Available for Pre-Order: Shalia's Diary Omnibus

Hi! Yes, I’m still around, though I haven’t had time for social media. I peek in to make sure I don’t have messages or comments to respond to, then run off to do the important stuff…like writing and making nice things like a Shalia’s Diary book bundle. It took me long enough to put that together, right? But Shalia’s Diary Omnibus, which contains all 12 books, is done and available for pre-order (the release is March 9). No new content, but it has been re-edited for a better read. I hope you enjoy it. The sales links are below.

I’m happy to report I’ve also been working diligently on Clan Bacoj’s beginnings book. It’s still not titled, but I’m about two-thirds through the first draft. I’m hoping to release it sometime in the summer. Vax is utterly adorable and a total scamp. Bacoj is a bundle of confusion, worried about his ability to be a confident leader, going to war, and impressing Vax. Then there’s Japohn, who can’t help but hope his lone-wolf personality won’t get in the way of attracting the pair as clanmates. As if their personal drama isn’t enough, they have to watch out for vengeful Nobek Karil, who’s determined to make Vax pay for his part in the accidental death of a clanmate.

Fun, right? It’s been entertaining writing these younger guys and remembering what it was like to be in my twenties. I can’t believe how naïve and innocent I was then, and I’m having a blast revisiting that emotional space with Bacoj, Vax, and Japohn. They make me smile, and I hope they’ll make you smile too.

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TBT: Shalia's Diary

Who knows how far I would have let Dusa take me? If not for the sound of laughter breaking into our senses, I might have let him do whatever he wanted. I’d become no more than an animal in heat, ready to rut as any thoughtless beast might. Since this morning, I have decided that we are little more than primitive creatures, obeying nothing more than the instincts we are born with. Why else would I have responded so eagerly to the sexual urgings of a man I hardly know?

It was the sound of others in the distance that woke us from our would-be mating frenzy. We simultaneously broke the kiss, gasping in shock. I realized how we were outside and anyone might have stumbled upon our wild display. A vision of the Pageant Trio with their disapproving faces appeared before my mind’s eye. I thought of the two women I’d seen hanged outside the Academy.

I have lost my mind.

The moment broken and our senses restored, Dusa helped me back to Medical. He wanted to stay, to talk with me, but I couldn’t take his presence for a second more. Begging exhaustion, I sent him away. Now I’m dealing with the fallout of what happened.

I carried on carnally with a man where anybody might see me. And not just a man, an alien man. A Kalquorian, Earth’s avowed enemy. I can’t believe I let such a thing happen.

More disturbing, I can’t get over how good it felt. I ache for more. I’m not saying ‘ache’ as a metaphor. I want to kiss that man again so bad it hurts. The thought of what might have happened if we hadn’t come to our senses in time scares me, but it excites me too.

Have they been putting something in my food? Something that will make me want to join one of their clans so they can breed? Something that puts my hormones into overdrive so that the slightest clandestine touch makes me eager to be mounted by their men?

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