Tuesday 22 May 2012

Worlds Apart - released today

My paranormal erotic romance, an MMF menage, is out today. It's set in West Yorkshire in Ilkley.

http://store.samhainpublishing.com/worlds-apart-p-6817.html?osCsid=dc4d3d2fe82322621921fda6d46f3896

Love has never been so close—or seemed so far away.

I love you. Niall is in hiding, but not from the police. He’s trapped between the world he longs for and a place he can’t leave behind. Cursed to hold his tongue, unable to claim what he wants until it’s given, he’s allowed one year to capture his heart's desire. But speaking those three simple words, the most important words in his life, might very well kill him.

I can’t love you. As a private investigator, Taylor walks daily through the ashes of love burned out. He’s witnessed the aftermath of love—destroyed marriages and wrecked lives that leave behind nothing but bitter memories of betrayal. He’s convinced that love will never plant a seed in his heart—until Niall sparks a completely unexpected reaction in both mind and body.

I want to love you
. Roo has spent her entire life bouncing from relationship to relationship, offering her heart only to get it trampled on. When she finds herself out in the cold again, she discovers love can come from the most surprising of places. Her choices are simple. Do the right thing. Do the wrong thing. Do nothing. The wrong choice could be simply devastating…

Product Warnings
Beware faeries with killer tattoos and girls dressed as chickens—broken hearts can follow… Or lots of love. And lots of sex—three-way, two-way, every which way. But no chicken sex. Thank god. 

Saturday 12 May 2012

Sunday's Child by Rosemary Morris

I am delighted to announce the publication of my traditional Regency novel Sunday's Child.

I'll blow my own trumpet. My writing has been compared to that to Georgette Heyer.

Blurb re:Sunday's Child to be publishing by MuseItUp in June


Georgianne Whitley’s beloved father and brothers died in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. While she is grieving for them, she must deal with her unpredictable mother’s sorrow, and her younger sisters’ situation caused by it.
    
Georgianne’s problems increase when the arrogant, wealthy but elderly Earl of Pennington, proposes marriage to her for the sole purpose of being provided with an heir. At first she is tempted by his proposal, but something is not quite right about him. She rejects him not suspecting it will lead to unwelcome repercussions.
    
Once, Georgianne had wanted to marry an army officer. Now, she decides never to marry ‘a military man’ for fear he will be killed on the battlefield. However, Georgianne still dreams of a happy marriage before unexpected violence forces her to relinquish the chance to participate in a London Season sponsored by her aunt.
    
Shocked and in pain, Georgianne goes to the inn where her cousin Sarah’s step-brother, Major Tarrant, is staying, while waiting for the blacksmith to return to the village and shoe his horse. Recently, she has been reacquainted with Tarrant—whom she knew when in the nursery—at the vicarage where Sarah lives with her husband Reverend Stanton.
   
The war in the Iberian Peninsula is nearly at an end so, after his older brother’s death, Tarrant, who was wounded, returns to England where his father asks him to marry and produce an heir.
    
To please his father, Tarrant agrees to marry, but due to a personal tragedy he has decided never to father a child.
    
When Georgianne, arrives at the inn, quixotic Tarrant sympathises with her unhappy situation. Moreover, he is shocked by the unforgivably brutal treatment she has suffered.
    
Full of admiration for her beauty and courage Tarrant decides to help Georgianne. 

Sunday 6 May 2012

Book trailer

If you're having a quiet Sunday you may have time on your hands and be able to click on the link, and watch my book trailer for Reluctance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGliCl50SBY

If you do, I'd love to hear comments. I'm never sure if these things  do more than amuse people for a couple of minutes, but I'm one of those people who actually likes making them! Maybe if I was leaving school now, I'd head towards the graphic art side of things and get myself some good tuition and my hands on really good software. We can all dream!

The music for the trailer is from Kevin MacLeod's site Incomptech. He has lots of fans, and the cover artist for the book was Nika Dixon. There are such talented people in the world.

Jen Black, Sunday, 6th May 2012




Tuesday 1 May 2012

Gilli Allan: 'Life Class'...and a promotion


Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to announce the launch of my new book LIFE CLASS: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007XWFURQ.

To celebrate, I am slashing the price of TORN:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/TORN-ebook/dp/B004UVR81Y to 77p (or 99c).

Hurry. It’s for a fortnight only!







LIFE CLASS
A story about art, life, love and learning lessons




The class meets once a week to draw the human figure. For four of its members, life hasn’t lived up to expectations. All have failed to achieve what they thought they wanted in life. They gradually come to realise that it’s not just the naked model they need to study and understand. Their stories are very different, but they all have secrets they hide from the world and from themselves. By uncovering and coming to terms with the past, maybe they can move on to a different and unimagined future.

Dory says she works in the sex trade, the clean-up end. She deals with the damage sex can cause. Her job has given her a jaundiced view of men, an attitude confirmed by the disintegration of her own relationship. The time seems right to pursue what she really wants in life, if she can work out what that is. Love doesn’t figure in her view of the future – she’s always been a clear eyed realist – yet she finds herself chasing a dream.

Stefan is a single-minded loner, whose sole and overriding ambition is to make a living from his sculpture. So how the hell did he find himself facing a class of adults who want their old teacher back? Although love is an emotion he long ago closed off - it only leads to regret and shame - it creeps up on him from more than one direction. Is it time to admit that letting others into his life is not defeat?

Fran - Dory’s older sister - is a wife and a stay-at-home mother without enough to keep her occupied. On a collision course with her mid-life crisis, Fran craves the romance and excitement of her youth. An on-line flirtation with an old boyfriend becomes scarily obsessive, putting everything she really loves at risk. 

Dominic - has lived his life knowing all about sex but nothing about love. If he can only find his mother perhaps he can make sense of his past. But perhaps it is a doomed quest and it’s time to look to the future? By accepting the help and love that’s on offer here and now, he has a chance to transform his life.


To coincide with the launch of Life Class, and for a fortnight only from MAY 1, I am discounting the price of TORN to an astounding 77p!

TORN
You can escape your past but can you ever escape yourself?

TORN is a contemporary story, which faces up to the complexities, messiness and absurdities in modern relationships.  Life is not a fairy tale; it can be confusing and difficult. Sex is not always awesome; it can be awkward and embarrassing, and it has consequences. You don't always fall for Mr Right, even if he falls for you. And realising you're in love is not always good news. It can make the future look daunting......
Jess has made a series of bad choices.  Job, relationships and life-style have all let her down. But by escaping the turmoil of her London life, she is putting her young child first. This time she wants to get it right, to devote herself to being a mother.  In the country she will find peace, simplicity and the good life, won’t she?

 But a beautiful environment does not guarantee a tranquil life.  There are stresses and strains here too - the landscape she looks out on is under threat, new friends have hidden agendas, two very different men pull her in opposing directions - and in the face of temptation old habits die hard. Despite her resolution to avoid entanglements, she is torn between the suitable man and the unsuitable boy.

TORN. http://www.amazon.co.uk/TORN-ebook/dp/B004UVR81Y
Special cut price offer, for a fortnight only.

twitter: @gilliallan