NOW AVAILABLE: Something New Under the Sun, The Mayfield Speakeasy

Two releases this week!

First up is Something New Under the Sun, the sequel to A Chip In His Shoulder, available from Riptide Publishing.  Also available on Amazon, AllRomance, Rainbow Ebooks, and Barnes & Noble.

 Liam Lansing is heir to a prominent family of bio-modified vampires. That is, until he chooses the wrong lover and is cast down to the Gutter to scrape for his life. 

Daniel Harding is heir to Cybernetix and a prince of the corporate Sky. That is, until his ideology drives his father to put a price on his head, forcing him into the Gutter. 

But Daniel and Liam won’t vanish meekly into the smog. Together, they plan to rip open the hidden corruption that runs the Sky—for vengeance, for justice, and for hope. They strike against the corporations in a daring raid. When everything goes wrong, Daniel must betray his core beliefs to save the man he loves and protect his dangerous secret. Only through courage in the face of death—or worse—might he and Liam change the world they live in and create something new under the sun.

Also, the Something New Under the Sun blog tour begins today. Comment to win a book off my backlist plus a $10 Riptide Publishing gift card!  Dates and info here.

 Second is The Mayfield Speakeasy, a short Noir-themed novella as part of the NOIR Pax from Amber Allure. Can be purchased individually, or buy it here as a group with stories by DJ Manly, Lynn Lorenz, AJ Llewellyn, and Vivien Dean. Additional links will be added to my website as they're available.

Walter Mayfield has his hands full. He’s trying to keep the peace between his brothers, but at least the cops don’t bother him much about his illegal speakeasy. After all, the place is frequented by members of two volatile gangs, and as long as Walter can keep them from killing each other, the cops leave him alone. 

That is, until Detective Joe Riordan comes through the door. But Joe ain’t interested in what’s being poured. He’s got three dead bodies, and all three of them are connected to one of Walter’s brothers. 

Walter keeps the detective away from the speakeasy and cooperates as best he can with the investigation. Trouble is, he’s taken a whole different kind of interest in the detective. An interest that’s very mutual. 

But no matter how much Joe and Walter like each other, the investigation threatens to disrupt the fragile peace in the Mayfield Speakeasy as well as tear apart the Mayfield family. And there’s also still a murderer on the loose, and Joe and Walter need to catch him—or her—before another body turns up...

More Shiny New Cover Art!

The blurb isn't quite ready to go yet, but here is the cover for the sequel to A Chip In His Shoulder, Something New Under the Sun:

Due out late January 2013. More info to come.

Six Sentence Sunday - Something New Under the Sun

More Six Sentence Sunday!

One more snippet of Something New Under the Sun, the cyberpunk/vampire sequel to A Chip In His Shoulder. Very brief one this time, as Liam and Daniel have a little conversation in the midst of making preparations to kick some ass and take some names:

"You don’t think I can handle breaking into this place after breaking into Cybernetix?”

“It’s not where we’re going, Daniel. It’s why. Are you sure you can do this?”

I swallowed. “I have to.”

Want to play along? It’s fun and easy!
1. pick a project – a current WIP, contracted work or even something readers can buy if you’re published
2. pick six sentences
3. post ‘em on your blog or website on Sunday

Six Sentence Sunday - Something New Under the Sun

More Six Sentence Sunday!

One more snippet of Something New Under the Sun, the cyberpunk/vampire sequel to A Chip In His Shoulder, where we find Daniel and his father having a little heart to heart: (and Daniel is the one speaking; hard to make that 100% clear in six sentences)

"Pretty ballsy for a man whose entire empire could go down if I’m not alive to press a few buttons every day.”

Dad’s eyes narrowed, and his chin rose slightly as he stared me down. I knew that look as well as I knew Liam’s glares and smirks, and I saw right through the son of a bitch. He wanted to call my bluff, but I was alive, wasn’t I? His carefully orchestrated plan to kill me and pin it on Liam, taking out two of the biggest thorns in his side at once, had blown up in his face.

“So I have your attention now, right?” I asked.

Want to play along? It’s fun and easy!
1. pick a project – a current WIP, contracted work or even something readers can buy if you’re published
2. pick six sentences
3. post ‘em on your blog or website on Sunday

Six Sentence Sunday - Something New Under the Sun

More Six Sentence Sunday!

The opening lines of the sequel to A Chip In His Shoulder, which is called Something New Under the Sun:

Less than twenty-four hours had passed since I’d been killing time and waiting to die in a glass-encased penthouse high above the glittering Sky. Surviving? That was unexpected. Waking up naked in a cramped Gutter apartment next to the ex-lover my father had paid to kill me? Yeah. That came out of the fucking blue.

Want to play along? It’s fun and easy!
1. pick a project – a current WIP, contracted work or even something readers can buy if you’re published
2. pick six sentences
3. post ‘em on your blog or website on Sunday

Six Sentence Sunday - Something New Under The Sun

More Six Sentence Sunday!

I've been promising a sequel to A Chip In His Shoulder for a while now, and that sequel is finally happening. So, here is the first ever snippet of Liam and Daniel's return in Something New Under The Sun, as Daniel gets his first ever look at the Gutter:

Thick, low-hanging haze obscured upper floor windows and shrouded streetlamps in greenish-yellow halos. A heavy, cold downdraft from above blew down the back of my collar and kicked trash and debris around on the streets and sidewalks.

Though the streets were deserted, they were anything but quiet. From inside the towering factories made of brick and concrete, industrial machinery hummed and clanged, and loud music thumped from within the walls of ramshackle buildings covered in mismatched aluminum siding and half burned-out neon lights. Down an alley, a man with his pants around his ankles fucked a barely-dressed woman against the graffiti-covered bricks, burying his face against her neck and going at it in the hurried, animalistic fashion of a man trying to get off as quickly as possible. I couldn’t decide if she looked bored, wasted, or both.

Want to play along? It’s fun and easy!
1. pick a project – a current WIP, contracted work or even something readers can buy if you’re published
2. pick six sentences
3. post ‘em on your blog or website on Sunday