Works in Progress
Ah, so many projects, so little time. I have several books inching their way toward publication, including:
Once a Gentleman, book two in the Love in Portsmouth series. Lieutenant Andrew Turner, officer and not-such-a-gentleman, fills his house with drunkards and his bed with whores. Kit Hewlett, once a respectable merchant's son with a precarious foothold in the gentry and now reduced to working as a clerk, wants nothing to do with him -- but fate has other plans. Or at least I do, and for my characters, it comes to much the same thing. Update, November 2019: This book is very much in progress, with about 25k words written out of a projected 60k. I'm shooting for a late spring release next year. May? Ish?
Because the Internet is a wild and wondrous place, I'm trying serialization at the moment. Look for an alpha werewolf with serious trust issues finding an unlikely, snarky mate in The Alpha's Warlock, now available on Wattpad. Once the serial's done, I'll put it up on Amazon, but for now look for new chapters every week or maybe even twice a week, if I'm feeling frisky. Update, November 2019: This is my main WIP right now, so I'm hoping to have it finished in December and available for sale and in Kindle Unlimited in February of 2020. It's going to have at least two follow-up books. Read it while it's still in progress to comment, critique, and maybe suggest who you'd like to read about next!
Next up will likely be the fourth book in the Goddess-Blessed series. I have a plot starting to outline itself in my head with the details still not fit to share, but I will settle one question: this book isn't about William!
An untitled historical that may or may not be related to one of my current series will get written once I have the time. No one named Mortimer Barrow is going to have an easy life, particularly if he's valet to a pretty boy with dreadful taste in masquerade costumes.
Untitled sci-fi romance (the Word doc is called rentboys in spaaaaace, but I'm thinking I'll probably change that when I get around to finishing it). Cue the movie trailer guy's voice: On a world where a consortium of space criminals runs roughshod over the populace . . . or at least, tries desperately to make a profit, even though the planet's kind of small and shitty, and doesn't have much to offer besides an unusual species of space beetle whose carapaces have interesting optical properties . . . one man stands athwart the tides of space beetle processing and falls in love with a space hooker . . . [Movie trailer guy gives up.] In short, I'm sick of science fiction and fantasy in which the main characters have to save the galaxy/find the Crown of Ultimate Dragonfire/have kinky sex with the Crown of Ultimate Dragonfire in order to save the galaxy, etc. Sometimes a story with limited stakes can be more fun. With this book, hopefully the first in a series, I'm going for a sort of Jack Vance meets Pretty Woman vibe. With deep and heartfelt apologies to the late and unparalleled Mr. Vance.
Sequel to the above untitled sci-fi romance. Same planet, related characters, partially concurrent narrative, and more beetles. There aren't any prostitutes in this one, but there is a former monk turned uptight secretary who ran away from the monastery when he found out the Great Secret of his Order: they cut off your balls when you take your final vows. This is the story of how he finds a better use for them, while also thwarting space crime, snarking at his boss's boyfriend, and making sure that every shipment of beetle carapaces is delivered on time and with proper documentation.