Sale on My Backlist at Phaze Books!

Now through December 31, all paperbacks and eBooks at Phaze Books are 40% off. This means you can order my entire Phaze backlist and save big. Phaze offers eBooks in a variety of formats, so you can read these books on different apps and readers. Be sure to use the code HOLIDAY when you check out.

Many of my Dareville romances are available through Phaze Books, so if you're missing some books in the series this is a great time to stock up. There's also some hot M/M and a menage or two. Don't forget to check out other great authors at Phaze, too.

As for current writing, I am still waiting to hear on two recent submissions, one F/F and one M/F with a BBW heroine. I'm 10K into another F/F story and plan to submit that one by year's end. After that, I need to re-release a few stories that came back to me, and set up another M/M print collection. Then it's off to order promo for a few events in 2014. Oh, and I have to bake Christmas cookies before Christmas ends. I'll find the time, I swear.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, if you celebrated. I'd like to host a Christmas giveaway while I'm online, too, so we'll see how that goes.

Special Prize for AAD 2010!

I am very pleased to announce that Mundania/Phaze is offering as part of our raffle basket for the 2010 convention a SIGNED copy of Piers Anthony's Under a Velvet Cloak! If you're a fan of this master of sci-fi/fantasy and are coming to NJ this fall for the event, don't miss your chance to win this prize. Not many copies were signed, so it's truly a collector's item!

We also have donated a good number of Phaze erotic romance titles to give away, a good mix of our finest M/M, paranormal, interracial, and contemporary titles. I couldn't tell you exactly what to expect, so you'll just have to register for Authors After Dark and see what you get. We'll see you this fall!

Getting Ready for Authors After Dark

We have almost a year until the second Authors After Dark conference happens, but I've already started mapping out my plans for the weekend. I do know I'll sit on a few panels, particularly those relating to M/M and F/F writing, and there's a possibility I'll sit on the steampunk one as well. It's fitting, since I'm involved in all three genres at the moment. Through DLP Books and Phaze Books I have M/M releases, and three F/F shorts at DLP which are selling well. It's my hope to sell readers on eBooks in particular, and to take chances on independently published authors who write their favorite genres.

I will have a raffle basket for AAD again, though I'm not sure of the theme. Last year was a hodgepodge of goodies and free books, and as I usually do a theme for other events I should for this one, too. I'm thinking either a pink basket for breast cancer awareness (a favorite charity), or something seasonal. Either way, I hope it will inspire attendees to enter a draw for it.

As for future releases, I have quite a few coming. Enter Sandman and GPS are M/M shorts with Phaze and All Romance respectively, with the latter sold for the benefit of the American Heart Association. Coming Together As Onei will feature a menage short of mine, and Handle With Dare, a cougar story, is due in the spring. Of the group, Sandman has fantastic elements, and is part of a series. You're welcome to check my website and blog for updates.

New Look for a New Season

Seems every few months or so I yearn to change the look of my website. Luckily because I now use a content management system that makes changing themes easy I can do just that without too much hassle. So over the weekend I gave LeighEllwood.com a facelift, which you can see right now. I like the front slide show in particular, which offers a quick breakdown of what's new, what's coming, and what's best to see while you're visiting.

If you've been there lately, you'll know that my next release, Don't Dare the Reaper, is coming next week! I'm very excited to have another Halloween story out with Phaze Books, and I hope it won't be the last. In the meantime, I'm working on something special for Phaze's anniversary. The imprint will turn five on November, and already a few authors have contributed free reads for the occasion. I will as well, only it won't be just a typical story. You'll have to wait and see what it is, though. :)

So I'm off to enjoy the coming fall weather. Hope to see you in New York next month!