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Production Schedule for 2014 – 2015

I’ve been buried under edits this month. I’m excited to release this production schedule for 2014 and 2015. I will release more than this I’m sure. However, this is what I have nailed down to deadlines as we speak.

These blurbs are in draft form at the moment. I’d love to hear comments about what you like in the blurb. Also what in the blurb might stop you from thinking you would like one of these stories. I will choose a random comment that I like to send a swag pack to with a lovely Facebook card on one of my titles and a cover trading card.

To Be Released in 2014

From Rebel Ink Press: “Shifter’s Legacy” a M/F/M Menage Erotic Paranormal Wolf Shifter Novella TBR 05/03/2014 Vol 4 in The Amethyst Desire Collection. Look for a Cover Preview in April. This cover is in it’s final edits. The story is with the editor and I am looking forward to a revision letter from them to put things in their final format.

Draft Blurb

Addison Barnes has loved Nathan since the moment she looked into the deep brown eyes of the injured grey wolf brought to her rescue facility and saw a human soul. Yet, the complications of the birth of their first child, demands of mothering and keeping her wolf rescue running leaves Addison feeling less like a sexy mate and more like a saggy mom. She’s frightened of the pervading consequences of their son Logan manifesting shape shifting abilities. She longs to regain her confidence and sexual vitality and carefree demeanor. She hires drifter Duncan Black to help with some of the more physical chores at the rescue Nathan doesn’t have time to accomplish. Duncan proves to be an attractive distraction.

Duncan’s life changed forever when he’s stranded in the quaint (er…hole in the wall) north Florida town for a part for his motorcycle. The chance meeting with Addison gives him the opportunity to earn a little cash and regroup before heading on to his next destination, somewhere else. Addison and her curvy little ass are a significant distraction to his fence building chores. With his own secret to hide, he’s not prepared to be swept into a whole different world. Covertly witnessing what seems to be a wolf turning into his boss, Duncan realizes the couple might hold the key to his own mystery.

Nathan Barnes struggles to unite his pack. Key to their future is whether his human wife can help him secure the next generation of shape shifting wolves through their offspring. Or will the shifter genetics be diluted by human ones? Duncan’s presence gives a much needed buffer from all the stress. Nathan purchases an amethyst pendant from Salynne’s Crystals and Thyme as a gift of love for his beautiful wife. Sparks ignite as Nathan demonstrates to Addison the lengths he will go to for her happiness. Uncharacteristic of his Alpha possessiveness, he wants to fulfill Addison’s fantasy of a ménage with Duncan.

After weeks of handy man chores by day and lusting after Addison by night, Duncan doesn’t want to resist the offer of a weekend threesome. Planning to leave after their weekend of carnal debauchery anyway what could it matter?

“Emma’s New Year” a F/F Erotic Contemporary Romance Novellette TBR 07/03/2014 Vol 5 in The Amethyst Desire Collection. Cover Reveal coming in June. This cover is also in final edits with the graphic artist over at Rebel Ink Press. I will be looking for a special place to do the cover reveal.

Draft Blurb

Convinced to ring in the New Year at a gay club with a lesbian friend, straight girl Emma Reed gets a little more than she expects when she meets El Westin. Maybe there was something magical about that Amethyst necklace she’d borrowed for the night. Or perhaps her resistance was lowered by the fruity concoction, Hawaiian Iced Tea, she’d been drinking. Her immediate attraction to El sent up fireworks and it wasn’t even midnight. Would one night of wild sex be the start of a New Year, New life for them both or end up being just another big mistake.

5 More releases for “The Amethyst Desire Collection” over the course of 2014 and 2015 to complete the collection. What kinds of stories would you find fun to round out this series. I have sketched out blurbs for four of the five. They would be seasonal holiday stories: Halloween F/F; Thanksgiving M/M; Christmas Menage F/F/M; Valentines Menage M/F/M with some M/M/F scenes;  Perhaps a summer time story? OHHH maybe something at the beach for the very last story. And have the necklace get lost forever in the sea. After ten stories…maybe it needs to be LOST FOREVER in the sea. Awww darn that wouldn’t work. I’d just write a mermaid story then about finding the dang thing. LOL

Direct Publication Projects

Drakins of Wyrmarach

Draft Blurb

Bad-boy twins, Ethan and Caleb Monroe are exiled by Drakin society because of their defective Dragon form, two heads are unacceptable. They’ve gotten used to breaking rules to help their world. Their sensory powers draw them to Cathwren Aldridge, the one woman they could both love, just in time to save her from harm. Much to their surprise, she’s the lost descendent of Wyrmarach’s Dragon Guardian and rightful heir to the title. They have to break the oldest custom of all, risking everything on the chance to awaken ‘Wren’s’ powers and rekindle the magic of the Drakin’s world.

