Showing posts with label Half-Baked Promises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Half-Baked Promises. Show all posts

Thursday, June 6, 2013

New! Midnight Muffins (Castor Springs #2)


Woohoo! Kevin and Liam are back. Midnight Muffins is up on the M/M Romance group. I'll set it up on ARe and Amazon as soon as I can. 

If you intend to read Half-Baked Promises (Castor Springs #1) before this one, please download the second edition as some changes were made. 

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Erica Pike: Survivor and Nominee

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I'm a Mayan Apocalypse survivor! Good thing I read all those post apoc books and had all these survivor skillz. Okay, you're probably sick of hearing that by now, but I really AM looking forward to 2015 since there'll be hover boards and self-drying clothes. Go McFly!

I didn't plan to just joke around all day (even though I'm technically a day late for that). I stopped by to announce that a bunch of my books have been nominated for the Goodreads M/M Romance Group's 2012 Member Choice Awards:

Best Short Story
Best Debut Book
Best Enemies to Lovers
Best Story that Should/Must have a Sequel
Best Sex Scene (When Casper and Hot Hands have sex in Casper's room)


Best Friends to Lovers
Best Coming Out Story
Best Gay/Out for You Story
Best Side/Supporting Character (Eric)
Best Tear Jerking Scene (When Adam broke down)





Best Book of the Year
Best Contemporary Story
Best Couple/MCs (Eric and Alex)
Best Sex Scene (Eric and Alex's first time)



Best Free Story

Best Humorous Story

The polls are open, if you want to go vote for your favorites. 
Loads of great books on those lists.

One last post apoc joke:
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Hehehe.

Friday, August 31, 2012

Backlist Hop - Back When I Was a Baby.


It's time to dust and revive the oldies. Of course, my oldies are only eight months old, but they still feel ancient to me. Wow, I was such a newbie back in January.


Technically, I had three releases that month. The very first was a freebie, In His Pocket. It's a very short, very fast read just to give people a taste for my writing style. Me being an Icelander, the topic really didn't seem that off-putting, but I learned fast that it didn't go down well with everyone. "Daddy kink" someone called it, which I suppose it is, but I was just coming out of my yaoi era. However, it's a fast-paced little fic.

The second was my short story Hot Hands, published by No Boundaries Press. It was the first in what will be five short stories (maybe six). I got the idea for this one when I was walking to my seat in a theater and someone accidentally brushed against my bum. I figured, hey, that would be an interesting story, and so the story of Casper being goosed and groped without catching the groper was born. It's a fun, fast, and a bit achy story. Have you already read this and thought the ending was a bit abrupt? Well, I'm currently editing the sequel, Cold Hands!

The third, and my official debut novel, was A Life Without You, published by MLR Press (came out in print, too). It's the first in a series about a group of friends in Boston. Technically, these two characters aren't a part of the group until later, but a sort of a third wheel and the sun of the group, Eric, is introduced and he's the main character in the next book. This book (ALWY) is about a gay college boy, Adam, who falls in love with his straight roommate, Jesse. Of course, like with most of these stories, Jesse isn't all that straight, just ass-deep in denial. For those who have already read this, I have a sequel in mind for this couple. It'll probably be more of a novella, but I intend to write it for next year. If you like angst, you'll probably like A Life Without You.



So, what am I offering for this backlist hop? A choice between A Life Without You or Hot Hands. Please leave a comment with your email address and your preferred format: pdf, mobi, or ePub.

But wait! Before you go, there are more people taking part in this. You can go to the main site or you can click the links below.

Oh and hey, if I'm a new-to-you author, feel free to grab a copy of my other free read, Half-Baked Promises.


Thursday, June 21, 2012

Half-Baked Promises is Out


Hi guys,

Just letting you know that my FREE read, Half-Baked Promises, is out. I'll be working on getting the story up on Smashwords over the weekend. I was formatting it for Smashwords today when mom came over and told me that my little one and a half year old nephew just died, so I've put the formatting on hold. I'm sorry for the delay, it's just hard to focus right now.

You can download pdf, mobi and ePub on Goodreads. There's also a discussion thread on Goodreads, if you're interested.

Blurb:
One more day, that's all Kevin needed. One more day to finish this tax audit and get the hell out of town and back to his normal, everyday life. So it absolutely figured that some over-muscled moron with a pneumatic dick substitute would wake him up at the ass-crack of dawn and shoot his plans right to hell. At this point he'd try anything -- maybe a bribe?

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

New Cover and Book of the Month!


I finally got around to creating that cover for the free story: Half-Baked Promises. It's the one I wrote for the Love is Always Write event for the Goodreads M/M Romance group. I don't have Photoshop or anything like that, so it was just plain old PowerPoint, but I think it turned out okay. Now I just have to figure out what standardized texts I'll need at the beginning...

I was very excited to learn that Absolutely Eric was chosen as the Book of the Month for that same M/M Romance Group on Goodreads! Thanks to everyone who voted. Someone's also nominated A Life Without You for next month, but I doubt I'll get this lucky twice in a row. I'm very happy with and honored by this month's BoM.

While I'm at it, Absolutely Eric can now be bought in paperback from Amazon, B&N and other places.

More news:

My buddy NJ Nielsen has released her first novel! It was released by MLR Press last Friday and it's called Rules Are Meant To Be Broken. It's a vampire story and like everything else Norma produces it's very fresh with a great voice. It's the first in a very long series called The Lines of Marsden. I was lucky to have read this while it was in the editing stages, but I hear it's changed quite a bit since (I've bought a copy and am about to read it!).


Another buddy of mine, the super cute Cole Riann, has opened his own review site: The Armchair Reader. It doubles as his own personal blog. Cole's a very cool guy. He likes reading, knitting and baking. And vikings. We have a lot in common! Though...the most I've managed to knit are hats and mittens. I never got the hang of socks. I do love baking though and vikings are totally my thing ^.^