New Website is Up and Running!

Okay, yes, I know I should have been writing today.

But the new website is up!

http://www.tymberdalton.com

The new website template is going to change a lot as I figure out what I want to do with it.

Also, please update your feeds: http://www.tymberdalton.com/feed

There are options over on the new website to subscribe if you're already a WordPress member, or if you want to get emails via FeedBurner. There's also a link on the site if you use a different feed reader.

Most everything is over at the "new" site. It let me import posts and comments, and I'm still in the process of reconfiguring my book pages. But the nice thing is, you'll have an easier time now locating series information (once I get it all set up). Every series will have its own page.

Thanks!

Hmm. WordPress, here I come. Again.

I think I might be changing back to a privately hosted WordPress format. I haven't decided for sure yet.

(Which, of course, as we all know means I HAVE decided to do it, but I just haven't slotted it into my massive to-do list yet.)

Yes, yes, I know. For years, I've been a "Blogger is da-shizzle" kind of gal. And I still believe that.

Here's the thing, I had, for years, several reasons for switching back to and using Blogger. And, I STILL think that Blogger is a better alternative than most of the "freebie" sites out there. For starters, there are a shit-ton of freebie templates available for it that you can customize to your heart's content, without having to pay Google/Blogger for the privilege of doing so. I think it's FAR better for an author to stake their URL for their pen name and point it at a Blogger blog than to do anything else with it if their budget is limited. If you can't scrape the cost together of three Starbucks venti drinks to register one .com URL through Godaddy, then I really can't help you with your brand.

And no, this isn't a delayed reaction to the uproar a few months back about Google going after certain "adult" sites (which, really, had nothing to do with erotica authors' sites, they were targeting pay-per-click porn advertisers).

When I jumped off the self-hosted WP platform a few years back, one of the top reasons for me doing so was that I honestly didn't have the time to keep up with security updates. It was a pain in the ass. I was constantly battling to stay one step ahead of hackers. But now, there are so many WP-dedicated hosts out there who do all that stuff for you, for a very reasonable monthly fee, with few/no limits on bandwidth, it doesn't make sense not to look at all the options.

Also, I'm in the process of creating reader guides for my Triple Trouble series and my Suncoast Society series. I want the ability to self-host the downloads, as well as things like my printable book list, without having to depend on other third-party sites for those downloads.

I was happy with Yahoogroups supplying that kind of support, but now they've fucked up beyond all recognition changed how Yahoogroups is set up, and I'd rather have teeth pulled without the benefit of anesthesia than not deal with them. I'm also looking into alternatives for my newsletter/update list, which I could potentially piggyback onto a WP hosting installation.

Another thing is that I'm getting more and more readers emailing me that they can't access my site from work because I've got it tagged as adult in Blogger's system, meaning you get that click through splash screen when you first jump on it in a session. While yeah, some of my content on here isn't necessarily work safe or kid safe, it's not pictures of nekkid people doing stuff you wouldn't want displayed in your living room in mixed company, if you know what I mean. In the grand scheme of things, it's relatively tame. But to keep from running afoul of Blogger's guidelines, I had no problem setting the tag as "adult."

Basically, this is all just a heads-up kind of notice, that if you start seeing changes, or you show up here one day and it's all...different, you'll know why. LOL  So let the cyber-construction/renovations begin!

Blurb for Triple Trouble 6

Right now, it looks like my tentative release date for A Wolf in the Fold (Triple Trouble 6) will be January 27th. Woot!

Today, I turned in the cover form, and here's the long blurb for the book:

Cockatrice, wolfotes, and dragons, oh, my. All Elain wants this Christmas is for life to settle down and give her a break so she can enjoy her three hunky wolf shifter hubbies Ain, Brodey, and Cail, as well as her extended family.

Fat chance of that. Current events are woven from ancient vengeance. The future of the new mega-Clan, and lives of countless innocents, hinge upon the Triad of Elain, Lina, and Mai untangling threads from the tapestry of the past.

Fate's a real bitch...but so is Elain. She isn't a wolf to be trifled with, especially where loved ones are concerned. It's time for her to embrace her heritage and her destiny, and she's determined to do so with open paws. With lives on the line, Elain must dig deeper than ever before and figure out how to walk her new path, or risk losing everything when she discovers lurking amongst them A Wolf in the Fold.

