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July 24, 2025

FYI about the Twisted Wishes Series

Man performing on music concert. Cheering crowd, fans, entertainment. Music industry. 3D illustration.

Two or so weeks ago, I contacted Carina Press to request my rights back for the Twisted Wishes series. Today, I noticed that Counterpoint had vanished from Amazon, so I assume that they’re starting to pull the books down, in anticipation of a rights reversal.

I’m in the process of reformatting the books and getting new cover art. I also need to rewrite the blurbs. This takes some time, and I expected the reversion process to take a little longer.

The ebooks may be unavailable for a bi...

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Published on July 24, 2025 09:37

May 28, 2025

A Much Needed Update

A view of downtown Pittsburgh I took from the Day Job office earlier this year.

Hello from Pittsburgh. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted anything, huh? When last I posted, I think Scoreless Game was about to come out. Well, that did come out, in print and audio. You can find those everywhere you buy books, including directly from LA Witt’s storefront. Yes, audio is there too. (She sends me half the royalties, don’t worry.)

We’re slowly working on the third book in the On The B...

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Published on May 28, 2025 19:27

February 28, 2023

All those NAMES in the On the Board Series



Isaac gathered the cards at the center of the table. “So, you and me, and Karlsson and Sidorov—Sido?”


I’d never seen Elias roll his eyes quite so hard. “It’s Elias, or Karly.”



Isaac’s sheepish grin was lovely. “Okay.”



Nikki leveled another glare at me before shifting his attention to Isaac. “You can call me Nisha here.” He gestured to the four of us.


So, one thing about hockey is that everyone pretty much has a nickname. Take the Penguins. Evgeni Malkin is Geno or G. Kri...

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Published on February 28, 2023 08:59

February 27, 2023

Scoreless Game is almost here…

Once upon a time, LA Witt and I got an idea for a hockey romance. That was Rookie Mistake. Halfway through writing that book, we knew Julien and Isaac’s teammates, Elias and Nisha, were going to have a book of their own. Scoreless game is that book.

We knew their romance wouldn’t be easy, and boy, it was not. They love each other so much, but are completely oblivious to the other’s adoration. There are reasons for this, of course. The book is also an exploration of how the events of Roo...

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Published on February 27, 2023 15:47

April 25, 2022

New Book Coming Soon: Rookie Mistake

So, I unexpectedly co-authored a book with L.A. Witt at the end of last year/beginning of this year. Wasn’t planned at all. She moved it Pittsburgh recently, and we started going to hockey games together. She got an idea, I got an idea, we mashed them together, and Rookie Mistake came about.

It was not the book we expected to write when we started, but Isaac and Julien had their own plans. 150,000 words later…

Rookie Mistake will be out on June 28th, just in time for the post-Cup off-...

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Published on April 25, 2022 19:33

July 12, 2021

Re-release of the Takeover Series

The entire Takeover series has been re-released, with beautiful new covers by Cate Ashwood, and a very light edit. If you already own these ebooks, there’s no need to buy them again.

The first book, Takeover, also contains the short story A Private Merger, which can also be found here.

Currently, the ebooks are enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, so they’re only available at Amazon. I’ll take them wide again at some point, but they’ve never been in KU before, and it’s a whole different batc...

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Published on July 12, 2021 18:13

June 10, 2021

Update on the Takeover Series

A quick note to state that the Takeover series is temporarily unavailable as ebooks. I received my rights back and will be republishing ebooks of these titles, as well as publishing paperback versions (for the first time ever in English).

Audiobook versions and translations are unaffected.

It’s taking a little bit to reformat the books, but I’ll have them up as soon as I can. I also intend to include Takeover: A Private Merger as a bonus story in Takeover. Other than cleaning up typos I ...

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Published on June 10, 2021 09:37

January 22, 2021

Coming Soon: Cinnamon Roll and the Bold Brew Series

Image of all 10 book covers in the Bold Brew series.

The news is out! I’m part of a multi-author kinky m/m series called Bold Brew, which is set around the Bold Brew coffeeshop, in a small fictional town in western Pennsylvania. Each book in the series intersects in some way with this LGBTQ+ inclusive coffeehouse that serves as a gathering spot for the community and is especially kink-friendly.

For more information about the series as a whole and all the books, please check out this series and cover reveal post at Joyfully Jay! It lists al...

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Published on January 22, 2021 20:27

December 31, 2020

Out with the Old…

2021 celebration party with colorful firecrackers, fireworks and rockets in a starry blue sky with the universe and a thousand stars at night.



It’s been more than a year since I blogged here. Sorry about that.





Part of the reason for my absence was sheer burn-out after writing and releasing Reverb. I love that book, but it did take a lot out of me to write, so much so that all I managed to write after it until this fall was a 10,000 word short story for an anthology.





I’m not going to get into what happened with the anthology. It was released, then pulled, and the rights to the story returned to me. I ended up self-publishing t...

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Published on December 31, 2020 09:22

March 18, 2019

Reverb Excerpt

 

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There’s just a few more weeks until Reverb releases! And today, I have a little sneak peek!

Chapter One

Mish Sullivan hated hospitals. The harsh light, the antiseptic smell, the curtains and lack of privacy, and all the bad memories being in one dredged up. All those times back when she’d been a teen, sitting at her mom’s side, waiting for the inevitable to happen. More recently, she’d sat at Ray’s hospital bed, her heart in her throat for the leader and singer/songwriter of their little...

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Published on March 18, 2019 09:09