The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people.
We have a new historical Western coming out with Dreamspinner Press on September 24: Finding Forgiveness! It’s 200 pages for $4.49, and it’s available for pre-order from Dreamspinner right now.
Keen eyed readers might find an easter egg that links this book to our first historical Western, Heart of Stone. đ
Boston in 1888 is quite urbane, but unfortunately for Gil Porter, that isnât the same thing as being understanding. When his sexuality is exposed by the scandalous suicide of his lover, Gil is exiled to the small town of Mercy, Texas, by his domineering father, George, who believes life on Vernon Porter’s ranch will cure Gil of his âunnaturalâ desires. Grieving and ashamed, Gil is determined to keep his distance from everyone until he can return home. To his surprise, he finds acceptance at Bent Oak Ranch, especially from Matt Grayson, the handsome son of the ranch foreman. Knowing he must fight his attraction to Matt, Gil courts a local girl, but an unexpected encounter with Matt leads to his discovery of Mattâs feelings for him. Torn between Matt and his desire to be ânormal,” between returning to his old life and building a new one in Texas, Gil is faced with a choiceâappeasing his father or becoming the man Matt knows he can be.
We have a new historical Western coming out from Dreamspinner Press this fall (exact date TBA): Finding Forgiveness. The cover art is by Reese Dante, who also created the cover art for Heart of Stone. We loved her work on that so much that we requested her again for Finding Forgiveness. We’ve been very fortunate to work with some amazing cover artists over the last two years!
We just got our image ad packet, so we’d like to share a preview of the cover art. We hope our readers like it as much as we do!
Ari and I will be attended the Shore Leave convention in Maryland this weekend, so if any of our followers happen to be going, please drop by our table at Meet the Pros on Friday night and say hi! We’ll have copies of Heart of Stone and Blood Bathory: Like the Night available. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get copies of Blood Bathory: Absence of the Sun from Amazon in time for the convention.
We’ll be attending Meet the Pros on Friday, and we’ll be participating in a couple of panels as well. We won’t be entering the Masquerade competition this year, however. We couldn’t settle on anything we both liked enough to commit that level of time and energy to making, so we decided to give it a miss.
In other news, we have new publication dates! Our Halloween novella, “The Demon’s Door”, will be released on October 22 from Torquere Press. Also coming from TQ, the third novella in the Herc’s Mercs series will be released in early 2015. The second novella is “Herc’s Mercs: Line in the Sand”, and that’s coming out on Sept. 3, 2014. The third one, “Herc’s Mercs: Bloody but Unbowed” is coming out on January 7, 2015. We hope our readers enjoy these as much as the first one!
We’ve got a new short story coming out in June as part of Dreamspinner Press’ Mended Daily Dose anthology!
The entire anthology package is on sale for $39.99 until the end of April. After that, you can buy the package for $49.99 through May 25. Starting on June 1, all stories will be available for individual sale or you can still buy the whole package for $64.99.
Changing the Things You Can:
Devastated by the death of his best friend from a drug overdose, rock star Devon Bailey retreats to his hometown to grieve. When his fragile emotional state causes him to break down in a local bakery, owner Michael Behrman comes to his rescue.Michael’s nurturing instincts prompt him to reach out to Devon, offering support and a comforting shoulder, and the two grow closer. Michael’s feelings for Devon deepen into something more–but how can he know whether Devon feels anything more for him than gratitude?
Ari McKay & Rachel Langella 