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Mar 31, 2024 3:32 am
Hello !
Well, It's the end of March and I've barely scratched the surface of my 2024 business goals. Just when I think I'm caught up, I fall behind again. It's not just work, but life. It's not always easy to juggle work and homelife, especially when you have a spouse who works as much as you do.
But we've managed to save for vacation! I haven't been overseas in twelve years, and we're finally going. At the end of May, we're headed to Scotland and Ireland. I'm so excited! I'll be sure to post pictures.
I'm also planning my first book signing all the way up in Canda lol. This isn't until October, but I'm hoping in 2025, I'll have the opportunity to sign up for more. Spots go fast, so I need to scramble already.
Do you all go on vacation? Where do you enjoy going?
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PRE-ORDER OUTPLAYED
COMING MAY 10, 2024
Outplayed has all been wrapped up with my beta readers. It is beta approved after much debate between Aspen and Cooper. I have a feeling we're going to have a team Aspen and a team Cooper for this book because my team fought over these boys and who like what character more π.
Itβs all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
Aspen
Cooper Summers is a rising football star at the University of Texas. And he happens to be my new roommate. Heβs amazing and surprisingly chill. It doesnβt take us long to form a strong friendship. But serendipity is a funny thing. I suddenly find myself wanting to explore my sexuality with Cooper. Letβs just say heβs hot. The only problem is that weβre both straight, and Cooper is especially so. Will he go along with my crazy idea? All I need to do is ask.
Cooper
Aspen Harper is a singer in a band, the most easy-going person Iβve ever met, a total hippie. But he also has his quirks, like walking around naked and carrying his pet rat on his head. After a night of heavy drinking, Aspen stumbles into my bed and comes up with the craziest idea. He wants to explore our sexuality together, but only for fun. Nothing serious. Iβve been struggling to get over my last girlfriend, so I agree with his ridiculous idea. The problem is that I like him more than I should.
π College romance
π Double Bi-Awakening
π Pansexual
π Bisexual
π Friends to Lovers
π Golden Retriever MMC
π Forced Proximity
π Bro-Jobs
π Friends with Benefits
π Roommates
TEASER
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PIPPIN & NACHO
I've written so much of this book now, I've readied it for preorder! Here's the cover reveal.
Coming June 28, 2024
Pippin (Sampson)
Iβm broken, hiding my pain behind fake smiles and pretend joy. Inside, Iβm a mental mess between being tossed into conversion therapy and foster care as a kid. I struggle to focus and suffer anxiety, panic attacks, and nightmares. My passions for skateboarding and bartending make me happy enough. But only Nate, my former foster brother and best friend, calms me and keeps me going forward. Iβm not sure what I would do without him. Even worse, I secretly love him. Loving him could mean losing him.
Nacho (Nathan)
Iβd been in and out of foster care for as long as I could remember. My last home was with Sam. We quickly became friends, and I instantly went into protective mode. After Sam got hurt by our foster father, I took Sam out of there and watched over him for two years while living on the streets. When you spend a lifetime not being wanted by anyone, you crave being needed, and Sam needs me. But I secretly love him. Iβve told my friends I donβt want to ruin my friendship with Sam. The truth is if we donβt work out, I wonβt be there to take care of him. Samβs needs are more important than my feelings.
β Best Friends to Lovers
β Neurodivergent
β Urban Romance
β Skater Boys
β Found Family
β Hurt/Comfort
β Foster Brothers
β First Time for Both MCs
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Nathan
Four years ago, we said goodbye. Iβd always intended to come back for you, but life got in the way. All I have are cowardly excuses of being in school, fear of coming out, and thinking that too much time had passed. But fate? Itβs a funny thing, because Iβm now forced to spend the summer with you, working together. Itβs my chance to make things right, but I know I have to prove myself to you. To show you Iβm not afraid anymore. That I still burn hot and heavy for you. Can we work past our differences and try again? Can this be the summer of us?
Chase
Is there a stronger word for betrayal? If there is, I havenβt found it yet. Itβs how I felt when you left and never even so much as called, let alone came back like youβd promised. You left me behind, alone, with no way out of a town that holds no future. Giving you all my firsts was my initial mistake. My second was letting you back into my bed when you finally returned. But thatβs all we ever were, right? A mistake? Iβve spent four years not needing or wanting your excuses, but the more time we spend together, Iβm reminded of how good we used to be. You want to fix what was broken, but Iβm not sure I can forgive you.
Reed: Tate Aduma is a Hollywood actor that everyone wants and no one really knows. Our first meeting as young dreamers sparks a decade of incredible highs and lows. Iβve loved him, Iβve hated him, and I canβt live without him.
But I know that love in the spotlight is not made to survive.
Will we?
Tate: Reed Larkin is the only constant in my chaotic life of movie sets, parties, and nameless lovers. But while being on stage is second nature, being myself in real life is a role I struggle to play. Then Iβm offered the biggest part of my career, working alongside Reed as my co-star, and my love interest.
This time, however, neither one of us is actingβ¦
Co-Star is a best friends to enemies to lovers, MM romance filled with combustible chemistry, indelible love, and a HEA a decade in the making.
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Ten years ago, the person I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with disappeared without a trace. I donβt know if heβs alive or dead, happy or sad, near or far. I donβt know how to live without him, and my heart has cried for him every day since he left me. He was my protector, my hero, my first love, and the other half of my soul. My sisters tell me I need to get over him. To forget him. But how can I do that when he took half of my now-broken heart with him when he left?
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Ten years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life. What I thought was going to be an escape from a lifetime of abuse at my fatherβs drunken hand, and the chance of a future worthy of my soulmate, turned out to be the worst decision Iβve ever made. I'm not proud of the things I did to survive, and that, combined with the guilt over how I ruined what we had, has kept me from reaching out. But now my heart has led me closer to him once more. Can I make myself deserving of the love only he can provide? I know Iβm holding his heart in my hands, but I donβt know how to overcome my shame and the trauma of our time apart. How will he ever forgive me when I canβt forgive myself?
Unbreak my Heart is an MM, second-chance romance, with two broken men who are trying to heal from the damage that one wrong decision ten years ago wrought on their lives. There are mentions of the off-page assault (both sexual and physical), abuse, and prostitution of a main character.
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I am very engaged in my group, and it's not all promoting. I try to create bookish discussions, and my group is the first to learn of upcoming events, cover reveals, etc.
Not only am I an author, but I'm a reader. I also do book reviews.
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