Still Working on the Next Book

I’m sorry to say I’m still working on the next book. I’ve tried to arrange things so I can write more and release my books a little closer together, but I’m afraid I still haven’t figured out the best way to speed things up without giving myself a panic attack or something. :o So far I’m finding that I’m kind of stuck at my current speeds.

But… never give up, never surrender! :D (Who else loves that movie?) I’m going to keep trying and I hope I’ll be able to get Of Monsters and Love out soon enough not to disappoint anyone too much.

 

 

New R’H’ani Chronicles Story! His to Keep Is Available Now

His to Keep, the 8th story in The R’H’ani Chronicles, is now available!

His to Keep book cover

The most up to date links are on the main page for His to Keep. But here are a few where it’s available right now.

Available from: Amazon | Google Play | Smashwords | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon AU |Amazon DE and more.

Brylan has spent the last three years inside the harems of New United R’H’ani, happy with his life of pleasure and duty, until his newest employer betrays his trust and sells him to an Ani’Hain smuggler. But once in Ani’Hain and up for auction, Brylan starts to realize nothing is as it seems…

Enjoy this exciting new story in the R’H’ani Chronicles that takes us across the Great Ani Ocean to Ani’Hain, where the people of another land follow a different set of rules…

HIS TO KEEP is the eighth story in The R’H’ani Chronicles. Although the series is best experienced in order, this story can be read as a stand-alone story. Novelette length.

This story contains male/male sexual content. Of course! ;)

The R’H’ani Chronicles is a romance series made up of individual stories of novelette length that aim to tell a larger story over time. Each story can be read as a stand-alone story, but the series is best enjoyed in order.

The R’H’ani Chronicles are fantasy without magic. Just not that kind of world! Maybe that makes it more science fiction romance, but the stories do seem to me to have more of a fantasy flavor, so … fantasy romance it is. Either way, it’s romance on another world and there’s no space or magic involved.

If you decide to pick up a copy, as always, you have my sincere thanks! I appreciate every single person who reads one of my stories!

Also, I’ll be putting these stories into cute little paperbacks soon, because I love having all my stuff in paperback and sitting on my shelf. The prices are a little crazy for short paperback fiction at this length, but they’ll be there if you decide you want them!

Of Monsters and Love Has a Cover

Here’s the cover for the upcoming Of Monsters and Love, which is the next book in the New Canton Republic series. (Book 5! I can’t believe it. I never imagined a few years ago that I’d write so many stories. But the more stories I write, the more of them I want to write, and I can already tell I’ll never have enough time to write them all.)

Of Monsters and Love book cover

(I had a change of heart on this cover, but I think I’ve settled on this one!) (Or maybe not. I’m thinking of changing it again!)

I’m seriously going to do my best to have this book out by the end of January 2016. I know it’s been a while since the last book in the series and I’d like it to be obvious I haven’t abandoned it. I have way too many story ideas to do that! :)

New Release! Cam’s Fortune Is Available

I’m excited to announce that Cam’s Fortune is already available in several online stores, with more coming soon!

Amazon | All Romance | Google Play | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon AU … and more.

For the most up to date list of links, visit the page for Cam’s Fortune. :)

Cam's FortuneOnce every three years, humans become sexual prey to a species that has no control over the urge to mate because of a devastating attraction to human scent.

Cam Lujan is on a mission, but an ambush has left him injured and on the run inside the borders of the American Protectorate, where wolves roam free during their heat season, ready to claim any human foolish enough to stick around once heat season starts.

The terrain is rough, the people are treacherous, and the howls carried by the wind are enough to scare any sane man. Cam’s in trouble and he knows it.

But Cam isn’t one to give up easily, and he’ll risk anything not to fail, even the wrath of a powerful alpha who’s ready to mate.

Because Cam doesn’t need a mate, he needs a miracle…

Book 6 in the Wolves’ Heat series.

These books really are best read as a series, in order.

Lots of explicit sex and language in this book, and some darker themes as well. Sorry! Cam had his story to tell, and I couldn’t stop him from telling it his way.

If you pick up a copy of this book, I sincerely thank you! And thank you for taking the time to read my stories!

Cam’s Fortune Is Coming This Month

I don’t have the exact date settled for the release of Cam’s Fortune, but it is coming out this month. November. Only a few months after I’d hoped to have it ready but… I can’t regret it because I’ve loved writing this book! Cam is another favorite and I can’t believe how many imaginary people I’m now in love with. ;)

It’s only going to get worse, because I already love Gerald and Luis and Egan and Mason and Olly and Reed and Ethan and so many others and most of those stories are just floaters in my eye. But hey, if you want me to stop writing these books, send me twenty million USD in big bills and I’ll think about it (while I write the next book). ;) Otherwise, I’m just going to keep writing. There are so many stories left to tell in this world!

All joking aside, I’m very sorry if you prefer books that aren’t an integral part of a larger series, because I don’t think I can write those kinds of books.

