New Art for Eoin, and a round up of News...

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p> <strong><img alt="EOIN" src="http://images.postling.com/8/892/g_fullxfull.23106.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 600px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;"/>EOIN (The Fire Trilogy Book 3)</strong></p><p> <em>Available 17 September </em><em>from Silver Publishing</em></p><p> I have new art for Eoin, the third and final book in *The Fire Trilogy* due out with Silver Publishing 17 September...</p><p> It is utterly gorgeous and I love the shadow of the man imprisoned for his Fire... perfect... and look at Eoin's amber eyes... melts...</p><p> Thank you Reese, you rock.</p><p> <em>Watch this space for buy links on Silver...</em></p><hr/><p> <strong>SHATTERED SECRETS (In The Shadow Of The Wolf - Book 1) </strong></p><p> <em>Available 27 August from Silver Publishing</em></p><p> Only thirteen days left to the publishing date for *Shattered Secrets*, book one in a series of books based around a wolf/human cop liaison team. The series is called *In The Shadow Of The Wolf*.</p><p> <strong>Blurb:</strong></p><p> Jamie is human, and he's also a wolf.</p><p> Rob Tarrant is head of a special police task force specializing in wolf/human cases.  He has no problem with wolves in general, but having a human/wolf relationship is not on his to-do list. When he meets a young man named Jamie at a club, he embarks on the hottest one-night stand of his life. He finds out that young man is a wolf shifter, and his world is turned upside down.<br/> <br/> When a case involving kidnappings of young werewolves lands on Rob's desk, the ugly specter of the werewolf sex trade is brought front and center. With Jamie seemingly at the heart of it all, can Rob keep his young lover alive?</p><p> <em>More news to follow including excerpts.</em></p><hr/><p> <strong>COWBOY CHRISTMAS (Heart of Texas sequel)</strong></p><p> <em>Available 19 November </em><em>from Silver Publishing</em></p><p> A Christmas Book from RJ Scott - When Riley's past comes back to haunt him it is Jack who is his bedrock. But as family secrets unfold can 'Jack and Riley' weather the storm?</p><p> Watch this space...</p><hr/><p> <strong>GUARDING MORGAN (A Sanctuary Story)</strong></p><p> <em>Available 15 October from Silver Publishing</em></p><p> Blurb:</p><p> <span style='' id='freeText14474516678059305172'>Morgan Drake witnesses a murder in an alleyway. He is the only person who can give evidence in prosecuting the cop responsible for the crime. When the FBI safe house where he is being protected is compromised he follows the instructions of his agent in charge and runs.<br/> <br/> Nik Valentino is ex FBI and works for Sanctuary, a Foundation that offers witness protection and support to those in need.<br/> <br/> Morgan's FBI handler sends him to Nik and to Sanctuary for safety. Neither Morgan nor Nik could imagine that two weeks alone in a cabin in the woods, could start something more.<br/> <br/> Something way more than just staying trying to keep Morgan safe. </span></p><hr/><p> <strong>LOVE IS IN THE HALLWAYS</strong></p><p> <em>Available 3 September</em></p><p> It is the first day back at school after the best night of Luke's life. He has a boyfriend, the football captain Cameron Anders and everything is just as he wanted.</p><p> So why is he so damned scared?<br/>  </p></div>

New Art for Eoin, and a round up of News...

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The Fitzwarren Inheritance - Trilogy, Final book released today...

