York Blue free read... new chapter added...

Jesse's Christmas - Excerpt

The Gallows Tree moves publication date...

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 7 - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

Queer Magazine Online Reviews

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 8 - Johnny Mathis, When a child is born

The Christmas Throwaway gets 6th place in the Rainbow Awards Best Gay Contemporary Romance category

Author Interview - Toni Griffin

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 9 - Jona Lewie, Stop the Cavalry

The Christmas Throwaway - One Year on

*Jesse's Christmas* Excerpt

FestiviTea - Autism and Christmas

Christmas Songs Top Ten: No 10 - Wham, Last Christmas

HUGE Silver Publishing Competition! Win iPad2, Nook Color, the new Kindle Fire or Vouchers!

Freddy MacKay Interview

Temptation of the incubus - S.A.Garcia

What's next from Diane Adams and RJ Scott?

The Christmas Throwaway wins December Book of the Month at Goodreads M/M group

Jesse's Christmas Excerpt