If you have never read the first book in the series (technically the fourth if you count the prequels) Trouble Comes in Threes, it's available at a discount from Siren-BookStrand. Click here.

The reading order for the complete series is as follows:

1. Boiling Point (Tasty Treats, Vol. 3) (Prequel) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
2. Steam (Prequel) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
3. Fire and Ice (Prequel) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
4. Trouble Comes in Threes (Book 1) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
5. Storm Warning (Book 2) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
6. Three Dog Night (Book 3) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
7. Triple Dog Dare (Book 4) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
8. Out of Smoke and Ashes (Book 5) - Buy from Siren-BookStrand | Amazon | Nook | Kobo
9. A Wolf in the Fold (Coming 1/27/14)

(Note: The print versions of books 1 and 2, Trouble Comes in Threes and Storm Warning, are available as one compendium volume.) Most of the books are also available through other third-party vendors like Apple, Sony, and Google.

Also, if you're on Facebook, I have a Facebook page for the Triple Trouble series where I share stuff specifically related to the series. :) (Right now we're looking at pics of guys in kilts. LOL)

https://www.facebook.com/TripleTroubleSeries

Coming Soon: Triple Trouble 6, and other stuff.

So spent a crazy week last week with the Thanksgiving holiday making my deadline on Saturday. But, I did it. Triple Trouble 6 (tentatively titled "A Wolf in the Fold" as long as the publisher doesn't ask for a new title) is submitted to Siren. Yay!

You know, there are three kinds of books. There are books that just seem to fall out your ass (Hope Heals and The Reluctant Dom were such books) easy as in the plots are there, the characters are eager to drag you along, all you have to do is try to type fast enough to keep up with them. There are books that...well, need a little push, a little effort. They need some coaxing (or regular doses of mental fiber).

Then there are books that are the mental equivalent of trying to pass a concrete block.

Sideways.

Yeeeeaaahhhh.

Mentally, it's about the same kind of pain.

A Wolf in the Fold was that kind of book. I had the DAMN THING WRITTEN. I really did. But I didn't submit it, because I was like, hmm. Believe me, I am my own first and worst critique. If I'm not happy with a book, I don't submit it. It's not even that I wasn't "happy" with it, it's just the characters were sitting there, tapping their feet at me, and giving me dirty looks.

So I took a second look at it, and that's when the characters started talking up a storm at me, changing things, adding things. It came in over 120k words (more than double the original length). I ended up taking out a couple of plot points that I'd originally thought the focus was on, and have moved them into the next book. That's when Elain (the main focal heroine) really started to shine and her true story came out.

It's still sort of the same book it was before, only it's fuller and better. There were some minor things I really didn't pick up before that were brought out in the revision that once Elain started going down that road, I realized, yeah, that's the way this should be. I don't think I listened well enough the first time around.

You'll hear me and other writers joke about "the voices," but for me, yeah, that's kind of what it is. I "see" books as movies and write them. I tend to "view" the scenes several times, from several points of view, back and forth, rewinding it and fast-forwarding it until I'm happy with it and write it. In that process, I can filter through the extraneous and not write that. Most of the time, that works, the characters are happy with what I did, end of story (haha).

Not this time. This is why you should not be in a rush to submit (or self-publish) a book. Sometimes, books need a little percolating before they're ready. I'm not saying all books should take twenty years to write (*cough*Out of the Darkness*cough*) but you don't want to be tossing your NanoWriMo books up on Kindle by next week, either.

Anyhoo.

I hope if you're in the US you had a safe and happy Thanksgiving (or a good week if you're elsewhere).

My current WIP in the mental grinder is book 7 in my Suncoast Society BDSM series. I can tell you it's a MF, the hero is Det. William Thomas, who appeared as a minor character in Pinch Me, and that I'm 1.7k into it and already crying as I tried to summarize the plot to Hubby tonight.

Sooo...

Yeah.

(No, nobody dies, don't worry.)