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p style='text-align: center;'> <strong><img alt="Fitzwarren Inheritance" src="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FI.jpg" style="width: 621px; height: 374px;"/></strong></p><p> <strong>The Fitzwarren Inheritance Trilogy</strong> has reached its culmination with today’s release of Sue Brown’s gripping finale, <strong>The Lord’s Tale</strong>! Sue has gathered up the threads from the Psychic’s Tale and The Soldier’s Tale, and woven them into a highly charged conclusion, confronting Jonathan Curtess and his four hundred year old curse head-on.</p><p> <strong>Run, don’t walk </strong>to Silver Publishing’s site to snatch it up! Read the enthralling drama as it heads for the inevitable collision between Jonathan Curtess’s curse and those fighting to break its malicious hold on the Fitzwarrens.</p><hr/><p> <strong>Blurb</strong>: Surrounded by the tragedy of his family’s history, the last thing Phil expects is to be  picked up by a gorgeous guy twenty feet up a climbing wall. What scares him even more is the way Lee fits into his life, the final piece to break the Fitzwarren curse.</p><hr/><p> <strong>Excerpt:</strong></p><p> <strong>From a book written in 1899 –The History of Steeple Westford by the Rev. Horace Simpkins–</strong></p><p> So in the autumn of the year 1644, Jonathan Curtess cursed Belvedere Fitzwarren, saying, “I curse you and your children’s children, that you shall all live out your allotted years, and that those years shall be filled with grief and loss and betrayal, even as you have betrayed and bereaved me.”</p><p> <strong>Chapter 1</strong></p><p> Phil could hear the rain beating down on the church roof as he waited for the bride to arrive. Inside the small church, the atmosphere was slightly damp and clammy as guests found somewhere to store their sopping umbrellas and attempted to brush raindrops off their finery. It was typical of the Fitzwarren luck that after weeks of fine weather there was torrential rain on his sister’s wedding day.</p><p> He looked over at Will, the groom, standing alone in the front row. Psycho soldier hadn’t bothered to make an appearance as his best man then. Despite the way Phil’s friend Sean and Will stood up for the man, there was something about Daniel that Phil didn’t like. He was unpredictable, and the fact he was tied in with this curse just made him even more dangerous in Phil’s opinion, especially walking around with a knife tucked under his clothing. Why the hell Sean was bumping uglies with the man, Phil had no idea. The groom looked kind of down though. Daniel was Will’s best friend, and it was natural he would want Daniel beside him on his special day.</p><p> His thoughts turned to his young nephew, fighting for his life in hospital. Each day was a roller-coaster ride for the premature baby, but the young heir to the Fitzwarrens clung on tenaciously. His mum, still recovering from her head injury and the shock of the premature birth, sat by his incubator. Charlie and Carol had both insisted that the wedding go ahead as planned, and Charlie was there, doing his best to wear a smile for his sister’s wedding.</p><p> The doors to the church opened, and everyone turned to catch their first glimpse of the bride, only to discover Daniel limping down the aisle. Phil sighed as he saw the matching grins of Will and Sean. Who was he to argue with his best friend and his future brother-in-law? He’d be keeping an eye on that knife, though.</p><p> The doors opened again, and his sister was there, looking stunning in her wedding dress of ivory and crimson, the silk skirt pooling gracefully to the stone floor of the church. She paused in the doorway as her bridesmaids arranged themselves behind her. Somehow she had escaped looking like a drowned rat; her hair was swept up into chignon and the crimson roses in her hair matched the ones in her bouquet, the blooms from a corner of the castle grounds.</p><p> As Diana reached the altar, Will smiled down at her and took her hand. The love on their faces took Phil’s breath away, and he was swept with a wave of happiness and envy for his big sister. As the elderly vicar conducted the service, the noise of the rain thrumming down on the roof abated, and soon the wedding party emerged from the church to blink as the late afternoon sunshine bathed the church grounds.