For anyone who missed it, I posted “Custody,” the short fantasy story I wrote last month for Cryselle’s review site, to my web site. It’s here, and there’s a link at the top of the page to Cryselle’s site where the picture of the little dragon, which inspired the story, is still up.
Angie
I’m doing a Q&A session over at Grave Tells today, and they’ll be raffling off a copy of A Hidden Magic. There are a eight different ways to get a ticket in the raffle hat, so hop over and enter. 
Angie
Cryselle is a reviewer who does a “Thousand Word Thursday” feature where she posts a photo and invites writers to send her a short fic based on it. Last Thursday’s pic was of a cute little green dragon, and it spawned a short story (about 2500 words — yes, I’m an overachiever sometimes 
) about him and his people, called Custody.
Flicker keeps showing up at Branden’s cottage, even though the tiny dragonling is supposed to live with Branden’s ex, Tol. Branden and Tol can’t live together, but neither is happy apart, and Flicker’s refusal to understand that he only has one person now isn’t helping at all.
(For folks not into m/m, there’s no sex in this one, so you can click through safely. 
)
Angie
Cole at Jessewave’s reviewed the last (so far) of the Hidden Magic stories, Chasing Fear. He gave it 4.25/5.0 stars and seemed to like it quite a lot.
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I really enjoyed this story, which is set in the same verse as the Hidden Magic series, but deals with two characters we have not met before. I thought this was truly a story worthy of being a Halloween sip, because the mood that was set was definitely spooky, not to mention Martin himself — who it seems, right from the start is playing the part of the disciplinarian. Through much of the story, I was a little bit scared for Emilio, no matter how much he said that he wasn’t scared of his lover, but that what they were doing was in public, where anyone could walk upon them. It wasn’t until I got further into the story that I could see that Martin was doing this for Emilio, to help him see that he would always be safe with him, especially in the setting they were in — deep in the park, where the vines and trees are like an extension of Martin himself.
The sex scene is incredibly steamy in this story. If you like binding or public sex, you will very much like this story and its characters as I did. Emilio, who is tragic, yet sweet, and Martin, who one could call Nature’s Dom. I would love to read another story with these characters, as I got the feeling that here they were playing out a scene that was not indicative of their everyday lives together. I would love to see how they are together in a more domestic setting, as it seems to me that the tides might turn between our two characters depending on which setting gives which character more power in their games. Obviously, this story takes place outdoors, so Martin is in his element. Definitely Recommended, especially to fans of the series.
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I’m so glad Cole enjoyed this one, and the whole series enough to review them all.
If you’ve read “Chasing Fear” and enjoyed it, there’s a free sequel on my web site called Catching Courage you might also like.
Angie
Torquere is the featured publisher over on Rainbow eBooks this weekend, so all their books there are 20% off, including my urban fantasy A Hidden Magic.
Also, the holiday story fest put on by the M/M Romance group on Goodreads — the event for which I wrote “The Gift” — is wrapping up with an e-book anthology of all the stories written for the event. The book is called Stuff My Stocking, and it’s a free download on Goodreads. Lots of fun stuff there.
For those of you who are into science fiction, there’s a publication called Daily Science Fiction that started up September 1. They publish a story every day, M-F. You can subscribe to get the stories in e-mail each night, or you can go to their web site and read them there, a week’s delayed. I subscribed to it early and have gotten all of them so far. They’re generally good, ranging from “Okay, whatever,” to “Whoa, awesome!” There aren’t that many on the low end of the bell curve, which makes it at least as good as any SF mag I’ve ever gotten.
And it’s free, did I mention that?
Highly recommended.
Also, I wrote a science fiction romance called The Gift for the M/M Romance Group’s Holiday Stories event, on Goodreads. It was posted to the group on 25 December 2010, but I just put it up on my web site. Enjoy!
Angie
PS — hope everyone has a great New Year!
I’m driving the bus over at Torquere Social today, on LiveJournal. I’ll be posting throughout the day, and for every one of my posts you comment on between now and noon (Pacific) tomorrow (to allow for folks in other timezones), I’ll throw a slip with your name on it into a bowl. The drawing is for a bundle of my Halloween stories — three short stories, all set in the Hidden Magic universe, plus my ghost story “A Spirit of Vengeance,” which is a novelette. Two of the shorts, “Chasing Fear” and “Candy Courage” are from years past, but “Reach Out and Touch” is brand new, just released yesterday.
I have two posts up now, and will be posting more later on. Come over, hang out, chat, and enter to win free fiction.
Angie
I have a free story up at Torquere as part of their anniversary month. It’s called “The Last Anniversary” and it’s a longish epilogue to “A Spirit of Vengeance.” For everyone who ever wanted to actually see the boys get their Happily Ever After, here it is, along with their first meeting, and some scenes showing what happened in Josh’s life after Kevin died.
Included at the end is a recipe for Kevin’s Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate-Chip Muffins, which appear in every scene of the epilogue. ;D
For anyone who doesn’t have a copy of “Spirit,” it’s on sale right now for 20% off, which makes it $1.99. I don’t know how long it’ll be on sale for, so get ‘em while they’re cheap.
Angie
It’s my turn on the Advent Calendar over at Torquere — you can read my story “Catching Courage,” which is a sequel to “Chasing Fear,” here. Things have improved a little since Halloween for Emilio, but not as much as he’d like. Now it’s New Year’s Eve and they’re spending it with Martin’s family, which always makes Emilio hunch into his shell whether it’s logical or not. Can he convince his gut of what his head already knows?
Includes a free bonus recipe for tres leches cake, although not, unfortunately, Abuela Sandoval’s recipe.
All the other Advent pieces are still available through the main Advent page.
Also, my novelette “A Spirit of Vengeance” is on sale for 15% off here through January 2nd.
Happy New Year, everyone! [wave]
Angie
