My writing life is finally starting to come together! Slowly...
May 01, 2024 2:00 am
Hello !
Well, we are five months into 2024, and I haven't achieved one business goal. When your work is over 80 hours a week, you have a family and other life duties; it can set you back. I'm sure many know what I'm talking about. It seems like our work is never done, or we struggle to keep up. That's me. With that said, as of today, I feel like I'm finally getting to the point where I need to be in my work to look into other plans I've dropped on my 2024 to-do list. Not only that, but I have a household to-do list I haven't met either. It's daunting, but I think I can achieve at least a couple of my goals. One of the benefits of being your own boss is you make your own schedule. I'm trying to remember that and not stress out so much (Is it working? Well, not always).
Now that I'm starting on a new book coming out in August, I feel like I'm starting to get caught up. Once I'm finished, I can focus on other things. You can see my new project below!
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PRE-ORDER OUTPLAYED
COMING MAY 10, 2024
This book is almost here! I can't wait for you all to meet Cooper and Aspen. It's one of my most lighthearted books. Right now, it's with my ARC team, and reviews are slowly starting to come in.
There will be a FREE epilogue bonus coming soon!
THE PAPERBACKS ARE NOW LIVE!
It’s 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. He’s amazing and surprisingly chill. It doesn’t 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. Let’s just say he’s hot. The only problem is that we’re 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 I’ve 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. I’ve 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.
💗 College romance
💗 Double Bi-Awakening
💗 Pansexual
💗 Bisexual
💗 Friends to Lovers
💗 Golden Retriever MMC
💗 Forced Proximity
💗 Bro-Jobs
💗 Friends with Benefits
💗 Roommates
TEASER
ALTERNATE COVER (LIVE)
ILLUSTRATED SPECIAL EDITION (LIVE)
Here's some stunning work by @caravaggia13 on Instagram!
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PIPPIN & NACHO
Coming June 28, 2024
This book is now with my Alpha Readers, and if all goes well, it will be with my beta team soon.
Pippin (Sampson)
I’m broken, hiding my pain behind fake smiles and pretend joy. Inside, I’m 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. I’m not sure what I would do without him. Even worse, I secretly love him. Loving him could mean losing him.
Nacho (Nathan)
I’d 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. I’ve told my friends I don’t want to ruin my friendship with Sam. The truth is if we don’t work out, I won’t be there to take care of him. Sam’s needs are more important than my feelings.
⭐ Best Friends to Lovers
⭐ Neurodivergent
⭐ Urban Romance
⭐ Skater Boys
⭐ Found Family
⭐ Hurt/Comfort
⭐ Foster Brothers
⭐ First Time for Both MCs
TEASER
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
A road trip that turned into a journey.
Logan
Nicholas Theodoropoulos had been my stepbrother since I was fourteen. Mom died when I was twelve, and I resented Dad remarrying so soon. Even worse, my stepbrother had grown into a gorgeous man. I hated looking at him, reminding me every day of what I could never have. No one knew I was gay and never would. But when my best friend backed out of our road trip to California, Dad forced me to travel with my stepbrother. It was the only way if I wanted to go on this journey I’d been planning for a year. Nothing good would come out of this.
Nick
Logan Conrad had hated me since the day Mom and I moved into his house after our parents got married. Like I cared. I had an amazing girlfriend, was the star tennis player on the varsity team, and was a recent graduate. Soon, I’d be attending Stanford with an athletic scholarship and my favorite girl by my side. Life was good. But as fate would have it, I found myself suddenly single and forced to travel across the country with the one person who hated my guts. Nothing good would come out of this.
It was 1987 as two young men and stepbrothers were forced to navigate resentments and growing feelings while on a three-week road trip from Virginia to California. Will their journey finally take them to where they belong?
GORGEOUS ART!
This isn't available yet, but it will be in August. I just HAD to share it!
This piece was created by the talented @romance_mystery_books on Instagram.
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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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SOME EXCITING READS!
Two years ago, something inside me changed, and I've been punishing the people I love ever since.
Last semester, I nearly torched my relationship with my best friend. Destroyed the only frame I've ever truly fit into.
I caught feelings where they didn't belong and drowned myself in the only comfort I’d known: numbing my mind with pills and alcohol. The aftermath? A stint in rehab and university probation.
There’s no lifeline strong enough to keep my head above water, but that doesn’t stop Corvin Morales from taking the reins and forcing me to shore.
The man whose eyes haunt my dreams from a dangerous mix of terror and desire.
Corvin promises he can tame my destructive tendencies and quell the excruciating pain deep inside if I submit to one simple request: give my body and pleasure over to him.
It’s intoxicating, and for an addict like me, the more euphoric marks he covers me in, the more comfortable in my pain I become.
If all the love in the world can't save me, maybe some cruelty can. Or maybe we'll end up right back where we started: one man at the end of his rope and another powerless to stop the noose from catching.
Clay
Being clueless has its perks.
College is expensive. With graduation fast approaching, I need to find a way to pay for my last semester of school. When my roommate suggests I work as a fluffer at Forbidden Desires Studios, I eagerly accept—even though I have no idea what a fluffer is.
Yuri
Could the man of my dreams be my fluffer?
When my director insists on pairing me with a co-star I hate, I tell him I need a fluffer to get me in the mood. I never thought he'd actually hire someone, especially someone as innocent as Clay. He's hot and exactly my type. But this is just a job for him, right?
"All I want is a puppy for my baby boy. That's all. Just a good puppy for my boy. The better you behave, the happier you'll be."
When Cammy's Daddy asked him if he wanted a puppy, he expected the fluffy, four-legged kind. Instead, he finds that his Daddy means something else entirely... and he isn't sure what to think of the new addition to the household.
Zay's life might not have been perfect, but it was still better than being kidnapped and sold. When his new Master tells him he's going to be Cammy's puppy, he has to decide just what he's willing to give up in order to survive…
Roman Amato is his father's heir, but a lifetime of training for such a position can't keep the doubt and insecurities from plaguing every decision he makes. His only reprieve is the trust and utter devotion he gets from his two lovers.
Tennant Mason and Hollis Maddigan didn't need Roman to complete them, but they can't deny he gives them everything they never expected. In turn, they'll protect what's theirs, even if it means saving the boy from himself.
Jude Manassero has spent a lifetime bending to his family's will, pretending to be anything except who he really is. A chance meeting with the Amato Family opens up a world he never expected.
Lured in by the promise of an understanding he never thought he’d have, Jude finds himself enchanted by the three men. But his time with them may be his undoing.
A desperate gunman and a Federal Marshal walk into a mechanic’s garage. Unfortunately for them, an assassin is waiting.
He might answer to a new name, but Zander remains a killer on the hunt. He moonlights as a mechanic, his nights spent plotting against the man who wiped out his family. He’ll wait however long he has to for revenge…until an armed stranger breaks into his garage one dark night.
U.S. Federal Marshal Vince Hardin is driving cross country, a futile effort to outrun heartbreak and the gunmen intent on ending him. Car trouble takes him to Zander’s place in time to meet the bullet of a desperate man’s gun.
All Scotty Fallon wanted was a reprieve from the memories haunting him since childhood. Breaking into Zander’s garage was a last resort. Finding himself trapped between a menacing assassin and a Federal Marshal, he didn’t expect to see the sunrise.
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