• #BlackGirlMagic,  Contemporary Romance,  E books,  Excerpts,  IR erotic romance,  New Adult

    Release Week

    This is release week for two of my novels. In the meantime here are a couple of excerpts from The Saint of BOYStown and SENSEI

     

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    The Saint of BOYStown

    That’s not Cody lying in bed, looking for all the world like a male version of Sleeping Beauty. His muscles are nowhere to be found, because his body has shrunk, almost like he’s deflated. His breathing is so shallow that its hard to tell if he’s really taking in air on his own. Mom is already here, doing what a nurse usually would.

    As I watch her washing Cody I’m ashamed at how bratty I’ve been to her. She takes his arm, wiping a wet cloth over his skin ever so tenderly. The soap suds are close to the same color he is, but even with the sterile whiteness of the bed sheets, the peach tinted lava of the soap and Cody’s fading tan, I hope he can feel the love in her touch. I pray he can hear her voice, how she sings so sweetly to him, peppering a made-up melody with lyrics like “my beautiful boy.” She encourages him and herself by bragging about how everything’s gonna be just fine. Mom gives him a run-down on all the well-wishers and prayers from the community. I wish I had her kind of quiet strength. When she notices me standing in the doorway, she smiles and motions for me to come in. I hang back, feeling like I’m intruding on this private moment between a mother and her comatose child.

    “Talk to him, Nat,” she says. “I’m sure he’d like to know how you’re doing.”

    I don’t want to. All I want to do is transport the three of us back to Aunt Gina’s living room, when we were laughing and hollering at LeBron James and the Cavalier’s game seven win over Golden State. See, I want to have that kind of mind-over-matter type will, a “I refuse to go down” philosophy, the same power that LeBron and his teammates had. I want to will Cody to wake up.

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    SENSEI

     

    “I didn’t mean to disturb you,” Takeshi said. “I thought you might be thirsty.”

    With a half-smile and a deep throated “thank you,” she took the bottle, giving him a quick appraisal in the process. He was decent looking. Large hands, broad shoulders, big feet . . . Oh bloody hell, he was attractive in a ruggedly handsome sort of way. But that bowl haircut was totally wrong for his face. Nyesha guessed his age to be somewhere in his mid to late thirties, and just like she was checking him out, his attention was on her face, in addition to getting an up-close view of her bare breasts.

  • #BlackGirlMagic,  Contemporary Romance,  E books,  Of interest

    New Feature – “Look for the Book”

    I’ve created a new widget specifically for release dates, or rather, the week a book will be released.

    Please check the menu on the right side, titled “Look for the Book.”

     

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    Pictured: Ronin Bey – Fire Drake, Ash – Hellion, Andre Santana – Alpha Werewolf, Karnage Xian – Gargoyle prince

     

     

    My goal is to get a better handle on the business side of self-pubbing, which includes marketing and release dates.

    I created another promo for Sanai and Scott’s story. Sanai is introduced in At Last, as Torii’s youngest sister. Scott is the younger brother of NFL quarterback Kyle McClure. Kyle is the leading male in the IR ebook The Player.

     

    Click the photo for an excerpt:

    Pictured: Sanai Theas and Scott McClure, from the erotic romance TAKEN: Saving Sanai

     

    For more interracial pics, please check out my romance image page here

  • #BlackGirlMagic,  Contemporary Romance,  E books,  New Adult

    Thank You!!

    This is a post to thank all those who’ve downloaded  the free excerpt of The Saint of BOYStown on Amazon.com. When I created the character of Nathalie Childress, I knew she was someone special. I start the book off with Nat in the first chapter, because that’s how strong the “voice” of the character is.  I’ve included another excerpt below that I think readers will enjoy. It goes more into Tanner and Nathalie’s budding romance in the face of tragedy.

     

     

    Bonus Excerpt:

    “Do you always come up here to talk to yourself?” I ask him.

    “Yeah, most times I do. It makes me feel  . . . uh, closer.”

    I look around. We’re the only two people for miles. “Closer to who?”

    Tanner shrugs. “Ah, you know.”

