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Arthur, Martin, and Me: Reflections on the Release of Agents of Winter
About eleven years ago I started writing what I thought would be a bog-standard MM interoffice romance. A couple of analysts that work for an unidentified three letter government agency meet at work, have some adventures, fall in love, have sex, HEA, the end. Instead,...
My Mother and the Thing That’s Happening Now
The last story I told you of my mother was about a year and a half ago. She had finished her attempt at hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and had been called up to do search and retrieval after a particularly vicious set of wild fires. As I’d mentioned before, at...
Bowerbirds Re-Release
In all the madness of the world I forgot to mention that Bowerbirds has been re-released. It has an extra epilogue of about a thousand words. If you bought the first edition send me a copy of the receipt and I’ll send you an updated copy. It’s been a strange project...
Empty Nests Re-Release and General Life Update (Notes from the great NZ lockdown 2020!)
Hello Everyone! How’s everyone holding up out there? If you’re like me you have suddenly become a home-schooling house spouse with zero productivity outside of keeping the kid from gnawing through the fence in an escape attempt. Maybe you are stuck at home with...
My Mother and the California Fire Season
When I was telling the story of my mother and the Pacific Crest Trail, I mentioned that one of the things she did upon becoming a grandmother was to join the County Volunteer Search and Rescue team. Some might have found this odd but after 13 years as a Camp Fire Girl...
Merlin in the Library – RELEASE DAY
When I finished His Quiet Agent I didn't think anyone would read it let alone demand more. Here's more. Four thousand words from Martin's POV available at Amazon and just about Everywhere Else. Agent Martin Grove is in pain every minute of the day while his...
Mom vs. the PCT: UPDATE
Since some people have been asking here is an update on my mother’s attempt to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. After a couple of weeks resting up from a twisted rib and taking a practice hike through the East Bay Hills she got a lift back up to the trail. Not at the...
My Mother vs the Pacific Crest Trail
I’ve talked about my mother a few times on this blog. She’s an interesting person. She has the personality of someone who should be in the history books like Sally Ride or Amelia Earhart, but that personality has been stuck in the life of a Silicon Valley tech writer...
AUDIOBOOK of His Quiet Agent now available!
At long last the audiobook version of His Quiet Agent is available! You can currently get it at Audiobooks.com, Audible, iBooks, eStories, Libro.FM, NOOK, and Scribd. It should pop up a few more places over the next few weeks including Google Play. It has also been...
M/M Romance Goodread’s Group Memebers’ Choice Awards
In case you missed my squeaking about it on social media there are some wonderful people out there who nominated His Quiet Agent for Member's Choice Awards. Best Military/Intelligence Officer/Spies (Soldier/Armed Forces/Intelligence Officer/Spy/Assassin/Mercenary) AND...
If This is High Functioning..?
Since being officially diagnosed as bipolar in my late twenties (no on ones’ surprise) I have been described as "High Functioning" by three different psychiatric professionals. The first was the psychiatrists that gave me my official diagnoses and first medication. I...
Tactical Submission Release Day!
I once attended a lecture on how to write a novel in a month. It was given by an author who had nearly a hundred books to her name and absolutely knew what she was talking about. The talk was geared for Category authors who wanted to or already wrote for the big...
Warning: Contains Kink, Violence, and Bacon
A few years back there was a bit of a kerfuffle online over if books should have content warnings. The actual reasonable debate lasted about 30 seconds before it devolved into screams of Snowflakes, SJW oppression, and ‘but if people know what kind of crap is in my...
His Quiet Agent: When the characters write themselves
His Quiet Agent (formally The Agency) was an accident of a book. Not to say I accidentally wrote a book, but rather that the book I thought I was writing became something completely different. Currently it’s my best reviewed book (with one exception of one dude from...
Tactical Submission Available for Pre-Order!
Tactical Submission is now available for Pre-Order and will be delivered November 10th! SWAT commander Jack Burnside is haunted by his craving to kneel before another man. Of all the things he hates about himself – his overtly masculine size and strength, his blue...