Another of my self-published books is a collection of three previously published novellas. My writing spectrum runs all the way from erotic to young adult and everything in between. These three stories are definitely on the erotic side, which is why I clumped them together in a book. That, and the fact they are all science fictionish.
“The Glass Man” is the very first m/m book I wrote, and it was actually my first professional sale of any of my writing. Up until then, I’d been writing literary fiction and publishing in college reviews, which was great but only paid in contributor copies. I wrote “The Glass Man” just for fun, and it sat around on my computer for a long time. Then I realized that m/m fiction was actually a thing, and I started looking around at the few places that were publishing it at the time. I ran across someone’s blog, I can’t remember whose it was, and they said they published exclusively with Torquere Press because of its professionalism. So just for the heck of it, I submitted “The Glass Man,” and to my everlasting gratitude, it was accepted. It earned money! It got reviews! I suddenly found myself hanging around on the internet with people who were talking about how to handle bad reviews and stressful comments from editors, not people who were stressing about yet another rejection. I felt like I’d really moved from writer to author, and it was the most wonderful feeling in the world. I happily flung myself into the publishing world, and I still work with the person who edited “The Glass Man” and held my hand as I took my first baby steps into that world.
“Ice” is a novella I wrote that is set Maine, a state where I’ve spent a lot of time over the years, exploring and camping. I don’t think Acadia National Park will ever be quite the same after this novella. It was also published by Torquere Press.
“Webs” is really out there in more ways than one. When people I know read it, they always look at me afterwards and say, “Holy shit,” and then are a bit speechless. I don’t exactly present as a “Webs” kind of person. So I’ll leave it at that. It was published by Changeling Press.
The lovely cover is by Arus Threepersons.
The Glass Man
Seductive and passionate, Zalen is the perfect sex slave. But his owners don’t know the past that Zalen is hiding, and no one sees the pain that he seeks to drown in the oblivion of sex. Then one night he is bought by a radiantly beautiful young lord with a penchant for roses who asks for the one service Zalen is afraid to provide—love.
By the time Zalen realizes that the touch he craves is the touch of a rose, it is going to take every bit of the lord’s love to set Zalen free again.
Ice
Summer vacation in Acadia and a hot, seductive stranger in a gay bar—perfect. But the offer of a glass of cubes turns Tace’s vacation into a nightmare. Before the evening ends, he’s locked in a chastity device and addicted to the rapture-inspiring vapors that dance out of the substance known as Ice. Against his will, Tace falls into a secret and dangerous world.
Thirty years later and physically unchanged, Tace is on the other side of the glass of Ice, but it’s not as easy finding recruits as he’d thought. But William seems to be the ideal candidate, and Tace’s vision of the perfect man. How can he force Ice onto someone who is holding his heart?
Webs
He wakes nameless, without memory, and in chains. He expects death. Instead, he falls in love—not once, but twice. The passion that binds three men will change not only their lives, but the whole galaxy. That is, if they escape the webs they’re caught in.