Hot Diggity ~ I'm a Bestseller!

Well, this doesn't mean too much, just as most "bestselling author!" claims don't mean diddly once you start getting to the bottom of them, but I've never before had this minor distinction. It appears that for an undoubtedly fleeting while, Bastards and Pretty Boys has been Liquid Silver's bestselling title at ARe (that's All Romance eBooks). LSB doesn't have hundreds and hundreds of books there -- somewhere between 130 and 140, I'd guess -- but at least one of mine temporarily made it to the top of the pile.

You can check on this claim if you want, but it's kind of a pain in the butt. You have to do a "publisher" search by entering Liquid Silver in the box, then, once you get to their listings, click on the "bestselling" tab. But frickin' do it FAST, because I'll probably be bumped from the spot within a day . . . or even hours.

I'm really, really grateful to the readers who gave me this birthday present. Really grateful.



But -- YO! -- what's with this shit? Somebody stole Hosea Booker and put him in a different time and a different place and . . . and . . . saddled him with a woman! No, that's not going to work.

Thank you, JERR & NOR

Marcy Arbitman at Just Erotic Romance Reviews or JERR liked Bastards and Pretty Boys enough to give it 5 stars. (Yes, actual stars; you don't see that very often. Usually it's roses or kisses or fairies or fingers. Fingers, believe it or not. And I've gotten one -- the finger, actually -- but only from one source and fairly consistently, so someone's mind is made up that my writing sucks sewer water through a straw full of boogers. Not much I can do about that.)

The book also got one of these from Lilyraines at Night Owl Romance:

Many thanks, JERR and NOR. I'm very honored.

Two Lips, Five Kisses

More warm thanks, this time to Tina at TwoLips Reviews for planting five kisses on Bastards and Pretty Boys.

Thank you, Mrs. Giggles.

Bastards and Pretty Boys received Mrs. Giggles' unique, chuckle-worthy brand of scrutiny . . . and came out of it pretty freaking well: 83. That ain't nothin' to sneeze at in G-land. I'm profoundly grateful she didn't consign me to author hell for having sinned against the craft of fiction.

Phrew!

New Day, Good Day

A lakeside summer idyll,

a budding romance . . .

and jealousy gone horribly awry.

(Available NOW at Liquid Silver Books. Click on post title to get there.)

Bastards and Pretty Boys has a publisher!

Thrilled to announce that my contemporary m/m romance, Bastards and Pretty Boys, has been accepted by Liquid Silver Books. This will be my second book with them. (InDescent was the first, but the two stories are not related.)

I'm really growing fond of this company. Its incredible staff practically radiates professionalism combined with personal warmth, and they're all so very, very helpful. LSB is a real boon to the e-publishing community . . . and that ain't no bull.