</p><p>  </p><p> * * * *</p><p>  </p><p> Phil held two pints up high as he negotiated the crowd in the bar of the Red Lion. He handed one over to his brother, Charlie, who took the full glass gratefully.</p><p> “God, I’m glad that’s over,” Charlie said, wiping his top lip.</p><p> “Hell yes,” Phil agreed, loosening his tie. “Do you think we can get out of this get-up now?” He waved vaguely at their suits.</p><p> “Probably not,” Charlie told him. “Is Di out of her meringue yet?”</p><p> Phil peered around the bar to where the bride and groom were sitting, Di’s feet in Will’s lap. “Not yet, but her shoes are off. Isn’t that enough?” Charlie just gave him a look, and Phil sighed. There wasn’t a hope in hell Diana would agree to them losing the monkey suits. The couple hadn’t had enough money for a formal “do”, but she was going to make the men suffer as long as she could. He smiled as he thought of his tomboy sister, dressed like a lady for the whole day.</p><p> “Anyway, I promised Carol I’d come in the suit,” Charlie said, pulling a face. “She wanted to feel part of the proceedings even if she couldn’t be here.”</p><p> “You’d better stop knocking that back then,” Phil said, indicating the pint of beer that Charlie was already half-way through.</p><p>  </p><p> Charlie held up his glass, regarding the dark amber liquid mournfully. “Doesn’t seem right somehow. I can’t remember the last time I stayed sober at a wedding.” He paused for a minute. “I can’t remember the last time I went to a wedding.”</p><p> “Yours probably. Just be thankful you don’t have to make a speech, big brother.” Phil grinned at the shudder that ran though his painfully shy older brother at the thought of trying to speak in public, even in front of friends and family. There really wasn’t anyone here that he didn’t know. Di, like her brothers, tended to socialise in the village.</p><p> “I told Di that if she wanted speeches she could make you do it. She said if there was anything to say, she could say it herself.”</p><p>  </p><p> Phil laughed, the laughter tailing off as he caught sight of Daniel and Sean vanishing into the snug with that psychic and his boyfriend. There was something going on there. Those four were getting very cosy all of a sudden. Charlie followed his gaze.</p><p> “I wonder what that’s all about,” his brother mused.</p><p> “I have no idea. Don’t you think since Mark came on the scene our little curse has got a lot more crowded?” Phil asked, aware he sounded waspish.</p><p> Waving at the barman for another round, Charlie looked at him. “Another?” At Phil’s nod, he held up two fingers and then said, “What do you mean?”</p><p> Phil waited until they both had drinks before he carried on. “Well, one minute it’s just the Fitzwarrens’ curse, and the three of us knowing everything is going to go tits up, and the next some stranger waltzes in claiming to be a psychic and a descendent of Curtesses, saying he’s broken the first part of the curse. Then Psycho gets pally with Sean, and the next thing we know another bit of the story is slotting into place.”</p><p> There was such a long pause before Charlie answered that Phil looked up. “What bothers you most? Mark’s revelations or Sean and Daniel hooking up?”</p><p> “You think I’m jealous?” Phil asked incredulously.</p><p> “You’re not? Just a little? Sean has been your best friend for years, and now that he’s hooked up with Daniel, he hasn’t been around as much.”</p><p> Damn, his brother was too shrewd.</p><hr/><p> <strong>BUY LINKS</strong></p><p> Click <strong><a href="https://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/coming-soon-c-2/the-lord-s-tale-p-332" target="_blank">HERE</a> </strong>to buy <strong>The Lord’s Tale</strong></p><p> <br/> and <a href="https://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/new-release-c-1/the-psychic-s-tale-p-286" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a> to buy the first in the Trilogy – <strong>The Psychic’s Tale</strong><br/> and <a href="https://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/the-soldier-s-tale-p-297" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a> to buy the second – <strong>The Soldier’s Tale</strong></p></div>

