The Rymellan series is back with more lesbian science fiction and romance. Decisions, the latest installment in the series, contains four stories. Two of them feature new main characters.

Love Dismissed features Sheila and Ruth, a same-oriented couple (we’d call them lesbian) we met in Disobedience Means Death.

The Killing of Lieutenant Christine Leeds features the officer who sexually harassed Lesley in the story Intervention. When I started the story, I wanted to know why Leeds would so blatantly violate the Way and what happened to her when she was sent to the adult wing of the Indoctrination Academy. Once I started writing, the story went beyond that. In fact, it turned into a novel-length story.

Identity Crisis is about the triad having its first child. I had already published this story as a standalone eBook. I’ve folded it into Rymellan 4 to avoid confusion, and so that it can finally be available in print. The standalone book is no longer available.

Family Comes First features the triad. I wouldn’t release a Rymellan volume without at least one new story about Lesley, Mo, and Jayne. In this story, Lesley is having problems at work, Mo suspects Ann of cheating on Andrew, and Jayne receives a shocking letter.

You can find out more details about the book — longer story descriptions and buy links — by clicking here.

The eBook version is available now. The print version will be out in late September / early October.

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Love Me for Me, a sweet lesbian romance novel, is now available at online bookstores.

Here’s a short blurb (a longer one is on the book’s page):

Erin Hunt is the heir apparent to her father’s real estate company. Activist Lily Altree leads a grassroots group that often opposes real estate developments, including those of Aaron Hunt, Erin’s father. When Erin goes undercover and joins Lily’s group, their two worlds collide. What neither of them counts on is falling in love. Will their love survive when Lily finds out who Erin really is?

The eBook is available now. I hope to have print available by the end of October, but with shipping delays due to the pandemic, it might take a bit longer.

All my books are also available to libraries. If your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask the librarian to order it. This applies to both eBook and print.

Now I’ll turn my attention to my next book. If you’re on my mailing list, you’ll know that it’s a book in the Rymellan series. I’m sharing details about the stories the book will include with my list, so if you’re not a subscriber, consider signing up now.

Happy reading!

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Subscribing to my email list (the one I own, not Feedburner’s) is the best way to keep up with what I’m doing. If you’re already on my email list, you should have received an email with the subject line: April Update: My Books Are Going to the Moon! If you didn’t receive that email (check your spam folder and promotions tab), you’re not on the list. Over the years, I’ve changed email providers a few times, and whenever I do, I ask subscribers to re-subscribe. If you thought you were on my list but you aren’t, maybe you didn’t receive one of those emails.

When you subscribe to my email list, you’ll receive a free prequel story to The Salbine Sisters.

If you’re reading this through an RSS reader, you don’t have to do anything. However, given how Google often kills projects (remember Google Plus and Google Reader?), it’s possible that Feedburner will eventually go away.

The Rymellan Series is Going to the Moon

I’m sending the Rymellan Series to the moon on the Peregrine lander (Astrobotics Technology) due to blast off in Q4 of this year. I described how this came about in the April update email to my list. The short version is that indie author Susan Kaye Quinn bought space on the lander (it’s a commercial mission) and gave other authors a chance to tag along. While I’ve included several of my books in the payload, Disobedience Means Death, the first book in the Rymellan Series, is my main book and will appear in the payload’s manifest.

Right now, the book is on sale for $2.99, but will be going back up to $6.99 soon. If you haven’t read it, now would be a good time to pick it up.

A Lesbian Romance is On the Way

I’ve completed the first draft of a lesbian romance that I’ll release later this year. I don’t have much to say about it yet, but watch this space.

That’s it for now. I’ll keep you posted on the moon mission, the romance, and my next project, which I’ll announce in a few months.

Stay safe!

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It has been a long time coming, but the sequel to The Salbine Sisters is finally available. The story picks up six years later, when Emmey is about to turn fourteen and must leave the monastery.

Salbine’s Embrace is a lesbian fantasy novel with many lesbian main characters. I don’t want to repeat what’s on the book’s page, so I’ll just direct you there.

I’m working on the print version, which I hope to have available around the end of September/early October. Print can take a while because I have to receive a physical proof from the printer via snail mail. My printer is in the US, and there can be delays at the border.

Have a great weekend!

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Rose and Nora, a story about how Rose and Nora got together and what happened to their relationship after the events in The Salbine Sisters, is now available.

After editing the story, it clocked in at about 22,000 words. Because it begins when Maddy is away from the monastery travelling to Heath, we get to see how the news of Maddy’s fate affected the friends she left behind.

Rose and Nora is available at the usual online bookstores. Click here for more information.

Salbine’s Embrace, the sequel to The Salbine Sisters, is on track for a late August/early September release.

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Almost nine years ago, I released the novel The Salbine Sisters. The novel was received well, and I’ve often been asked if there will be a sequel. I always said, “I’m open to one. If a decent story comes along, I’ll write it.”

The story came along.

I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve written the sequel, titled Salbine’s Embrace. I’m currently editing the novel, and I expect to release it in late August/early September. I’ll tell you more about it between now and then. For now, I’ll just say that the novel opens six years after the end of The Salbine Sisters, when Emmey is about to turn fourteen and has to leave the monastery.

But that’s not all the news I have about the sisters at the Merrin monastery. Because the sequel takes place six years after the first book, we don’t get to see what happened to Rose and Nora’s relationship. At the end of The Salbine Sisters, Rose tells Maddy that she and Nora became involved while Maddy was away. By the time Salbine’s Embrace opens, their relationship has either flourished or fizzled. Maddy gets us up to speed the first time she sees them, but she doesn’t offer any details because it’s all water under the bridge at that point.

I thought it would be interesting to write the story of how Rose and Nora became a couple and what happened to them after the end of The Salbine Sisters, like I did with Playing With Fire, which contains a more detailed account of how Maddy and Lillian got together,

Rose and Nora is a novella (about 21,000 words). It will be available in bookstores sometime in July.

That’s all for now. Happy Pride!

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The new design has a splash of lavender and doubles down on the lesbian fiction aspect of my work. If I ever decide to write a mainstream novel (no lesbian characters in sight), I’ll do it under a pen name. I’ll stick to lesbian fiction under my real name. It’s where my heart is.

The site’s design is very simple. For the first time, I paid a lot of attention to how it looks on mobile devices. Until the last year or so, I hadn’t used my smartphone to access the Internet very much, so I didn’t have a clear idea of how people typically use their phones. I didn’t understand the importance of things like large buttons. Now I know what frustrates me when I’m on my phone. I’ve kept my site simple.

I also blew away all the existing blog articles. Many of them were years old, so I decided to start fresh. I saved the more interesting ones and might occasionally post one.

If you’re on my email list, you’ll already know what I’ve been working on for the past several months. I’ll talk about it publicly when I’ve finished the first draft, which I’m hoping to do by the end of this month.

I touch base with my email list once a month, which is more than I’ll post here on the blog. If you haven’t joined my email list yet, you can do so here. You’ll receive a copy of Playing With Fire, which is a prequel to The Salbine Sisters.

Have a happy rest of the week!

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