My 2015 Goodreads anthology submission - Agenda - is now available to be downloaded for FREE from all major sites, including Amazon - CLICK HERE

The prompt for this story was ...

STORY LETTER:
 
Dear Author,
 
For the last five years I’ve been his right hand man. I handle his schedule, I make his coffee, and I pick up his suits from the dry cleaner. I even make the arrangements for his hook ups with other men. The world sees a ruthless businessman, a cold bastard. But I know him. Behind the icy facade, I see HIM. The man who is meant to be my other half. Question is, when is he going to see ME. Not as his personal assistant, but as a lover, as a partner, as a man.

​I hope that you enjoy the story.

Also, here is a link to Shannon M Kirkland's submission - Rock, Paper, Scissors - also available for free - CLICK HERE

​Happy Holidays!!

Alp

Protest is out now - links

A huge protest rally in London brings together the opposing sides of a fierce debate raging over the future of the last remaining trees left standing on UK soil. Lowden and Dresden sit on opposite sides of the fence. A catastrophe leaves Lowden injured and with no choice but to accept Dresden's help. Can compassion heal the divide? Can love blossom in the wilderness?

A quirky m/m romance that was originally conceived after a neighbour asked me why some trees at the edge of my property had been felled. The reason was to bring the sunshine into the space where the solar panels were being installed - cutting down trees to make way for solar panels? I liked the sound of the clash of ideologies and it gave rise to the story.

I should say that the trees which were felled were extremely close to the cottage, and they blocked out all of the light in the yard and in the garden - so we had them cut down to give the crops a chance, and to generate enough electricity to light the cottage and power the laptop. From memory, there were seventeen - in a forest of half a billion. Some of the felled wood was used for fuel to heat the cottage, some was used to repair the barn and some was used to make shelving for the shed and for the cellar.

Needless to say, we planted considerably more than seventeen seedlings as part of our on-going forestry management efforts.

This is a rare case of a single event spawning a story - in fact, a single question. Usually, my stories are based on a broader array of inputs - though most begin with the all-important first line of dialogue - and encompass people, places, events, thoughts and feelings - as I remember them.

Protest spawned a much longer story - Eden Site - which exists only on paper - 300 pages of paper, which I think, not having seen it for some time, someone has very helpfully used to light the fire ... 

Alp

New Worlds has been produced as an audiobook, narrated by Stewart Campbell - it has just been released on Amazon, Audibles and iTunes

CLICK HERE FOR LINKS

I am thrilled with this project because New Worlds is a challenging story from a narration point of view - not least because one of the two main characters is French (speaking in English) - Stewart did a great job of the accent.

It also marks my 4th audiobook to be narrated by Stewart - and I tell him that as I write a new story, I now hear his voice in my head - he is delectably addictive.

New Worlds
Kenny has just found his partner of three years in bed with a young escort. He quickly packs and leaves his old life, heading for God only knows where. He hooks up with Jean, a truck driver, on his way to Marseilles. After spending some time in St. Cyr sur Mer, contemplating the past and deciding on his future, Kenny decides to head to Barcelona. A chance meeting with Jean on the road again, has him visiting Jean's farm. A story about breaking free and love as wild as the horses of the Camargue.

You may be interested to know that New Worlds has a sister story - Hold It! (part of the Odyssee collection). I wrote New Worlds and Hold It! at the same time, giving Kenny two different futures, once he discovered Ian in bed with the escort.

​I hope you enjoy the new audiobook.

ALP
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I am thrilled and very excited to bring you our first author spotlight feature.

The awesome K. Sterling very kindly accepted our invitation to be our inaugural author under the spotlight.

CLICK HERE to access the feature and discover this amazing m/m erotic fiction author, her work and something of the persona behind the shades.


We hope to bring more authors under the spotlight in the future.

My very grateful thanks to K. Sterling for agreeing to do this and many thanks to Shannon for constructing the webpages.

Alp
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I am immensely proud to announce that K Sterling is going to be my first author under the spotlight. The spotlight will be hosted on my website and will be published from Friday of this week.

​This will be an excellent opportunity to discover K Sterling's work and something more about the phenomenal talent that lies behind the awesome stories - for now, click to go to K Sterling's blog and Amazon page

Alp
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Just to let you know that my next title to be published will be the short m/m romance He Protesteth Too Much - a love story that spans an idealogical divide which starts on the opposing front lines of a protest rally.

Am expecting that the story will be available on or around 18th November 2015, subject to cover art and editing going to plan.

Thanks

Alp

New Worlds has been produced as an audiobook, with narration by the extremely talented Stewart Campbell, who has done our other audiobook titles

New Worlds will be available form major audiobook retailers on or around 20th November 2015