Megan Derr's Blog: with what I most enjoy

I should know how to behave and not behave. Anybody in MM Romance will be happy to tell you I have a long and sordid history of pissing people off, picking fights, and generally running my mouth off whenever I feel something needs to be said.

I've been writing for nearly twenty years, so trust me, that's a lot of people pissed off. I consider myself retired from shenanigans these days, because I just don't have the spoons anymore, as the kids say. Ten years of publishing, nearly twenty of writin...

https://mailchi.mp/c5e086647526/new-release-old-release-paperbacks

So Tess Sharpe posted a twitter discussion recently about writing books for love vs. writing books for money. But the main take away, for me, right from the get go and throughout the whole discussion, is that she pitted them against each other. You can write for love, where a book is about you and your readers, OR for money, where you (the author) are taken out of the equation. But she generally seems to believe, at least to go by her discussion, that a book cannot be written for both love an...

There are certain arguments/attitude problems that the romance genre deals with on a regular basis. They crop up so often, in the same worn, smelly cheap suit, that we largely just roll our eyes and move on.

But the words still hurt, still frustrate, and sometime still enrage because we are tired of being willfully misunderstood. Of being talked down to, and ridiculed, and dismissed, like a bad dog too stupid to figure out what it's doing wrong.

Romance is "just" porn, that's a classic. Ju...

First up, a freebie and a 99¢ read


Amazon | Smashwords | B&N | Kobo | Payhip | Gumroad
This is 1500 word short that I wrote for a tumblr prompt that crossed my dash. It's about a bodyguard who can't help but unprofessionally admire the king they're guarding.

It's supposed to be free, but Amazon is being dumb. So I recommend downloading it elsewhere until Amazon catches up. I wish they'd just let us mark shit as free instead of playing the pricematch game.


Amazon | Smashwords | B&N | Kobo...

For Queenwicky009, in thanks for all the lovely art 

Since peeps are already finished with Mercenaries, here's a ficbit I wrote at A.M. Valenza's request ;3 The timeline is a bit dicey, but I'll sort it out after I finish Penitent.

*****


Jac whistled as she crossed the military pavilion, mind flitting between the fact the dining hall was serving her favorite that night—well, one of her favorites—and that in just a couple more hours, her men would be free for the night and all three of them for the next two days.
She had plans, and every single one...

There are things that have come up, being a publisher, than I did not anticipate though frankly I should have.

One of those, sadly, is the passing of an author.

Early in the year, we were contacted by Robin Gallica, who requested reversion of rights because she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and didn't want the rights issue to be one more thing for her family to deal with.

She was a new author, who wrote a wonderful fairy tale about a princess and the transgender man she falls in love w...

Welcome back to the Harken Empire
------------------------------------------------------------


Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon
The fourth book in the Tales of the High Court is officially up for pre-order (https://lessthanthreepress.com/books/...) . Like the last book, this one brings in a foreign country. Unlike all the others, this one does not focus on nobility, but on soldiers and a certain secretary. I hope you enjoy it whe...

Welcome back to the Harken Empire
------------------------------------------------------------



Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon

The fourth book in the Tales of the High Court is officially up for pre-order (https://lessthanthreepress.com/books/...) . Like the last book, this one brings in a foreign country. Unlike all the others, this one does not focus on nobility, but on soldiers and a certain secretary. I hope you enjoy it when it comes out in November!

Patreon

My patreon is up and running! For those not already familiar, the lowest tier is enjoying the newest Anti-Heroes book, about Byron and Leland. The second-lowest tier gets to read a chapter of Dance in the Storm once a month. And the other tiers have equally awesome offerings. Check it out if you're inclined (https://www.patreon.com/meganderr) ! I've put the blurbs below!

* * *

Close Enough to Touch

Leland has always lived a life apart, never willing to get too close to anyone for fear of what might happen should the wrong people learn just how powerful he really is. Then his own reputation led to a friend paying the price, and he'll do anything to get her back.

Even if it means breaking all his rules to align himself with exactly the kind of troublemakers he'd always avoided as strenuously as he's avoided the G.O.D. Even if it means sharing space with Byron Valentine, the beautiful, mysterious leader of the group fighting to destroy the G.O.D., a man who makes Leland wish he could have the normal life his own abilities have always denied him.

Dance in the Storm

Sable Brennus, Prince of Storms, is not a demon to be trifled with; he has endured hell, centuries trapped in a mirror, and far worse at the hands of overreaching humans who learned too late the price of their arrogance. SHe commands an immense, powerful territory, has the greatest collection of grimoires in the world, and his consort, Christian, is a half-ghost witch that few are stupid enough to cross.

But Christian is also his greatest weakness, and when he is kidnapped Sable is prepared to tear the whole world apart to find him—especially when the price of his return is one of Sable's most dangerous Grimoire's, a book that contains a demon which devours whoever opens it, a demon that is one of the most powerful in existence.

If Sable is going to keep the book out of dangerous hands, and bring Christian home safe, it will take every friend and ally they have—and even a few myths and legends…


* * *


I am also, because I can, giving a shout-out to my marvelous wife and her recent releases - two are rereleases of fairytales she wrote for Fairytales Slashed a few years ago. The other is brand new, about a sleeping princess, and the countess she falls in love with!

* The Dragon of Bellerose Island (https://t.co/LkUgei15Lp)

* The Cursebreaker Countess (https://www.amazon.com/Cursebreaker-C...)

* A Charmed Heart (https://t.co/Zu76SQyiTl)

And that's all I have for this month. Everyone have a good September!

<3
Meg