NOW AVAILABLE: Unhinge the Universe

It's finally here! The first book Aleksandr Voinov and I wrote together, Unhinge the Universe, is now available from Riptide Publishing, and is also on AllRomance, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Rainbow ebooks.

SS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner.

Allied command has ordered Captain John Nicholls to extract critical intelligence from their new Nazi POW. His secrets could turn the tide of the war, but are they real? John is determined to find out . . . and to shatter the prisoner who killed his lover during the attack on their tiny base. The deeper he digs, though, the more he realizes that the soldier under the SS uniform is just like him: a scared, exhausted young man who’s lost loved ones and just wants to go home.

As captor and captive form an unexpected bond, the lines quickly blur between enemy, friend, and lover. And as horrifying rumors spread from the front lines and American soldiers turn their sights on the SS for vengeance, John may be Hagen’s only hope for survival.

COMING SOON: Unhinge the Universe

Today, Aleksandr Voinov and I were finally able to reveal the cover and blurb for our upcoming World War II historical novel, Unhinge the Universe. It's currently available for pre-order from Riptide Publishing, and will be released July 15.

We're both really excited about this one. It's my first foray into World War II (certainly not Aleks's -- if y'all haven't read Skybound, YOU MUST), and it was the first book we wrote together when we formed our unholy alliance last fall. It's got all kinds of fun stuff: men in (and out of) uniform. Two snarly Alphas who don't want to play nice and definitely don't want to back down. A captor and captive who are never quite sure who's really in charge. 

There's also a bathtub involved at some point. Just sayin'.

Give me one fixed point and a long enough lever, and I'll unhinge the universe. — Archimedes.

December 1944 – The Battle of the Bulge 

SS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner. 

Allied command has ordered Captain John Nicholls to extract critical intelligence from their new Nazi POW. His secrets could turn the tide of the war, but are they real? John is determined to find out . . . and to shatter the prisoner who killed his lover during the attack on their tiny base. The deeper he digs, though, the more he realizes that the soldier under the SS uniform is just like him: a scared, exhausted young man who’s lost loved ones and just wants to go home.

As captor and captive form an unexpected bond, the lines quickly blur between enemy, friend, and lover. And as horrifying rumors spread from the front lines and American soldiers turn their sights on the SS for vengeance, John may be Hagen’s only hope for survival.

Some long overdue updates.

Wow. I really need to stop slacking on my blogs. I've been saying that for a while, I know. I'm trying, I swear!! :)

So here are some updates and what's coming up over the next few months.

If you're in the UK and will be attending the UK LGBT Fiction Meet-Up, I'll be there along with my lovely partner in crime and co-author, Aleksandr Voinov. After the meet-up, Aleks and I are going to kick around London for a while before jetting off to Germany and Poland for some on-location World War II research.

I'll also be going to Toledo Pride in Ohio on August 24th, and GayRomLit in Atlanta in October. If you're at any of those events, do come say hello!

Now, what about books? Well, there are a few of those coming down the pipe...

For one, I'm now co-authoring with the amazing Cat Grant, and we're wrapping up our first book, a Navy SEAL story called The Only One Who Knows. That one will be available from Samhain Publishing in late 2013/early 2014; keep an eye on this site for updates.

Aleks and I are releasing our fourth Market Garden book, If It Fornicates, which will be available from Riptide Publishing on June 10th. The following week, on the 17th, you can grab my kinky little leather convention romance, Finding Master Right.

Aleks and I also have our first historical, Unhinge the Universe, coming out this summer; details on that one coming very, very soon.  August will be another double-hitter, with Market Garden #5, Capture & Surrender, and The Distance Between Us #3, Meet Me in the Middle. And then in September, both Tooth & Claw #3, The United & The Divided, and Tucker Springs #6, After the Fall, will be released.

Now you can see why I've been so busy these last few months! LOL

What about the future? Well, Aleks and I have a number of books lined up and ready to write as soon as we've both finished some solo projects, and Cat and I are plotting and scheming to join forces again as well. Some other co-authored projects are being bounced around too, but you'll just have to wait for details on those. ;)  And of course, there will be plenty of solo books, too. Lauren Gallagher might even be writing a bit more in the near future.

So for the next month or so, I'm still plowing through a few projects before my workload is a bit more manageable, and then I SWEARZ I'll be updating these things more often!

Joining Forces and Forming Unholy Alliances...

You know how sometimes there's that author (or anyone in your chosen art and/or profession) who you think is the bomb diggity? The one you wish you could be when you grow up? I have a few of those. Sometimes it's their characters, sometimes it's their prose, sometimes it's....well, everything. But there are definitely people I look up to, whether in my own genre or in the literary world in general.

This year, I've had the privilege of joining forces with a few of them. Marie Sexton and I started the Tucker Springs series. Before long, Heidi Cullinan was on board. Talk about being in good company, amirite?  So that has been ridiculously exciting for me.

More recently, I've been bitten by the collaboration bug.  After sharing a hotel room with Rachel Haimowitz during AAD this past August, and practically watching over her shoulder while she and Heidi Belleau wrote the first in the Flesh Cartel series, I was intrigued.  I mean, I knew people successfully collaborated, but there was something about seeing it in action that made me go "hmm." Intrigued indeed. Very intrigued.

Intrigued enough I made an offhand tweet about wanting to collaborate, and there are some exciting things in the offing as a result of that tweet, but I can't go into detail about those yet. Just take me at my word.

But then along came GRL.  And there, I finally met another one of my "OMG I want to be you when I grow up" authors (as well as one of my editors) Aleksandr Voinov. Turns out, we were separated at birth. Seriously, we are so much alike it's frightening. We wound up spending the majority of GRL together, usually laughing like idiots over something ridiculous (ahhh, so much fun), and somewhere in the insanity, I worked up the nerve to casually mention that I'd really like to work on something with him.

Well, folks, if you've been around my Twitter feed recently, this isn't news: Aleks and I collaborated.  We'd been tinkering with a few ideas, but on Friday the 9th, an offhand comment led to a plot bunny that refused to be silenced. Saturday morning, we started writing. Now, I was convinced we'd only get 1-2,000 written. I mean, I'd never written with someone before.

A few hours and 20,000 words later...yeah.  The next day? Same thing. By Wednesday night, we had 67,500 words, and I got to write "THE END" on our World War II historical, Unhinge the Universe. Coolest experience ever, and holy Ned, y'all, I cannot wait to do it again.

So, I'm really looking forward to what 2013 brings! Teaming up with other authors is a lot more fun than I thought it would be, and between Tucker Springs and working with Aleks, I'm excited as all hell to see what happens.

Stay tuned!