Ramblings of an Australian Writer

So I'm talking about a different sort of Australian Christmas over at Whipped Cream Guest Blogs today, and you can join in the conversation and enter the draw for one of two copies of my Christmas novella story from Dreamspinner Press called Long Road Back.

Stop on by and say hi!

I'm at Blak Rayne Books today, talking about Christmas and sharing Byzantine cooking recipes! So do stop by!

~Over here~

I'll be blogging over at the WC Guest Blog (http://whippedcream2.blogspot.com/) on December 23rd from 6pm US EST, which is 10am Australian central daylight savings time. I'll be talking about a different sort of Australian Christmas and giving away two copies of my Christmas novella Long Road Back, so do stop by!

My novella length Christmas story is out now, and is available here for $2.99 in your prefered e-book format.

Summary: Yoo Lee Shin had great hopes for his new life studying engineering in Australia, but nothing could have prepared him for the wonder of falling in love. His roommate’s brother, Craig, is beautiful, kind, and brave—and, very shortly after they meet, he’s deployed. As Christmas nears, can Shin keep hope for a happy ending bright enough to guide Craig to him on the long road back?



( Excerpt )

Dreamspinner Press Sale!

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It's that time of year again, time to pre-order a fabulous collection of holiday-themed romantic stories to warm up those chilly nights. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is Dreamspinner Press's 2011 Advent Calendar.

It's the most fervent dream of the holidays: to have a life full of blooming romance and enduring devotion with love, joy, and even a touch of lust to warm the cold winter nights. No matter what holidays are celebrated, the idiom holds true: home is where the heart is.
Your Christmas present to yourself! A package of 31 stories, all with holiday flair. One story a day will be placed on your bookshelf. The full set is around 1,800 pages of romantic M/M fiction selling individually for a total $92.69. Buy as a set and save!

October - $39.99 November - $49.99*
*Sale of packages for daily delivery ends Nov. 25.
Beginning Dec. 1, stories will be available individually as priced or as a bulk package for $64.99.

Story descriptions and information here.


I have a story in this year's Advent Calender, Long Road Back, set in Darwin, Northern Territory.

Today is a good day.

Even though I had a blood test done this morning (a regular thing - it never gets less unpleasant), nothing was going to ruin my good mood. And why such a good mood? I woke up to a lovely email from Dreamspinner Press, offering me a contract for the first novel in The Archangel Chronicles.

So No Quarter, the novel that went through over thirteen title changes, has a home and will be published in ebook, paperback and audio book in the first quarter of 2012. Yes, I am excite!

It's a good six months for me in terms of releases. I have Long Road Back coming out in December, as part of the Dreamspinner Press Christmas Advent Calender daily-dose anthology, and preordering for the full anthology is already up, at a special price of $39.99. Individual stories will be available for purchase in December.

Now, to finish City of Jade (which is looking infinitely more doable than it was a few weeks ago), and November, being Nano month, will be devoted to book two of my Archangels in love series. I'll also be doing reading and research for a historical, hopefully novel length, to submit to the Roman period call at Riptide Publishing. So I'm feeling pretty good about things right now.

Don't forget, the Erotica Apocrypha anthology is now available, in both ebook and paperback format, too.

And today's shirt of lulz is 'Cirque du Llama.'

Shin peered out of the window and almost on cue, a large, sprawling house came into his line of sight. There was a veranda that went all the way around the building, and the house itself was made of large, red bricks, with a dark grey corrugated iron roof. There was a patch of grass out the front, and lavender bushes, eucalyptus trees and a wire chicken pen to one side. Lying on the stoop of the veranda was a black and white dog, tongue lolling out and tail thumping on the ground as Tisha drove up to the house.

"Are you parking here?" Shin asked, more for something to say.




- From Long Road Back, out with Dreamspinner Press in December, 2011.

I'm very happy to be at Raine Delight's place today, Raine interviewed me and I talk about all sorts of things, from dream casting of angels to how I write to music. So do drop in and say hi!

I'm also very happy to announce that I signed the contract for Long Road Back, my novella-length short story for the Dreamspinner Press Christmas theme anthology / Advent calender. That will be out in December. Yay!