Wren came to the small North Florida town to enjoy a quiet life running her shop, Salynne’s Crystals and Thyme. Now Wren’s on the run from ancient enemies who want to kill her and the ‘Watchers’ who think she should be secluded in a Temple communing with the Goddess. The whole thing sounds like a bizarre SyFy movie. Yet something is happening, unleashing feelings she can’t deny, feelings that urge her to push the boundaries of pleasure, feelings that whisper she’s something more than ordinary. Her conscience wages war with emotions urging her to climb in bed with these two very sexy dragon shifters and stay there.

The trio embarks on a hunt to uncover and eliminate the threat against Wren’s birthright. Will their people accept such a deformed dragon as Kings.   Can such a closed society accept a human as Guardian and Queen?  Together they struggle to claim their shared destiny as Dragon Guardian of WyrmArach and Monarchs of the Realm.

“Dragon Guardian” a M/F/M Menage Erotic Paranormal Dragon Shifter Novel. Vol 1 Drakins of Wyrmarach TBR 05/03/2014 Cover Reveal coming in April. I have the cover on this baby and it is (singing) Awe-SOME. A fantastic cover created by Hot Damn Designs. I’ve made it into a poster so I can look at it every day. The same poster will be on display at the two author events I’ve scheduled in the Western North Carolina Area. May 3rd Blue Ridge Books on Main Street Waynesville, NC at 3pm and at City Lights Book Store in Sylvia, NC on Friday, May 16th, 2014 at 6:30pm. There will be swag and wonderful drawings for attendees. I will offer a bottle of Menage De Trois wine autographed label as a door prize drawing to one lucky purchaser of “Dragon Guardian” at each event. At City Lights we will be enjoying wine and chocolate while I read an excerpt, sign books and visit with guests. Planning the activities for the Blue Ridge Books event are underway.

Draft Blurb

Wren, Cathwren Aldridge, is catapulted into steamy relationship with twin brothers Ethan and Caleb Monroe quite by accident when she falls through her stairs. She discovers nothing is what is seems and she may be Goddess forordained for more. Not Queen of some small European country but a world in another dimension, a world of dragon shapeshifters.

Evil stalks her, and it’s up to Caleb and Ethan Monroe to protect her while they figure out just what she is, Human, Dragon or something much more. Is she the one they’ve hoped for to unite them in their journey to the throne? Or will the strangeness of the truths they tell her drive her onto a path of self discovery leaving them bound to a woman they can never have, The Dragon Guardian.

“Dragon Betrayal” a M/F Erotic Paranormal Dragon shifter novellette Vol 1.5 Drakins of Wyrmarach TBR 06/03/2014 Cover Reveal coming in May. I have the cover for this lovely as well, created by Toby-by-Design. It is Fabulous! This novellette will be offered as a free read yes FREE READ. It will have some more hot menage sex with Wren, Caleb and Ethan of course. However, there will also be insight into the Knights of Druiere’ and their holy quest. Dirk is the hero of his own story of course. And a Betrayer is revealed to the reader.

“Dragon Mark” Vol 2 Drakins of Wyrmarach M/F/M Menage Erotic Paranormal Dragon Shifter Novel. Cover contract with Hot Damn Designs

“Dragon Kings” Vol 3 Drakins of Wyrmarach M/F/M Menage Erotic Paranormal Dragon Shifter Novel. Cover contract with Hot Damn Designs

Toby-by-Design will be creating a cover for one more direct publication project. I’m debating on what to write for this story. Something that ties into world I’ve created with the Dragons, or a totally different project.  Oh the endless possibilities.