I have warned him that if he hears crying, sniffling, wailing, whatever from my office that he is NOT to interrupt me. Actually, I'm very weird about that. I don't like to cry in front of him for writing-related stuff. (That's just me, not anything to do with him. Yes, I'm weird. I get that.) He was still working when I wrote The Reluctant Dom, so I either did the worst of it while he wasn't home, or after he went to bed. One night he got up at around 3 a.m. walked out and saw me sobbing and pounding away at my laptop, asked, "The Reluctant Dom?" I just nodded and he turned around and went back to bed. LOL I'm just very self-conscious about it when I write, I always have been. Laugh my ass off? Yes. Cry in front of someone while writing? I hate doing that.

I haven't settled on a title yet, but I'm strongly leaning toward Broken Toy, which relates to something the heroine says at one point, as well as relates to something that happens in the book. Not sure if that will be my final title or not. (Yes, I can write a book without settling on the title first. I've had books where I finally had to make myself come up with a title when it was time to submit it. LOL)

So that's where I'm at right now. Bleacke Shifters 2 (case in point, I'm still waffling on titles) is in edits. Yes, there will be a book 7 and beyond in my Triple Trouble series, at least 3 or 4 more books. And don't worry, I was looking at my idea notebook and I've got at least 12 good ideas for future Suncoast Society books, and I'm sure more will come to me. Will be working on more Good Will Ghost Hunting books since Ryan Ausar makes another small guest appearance in Triple Trouble 6 and it jump-started some stuff for that series.

What are you all up to lately? LOL

Available for pre-order: Porpoisefully Yours (Placida Pod 4)

Woot! The latest book in my Placida Pod dolphin shifter series is now available for pre-order. Porpoisefully Yours releases on 11/22 from Siren-BookStrand. It's also my fiftieth book with Siren-BookStrand (if you consider all four of my pen names)!

http://www.bookstrand.com/porpoisefully-yours

Blurb:

[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, sex toys, HEA]

The Samhain superpod is over, but Sean Morita isn’t convinced Erik’s dead. Sean and Emery Nadel are settling into their new home for their first Christmas together, and Sean wants to make it a great one. It should be a happy occasion, but then tragedy strikes another pod, changing their own lives forever.

Emery won’t publicly admit his doubts that Erik’s gone for good. For the time being, he wants to focus on his new responsibilities as the Placida Pod’s Alpha. But how will he and Sean handle the toughest challenge of all—parenthood?

The past returns in an unexpected way, testing the strength of the extended Nadel family and bringing the pod and friends together like never before. Now it’s left to Sean to dig deep inside himself and stand alone to protect everything he holds dear in a desperate showdown that will either rip them apart forever, or finally bring them peace and healing.

A Siren Erotic Romance

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The other three books in the Placida Pod series are:

• Accidentally on Porpoise
• Porpoiseful Intent
• Without Porpoise

And Wyatt's book (the alligator shifter) is in progress. :)

Release Day! "Without Porpoise" (Placida Pod 3)

Happy Monday! :)

Book 3 in my Placida Pod series, Without Porpoise, is available from Siren-BookStrand:

http://www.bookstrand.com/without-porpoise

(Note: If you have a Kindle and don't want to wait the 4-6 weeks it takes a book to get there, you can buy straight from Siren-BookStrand and they'll send the .prc version directly to your device. Here are the instructions on how to do that.)

[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, sex toys, HEA]

Sean Morita is settling in as Emery Nadel’s mate as the Samhain superpod grows near. They are helping with the preparations, but there’s still a murderous dolphin shifter on the loose, forcing everyone to take precautions. Emery’s dad will appoint him the new pod Alpha during the celebrations…as long as everything goes according to plan.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Erik’s still scheming to ruin Emery for rejecting him in favor of picking a human as his mate. He throws in his lot with a dangerous Mexican pod intent on taking over the Placida Pod as a way to smuggle drugs into the country.

Now Sean and Emery are faced with joining forces with their wide network of friends, as well as the dolphins’ natural enemies, to try to rescue their abducted fathers. Will they be able to keep their families and the pod from being cruelly ripped apart, or can they rescue the men before the pod is left Without Porpoise?

A Siren Erotic Romance

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

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The other books in the series are:

1 - Accidentally on Porpoise
2 - Porpoiseful Intent

Book 4, Porpoisefully Yours, releases on 11/22. I'm also working on book 5, which will be Wyatt's story (and a mf instead of a mm book).

