What's coming, what's in the works

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What's forthcoming:


February is busy for me. Kestrel on the Horizon just finished its serial run and will be available for purchase Feb 4.

On the 15, Toybox: Piercings will be out. Naomi and I have a piece called "His Wicked Way." Yes, that is an Errol Flynn allusion. Jacob Plum, aka Torturo the Pain King, bears a strong resemblence to Flynn. He's part of the Ten in One for the Phantasmagoria. And in this piece, he's giving his lover, Nick Harper, a reverse Prince Albert.

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In the Works:

Nikochan, the sequel to Nikolai, just went to Circle Dark.


Glad Hands is in edits. My dark future truckers are being given the Ellora's Cave treatment. Always frustrating, but well worth it.


"Blood Rubies" is finishing edits this weekend. It will be in the Another Fine Mess anthology. It's Harrison and Samir from Kestrel, off on a treasure hunting adventure


Alive on the Inside is out to Torquere for the Turn of the Screw line. That's my twisted carnival novel, featuring Torturo and Alice and Dinah, the conjoined twins, and Jene the hermaphrodite (Gene and Jean Carlisle) and Wolfgang the wolfboy and Nick Harper the Talker.


"Racing the Past" has been picked up as a Sip. It's a Vietnam vet who street races and the mechanic who keeps the nightmares away for one night.


"Dead-man's Curve: The Five of Pentacles" is in, and contracted. No edits yet.

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In progress:



"Color of Money/Color of Magic" is the Emerald birthstone. Jared needs to make his wand to finish his magic Ph.D and become a sorceror. Unfortunately Jarrett, his otherself from a tech reality, has been looting his reality of emeralds. Jared and his elf lover, Conlan, must cross the If Barrier and take what they need from Jarrett, his pet Connor and Taylor, a jeweler and Jarrett's fuckbuddy.


"Crossroads" is being written for the Love Bites anthology. It's an m/m/f story about Johnny Cotton, aspiring musician.
Johnny Cotton went to the crossroads
So the legend goes.
He left with a guitar
and the Devil took his soul.

"Office Politics" is for the Bend Over, Big Boy anthology. Because what could be more butch and muscle-y than a Centaur? Unless, maybe, a Minotaur?

Shell-shocked gives us Sean Dempsy, an Iraq vet with flash-burned retinas and artifical knees and a really bad case of PTSD who writes romance novels to supplement his disability. The day he meets Gabriel Herne, double-amputee phone psychic, at the neighborhood clinic is the day that changes everything.

Peregrine off High Barbary is the sequel to Kestrel. It's kinda stalled. I'll get it though.

Nick and Corban is third in the Nikolai series, and it's in the works.