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Male Character Names

What’s in a name?
Jared, is one of the men’s names I have always loved. I’ve recently done some research on the spelling and found that there are many, many different ways to spell it. There is Jared, Jarad, Jarid, Jarod, Jarrad, Jarrard, Jarred, Jarrid, and many more. That’s just the Js If you research [...]

What’s in a name?

Now that I have beat last week’s deadline and finished my book, it’s already time to start a new on. (sigh) No rest for the weary. People often ask me how I come up with so many ideas for stories. Or how I manage to pump a book out every month. To be honest with [...]

The Endowed

I don’t normally post excerpts or promos here, but since this offer is going to be for such a short time, I figured it needed the exposure.
For a limited time, buy The Endowed by Tianna Xander from the publisher’s website and receive two backlist e-books of your choice for free! That’s three books [...]

The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner

When I read for pleasure or just to kick back and relax, I try to read out of my genre. That said, becuase of my commute of an hour each way every day and an hour for lunch, I read 3-4 books a week. I try to write on the bus going in in the [...]

Michael’s Flight, Book 2 of Descendant’s of Earth is Ready to Launch!

Here I am, 4 days from the release of Michael’s Flight, Book 2 of my Descendants of Earth series and all night last night I dreamt about my hero. Different scenes from the book flitted through my dreams. Normally I dream most of my book before I write it. Before this I hadn’t dreamt the [...]

Marketing

There are a lot of things about publishing that I never knew before I was published. Things that, had I known, wouldn’t have made a difference other than making me more informed. Things like promotion. How can a new author expect a publishing house to spend their hard earned money on promotion if the author [...]

Sacrifice

Sorry my post is so late, but I was on vacation this past week. Every year my daughter’s dance team goes to National’s for their final competition of the year. While the family went down to enjoy the ocean, pool and lazy river, I was up in the room typing away in order to meet [...]

The Storyteller’s Creed

By A.J. Llewellyn
I was on an author chat the other day and a woman who’s never read gay erotic romance…anything gay for that matter, asked me if my books have happy endings. I wrote back, “Yes!”
She seemed stunned. I was surprised by her reaction. “But Gay men are so promiscuous. They can’t be faithful,” she [...]

Romance

When a person recently asked me why I write romance instead of real books, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I went on to inform him that the sales for the romance genre speak for themselves. Tell the readers who buy them they aren’t reading real books and see what they say. [...]

Michael’s Flight - Descendants of Earth Book 2 - is about to take off!

Michael’s Flight is due to be released with eXtasy Books on July 15, 2009 and I got my cover today. I’ve been on a run with some GREAT covers this year and this one is definitely a favorite. I’d take off with him!

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