Finding My Way

Cover art by Kellie Dennis of Book Cover By Design Book Cover By Design Get The Prince's Consort at Amazon I'll just leave this picture right here.......Mmmhhhmm. Got my first erotica a brand-new cover. I can't design anything visual and artsy to save my life.  Kellie Dennis is a master, she is amazing. I'm going to commission her for everything I write. The sequel, The King's Command, is slated for release in late August. Popping out 3k words a day I can be done in two weeks, plenty of time to get it edited and a new cover designed for it!

Amazon Link Goodreads Review Pleasantly Tangled 3.5 Stars First, I enjoyed the book. It was sweet, sexy, and charming. Christian is delightfully wounded with a grasping need to be who he truly is past his own insecurities and traumas. Logan is a buoyant charmer with a ready smile and quick wit...and a steady hand with a paddle. I'll explain the 3.5 rating below.  While Christian is the older man in the relationship (by only five years, but in your twenties, that can be a huge maturity gap), and a veteran of the Middle Eastern conflicts, he is the more damaged of the two men, wounded mentally, emotionally, and physically by his service and the betrayal he suffered at the hands of his own men. Logan is younger, and at first glance, a bit of an effervescent playboy. That's just the surface though, for both men, and Thianna does an admirable job of peeling back the layers to get to the core of each man, and showing us who they truly are, and who they can be together....

Goodreads Link below: No Place Left To Run 4 Stars Zarah Detand did a marvelous job with No Place Left To Run. The style of writing, the mechanics, was at first too abrupt for me, with characters receiving little to no clarification as to who they were before the plot picked up and made me forget about pesky things like back story. I'll be honest, at first I was put off by this, but I pushed through the first two chapters and found myself very happy I kept reading. The plot keeps moving, the characters and the two MC's are never stagnant, and the way Detand keeps the internal monologues and personalities of Samuel and Ryan distinct and separate was masterful. Eventually, as the MC's get to know each other, the reader is let in on the private lives and pasts of our two lovers, at nearly the same pace as they learn about each other. A great idea, as it kept the story moving, and helped to avoid the stereotypical bodyguard trope that is so overplayed in ...

Cover art by Kellie Dennis at Book Cover By Design Click here For Amazon Link Wolves of Black Pine June 30th, 2015 by SJ Himes Cover Art by Kellie Dennis at Book Cover By Design Book Cover By Design This is a beautiful and amazing cover. Kellie Dennis is a skilled artist that took my dream and gave it an impressive cover.

My debut erotica as Revella So, I'm back. Kinda disappeared for a while, didn't I? Wasn't on purpose.   Kinda. Maybe. Moved a thousand miles away from the place I made my home for a decade.  Came BACK to where I grew up.  Moved into my old high school friend's spare room, had to move right back out due to extreme cold weather and the extra 30 minutes drive to work.  Which is still unbearably long, btw. Two hours to get to work each day is WWAAAYY too much  driving. Nope.  So, here I am. Several days ago, I released my debut erotica under my pen name, Revella Hawthorne. 'Revella' for my fanfiction name, 'Hawthorne' cuz it's cool and my sister came up with it. Sounds nice, she did a good job on that one. (The book cover and it's link are at the top, if you're curious, go take a look.) It's doing fairly well, far better than I was expecting. I broke the Top 100 for all three of my categories, and I ...

One of my teachers told me once to "write when you're mad, write when you're sad, write when your heart is broken and ground to dust. You'll never write better than when your control is gone." How very true. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm moving back home. And I'm transferring within the same agency, so I get to keep my job. (yay) Anyhooos.... Some one I long counted as a friend decided to take his chance (since I'm leaving in 2.5 weeks) to spread all kinds of shit about me. Rumor mongering. I hate it. I hate it so much. No one told me that high school was gonna be forever. Why is this shit still happening? How damn hard is it to treat people nicely, to be a decent human being? How is this hard? Do unto to others and all that, I know we've all heard it. No excuses. No justification for starting something without provocation just to make yourself look better. If your life is so damn miserable that tearing other people do...

 Above picture was taken by me this past fall, from the pedestrian path between the terminal and the employee lots at Indianapolis International Airport. Changing Scenery I've been here ten years now. Indiana, USA.  Never, ever thought I'd be here. It was in fact a plan of mine to NEVER move to the Midwest, since I foresaw myself having trouble dealing with the ideals, the religious elements, not to mention the aggressive disregard for my inherited political views. Yup, it's true--I'm a New England snob. More accurately, a displaced Masshole. Unabashedly a Patriots fan, not to mention a Rex Sox devotee. (Had to hide my colors while I was out here.... this here is Colt's country.)  (I've mellowed in the last decade, mental illness aside. I swear.)  Talk about a culture shock. All I did was move 952 miles away from where I was born and raised, and it was like I was in a different country. Different accents, different vehicles, people even...