Coming Soon

For anyone who may be curious, let me explain the way my creative process works. I have a long list of one line book ideas which encapsulates a VERY generalized story that I’d like to tell. These are basically little snippets to help remind my otherwise absent-minded-ass what it is I’m interested in attempting to work on in the future. For instance, At Piper’s Point was: Grandma’s Guilt and Going Home Again meets Summer Vacation while Dreaming of You was: Fantasy vs. Reality meets Restaurant Wars. The finished product doesn’t always wind up matching the One-Line Inspiration, and sometimes those one-liners end up not looking so fab to me as time marches on. For example, my idea to write a Vampire Police Force novel hasn’t actually ripened on the vine. It’s sort of fallen off and rotted, if you will. Maybe someone else out there can take that bad boy and run with it. : )

These inspiration ideas eventually get plucked off the Ethan fiction-tree-of-knowledge where I then attempt to take their juicy goodness and turn them into something worthy of reading. I usually have three to five books going at any one time, in various stages. I’ll work on them all until one finally jumps out as the front runner – that book I simply MUST get written now. Perhaps this isn’t the most productive way to write. But for me – someone who writes around a day job, and winds up working six to seven days a week combined – the story I’m working on needs to be the one I WANT to tell as opposed to the one that’s due first. If I’m not going to have a life of my own, than by god the one I’m vicariously living through at the moment, via my imagination, needs to not feel like a job. Otherwise it’ll never get finished. It may not be the best way, but it’s my way. And it seems to be working for the moment.

An as yet, untitled project that I’m co-authoring with the sexy and talented Geoffrey Knight, author of the Fathoms Five series along with a multitude of other fantastic fiction. It’s going to be our take on the mystery romance genre which will hopefully incorporate the best of what we each bring to the writing table. We’re both really excited about working together to create something sexy and fun.

I’m in the plotting and early writing stages of my own twist on a contemporary gay cowboy rom-com. A little bit of drama and whole lot of laughs hog-tied and served up against the backdrop of the Gay Rodeo Circuit.

A Token of Time - a paranormal/fantasy themed romance that I’ve been working on forever and a day. This book is more on the serious side of things and anyone who knows me will tell you I avoid being serious whenever possible…hence the lengthy lag time in getting this one finished up. Here’s a quick blurb:

Blurb: Joshua has something that was never supposed to belong to him, something he neither wanted nor asked for, and his family will do whatever it takes to get it back.

Luke Landon and Owen West already had a once upon a time. They burned hot back in college yet still managed to lose their way. It’s been fifteen years since they drifted apart and while a lot has since changed, they’ve discovered that some things still feel the same. While one calls it fate, the other dumb luck, second chances aren’t easy to come by. Putting the ignorance of youth and life’s baggage aside, they just might find that sometimes the best things really do come back to you.

Chance Crawford has lost the love of his life. It’s been a year since television anchor, Mark Grantham died and their memories together weigh heavily on his ravaged heart. A charismatic, fun loving boozer, Mark had always been the life of the party – the one guy everyone wanted to be around.

His friends and coworkers speak of moving on but Chance can’t see the future, only the past. After a year of unsuccessfully trying to sell the house they once shared, Chance gives up and moves back in. It doesn’t take long to discover he may not be so alone after all, and that even in death, Mark isn’t willing to let go.