This doesn’t even feel long enough to be a post. :o Here it is anyway!

New Release! One to Love Is Available

One to Love (R'H'ani Chronicles, 7)Well, that took a while, but finally, One to Love is available in several ebook stores, with more coming soon.

One to Love is already available at Smashwords, Amazon, Amazon UK, and Google Play. It’ll be live on the other usual stores within the next day or two.

(The best place to find up to date links is on the page for One to Love.)

In New United R’H’ani, everyone knows falling in love inside the harems is risky, but the intimate contact with co-workers makes it easy to fall. Tomas is certain Tyran has done just that, and he’s worried his friend’s heart is about to be broken. Tomas will do whatever he can to lessen Tyran’s pain—even put his own heart at risk.

Enjoy this hot new tale of harem life set in the capital city of R’H’ani, where employment inside Sa’Marckale’s harem offers both challenge and delight for those lucky enough to find love!

If you pick up a copy of the story, thank you so much. I really like this story and I hope you do to!

Next up in The R’H’ani Chronicles is His to Keep, and… it’s not set in R’H’ani! We cross the great Ani ocean to visit Ani’Hain and discover a few secrets about life in another part of their world.

When Will Cam’s Fortune Be Released?

Soonish. I can’t really give a more accurate release date than that because I’m terribly bad at estimating when I’ll finish things. I still have some work to do on this one and the moment I set a deadline is the moment I’ll become blocked and won’t be able to work for the anxiety of knowing the deadline is looming over my head. Sorry about that! I really wish it weren’t so.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if I were the kind of person who could use deadlines as motivation to write faster? It would be wonderful! Alas, that is not me. On top of that, I’m a slow writer compared to many, and I just have to do my best.

That said, I’m still hoping Cam’s Fortune will be published this month (September) in November. Feel free to pester me about it. :) I won’t mind.

Thank you for being interested in my stories! :)

—Odessa

I Finally Have a Tentative Title for Another Wolves’ Heat Book

Can a book title be a spoiler? If you think so, you might want to skip this post, because I mention several. I’ll leave a bit of extra space so you don’t see anything you don’t want to see. :)

I’ve been playing around with this title for nearly six months to be honest and I keep coming back to this one: Gerald’s Lot.

Gerald is a piece of work, for sure, but he has secrets galore and he’s not at all who he appears to be to everyone else. I absolutely LOVE Gerald and I think his story is going to be so much fun to write. You’ll get more hints about him in the upcoming Cam’s Fortune. (I’m still aiming for late August! I’m going to try my best to have it out then but sometimes my ability to gauge the passage of time isn’t so great.) :D

I also have another title I’m leaning toward: Mason’s Regret. (As a reminder, Mason was one of the twins in Ian’s Choice (Ian kicked his butt, lol), and he’s also Matthew’s cousin.) :D He also has a mate—and if you’ve read all the books in the series to date, you’ve met him and you don’t even know it, because this is one pairing that did not work out so well at the end of the previous heat season (Ian’s Choice and Devon’s Gamble).

I’m not 100% committed to these yet, but writing about them here has made me realize just how badly I want to write these stories. :D

For this series, for some reason, I have to have titles first. It and my Hend & Yurt series. The titles give me the motivation to write the story, but I have no idea why.

I’m still stumped on a title for the upcoming New Canton Republic book, but I figure something will eventually come to me! For those books, I’ve never had a title before I was almost done with the story. I will say I really like where this story has gone so far! I just wish I had any idea what to call it so I could post a title for it on the site. :)

I want to also mention the new page here on the site called “Gift.” I’ve put up coupon codes that will get you free copies of the first two stories in the R’H’ani Chronicles. :D I love that little series, and since I’ll be putting out more stories in it soon, I wanted to give anyone who hadn’t read it a chance to try it. The first story really doesn’t do the series justice in my opinion. The world is so much more complex than the first one has the chance to show but the second one does a much better job with that. The third story is one of my personal favorites, but the fourth is a close second. I also happen to adore the fifth and six too! Really, I just love them all. :D I cannot be objective about my stories, sorry. ;)

Psst… If You Read and Enjoy M/F Romance, I’ve Published a Book under a Pen Name

If you read and enjoy male/female romance, I’ve published a book under a pseudonym this past weekend. The book’s called Alpha Next Door and it’s paranormal romance. You can find details at the website for my pseudonym Lynne Sterley or go straight to the book at Amazon (it’s not published anywhere else at the moment). There’ll eventually be a male/male book in the series that I’ll probably “co-write” with myself. (Sounds crazy, I know.) If you read this book, you shouldn’t have any trouble figuring out who’s getting that story. I already adore him! ;)

Since I wrote this book under a pseudonym, I’m not announcing it to the new release list, but I did want to mention it in case anyone was interested enough to check it out. Thank you so much if you do! :)