The Fitzwarren Inheritance - Trilogy, Final book released today...

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Young Adult: Love Is In The Title

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p> <a _mce_href="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dreamstime_8274723.jpg" href="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dreamstime_8274723.jpg"><img _mce_src="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dreamstime_8274723.jpg" _mce_style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" alt="" class="size-full wp-image-1424 alignleft" src="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/dreamstime_8274723.jpg" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; width: 200px; height: 300px; float: left;" title="Love Is In The Title"/></a>*Love Is In The Title* is my first foray into the world of Young Adult writing. I really enjoyed writing this story. It is a story of young love and the infinite possibilities of *Forever*.</p><p> It is a self published title and is available on Amazon Kindle <a _mce_href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Title-ebook/dp/B0053Y7DXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=books&qid=1307179983&sr=8-1" href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Title-ebook/dp/B0053Y7DXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=books&qid=1307179983&sr=8-1" target="_blank">HERE</a> and All Romance Ebooks <a _mce_href="http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-loveisinthetitle-557238-176.html" href="http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-loveisinthetitle-557238-176.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><hr/><p style='text-align: center;' _mce_style='text-align: center;'> <span style='color: #666699;' _mce_style='color: #666699;'><em>"This was a pretty cute, quick read. I love that shy, budding love just finding each other."</em></span></p><p> Luke requests songs for the late show with Roscoe. Songs that mean something to him and the people around him. Lately he has been requesting songs for the boy he watches from afar. The gorgeous dark haired blue eyed captain of the football team, Cameron.</p><p> One night, and the last request, and all of Luke's secrets spill. It seems though, that he isn't the only one with secrets.</p><hr/><p> <strong>Excerpt</strong></p><p> Luke turned at the quiet hello, to face the boy of his dreams.</p><p> Cameron had sat down on a stool at the counter in all his post-game glory. His hair was still damp from the shower, and his skin looked fresh and scrubbed clean. Luke tried hard not to swallow his tongue.</p><p> “Hey,” he managed to reply. Then he searched desperately for something else to say. Something very witty and totally profound. Hell, at the moment, he would have been happy for something involving actual words.</p><p> Cameron just sat there, looking expectantly at Luke, his eyebrows quirked and a half smile on his face. He seemed to finally decide Luke needed some help. “Can I get another Coke?” he asked simply, and Luke nodded mutely. He grabbed a fresh glass and filled it to the overflow point with the brown liquid. Smiling shyly, he slid it towards the boy of his fantasies.</p><p> Why did his normally chatty, confident, some said over-confident, personality wither and die at one flash of Cameron’s beautiful blue eyes? An awkward silence fell over the three boys. Mitchell smirking, Cameron swallowing his fifth Coke of the night, and Luke standing there like a prize idiot. The same thing happened every time Luke was within speaking distance of Cameron. Luke was reaching the point where, whether Cameron was into boys or not, he was afraid he wasn’t ever going to be able to tell him his feelings anyway.</p><p> “Nights like these are the ones when being team captain must suck, huh?” Luke finally blurted out, wincing as Cameron lowered his head<br/> and half nodded.</p><p> “Yeah,” was all Cameron said, and Luke swallowed. Misery curled inside him at his stupid comment. How did he expect Cameron to feel after what had been another crushing loss for him and the rest of the team? For God’s sake, at what point had his scary brilliant brain decided it was okay to bring up the game?</p><p> “I’m sorry,” Luke offered, watching as a small smile started on Cameron’s full lips and moved to light his eyes.</p><p> “Well, I can for sure say it wasn’t your fault, Luke, since you weren’t even there.” Cameron offered. His smile broadened as he leaned forward into Luke’s space.</p><p> “I ha…have to work,” Luke stuttered quickly. Cameron’s words took a moment to register; then he did a mental double take. Cameron had noticed he wasn’t at the game.</p><p> “I know,” Cameron offered gently. “Maybe if you had been there, we mighta won?”</p><p> Hang on a damn minute! Luke blinked. Those words in that tone sounded like— well, like flirting?</p><hr/><p style='text-align: center;' _mce_style='text-align: center;'> Amazon Kindle <a _mce_href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Title-ebook/dp/B0053Y7DXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=books&qid=1307179983&sr=8-1" href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Title-ebook/dp/B0053Y7DXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=books&qid=1307179983&sr=8-1" target="_blank">HERE</a> and All Romance Ebooks <a _mce_href="http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-loveisinthetitle-557238-176.html" href="http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-loveisinthetitle-557238-176.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><p style='text-align: center;' _mce_style='text-align: center;'> The website for my Young Adult writing is <a _mce_href="http://www.lovelanebooks.co.uk/" href="http://www.lovelanebooks.co.uk/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p></div>

Young Adult: Love Is In The Title

*Love Is In The Title* is my first foray into the world of Young Adult writing. I really enjoyed writing this story. It is a story o...

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Best Selling Book on ARe 2010, Throwaway 2, catch up, news, and allabout bad backs...

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><strong>The Christmas Throwaway wins best selling book in the Best Of 2010 Awards at All E Romance.</strong><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="ARe best of 2010" src="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AREBestOf2010.jpg" style="height: 60px; width: 468px;" /></div><img alt="The Christmas Throwaway" src="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/The_Christmas_Throwaway-RJ_Scott400x600.jpg" style="float: left; height: 225px; margin: 10px; width: 150px;" />I was stunned to receive an award from ARe for being the author of the best selling book on ARe for 2010.<br />A big thank you to Silver Publishing who gave me the chance to write, and to Reese Dante who created the beautiful cover for the story. Also thank you to ARe for the award. The Christmas Throwaway proved to be a popular book and I am blown away that it received the award.<br /><hr /><br /><ul></ul></div>

Best Selling Book on ARe 2010, Throwaway 2, catch up, news, and allabout bad backs...

The Christmas Throwaway wins best selling book in the Best Of 2010 Awards at All E Romance. I was stunned to receive an award from ARe for b...