Exposition Blog Tour

Kyle Taylor is my guest today to promote Exposition. I agreed to be a hostess for this tour because this book sounded fascinating. I had the opportunity to ask Kyle some candid interview questions about writing this book. The answers gave me a peek into a gifted and interesting life. Thank you for being my guest today Kyle Taylor!

VBT Exposition Book Cover Banner copy

What interested you in writing M/M romance in a historic setting?

I had just watched The Age of Innocence, a luscious film by Martin Scorsese for the umpteenth time and I was thinking to myself how much I wished there was a sumptuous, gay epic film to enjoy.  Maurice certainly comes to mind, but I thought, what an excellent challenge to see if I could write a story in the vein of what I desired.

Tell us something behind the scenes from writing this story

The whole set up for Exposition started with a conversation I had with an elderly apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.  I was writing a piece for an architectural magazine and we got to dishing outside the old archives annex at Taliesin West, Wright’s winter residence in Scottsdale. This man was a young apprentice in the late 1940’s to the end of Wright’s life in 1959.  In a gentlemanly and discrete sort of way, he revealed this hidden gay world of Wright’s apprentices during that time.  That stuck with me, these gay men and women who hid their sexuality – Wright was actually more accepting, but his last wife, Olgivanna was not.  That conversation stayed with me.

A year or two later, I was writing another article about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.  All of the early ‘starchitects’ had their hand in its design.  These top tier architects had some pretty interesting private lives!  Stanford White enjoyed entertaining underage showgirls in his secret penthouse at the top of the old Madison Square Gardens.  Louis Sullivan was rumored to have been a closeted homosexual.  Frank Lloyd Wright wound up having a sensational affair with a client’s wife and running off to Europe with her.  I thought, this is the perfect setting to explore the hidden lives of gay people in this bombastic Gilded Age in the midst of constructing the magnificent spectacle of a world’s fair.

Tell us about a scene in the book that moved you in some way and how.

There is a scene in the Exposition, where the hero, Benjamin Wyatt has tea in l’orangerie with the lovely debutante, Evelyn Van Buren.  The Wyatts and Van Burens so desperately want Benjamin to marry Evelyn.  Benjamin has already begun his affair with the dashing electrical engineer, Spencer Bowles. In the glass hot house, surrounded by lush greenery, Adam is presented to his Eve.  Benjamin tries his damndest to fall in love with Evelyn.  The shoe clearly doesn’t fit, but he fools himself to thinking it does.  I’ve had lovers and career choices where I’ve made the same mistake for sure.  It is painful to watch because Benjamin just fights internally forcing himself to make this thing work even when it isn’t who he really is.

Tell us something we wouldn’t guess about your characters, an interest, a hobby, some point from their life.

It is alluded to in the story off and on that Benjamin is an excellent horseman who loves to play polo.  I once worked at a Chicago country club that had Daniel Burnham as a member.  Daniel Burnham is Benjamin Wyatt’s boss.  Anyway, the club had an old polo field that was turned into a golf driving range by the time I worked there as a kid.  In my mind, I imagined when Benjamin was younger, he would spend his leisure hours on the back of a favorite horse playing polo at that club.

Here is a little trailer I made up for Exposition, just for the book tour.  I hope you enjoy it!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xvW01V732E

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity.  I will be setting up a final giveaway for the tour for everyone – not only the $25. Amazon gift certificate, but I will also put my first novel, Billion Dollar Dreamer, on Amazon, free to download for the day for your readers to enjoy. Here is a trailer I made to show it off:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWyCUp7YBs

Find Kyle on Facebook at :https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002247108853&fref=ts

Exposition by Kyle Taylor

Kyle Taylor is my guest today to promote Exposition an American Epic. Read through to the end…prizes, prizes.

I had to be a hostess because this book sounds fabulous! An interview with Kyle Taylor will post at 7a.m. What an interesting person behind the scenes as he answers some candid questions about writing and behind the scenes of the book.

Exposition

by Kyle Taylor

MEDIA KIT Exposition

BLURB:

Meet Benjamin Wyatt, a handsome young architect helping create the magnificent 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.  While immersed in work at the famous architectural firm of Burnham and Root, Benjamin’s pugnacious, social climbing father, Walter Wyatt, pushes him to marry the stunningly beautiful debutante, Evelyn Van Buren—thus securing the family’s position in Chicago society.  Yet, when Benjamin meets the cocky young electrical engineer, Spencer Bowles, who is also working on the fair, his world and its ambitions are forever shattered.

