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Mated to the Jaguars – Paranormal M/F/M Menage
Recent college grad and rare female jaguar Michelle is ready to mate, but her spirit has bonded to two Jaguar males instead of one.
How can she reconcile her love when the men she’s bonded to despise each other?
Maximon built a multi-million dollar empire in Manhattan with the help of his Jaguar god powers.
He’s eager to share it all with Michelle—but not with his rival.
Votan embodies the warrior jungle cat, and lives the most authentic life for one of their kind in the ruins of Yucatan.
He’s repulsed by any jaguar who would use their powers for financial gain.
He knows he’s the only mate worthy of Michelle.
This paranormal ménage romance includes several intricately described scorching love scenes of m/f and m/f/m.
The story’s twists and turns will leave readers spellbound, and lead to a guaranteed HEA.
By the author of Indentured Bride!
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The Alien’s Bride
series, which happened long before Ensnared Bride, was my first foray into Sci-Fi Romance.
I’ve always loved the possibilities this genre can give you.
My stories are mostly the lovely ‘Mars Needs Moms’ trope, which I spice up with some interesting alien dynamics.
Alien’s Bride takes place in the future and the first three books included time travel.
After that I took advantage of the world that was built up to give the women in that era some stories.
The series wrapped up with Alien’s Bride: Meredith, but I didn’t stop doing Sci-Fi Romance.
Bride of the Keil Warriors
was my first Sci-Fi Romance after Alien’s Bride.
This was a longer work for me, and a one-shot rather than a series.
It dealt with a warrior caste system in the dystopic future of Earth.
I tried to make the heroine Amerset a real mover of the story.
She gets two husbands and manages to make a family out of the three of them, while helping her people.
If you take a look at this
sci-fi ménage
I think you’ll see that there is a clear evolution in my writing from where I started with Alien’s Bride.
I took a break from sci-fi romance to try my hand at
Paranormal Romance
.
My jaguar shifter story was another ménage, with Michelle getting mated to two male jaguars.
I tied in the story with Mayan mythology.
I really feel like this was one of the best books I’ve ever written, but sadly could not break into the competitive paranormal romance market with it.
The reviews are stunning from those who did pick it up.
After writing such a long book as Mated, and then seeing it fail I was kind of burned out.
It’s tough to see your best work ignored.
I’m a full-time author so I had to keep writing to make my income.
I switched to shorter Sci-Fi Romance stories to give me a break from longer works.
The first one was
Indentured Bride
, which is in the same universe as Ensnared Bride.
It dealt with a human girl who’d been enslaved by aliens and has a chance to eventually become free if she marries one of her alien masters.
It turned out to be a very touching story, and really resonated with my readers.
It sold so well it got made into an
Audio Book
also.
I followed this up with
Confiscated Bride
, about an Ambassador who finds herself wooed by her people’s worst enemy.
It’s also in the same universe as Ensnared Bride and Indentured Bride.
Each of these stories can be read as stand-alones, but they are linked in the same universe.
I have one more Sci-Fi romance I should mention.
Computer overlords screwing things up is a motif I've been exploring in my work.
The computer C-Raptin in
The Android's Bride
controls the main android character, and we don't know if he's evil or not until the end.
Getting back to the 'About the Author' stuff, I believe that writing is a role, not a job.
This was a calling for me from before I was out of diapers.
I had to tell stories, and then I had to write stories.
I started going into trances when I wrote at a very young age.
It's kind of like taking Quaaludes.
There's time distortion where I think an hour has passed when it's actually been 12 hours.
I also talk in my characters voices without being aware of it.
If this sounds crazy to you, it's really not.
Other prominent writers have admitted to 'writing trances.'
Every fiction writer has to get into their 'zone' to write.
For some it just gets creepy.
I'm fine with this phenomenon.
It's how I make my living, after all.
I started out getting published in small literary journals when I was out of college.
I won contests here and there, and I always seemed to be working on my next submission for publication.
In 1999 I discovered yaoi (Japanese gay romance for women) and it was an epiphany for me since I'd been writing yaoi for decades but never had a label for it.
In 2004 I started my own publishing company, Yaoi Press, and put out
yaoi graphic novels
.
I got out 50 or so before Borders Books closed and the bottom fell out of the market.
The last book Yaoi Press published was in 2012, and I'm pretty sure that's the end of ink and paper books for me.
Ebooks have given me a wonderful and viable career.
I started out with male/male romance in the form of
Incubus Master
, a serial where I was testing out my prose skills for the first time.
The premise and characters are solid, but it's not as strong prose-wise as my current books.
Still, my imagination uncorked with this series and it led to the sequel,
Captured
, and then
Scor's Story
.