Yes, I’ve been MIA. I’m very sorry ’bout that. Anyone miss me?
What’s been going on? Well, Chickpea has been quite ill. She has been diagnosed with chronic asthma which in itself is worrying, but on top of that diagnosis, she caught a bronchial infection. She is on the mend now, but still requires quite a lot of my time… much to Peanut’s dismay. She has also decided she likes being cuddled all through the night and we are now trying to convince her that she has to sleep in her cot again. This is proving to be quite difficult. Despite being sick, she is trying to crawl. To this end, she is faceplanting herself around the house, bum up in the air. It’s rather cute to see, especially when she does it mid-nappy change.
So, what else is going on?
Spaceport: Highest Bidder is NOW AVAILABLE!! Yay!!! It's probably the most evocative book I've written (I think), but also the most disturbing. I'm really happy with it and hope anyone who reads it will be too. Here’s the blurb -
Ezelain Dream-Invader Dreylan Tarq was once the IAC’s most decorated Peace-Keeper – until he found his wife in his boss’s arms and his boss’s hands on his wife’s ass. Dreylan’s world changed and now he works only for himself — or for whoever’s brave enough to pay him the chits.
Sent to Spaceport Adana by the one man he despises the most, Dreylan must buy the Terran slave, Naya
Kistara, whatever the cost. Naya is a reiphia, a rare and valuable empathic mesomorph who permanently and irreversibly becomes her first sexual partner’s ideal mate in every way. She is also Old Earth’s only hope of becoming a member of the Interplanetary Alliance Council. Without her, the planet’s vulnerable, neglected people will surely perish.
What Dreylan finds on ’Port Adana, however, is not just a virgin being sold into slavery, but a woman of fire and passion and strength. A woman who stirs his body like no other. A woman with a secret.
Revenge is powerful motivator. But then, so is desire.
Dreylan is a very intriguing character. Probably the most dangerous I’ve created, in fact. The ability to invade dreams and control them make for a very powerful weapon and Dreylan wields that weapon with a deadly skill. He is also the most tormented hero I’ve created. When a tormented deadly hero meets a damsel in distress - a damsel he somehow knows despite having never met her… well, suffice to say, Highest Bidder isn’t a light and fluffy read, but boy, does the sex sizzle!
I’m currently working on an paranormal/horror romance originally called Shadow Whispers. Shadow Whispers tells the story of a Sydney journalist, Tallara - Lara - Darcy who moves to a quirky and somewhat menacing outback town called Kangaroo Creek. Shadow Whispers was originally released as a novella by Changeling Press, but I am reworking it into the full-length novel I always wanted it to be. I’m having lots of fun for a couple of reasons - one, I’m really getting to know the characters better, and two, I’m really, really upping the creep factor. Yes, this one is gonna be scary. Wanna snippet?
She raised the photo of she and Adrien from her lap, refusing to look at it. Its existence defied explanation. It shouldn’t be here. It shouldn’t be anywhere. Withdrawing the cigarette lighter from her pocket she’d found in the kitchen drawer on moving in, she lifted it to the photo’s corner. After she set it alight, it–
A whisper came from her bedroom.
Indistinct. Someone saying… What?
Blood feeling thick in her veins, Lara rose to her feet. She folded the photo and shoved it into her back pocket again, feeling its stiffness pressing to her butt cheek through the denim. Peering down the hall, she strained to detect what she thought she’d heard before.
And what was that, Darcy? Your name? Again? How many times do you think you’ve heard it since moving here? You’re losing your mind. Grinding her teeth, she walked down the hall into her bedroom.
I’m delivering the finished mss to my Samhain editor (Hi, Heidi *waves*) mid May after which I will continue work on Death, The Vamp and His Brother with the aim to get it to Heidi by the beginning of October. Shall keep you all posted :)
Ellora’s Cave are still considering a mss I submitted to them way back in Feb. I’m keeping my fingers crossed on this one. If you don’t suffer arthritis I’d love you to cross your fingers too. I’m hoping to hear any day so now that Chickpea is kinda giving me more time, I’m checking my email constantly.
I’ve received heaps of reviews for Savage Retribution and Shifting Lust - The Collection in the last few weeks, and have posted snippets from them all over at my blog (http://lexxiecouper.wordpress.com/). Shifting Lust - The Collection received FIVE Angels from FAR. FIVE!! Wow!!
I made a book trailer for Savage Retribution. This was lots of fun, and I've since made one for Selena Illyria, Dawn Montgomery and Celia Kyle.
What else? Hmmmmm..... that's pretty much it for the moment. Oh, oh, I went and saw Iron Man. OMG - GO SEE IT!!!!!! BRILLIANT STUFF! *grin*
Okay, that's it until next time.
Lexx