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Darach (The Fire Trilogy #2) Coming, April 23

The story of Darach and Ceithin<br /><br /><a href="http://silverpublishing.info/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=100&url=http://tinyurl.com/DSoon12">Pre-Order</a><br /><br />BLURB<br /><br />Darach Gravenor is a keeper of blue Fire. He is alone in his world and he wants to rescue his friend Kian from the horrors of the Other World.<br /><br />Only one group of people have magic strong enough to help him cross from his world to where Kian is. Cariad.<br /><br />Ceithin Morgan is Cariad.<br /><br />Strong with Ancient magic he teaches Darach that not all children's fairy stories should be believed. Ceithin has his own reasons for helping Darach and shows Darach that there is magic that he never even knew existed.<br /><br />They are living on borrowed time.<br /><br />Guardian knows what they are doing and he is coming for Ceithin. Darach and Ceithin have two choices -- do they run, or do they make their stand together?<br /><br />EXTRACT<br /><br />Context: A visit with Kian and Regan from Book #1<br /><br />The room they had rented was in a small motel off a main road, one that supplied beds by the hour. For this type of place, the accommodation actually tended towards clean creating a paradox in Regan's head. It was in his nature to be suspicious of something that looked too good to be true.<br /><br />"Stop it." Kian's voice sounded tired, verging on irritable, and Regan straightened. He checked outside the drapes, unsettled and worried, and then looked back at his lover. Great; miserable-Kian had stood up from the bed and was pacing.<br /><br />"Stop what?" he snapped back, scratching at the bandaging that covered the cuts on his arm from the alley fight. "All I'm doing is checking the parking lot."<br /><br />"For what? Random Nameless drive-bys?" Kian sounded waspish and spoiled, and just this side of fucking rude.<br /><br />In a flurry of motion, Regan had Kian up against the wall, his hands holding Kian's above his head securely. Both men knew Kian could get away, in fact, for a few seconds, Kian did struggle. Then he stilled, pressing back against the faded wallpaper and waiting. Regan couldn't have held back his temper if he’d tried. A hunter was only good as long as he kept surviving each fight, and today could have gone bad so many ways and so quickly Regan refused to consider them.<br /><br />"What the hell is going on with you, Kian? Where the holy fuck were you tonight?"<br /><br />"I was there, Re." Kian defended himself quickly, ineffectively tugging at Regan's secure grip.<br /><br />"You. Were. Not. There."<br /><br />"I was just behind you—"<br /><br />"Don't lie to me. I may be a magic-less human in your eyes, but my Fire is growing strong enough to sense when you are and aren’t there."<br /><br />"You're not a pathetic—" Regan tightened his hold in temper and saw the instant discomfort in his lover's eyes. Guilt flooded him and warred with his irritation. "I'm sorry Re, I wasn't well. I tried to follow, but I couldn't. I wish I could tell you—"<br /><br />"Kian, I swear to God, if you don't pull your head out of your ass and tell me what the fuck is going on, I will dump you here and leave before we both get killed by whatever' distracting you."<br /><br />"You can't leave me… our bond…" Jeez, Regan thought, trust Kian to focus on the reality of the threat rather than the general menace Regan was trying to convey.<br /><br />"Bond or not, you're screwing with my head. Talk to me, Kian. What's going on? What's wrong?" There was a staring match; Kian's green gaze ran the gamut of emotions, from utter and complete determination to the rise of temper, and then… shit… the most pathetic puppy-dog gaze Regan had ever seen. His stomach clenched.<br /><br />Kian had his moments of introspection, and Regan always gave him space. He imagined leaving his life, his family, his world, never to return. It must have been the most difficult thing any person could do. Kian needed time to process. Regan tried to be supportive and as damned understanding as he could be. In turn, Kian inevitably reassured him he wanted to be here with Regan, that he wanted to stay. Today, though? This whole collapsing moment was just another in a long list of things unnerving Regan to the point that he was thinking of finding Kian a way back home if that's what he wanted.<br /><br />"Do you want to go home?"<br /><br />"Re, I don't want to go home."<br /><br />"Do you maybe need to go home?" That was the question he had to ask. Kian looked momentarily confused.<br /><br />"Need?"<br /><br />"I don't know. Jeez, Kian, is there something wrong, with you, with your Fire?" Regan kept his voice low and attempted to contain his fear. In Regan's worst imaginings, Kian staying here with him was destroying him. He had an intense and real fear that his world, his version of Earth, was somehow toxic to Kian, stripping him of the Fire's identity. God, maybe even killing him.<br /><br />Kian stared directly into Regan's eyes and spoke firmly. "I don't need to go home. I promise you, my Fire is strong."<br /><br />"Then what the hell is wrong? Man, you're scaring me."

