Now Available - Holding On
I’ve started the process of publishing my latest story, Holding On. It’s now available in all popular ebook formats on Smashwords, and for Kindle on Amazon. As a special introductory offer, you can use the coupon code CP78X at Smashwords to receive 50% off your purchase. The offer is valid until 25 December. Books make great stocking stuffers! Reviewers, if you would like a review copy of Holding On, please use the “Contact Me” tab at the bottom-right of the screen, or leave a comment.
Tags: Holding On
Review - Remastering Jerna
My rating: 
Remastering Jerna is a really dark tale of suffering and redemption. In it, the author has created an alternate world not unlike our own, but with significant small differences. She spends many pages drawing this world and the main characters in rich detail, making everything three dimensional and very real in a very readable style that gradually draws you in. The title character, Jerna, is a teacher in a temple school with a wife and two daughters.
Tags: Speculative Fiction D/s BDSM
Review - I, Omega
My rating:
I must say, shifter stories never really interested me, but then people convinced me to read Kim Dare’s Duck!, which really shook me up. I’m still not that interested in shifter stories, but it certainly didn’t put me off this book, which is the second of Kari Gregg’s I’ve read. I’d give this story 4.5 stars if I could, since it is really good on the whole, and it’s flaws - for me - are quite minor.
Coming Soon - Holding On
I’m back at work on my contemporary younger/older, Thai/American D/s story, in what I think are my final changes. I think I may have it ready for a release before Christmas. I’ve been through a few titles for this book - “Deconstructing David” and “Claiming David” among them - but I think I’ve settled on Holding On. It’s not very distinctive, but it’s simple and I think it adequately captures one of the key themes of the story.
Tags: Holding On Naga's Treasure
Review - Kei's Gift
My rating:
The best word I can think of to describe Kei’s Gift is “epic” - in the very classical sense of the word. This is a broad tale of the clash of two cultures, set in an alternate world not far removed from Earth’s ancient antiquity. The ‘clash’ is actually an all out war, and against this background our two heroes struggle to find peace, and each other. On the one side, we have Arman, a general in the Prij army.
Tags: Fantasy
Background - Water Castles
I'm still at work on Journey's End. It's amazing how disruptive things like floods can be, even though the direct impact on myself was quite minimal. I wasn't ever in any real danger, but it was nonetheless quite distracting. I have completed most of the key episodes of the story already and am now mostly filling in the more mundane but important 'stuff' that gets the characters from one place to the other.
Review - Jasmine Nights
My rating:
This is one of my favorite books, and the one I’m most likely to recommend to people who ask for something to read about Thailand or Bangkok. Although set in the early 1960s, it still manages to accurately capture the crazy contradiction that is modern Thailand. For those that haven’t spent much time in Bangkok, many of the situations described may come across as wildly fanciful, but anyone who has lived here for any length of time will know they are dead-on accurate.
Tags: Trans*
My Soggy Life
For those that are interested in what’s going on in Bangkok right now, I’ve posted several pictures of my flooded neighborhood taken in the last week over at my travel journal.
Work-In-Progress: Journey's End
[caption id=“attachment_316” align=“alignright” width=“214” caption=“The cover for Journey’s End”][/caption] I started writing Journey’s End a few weeks ago, and I think I’m already 30 to 40% done with the first draft, with several key parts already written. I’m afraid work has slowed down considerably since floods hit the part of Bangkok I live in. It’s odd, really. In theory, I have lots of time to write, but it’s hard to sit and focus, let alone let your imagination fly, when you’re checking to see how far up the street the water has come every five minutes.
Tags: Journey's End
Review: Fun With Dick And Shane
My rating:
This is the biggest surprise I’ve had for quite some time. I was expecting a bit of light fluff, and while there’s lots of humor in the author’s breezy first-person account of the ‘adventures’ of a 24 year-old houseboy/partner of two older men, the book still manages to tackle some very serious subjects. Gillibran Brown, called Gilli by his friends, is the hero of the book, as well as in his own mind.