They are available in e-book format, as well as print (in a combined volume), from BookStrand, Amazon, B&N, and others.

You can find my BookStrand releases under all my pen names on my author page at:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

Or you can hit my Amazon page if that's your vendor of preference.

Thanks!

"Hope Heals" available for pre-order.

 Hope Heals (mfm) was just posted on BookStrand's site for pre-order:

http://www.bookstrand.com/hope-heals

Blurb:

[Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, HEA]

Sarah’s world shatters when her husband is killed in the wreck that injures her young son, Jason. Worse, Sarah discovers painful betrayals that make remaining in New York City with her hateful mother-in-law impossible. Moving home to Florida to live with her widowed father is their only option.

You can go home again, but it’s not the home she remembers. The hunky next door neighbors are also her new employers, cousins Sam and Pete Hope. She went to school with the men, but they’re all grown up. It’s soon clear they have their sights set on winning her heart.

Unfortunately, her mother-in-law doesn’t give up quite so easily. She’s determined to get Sarah and Jason back to New York by any means necessary. Despite an escape-artist steer nicknamed Moodini, asshole ninja assassin pet goats, and learning how to love again, Sarah rebuilds her and Jason’s lives and soon discovers that, just maybe, two Hopes can heal her heart better than one.

Note: There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among cousins.

A Siren Erotic Romance

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

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You can read an excerpt for Hope Heals on the BookStrand site, too. :)

The good...and the bad.

Life is a bunch of goods and bads and, somewhere in the middle, it all evens out, I guess. Right now is one of those "evening out" times. At least I hope it works out like that.

Tallied in the "good" column is a new book coming out this Friday, and this past weekend spent at FetishCon with Sir, a desperately needed weekend "off" where I could just put the world on hold and try to relax and take a break.

I say try, because that's where the bad column comes in.

Our eldest dog, Scudder, who we've had since the day he turned eight weeks old, is unfortunately going downhill fast. He has a bad hip and he won't even get up now. We have to struggle to get him to eat, and he'll let us know he has to go out so we can take him outside--meaning carry him outside--but that's all. He's sixteen and was the first service dog puppy we raised. (He flunked for a variety of issues, so they let us keep him.)

Scudder, Christmas 2012

He's not just been our pet. He's been friend, confidant, the one ready with a wagging black Lab tail to try to cheer us up. My soul friend, and even familiar. Countless tears have been cried into his coat over the years by all three of us. He was always the one to come to us first when one of our other furbabies went to the Rainbow Bridge, there to comfort us with those big, sweet brown eyes.

I even immortalized him, and one of our other dogs, Tessa (who passed in 2010) in one of my stories (Puppy Dog Eyes) by naming characters after them.

Despite the trials of puppyhood, when he ate linoleum in both our kitchen and master bathroom, among other things, he grew to become a great dog, usually glued to me when I was home, and usually the first to step forward with a warning growl if he thought I was being threatened. In his younger days, he was a counter cruiser extraordinaire, including several pairs of kitchen shears (ate the handles), food, paper plates, dirty diapers he fished out of the garbage (prompting revamps of having to hide the garbage cans from him), and underwear. He used to love to fetch the newspaper for us (one of the tasks he learned how to do well in his initial training before flunking), and plenty of times, Hubby and I would deliver cards to each other by giving it to Scudder and sending him after the other.

It's been reasonably calm around here since 2011, when we had to send our bulldog, Bubbles, to the Rainbow Bridge, due to cancer, not too long after my grandfather died. (Yeah, that was a sucky year, because a friend of ours ended up getting sick and dying of cancer later that year.)

Hubby and I are both having a hard time with this. And it's times like this that the true depths of friendship come into play. I think some people assume since we have an alternative lifestyle that it's all about fun and games and kinky shit. The truth is, I'd say over 80% of our relationship is "vanilla." Maybe closer to 90%. Sir offered to go with us to the vet, if needed, or even to take him for us if we didn't think we could.

That's friendship. Today when we got home from our weekend at FetishCon, Sir took a few minutes to sit with Scudder to love up on him and say goodbye to him. We're going to take him ourselves in the next couple of days, but I'm sure my two-legged black Lab (Sir) will be consoling me and Hubby both over the coming days. So those are good and bad column tallies that cancel each other out.

