The Sound of Two Lips Kissing

Many thanks to Tina at Two Lips Reviews for reading Seeking Something Wicked (I know how swamped these sites are) and giving it 4.5/5 kisses. And let me just take this opportunity, since it's my blog, to remind everybody that Book Three of the Utopia-X series, Exploring Savage Places, is coming out in mid June. My extraordinarily intelligent editor at Loose Id assures me it's the best of the series!

By the way, part of Book Three's title as well as its leitmotif (ooo, baby, I haven't had the opportunity to parade out that word in a long time!) come from a famous poem. And a very strange one.

Seeking Some Wicked Reviewing

The lovely, talented, wicked Jenre over at the Well Read blog (click on post title) has reviewed my newest Loose Id release, Seeking Something Wicked. She started out very naughty and ended up very nice. Well, actually, the naughtiness was kind of an inside joke and made me grin.

Jen is, I think, turning out to be one of the best reviewers of m/m fiction on the 'Net. She's a careful reader, thorough and articulate reviewer and, best of all, speaks her mind without ever resorting to snark or similar cheap shots. It's a personality thing, I guess, and I like hers very, very much. I'm still learning the ropes when it comes to GLBT fiction review sites; as I discover more that I find impressive, they'll get slipped into my Links o' Love in the lower portion of the sidebar.

Thank you, Jen. You made my day!

SEEKING SOMETHING WICKED now available

The long-awaited, much-anticipated (by me) sequel to Looking for Some Touch was released today and is now available at Loose Id. Seeking Something Wicked is Book 2 of the Utopia-X series. The itchy-in-the-pants and love-befuddled Coven of Three must identify, track down, and neutralize a truly bizarre female mutant who shares the philosophy of Templeton the Rat from Charlotte's Web: "Good things come to those who find 'em and shove 'em in their mouth."

By the way, Ridley Barron, one of the book's main characters, doesn't look like the dude on the cover. He looks more like the Prince of Persia -- if you can ignore the Prince's flamboyant outfit and focus on his facial features. So keep that in mind if you read SSW. (I wonder how many other writers get this goofy over how their characters are portrayed on covers. Really, I worry about myself sometimes.)