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Freeday Friday!

Today is the day to get your year’s worth of Free Books by self-pubbed authors like myself. Self-pubbed books bridge the typical genre lines, are able to stretch their wings and give you an experience unlike most books you’d find on the shelf.

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I want to point out to you that my novella, Edge of Desperation is free as well.

Assistant Professor Reggie Wolfe has simple goals: to help his engineering students succeed and to stop male Wielders from falling into Taint without drawing attention from the Bureau of Wielder Services. A select few can Wield the Nerve of the World. Women Wielders do so freely, without any repercussions. For men, it’s another story. They fight Taint and Corruption for the same power.

Reggie’s easy life upends when Kyle, a young male Wielder, lands at his feet, trapped in his Taint and pursued by the very criminal Wielder cults the Bureau is fighting. As the two work to control Kyle’s Taint, Reggie realizes he will do everything he can to help Kyle, even follow him into darkness.

Edge of Desperation is the exciting opening novella to the Wielder World series—gay urban fantasy full of magic, suspense, and dedication born of trial and blood.

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Last day of 30 Days of Christmas Giveaway!

Lex Valentine is holding a m/m giveaway and today is the last day. And guess whose book you’ll find on the giveaway roster! Mine! Plus Emily Carrington and R. Phoenix! Go check it out for a chance to win Edge of Desperation, American Telepath and Too Close.

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Check out the three books on offer and comment to enter into a drawing to receive all three books!

Lex Valentine’s 30 Days of Christmas

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Wielder World Update

Working on a series is a bit more of a challenge than I expected. I have piles of notes on the Wielder World, but things have changed in the writing of Edge of Desperation and Center of Deception, so sometimes my brain is still caught on that original spark, versus the updated, more logical detail.

Afflicted to the Core is coming along. A step up from the two previous stories, this one includes Bethany (Reggie’s older sister), dark shadow conspiracies, more facing of feelings, and a lot more heat.

August, Reggie and Kyle are getting in to trouble, but as they are telling me as I write this, they will do anything for each other. I like that about them.

Keep watch for more updates. Hoping for a good draft by the end of July. Fingers crossed, pen scratching away.

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Cover Reveal for Center of Deception

You’ve met August Whalen in Edge of Desperation, now you can see the world from his eyes in Center of Deception!

August Whalen is the owner of The Black Castle, a bar frequented by male Wielders.  He’s driven to make his father proud and excel in business, bringing in cash from a side import/export business that’s just this side of legal.  Unfortunately, that nose for business can lead him into trouble.

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Center of Deception will be available through Amazon in June.

 

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Brands of Wielding

Only ten more days, and Edge of Desperation is available.  Thank you everyone who has pre-ordered!

An Overview of Powers

Wielders pluck the Nerve of the World, a type of webwork of strands that most Wielders see as ‘out there’.  They reach out with their Wielding senses and strum the Nerve, initiating their Wielding power.

In Edge of Desperation there are three Wielding branches: mind, forces, and enhancement.

  • enhancement Wielders, aka boosters, can enhance their own physical prowess.  Making themselves stronger, faster, tougher.  Their Tracer is a change to the air around them which others can feel.  They have to eat constantly to fuel their power.
  • mind Wielders, aka mentalists, can affect their targets mind.  Often they need eye contact.  They can read minds, or erase minds, or paralyze their target.  Their Tracer is a sound.  They must learn to drown out other distractions to use their power well.
  • force Wielders, aka benders, can manipulate physics.  They can, with invisible force, lift things, push things, pull things.  They are often labeled lifters, pushers or benders, though bender has become the overall name for that branch of Wielding.  Their Tracer is a smell.  They have to build their endurance to Wield much, otherwise they can just pass out from one use.
  • unknown Wielders.  What else is out there? Continue reading the Wielder World series and you might meet more.

 

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Pre-Order: Edge of Desperation!

You can now pre-order Reggie’s novella: Edge of Desperation! at amazon Available, May 25. Get your copy now.

Assistant Professor Reggie Wolfe has simple goals: to help his engineering students succeed and to stop male Wielders from falling into Taint without drawing attention from the Bureau of Wielder Services. A select few can Wield the Nerve of the World. Women Wielders do so freely, without any repercussions. For men, it’s another story. They fight Taint and Corruption for the same power.

Reggie’s easy life upends when Kyle, a young male Wielder, lands at his feet, trapped in his Taint and pursued by the very criminal Wielder cults the Bureau is fighting. As the two work to control Kyle’s Taint, Reggie realizes he will do everything he can to help Kyle, even follow him into darkness.

Edge of Desperation is the exciting opening novella to the Wielder World series—gay romantic urban fantasy full of magic, suspense, and dedication born of trial and blood.

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Edge of Desperation through the grinder

Edge of Desperation has been thoroughly betaed and is now off to the line editors. Soon, Reggie Wolfe and Kyle Landon get to see the light of day. I’m stoked to get my first published work out there. I’m hoping for a release date of early May. Then, following that, Center of Deception, Book Two of the Wielder World will be published. Working hard on this great series. I love these guys! I hope you love them too.

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Cover Reveal for Edge of Desperation

It’s here!  Meet Assistant Professor Reggie Wolfe.  He’s young for his position and gets plenty of attention for it, but he’s a thoughtful professor and wishes to help out his students.  He also wishes to help out male Wielders, of which he is secretly one.  In a world where male Wielders of the Nerve of the World are looked at with fear and disgust, Reggie steps forward to try to make a difference.

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Edge of Desperation will be available through Amazon in May.