Scudder, 8/18/13

When I say we're a family, we are. We call ourselves a "pack" for reasons just like this. And it's all about love and friendship. The other stuff we do is incidental to all of that.

We're not sure what day we're doing it yet. I have to call our vet tomorrow and talk to them. But with all this happening, I have a job to do, yet it feels wrong to sit there pumping out promo for a new release when all I want to do is sit here and cry. Even Gidget and Apache, our other two dogs, are hovering around us and Scudder.

The cats, of course, are cats. LOL As long as they're fed and their litter is clean, they don't care about what happens in dog world, even though they share the same turf.

Hug your furbabies. And your human loved ones. Life is short, even when it's filled with 16 years of love.

"Hope Heals" coming soon from Siren-BookStrand! (And gotta pimp my Hubby...)

Woot! It's a happy Monday. :) I got the email today from Siren that they've accepted my latest submission, Hope Heals (mfm, contemporary, funny LOL). No firm release date yet, just a September/October range. I'll let you know when it's assigned a release date.

For a preview, you can go to this WIP Wednesday post about it. (Not many books I get to use the phrase "killer goat posse" in them. LOL)

Don't have the blurbs ready yet, but the short version is that after the death of her husband in a auto wreck that nearly killed her young son, too, a woman has to move back home to Florida from New York. And while you can go home again, sometimes it's not the same as you remember. Like the fact that her widowed father now has livestock that have seemingly conspired to either kill her or drive her crazy. Maybe both. And her next door neighbors are the hunky Hope cousins, who she'd secretly lusted after in high school.

I'm sure you can suss the basics. :)

Now to the Hubby pimpage. (No, not like THAT.)

Hubby is also a writer. And he's going to be self-publishing his first book, writing as Jon Dalton, titled Dancing on a Tightrope. It's a mystery series centering on main character Wolf Mallory, who's retired military and now a PI living in coastal southwest Florida. Think Mickey Spillane meets Travis McGee. (And Hubby even let me borrow Wolf to be a secondary character in one of my mysteries that I'm going to self-pub, too. LOL)

I did the cover for him, and yes, expect further pimpage from me about the book once it's released. :) We're in the editing phase at this point.

And also, yes, if you're wondering about the pen name... LOL Actually, "Dalton" came from him picking it first, years ago, when he first started writing the book. I wanted a pen name that, in part, matched his. So I made up "Tymber" and used Dalton. :)

(OMG, yes, we are SOOO "that" disgusting couple who's still in love sixteen years later and does gooey sweet stuff like that. LOL)

Pttpphhpp. LOL

This book actually holds a special place in my heart. We originally met on the Novels-L critique list on the Internet Writing Workshop. I was doing crits of this book for him, and he was critting my earlier version of Red Tide. Eventually, we met in person at a writing conference and it was love at first sight. :)

New book list posted.

I FINALLY got my printable book list updated and ready. And this time I used different colors to group and separate the series from each other to make it easier to see. (I also added Love Slave for Two: Family Matters, which I didn't realize I'd omitted from the earlier version, yikes!) I've also added a "coming soon" section to it for easy reference.

You can grab it easily from the Yahoo newsletter group, which is located at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TymberDalton_updates/

I've also uploaded it to Google Drive. Here's the link, hopefully it works because I've never shared a file publicly like this before. LOL

It's in the Files section (if you're a member already) but I also set it to automatically send the file to new members, so you should get it if you join. (You can also add your email address to the subscribe box in the right column, and it'll take you to the same place.)

No, I don't sell, share, rent, or otherwise distribute email addresses. (I hate spam as much as you, believe me!)

Thanks!

Out of Smoke and Ashes (Triple Trouble 5) now available for Kindle.

Woot! Out of Smoke and Ashes (Triple Trouble 5) is now available at the Kindle store. (Unfortunately, I don't know how long it'll take to hit other third-party outlets. Kindle usually goes live first because Amazon has their act together. LOL) You can buy other formats directly from Siren-BookStrand, however, if you don't want to wait for it to make it to other third-party outlets.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIDADDK

Many Blessings (Coffeeshop Coven 1) Available for Pre-Order

The next installment of my Coffeeshop Series, Many Blessings (Book 1) is now available for pre-order from Siren-BookStrand. (And yes, this is the book containing the accidental blowjob that I've been teasing everyone about. *grin*)

http://www.bookstrand.com/many-blessings

Blurb:

Mandaline Royce swore off love. She’s happy working for her best friend, Julie, at her New Age shop, Many Blessings. Then her life’s turned upside down by Julie’s tragic death. Julie leaves her everything, including the shop and her dog, but the gaping hole in Mandaline’s heart isn’t one she’s sure will ever heal.