Set amidst the opulent splendor of Chicago in the late Victorian Age, Benjamin Wyatt must confront the perils of accepting his own true love and risk destroying everything he worked so hard to achieve.  Meticulously researched and filled with lush images of the Gilded Age, Exposition, tells the epic story of a love that dare not speak its name…

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EXCERPTS (Exclusive Excerpt):

There Benjamin stood, in the midst of the gayety of his wedding ball at the Auditorium. He looked up at the magnificent, gold-leafed arches above him, lit by more than three thousand lights which were dimmed to a surreal, majestic glow. He reminisced about the time when he watched Spencer Bowles tip toe out on the narrow catwalk, some ninety feet above the stage to adjust the lighting. It seemed like only yesterday, but was over two years ago.

“Mister Wyatt!” Louis Sullivan exclaimed as he walked up to Benjamin and shook his hand. Clearly, it pleased Sullivan to see his creation host such a spectacular event.

“Mister Sullivan!” Benjamin replied. “I was just admiring how wonderful your Auditorium looks tonight.”

“Why, thank you, Mister Wyatt, but the praise is all mine. Never before has a man had the good fortune to wed a creature of such beauty as Evelyn Van Buren! Well done, boy!” Sullivan smiled.

Ben wasn’t sure he had ever seen Sullivan this merry before. It cast his perfectionism in an entirely different light, but Benjamin was still uneasy around the man.

“Have you seen Mister Bowles?” Benjamin asked.

“The little monkey?” Sullivan laughed at himself. “Why, I thought you knew. He departed this morning for Paris. He shall be studying at your alma mater. That boy will be a fine architect some day!”

Benjamin was stung by Sullivan’s words. Spencer left Chicago! Benjamin was stunned.

“Well done, my boy!” Sullivan patted Ben’s shoulder and held onto it just a little longer while downing the glass of cognac he held. He then walked off.

The waltz grew louder as guests flooded onto the dance floor located on the main stage. Benjamin heard laughter and the clinking of glasses; chairs slid across the makeshift wood floor as guests made way to dance.

From a distance, he could saw his mother and father standing alongside Amistad and Florence Van Buren. Each had their own elated smiles on their faces, none wider than Walter Wyatt’s. With a cigar in one hand, he grandly gestured, no doubt telling his time-worn stories of the adventures of his youth.

Benjamin Wyatt looked up again at the vast, golden arches of the auditorium, transformed into a fantastical golden night sky by their delicate electric bulbs. He felt completely alone.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 Kyle Taylor is the author of both Exposition and Billion Dollar Dreamer.  The Kyle Taylor character debuted in Billion Dollar Dreamer as a journalist who was assigned to write a story about high school history teacher cum overnight billionaire John Driskil.  Kyle has begun his next book, tentatively titled Wildflower.  He resides in New York — and of course he is a work of fiction!

Author Web Page:  Http://www.billiondollardreamer.com

FACEBOOK:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002247108853&fref=ts

Purchase:

http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=55&products_id=1142

Kyle will be awarding a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, and as a special prize, Kyle’s previous book, Billion Dollar Dreamer , will be given away free on Amazon the last day of the tour.

Follow the tour and comment often for a better chance of winning. Find the tour stops here:

http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2013/10/virtual-book-tour-exposition-by-kyle.html

Exposition by Kyle Taylor Here Tomorrow

I’m happy to be part of the Goddess Fish Promotions Blog Tour for Exposition by Kyle Taylor. Drop by tomorrow and check it out.

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Kyle will be awarding a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, and as a special prize, Kyle’s previous book, Billion Dollar Dreamer , will be given away free on Amazon the last day of the tour.

Readers follow the whole tour for a better chance of winning. The tour dates can be found here:

http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2013/10/virtual-book-tour-exposition-by-kyle.html

Exposition by Kyle Taylor Book Tour visit on 12/13/13

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That’s right I am the final stop on the Goddess Fish Promotions Book tour for Exposition by Kyle Taylor. It’s a hot hot historic Male/Male Romance.

Save the date 12/13/13 and come on over for a visit.