    “No I don’t”

    “Did you do something different? Your face-”

    Oh crap. My little underwater stunt took off all my carefully placed dirt and grime. My face is clean, so he’s able to get a good look at me, especially since the sun is in my eyes. I try to play it off. “I think I’m coming down with something. I think I’ve got a fever.” I muster up a half-hearted cough. “You should stay back. I don’t wanna spread my germs.”

    “It’s okay.” He walks closer to the edge and starts talking, almost as if I’m not even there. “I converse with God up here. I do it a lot since the accident. I’m guessing it was God who told me not to get in the car with Cody. I’ve been trying to get God to talk to me again, to answer some questions I have.” This whole conversation is mighty uncomfortable, especially for me, but I don’t interrupt him. “My therapist says it’s called survivor’s guilt.” He does a little shrug, as if it’s no biggie.

    “I’ve heard of that,” I add, wishing he’d stop glancing my way, partly because he’s on the edge of a freakin’ mountain. “Wonder why Mason hasn’t experienced what you have?”

  • Contemporary Romance,  E books,  Excerpts

    March Madness pick

    I’m putting up a Sneak Peek of The Saint of BOYStown on Amazon.com

    In 2015 I put up excerpts on this site and Scribd. What I didn’t do is release it. But I’ve got a digital trail dating back two years.

    The lead character is a teen female and bi-racial, looks more like the African American side of her family, her brother is in a coma due to a car accident, and she’s slowly falling for her brother’s friend. Oh, and she’s really grieving because she’s having a hard time dealing with what her brother, who was treated like an idol at her school, has done.

    Somehow I managed to hit on all of the above in the first chapter.

    I say all this, because I’ve decided to make The Saint of BOYStown one of my March Madness picks.

    The Sneak Peek is free for 5 days, starting tomorrow or basically, when it finishes publishing on Amazon.   IT’S LIVE! 

    Or you can click any of three images below and read the same excerpt via Scribd:

     

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    Justin Ybarra, Tanner Joseph and Cody Childress, the three princes who are adored, in my New Adult BOYStown series

     

    The next book in this series features Justin Ybarra:

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  • Adult Novella,  Contemporary Romance,  E books,  Excerpts,  Novella

    Yasssss . . . March Madness

    March Madness is back! I’ll have reduced priced ebooks and sneak peeks at the new ones that will be released. I write because I love crafting stories. What I’m terrible at is sticking to a release date, because all of a sudden a new scene will pop into my head, or I’ll need to do another edit. So please believe me when I say, thanks to all you readers who’ve been patient. The Queen of Comedy and other longer works are a priority, and I’m diligently working on making them the best tales that I can.

     

    Yassss . . . Lovers Lisa and Seth, from Reinventing Lisa

     

     

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    Excerpt: 

    Silence greeted Seth’s ears as fear flooded his body. Moonlight made it easier to realize Lisa wasn’t taking in a midnight snack. The kitchen was just as spotless as they’d left it. In the stillness he grew aware of steady breathing, and the sense that he was being watched. Seth rotated in the direction of the hallway that connected several first floor rooms, stopping to squint his eyes and focus on the living room.

    She was sitting in the rocking chair with a duvet covering her.

    “Lisa?”

    Instead of a response, Lisa drew her knees up to her chin. Seth called out to her again. “Lisa? What’s wrong?”

    “I-I saw you just like that, the first day I was here.”

    “Like what?” Each footstep brought him closer to her.

    “Naked.”

    Seth dropped his head. Placing one bare foot behind the other, he reversed course. “And it didn’t scare you off?”

    “No.” Her next words were muffled by the duvet. “I couldn’t take my eyes off you.”

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    Six degrees of Sequels

    Reinventing Lisa is a spin off book. Characters from The Player (Ozzy, Reina, Harlow and Kyle) take part in this ebook about one of Ozzy’s talented backup dancers. That’s all I’ll reveal about the storyline 🙂

     

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    Backup dancer and budding singer Lisa Witherspoon

     

     

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    Pictured: Seth Fahey and Lisa Witherspoon

     

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    Pictured: Seth Fahey and Lisa Witherspoon, from the IR ebook Reinventing Lisa

     

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