Thief Release Day and Tour Info

It's Monday, 3/19, and that means release day for Thief, the first book in the Brook Street trilogy! I contracted the trilogy back in May 2011, 10 mths ago, and it's rather surreal that release day for Thief is finally here.

I'll be all around the interwebz this week, doing my author-best to spread the word about book release day. Curious as to where I'll be? Here's the week's schedule:

Monday 3/19 - The Macaronis, as part of the Carina Press M/M Week Blog Tour. I'll be having some fun with Regency cant (slang). Stop on by to enter to win all 6 books.

Also, on Monday 3/19, Reviews by Jessewave is hosting a giveaway for the six books in M/M week. It's a one-day contest, so hop on over today to enter for a chance to win.

Wednesday 3/21 - The Manic Readers blog talking about series books.

Thursday 3/22 - The Carina blog, talking about The Pick-Up.

Saturday 3/24 - Fiction Vixen, book spotlight and giveaway for Thief, which also includes an exclusive excerpt from the book.

In celebration of the first ever Carina Press M/M Week, the authors are going on a blog tour. As part of the tour, each author is giving away an ebook bundle of all 6 book releases. Yes – all six! Check out the stops along the tour.

3/19 - Dev Bentham at Fiction Vixen
3/19 - Ava March at The Macaronis
3/20 - Larry Benjamin at Joyfully Jay
3/21 - Kim Knox at Rarely Dusty Books
3/22 - Erastes at The Macaronis
3/23 - KC Burn at Babbling About Books, and More

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And I'll leave you today with the blurb for Brook Street: Thief:

It was only supposed to be one night. One night to determine once and for all if he truly preferred men. But the last thing Lord Benjamin Parker expected to find in a questionable gambling hell is a gorgeous young man who steals his heart.

It was only supposed to be a job. Cavin Fox has done it many times – select a prime mark, distract him with lust, and leave his pockets empty. Yet when Cavin slips away under the cover of darkness, the only part of Benjamin he leaves untouched is his pockets.

With a taste of his most wicked fantasies fulfilled, Benjamin wants more than one night with Cavin. But convincing the elusive young man to give them a chance proves difficult. Living with a band of thieves in the worst area of London, Cavin knows there’s no place for him in a gentleman’s life. As circumstances pull him to Benjamin’s Mayfair town house, Cavin keeps pulling away from the best man he’s ever known. Yet Benjamin isn’t about to let Cavin—and love— continue to slip away from him.

Thief is available at Carina Press, Amazon, BN Nook, iTunes, and all the other usual secondary seller sites.

Basking, Laziness, & a Balding Prince

I hope everyone had a great week and weekend. I spent last Monday tweaking the chapter outline for Convincing Leopold, after that, I didn't do much of anything productive. I basked in the wonderful glow of Beyond Reckless's contract offer and was wonderfully lazy. Watched the finale of Top Chef DC (go Kevin! - my fav pick won) and other misc TV, and read books. I also got a lovely review from Publishers Weekly for my upcoming Evangeline book, so I basked in that for a couple of days.

Yeah....lots of basking and laziness. It was a nice week *g*

In non-lazy news, huge congrats go out to Andi Anderson on the release of A Realistic Romance! The book's sitting at the top of my TBR pile - it's my reward for after I finish chapter one of Convincing Leopold. I've read some fab reviews for Andi's newest book, and I figure the book will be a good incentive to get my lazy butt in gear and get back to writing.

The kidlet had a friend over again today. It's always interesting to see what happens when they pull out the barbies, and what scenarios they put the poor dolls in. Today they seemed fond of the Princes. From the looks of it, the guys were babysitting.

The guys look happy, at least. Though I did notice that Prince Phillip has developed a bald spot on the top of his head. I wonder what the kids were doing to him that made his hair rub off?

The kidlet's friend did ask 'Why are you taking a picture of the dolls?'. Before I could even think of a response, the kidlet answered 'She always does that. She likes the boy barbies'. *sigh* I'm as transparent as glass. And to think I thought I was being sly...

Rockin' the Tutu

It's an absolutely beautiful day here - 80 degrees and sunny. Another bonus feature of my 'office' (besides the fact it's very peaceful and quiet) is that I can open the garage door on days like today. So nice to be able to sit and write with a lovely breeze.

Writing-wise it hasn't been terribly productive. It's only Sunday afternoon, so there's still hope I can make some nice progress before the weekend is officially over. I got bit by Devon's plot bunnies yesterday afternoon as I was cleaning the house, so I spent a couple hours typing up notes for a possible new book idea. Then Eyre had to go and review Duty and Devotion by Tere Michaels, which got me thinking about how the book was sitting on my hard drive....and I ended up reading it last night. So productive weekend as far as cleaning and reading goes, not so much yet on the writing front.

Congrats goes out to Shawn Lane on the release of Only His Heart, the third book in her Only Forever series. Fabulous book, for anyone in the mood for a great read.

What else is new? Romance in the Backseat has a new m/m review site going live on Monday - Naughty Boys in the Backseat. Terry Kate, who runs the sites, is super nice and she's looking for guest bloggers for the new blog. Any topic. So if any m/m authors out there are interested, give her a holler. She's on FB and GR as Terry Kate or you can drop me a line and I'll get you in touch with her.

Josh Lanyon had an awesome post on the Loose Ends blog this past week on how writing doesn't come easy. For me, it gets harder with every book I write. When I was a newbie, unpubbed author, ignorance really was bliss. I 'like' but don't love books as I'm writing them. I love the ideas when I'm fleshing them out, but when I start to actually write a book, that love turns to like. And with every new book I work on, I wonder if it will be as good as my other books. Okay, not 'wonder'...I worry. So it was great to read Josh's post and see I'm not the only author who struggles with writing sometimes.

Oh, and I just had to share this pic. I went into the kidlet's playroom today and she had her barbies out. I can only surmise that since it's so warm and sunny today, she decided it was too warm for the Princes to wear pants. I will say, the outfits kind of match - pink/purple and Prince Phillip's shorts have the same blue as his tunic (kidlet found the tunic from his original outfit, but the leggings and boots are still MIA). Personally, I think the Prince is rockin' the tutu ;)

Links, News & Laughs

Congrats to Devon Rhodes on the release of Neighbors by Day, Naughty by Night!! It’s her new m/m/m story, which can be found in the Necking anthology.

For any fellow authors out there who haven’t stopped by Shawn Lane’s blog today, she has a great post on how you should just Don’t Do It.

Another head’s up for fellow authors (this time, for GBLT authors). Rainbow Romance Writers, a Romance Writers of America online specialty chapter, will soon open their first published author contest. Yes, I’m a member of the chapter, so of course I had to give the contest a shout out. I’m also very proud of the chapter - it’s barely over a year old, and it is the first RWA chapter devoted to GBLT romance authors.

And if you’re in need of a laugh today, I recommend stopping by Accidental Dong . I’ve linked to it in posts in the past, but…I can’t resist, and they have new posts up almost every day. My favorite recent post (and you have to go to the 2nd page to find it) is The Torpedo - “The quad ball is a bit troubling.” I don’t know why, but I laugh every time I see that one. On some level, I know it shouldn’t be that funny, but for some reason I find it ‘that’ funny. *g*

As for me, I’m writing smex. Yep, the guys are going at it again. The new book featuring Jasper and Nate, and tentatively titled His Client, is coming along nicely. I’m over 12,000 words into it - almost half way done.