Ellis Fargo and Bradley Sawyer are as close as brothers. Ellis feels his life’s mission is caring for Brad, a former veteran who suffered debilitating injuries. Brad insists their house is haunted. Ellis doesn’t believe in ghosts and thinks the trouble is Brad’s injured brain. He humors Brad by having Mandaline check the house for supernatural issues.

Ellis doesn’t understand the sudden, scorching attraction he has for Mandaline, but he can’t settle for anyone who won’t also put Brad first. Brad thinks Mandaline would be the perfect woman…for them both. Can they help each other heal and turn their various emotional wounds into Many Blessings?

While all the books are standalone and can be read independently of each other, the best reading order for the series is:

Out of the Darkness (Coffeeshop Coven prequel)
It's a Sweet Life (Coffeeshop Coven prequel)
Many Blessings (Coffeeshop Coven 1)

They're all available at my author page on Siren-BookStrand's site:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

You can go to my Siren-BookStrand author page and click on the Notify Me link to get an email from Siren when they update my page and add new books for pre-order. (It's also where you can find all my releases under my various pen names: Tymber Dalton, Lesli Richardson, Tessa Monroe, and Macy Largo.)

"The Denim Dom" available for pre-order!

Woot! Siren-BookStrand has The Denim Dom up for pre-order! *Snoopy dance!*

http://www.bookstrand.com/the-denim-dom


Blurb:

Who needs leather when you can have denim? A denim Dom, that is.

Shayla Pierce dumped her lying ex and moved to Florida to start a job at a magazine. An assignment to write about BDSM leads her to discover a new world and make a slew of new friends, including the sinfully sexy Tony Daniels. She’s just not sure she can ever trust again.

Tony is used to teaching about BDSM, but he’s never trained a submissive he wasn’t dating before. After losing hope he’ll ever find the perfect submissive for him, Shayla walks into his life and asks him to train her for her series of articles. He knows about her bad break-up and their agreement is supposed to be nothing more than business. But as she raises the ante, he’s finding it harder to keep his heart under lock and key.

Will Shayla stay a hostage to her past, or allow Tony to become her Denim Dom?

Have a Kindle? No, you do NOT have to wait for my books to hit Amazon. Just sign up for a Siren account and input your device's email address, and they'll send the files to you. No more waiting! :) http://www.sirenbookstrand.com/customers/kindle.htm

Have a Nook?

Have a Kobo?

Have an iPad? iPhone or iPod?

They also have links on their site for Sony, Android, Blackberry, and PC.

Newsletter contest coming soon...

I know some of you subscribe to the Feedburner emails that let you know when I've updated the website, but are you also a member of my newsletter? If not, you'll want to be. I'm going to be running a contest soon only for the members of my newsletter.

Subscribe to TymberDalton_updates

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So please make sure you don't miss out! :)

"Spider Bight" (DSMC3) coming tomorrow! :)

Woot! Tomorrow is the big day for the release of the third installment of my Deep Space Mission Corps series, "Spider Bight!" You can pre-order it from Siren-BookStrand now so that it's waiting for you as soon as it's released. :)

http://www.bookstrand.com/spider-bight


Blurb:

(mmmf with mf and mm, sci-fi/futuristic, anal sex/play, and a killer Halloween prank)

When the Tamora Bight is diverted from a scheduled mission to conduct a rescue operation and tow a disabled Kal’moran vessel, the crew’s also ordered to refer to Emi as the ship’s captain. Aaron, Caph, and Ford aren’t delighted to learn Kal’moran is a luxury resort planet for women, run by women. They’re even less pleased when they’re diplomatically obligated to visit the Kal’moran capital with Emi.

Emi tries to maintain objectivity, but finds it hard to remain agreeable while being shown around a planet that treats males as little more than pack animals. Unfortunately, a jealous, scheming Kal’moran sets her sights on obtaining Aaron, Caph, and Ford by any means necessary when Emi refuses to share.

