Memorial Day Weekend Sale

Memorial Day weekend sale

On Monday, it’s Memorial Day, and to celebrate JMS-Books is having a weekend sale where all ebooks are 40% off. The cool thing – there are a lot of cool things, but from an egocentric perspective – both Elevator Pitch and Crazy Joe are up for pre-order!

My release schedule is pretty full (not that I’m complaining) the coming weeks, and I’m a little behind on posting about the coming stories since Black Bird just was published. But, today I’ve made pages for both Elevator Pitch and Crazy Joe where you can read a little excerpt, and here you can see the covers and blurbs.

All my books published through JMS-Books are 40% off until Monday.


elevator pitch

Bjorn Ritter only wants one thing – to live his life away from nosey, demanding bears. That’s easier said than done when you’re the son of the female running the Bayside Bear Community. Cecil Baxter might be a bat, but he grew up away from shifter communities and he’s doing his best to continue to keep his distance. Shifters aren’t an accepting bunch and Cecil has never fit the norm.

Already facing a dreaded meeting with his mother, the last thing Bjorn needs is a stranger using his elevator to escape a pack of werewolves. And Cecil, whose day just seems to be getting worse and worse, could really do without the added stress of finding himself trapped in an elevator with a huge bear shifter.

Still, what could go wrong in three minutes?

Read an excerpt.

Release date: June 6


Crazy Joe

Abe Cooper is starting over. For fifteen years he’s lived the life that was expected of him, but not anymore. He’s packed up his things, bought himself a cabin in Northfield, and managed to secure a job at the local high school teaching gym and coaching the football team. But his new beginning didn’t include running into Crazy Joe on his first trip to the grocery store.

Jonas Raghnall has everything he needs—good friends and a job he loves. He’s worked hard to get over what happened sixteen years ago, but one run-in with his past and all the memories come flooding back. Seeing Abe Cooper, The Abe Cooper, sets everything out of balance.

Abe had pictured a fresh start with no ties to his past, but now that Jonas is there, he wants nothing more than to be close to the man who had butterflies filling his belly when he was in high school. Jonas doesn’t want to come face to face with his past, but if he sees Abe every day, it’s not really meeting up with your past, is it? It’s more like a date with your future.

Read an excerpt.

Release date: June 20

 

 

 

Chicken Soup | Mel Bossa

Are you spending your days reading, immersing yourself in long series to distract yourself from the world situation? Or are you like me and have a hard time to focus on anything for more than a few minutes?

If you’re like me, or just want to take a short break between books, I have a cute little read for you. I dedicated February to short reads and Nell Iris recommended Chicken Soup by Mel Bossa. If you haven’t read anything by Ms Iris, check her out. Especially if you’re on the lookout for shorter reads.

But now to the story I should be talking about – Chicken Soup by Mel Bossa. It’s ‘only’ 14 pages long, but oh so cute. It’s Pride week and Jimmy is in a bar celebrating his friend’s birthday. He’s not feeling well, his throat is scratchy and he should be home in bed, but there is this guy…

Nolan moved to the city not too long ago, and the next day he’s to be in the Pride parade, dancing. He exited and wants Jimmy to come watch. Jimmy says he will, but when morning comes that scratchy throat is worse.

I’m not gonna say anything more about it because then I’ll ruin everything, but it’s super cute.

Now, this would be perfect for my A – Z Title Challenge, but I already had a book on C.

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Chicken SoupThough Jimmy’s ill and isn’t getting any better, he hopes to have a bit of fun during Pride weekend. When he meets Nolan, a young dancer in the parade, Jimmy takes a chance on making himself vulnerable for the first time in years.

What Jimmy doesn’t expect is how strong Nolan will make him feel with a simple gesture of support.

Note: This short story was originally published in the charity collection, Love Is Proud.

Spring Books | Ofelia Gränd

On the news this morning, they declared that we now have spring – metrological, that is. It’s a bit tricky, but according to what they said, we haven’t actually had winter this year (in my area). For it to be winter, there have to be five days in a row where the middle temperature doesn’t go above 0c.

It didn’t happen this year. It’s crazy. We haven’t had snow that has lasted more than a few hours.

blue flowerSo technically, we’ve had spring since autumn, but it isn’t allowed to be called spring until we’ve hit the 15th of February. So now it’s been a week since the 15th and we haven’t had one single minute below 0 degrees celsius – so it’s spring!

I should probably say ‘yay!’ but I feel cheated. The kids haven’t been able to play in the snow for a single day. Terrible.

But, now we’re gonna be positive because that’s who we are LOL.

All this talk about seasons made me think about my books. I was a bit afraid to check, I feared I wouldn’t have any spring or summer stories. I mean, I know I have a few, but I had this feeling of Once in May being the only spring tale I’ve ever written, and Nine Stones being the only summer story.

But, luckily, I forget what I write LOL

So, if you want to make a false start on spring (if we’re gonna go by the calendar, spring is 1st of March to 31st of May in the Northern Hemisphere) these are my spring books:

laughOnce in a Forest (Nortown #2) – Jason, a bartender from the city, comes to Nortown and spots Tom, a gruff lumberjack. It’s an out-for-you kind of story.

The Empty Egg (Nortown #2.5) – Aiden and Tristan from Once in a Snowstorm are celebrating Easter with chocolate and lingerie.

Once in May (Nortown #3) – John is trying to isolate himself in Nortown, but then Zach shows up, and he just won’t go away. A hurt-comfort story.

Acronym (A Tattooed Corpse Story) – Detective Lars Horn has a problem, there is a body that keeps disappearing from the morgue only to come back in fresh again.

Blood on Sand (A DRitC story) – Zoe is a lizard shifter held captive by werewolves and is forced to fight like a gladiator.

Okay, so five was all I had, ha! I think it’s safe to say, spring isn’t the season during which most of my stories take place. If you click the title, you’ll be taken to the page for the book, and there you’ll find excerpts and more links.

Happy spring!