Darach (The Fire Trilogy #2) Coming, April 23

The story of Darach and Ceithin Pre-Order BLURB Darach Gravenor is a keeper of blue Fire. He is alone in his world and he wants to rescue hi...

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Interview with Pia Veleno and her Man Whore...

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><img alt="Man Whore" src="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Man_Whore-Pia_Veleno400x6002-200x300.jpg" style="float: left; height: 300px; width: 200px;" /><br />Oh hey, a survey.  I love answering survey questions.<br />What? I should introduce myself first? Well, okay, sure. That’s the point of visiting, right?<br />Hello dear readers,<br />My name is Pia Veleno and I write M/M romance. Sounds like an AA meeting doesn’t it? Yes, I’m addicted to hot, steamy manlove, but I’m not trying to break that habit. The twelve of this month marks my third release with Silver Publishing and later this summer, I’ll be honored with a place among Loose Id authors. Yes, I’m an addict, but there are far worse vices. Wouldn’t you agree?<br />But I’m not here to brag or to sell my books (though you’re welcome to check them out), I’m here to play with RJ and answer her Five Favorites lists. If you make it through all of the categories, you’ll get a free flash fiction staring Silver Publishing’s favorite cover model, Jimmy Thomas.<br />Happy reading!<br />Ciao,<br /> Pia<br /><a href="http://www.rjscott.co.uk/?p=1229">Read the full interview HERE</a></div>

Interview with Pia Veleno and her Man Whore...

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All The King's Men

Out Saturday 12th December from Silver Publishing<br /><br /><br />Earthquake, Forest Fire & Survival<br /><br />The largest quake ever recorded hits LA early in the morning.<br /><br />The story of estranged lovers, Nathan Richardson and Ryan Ortiz, and their desperate fight for survival when everything around them is going to Hell.<br />Excerpt<br /><br />7:12 a.m.<br /><br />After his pathetic half-hearted stumble run, Nathan decided he needed to get some more water and then, with the impetus to phone Ryan clear in his head, he went indoors at exactly 7:12 a.m. Despite Jason's words of caution, Nathan really wanted to see if maybe his ex-lover would agree to meet up, talk, find some kind of resolution. He was just inside the main door when the floor beneath his feet moved, subtly the first time, slowly, strongly, a groaning, a creaking, and a soft shaking.<br /><br />The strong, certain ground shift left him holding the doorframe. It only lasted a few seconds and was over before he could force a thought about it through the rest of the clutter in his mind. The checklist in his head clicked in automatically before the shaking had stopped. He smiled briefly. That earth movement would be dominating the news today. Hey, maybe today was a good day for him to walk proudly out of the closet! Surely revealing his sexual preferences would never be more newsworthy than an earthquake in Tinseltown.<br /><br />He thumbed to the number of his brother out of state, and hit "Send". The phone at the other end rang once, twice, a third time, and voicemail kicked in. He decided not to leave a message. No one really needed to know that a minor shock had hit his apartment in the hills above LA. The trembler hadn't been strong enough to be worthy of hitting the national news anywhere outside of California. Nathan had just been trying to be a good citizen, letting a family member know, like the government said he should. He made a mental note to charge the damn cell when he had finished his shower.<br /><br />Seconds later, just as Nathan pocketed his iPhone, the earth around him ripped apart with such savagery that it was impossible to stand upright. Nathan scrabbled to hold the side of the doorframe, trying to find his feet. His vision blurred as dust and concrete fell about his head, knocking him to the ground. Before the shaking stopped, before the ceiling joists cascaded down and trapped his legs, he slammed into unconsciousness.<br /><br />Pre-order <a href="http://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/coming-soon-c-2/all-the-king-s-men-p-213">HERE</a>

All The King's Men

Out Saturday 12th December from Silver Publishing Earthquake, Forest Fire & Survival The largest quake ever recorded hits LA early in th...

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