Now Emi must fight to save her men from a Kal’moran warrior who’ll stop at nothing to win. And on a planet that houses deadly arachnid-like creatures, Emi’s going to show them she can be even more formidable than any Spider Bight.

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

The correct reading order is:

1) Love at First Bight
2) Bightmares
3) Spider Bight
4) Out of Bight, Out of Mind (coming Nov. 2012)

You can find all my Siren releases as Tymber Dalton, Lesli Richardson, Macy Largo, and Tessa Monroe on my Siren page at:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

Hunkering down...

Ugh. I hate hurricane season. Fortunately, Isaac will personally be more of an annoyance than a  serious problem. I can't say that for the rest of our area. We aren't in a flood zone, but as the RNC found out, downtown Tampa is. Not to mention Pinellas county is a peninsula connected to other land by four bridges and a narrow, heavily-populated strip of land. That contains a major evacuation route.

And what idiot decided it'd be a good idea to house the RNC delegates over on the other side of the bay, anyway? There are plenty of good hotels right in downtown Tampa...uh, within BLOCKS of the Forum and Convention Center. Good grief. Most local governments and schools are closed tomorrow because of the storm, and the RNC's opening day has been pushed to Tuesday.

Yeah, let's hold a week-long convention in Florida...at the height of hurricane season...in downtown Tampa...which is prone to flooding.

Asshats.

I went down and boarded up our other house yesterday as a precaution, and of course I'm paying for it today. Everything hurts. I find it ironic that "Love Slave for Two: Reckoning" releases tomorrow, and in it, Nevvie and her brood must deal with a killer hurricane bearing down on the Tampa Bay region.

And when I wrote it, just a short time later, TS Debbie hit the area, causing similar flood damage in some of the areas that I predicted in my book.

So here we go again.

I fear for the folks in New Orleans. As of this writing, the track is still shifting, but it looks like wherever it hits will get whacked in a big way. This s a huge storm.

So Hubby and I are snugly hunkered down. I'm scrambling to finish two WIPs to get them submitted by the end of the month, as well as a set of edits. I'm feeling a little melancholy about "Reckoning" being the last installment of the "Love Slave for Two" series, but it means I can get some of my other series finished up.

Click here to buy "Love Slave for Two: Reckoning."

"Domme by Default" available for pre-order!

My book "Domme by Default" is being re-released by Siren-BookStrand and is now available on their website for pre-order:

http://www.bookstrand.com/domme-by-default

Blurb:

[Siren Classic: Erotic Consensual BDSM Romance, pegging, sex toys, HEA]

Kinky never looked so normal.

When a wife is faced with the question of what she is willing to do for love, her answer is…anything. She sets aside her own inhibitions to fulfill her husband's wildest fantasies.

But at what cost to her peace of mind? What do you do when you’ve been appointed your husband’s Domme by Default?

Warning: This story includes erotic M/F BDSM sex and related activities including anal play/sex/toys, a home improvement–challenged husband, a snarky, sarcastic wife, and the portrayal of a kinder, gentler side of BDSM.

NOTE: This book was previously published with another publisher.

A Siren Erotic Romance

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

You can find all my Siren releases as Tymber Dalton, Lesli Richardson, Macy Largo, and Tessa Monroe on my Siren page at:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

Coming Soon: "Love Slave for Two: Reunions"

I realized yesterday as I was briefly basking in my relief at having submitted "Love Slave for Two: Reckoning (Bk. 4)" to my publisher that I don't think I've officially announced release dates lately. LOL (Although I do keep the Coming Soon page updated.)

• July 2: "More Than Make-Believe"
• July 9: "Good Will Ghost Hunting: Demon Seed (Book 1)"
• July 16: "Good Will Ghost Hunting: Hell's Bells (Book 2)"
• July 30: "Love Slave for Two: Reunions (Book 3)"

Remember, you can go to my author page at Siren-BookStrand and click on the Notify Me link at the top of the page to sign up for emails. As soon as they add one of my books for pre-order, you'll get an email. AND, don't forget, if you have Kindle (or Nook or whatever) you CAN order my books directly from Siren and not wait months for third-party distribution. If you have a Kindle, they have a link on their page telling you how to set up your Siren account so the Kindle book is emailed directly to your device. No waiting! :)

Also, you can enter your email address into the box over on the right column where it says Easy Email Stalkage. You'll get an email from the feed when I've updated my website, and you won't miss a blog update.

