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I've made another sale, and have been frantically turning out edits on it. Torquere press has bought a short novel (about 80,000 words), Embracing the Dragon, for distribution as part of it's Turn of the Screw serial fiction service. You can find details here: http://www.aturnofthescrew.com/
A warning: It's explicit romance. Please don't go look at it if you're going to be offended by explicit sexual content, or if you're not of an age suitable to view explicit materials.
The setting is one originally created by BA Collins ( http://ba-collins.dreamwidth.org ), which she's graciously encouraged me to play in. Go check out her journal and see what she's writing too, if you aren't familiar with her work.
Here's the cover blurb:
Danny O’Riordan likes women. He never gave a guy a look. Then he has a vision of a past life in which he’d had a male lover. Now he’s not so sure. Should he try it? Danny knows his liege lord, the Elven King Aran of Avalon, wants him. Aran thinks Danny isn't interested and Danny knows if he encourages Aran, he might never get disentangled.
Of course, that’s not the only problem. There’s a war going on, and being Liegeman to the King puts Danny squarely in the middle of the politics of two worlds, Earth and Avalon. Adding a romantic relationship to the mix could be explosive.
His lover from that previous life has been reborn as Mordellir, the ruler of the Tengri Empire. The Dragon of Heaven is the most powerful person in his world. Will he want Danny back once he knows he’s been reborn? If he does, how far will he go to get his way?
Danny knows he shouldn’t get involved with the Dragon of Heaven. Aran hates the Tengri. If Danny yields to temptation, can he balance his obligations to Aran with the feelings he still has for Mordellir?
And a sample:
http://www.aturnofthescrew.com/subs/sample106.html
It will be posting on the serial page at the rate of 1 chapter a month until it's complete. Chapter 1 is up now. When all 19 installments have appeared on the serial service, then it will be available as a regular download from the main site, http://www.torquerepress.com. That will be a little over a year and a half from now.
There is likely to be a sequel. The original story line was going to result in a book longer than would be a good fit for the serial mechanism, so they suggested I split it into two books. I don't have a formal contract for Book 2 yet (nor is it written, except for a few scenes), but there's certainly a reasonable expectation that it will happen.
A warning: It's explicit romance. Please don't go look at it if you're going to be offended by explicit sexual content, or if you're not of an age suitable to view explicit materials.
The setting is one originally created by BA Collins ( http://ba-collins.dreamwidth.org ), which she's graciously encouraged me to play in. Go check out her journal and see what she's writing too, if you aren't familiar with her work.
Here's the cover blurb:
Danny O’Riordan likes women. He never gave a guy a look. Then he has a vision of a past life in which he’d had a male lover. Now he’s not so sure. Should he try it? Danny knows his liege lord, the Elven King Aran of Avalon, wants him. Aran thinks Danny isn't interested and Danny knows if he encourages Aran, he might never get disentangled.
Of course, that’s not the only problem. There’s a war going on, and being Liegeman to the King puts Danny squarely in the middle of the politics of two worlds, Earth and Avalon. Adding a romantic relationship to the mix could be explosive.
His lover from that previous life has been reborn as Mordellir, the ruler of the Tengri Empire. The Dragon of Heaven is the most powerful person in his world. Will he want Danny back once he knows he’s been reborn? If he does, how far will he go to get his way?
Danny knows he shouldn’t get involved with the Dragon of Heaven. Aran hates the Tengri. If Danny yields to temptation, can he balance his obligations to Aran with the feelings he still has for Mordellir?
And a sample:
http://www.aturnofthescrew.com/subs/sample106.html
It will be posting on the serial page at the rate of 1 chapter a month until it's complete. Chapter 1 is up now. When all 19 installments have appeared on the serial service, then it will be available as a regular download from the main site, http://www.torquerepress.com. That will be a little over a year and a half from now.
There is likely to be a sequel. The original story line was going to result in a book longer than would be a good fit for the serial mechanism, so they suggested I split it into two books. I don't have a formal contract for Book 2 yet (nor is it written, except for a few scenes), but there's certainly a reasonable expectation that it will happen.