You can also subscribe to my newsletter (announcement only): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TymberDalton_updates/

And if you missed it, I do now have a readers chat loop in addition to my newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TymbersTrybe/

Don't forget to get your registration in for The Romance Convention in Dallas in August!! :) You'll be able to meet me and a bunch of my fellow Siren authors. I'm going to be signing books and handing out goodies, as well as teaching a class on BDSM. It'll be a party! :) 

Latest Updates...

Wow, it's been a crazy few weeks around Chez Dalton. Good crazy, but still crazy. (Eh, crazier.)

I moved my entire backlist of previously released books over to Siren-BookStrand once the contracts expired and the rights were returned to me, and we've been in an edit/release cycle. Add to that I've been playing catch-up like mad with my writing, and getting ready to teach at The Romance Convention in Dallas in August, and I don't know if I'm coming or going. :)

Okay, quick run-down on my recent releases, in case you missed any:

• Out of the Darkness
• Red Tide
• Fire and Ice (Triple Trouble Prequel)
• Triple Dog Dare (Triple Trouble 4)
• The Reluctant Dom
• Cardinal's Rule (in pre-order at a discount, releases 6/18)
• Opening a Vein for Fun and Profit (non-fiction)

Coming from Siren-BookStrand in the next couple of months:

• Love Slave for Two: Reunions (Book 3) (July 30)
• Good Will Ghost Hunting: Demon Seed (Book 1)
• Good Will Ghost Hunting: Hell's Bells (Book 2)
• More Than Make-Believe
• Domme by Default

So you don't miss a single Siren-BookStrand release, go to my author page there and click the Notify Me link at the top of the page. They'll send you an email as soon as one of my books is uploaded for pre-order.

And you do NOT have to wait until these books hit the respective third-party outlets like Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc. either. If you have a Kindle, Siren has great instructions (and I linked to them all HERE) on how to get the books sent directly to your Kindle by setting up your account with your Kindle's email address. If you have a different device, buy the format you need and just transfer it to your device.

What's my current status on WIPs? I'm working on "Love Slave for Two: Reckoning (Book 4)", the next books in the Triple Trouble series, and "The Denim Dom" (Tony's story). Also, working on "Spider Bight (DSMC Book 3)" and a couple of others. I always have more than one project in the mix, and there are even more WIPs than that in the queue. Those are the ones screaming at me the loudest right now though. LOL

So there's a quick update for everyone in case you missed the news. Don't forget, you can add your email address to the Easy Email Stalkage box over in the top of the right-hand column and an update will be emailed to you when I update my website. Also, you can click on the Newsletter link to subscribe to my email newsletter (announcement only, Yahoogroups).

Thanks! :) Now I'm crawling back to my writer's cave to get some more work done. :)

"Red Tide" releases tomorrow!

I'm so excited, my newest release, "Red Tide," comes out tomorrow! You can pre-order it now so as soon as it's available, you can download it without waiting. :)

http://www.bookstrand.com/red-tide

Blurb:


[Siren Classic: Erotic Romantic Suspense, HEA]

Dive charter captain Mitch Jackson is ready to divorce her cheating ex and take a chance on romance with friend and business partner Ed Grey. She's tired of her love life being on hold. Truth be told, she's always carried a torch for Ed, but worried that their age difference made Ed think of her as the kid he knew.

Ed has silently loved Mitch for years. Her impending divorce will finally give him a chance to voice his true emotions. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. When they stumble upon a sunken drug vessel, a desperate criminal who's closer to them than they realize wants to send Mitch to a permanent watery grave.

Now, Mitch and Ed are on the run from a wily serial killer intent on stopping Mitch from testifying. Will their love survive a murderer's vengeance, or will he spill their blood on another Red Tide?

Note: This book contains excessive violence.

A Siren Erotic Romance

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

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You can find all my Siren releases as Tymber Dalton, Lesli Richardson, Macy Largo, and Tessa Monroe on my Siren page at:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton