Morning, lovelies!

I’m poking at my cover copy for High Contrast this week. Here’s a first try at it:

Jacob Shain is living the life of your average member of Generation Screwed in NYC. He has a boring internship, no cash flow, a tiny apartment that he has to share with his much-cooler tattoo-artist twin brother, and his romantic life is DOA. At least, until the day his brother’s shop hires on a new piercer, and Jacob’s boring life takes a turn for the weird.

Cody is gorgeous, funny and kind—he’s everything Jacob wants in a boyfriend. Except for the way he refuses to talk about his past, or where he lives, or anything about his personal life. And when Jacob’s brother is arrested, the bully at Jacob’s office steps up his harassment, Cody’s devastating secrets come to light and the mob gets involved, Jacob has to choose: stay the good boy forever, or dive headfirst into a world he barely understands.

Warning: Contains a good boy who wants to be bad, a bad boy who longs to be good, bodies that are canvases for living art and high-speed chases with police dogs.

It’s not quite there yet, and I can probably get another short paragraph in there, but it’s a start. What do all y’all think?

New Series! This time, contemporary.

I promised that I would announce it when the paperwork was done. I’ve just signed the contract for a new book with my publisher, Samhain.

The book will be called High Contrast, is an M/M romance, and is the first in a new series of New Adult romances: Evolution Ink. Subsequent books will follow the love lives of other employees of the titular tattoo shop, and keep the same sort of themes and feel as were explored in TCBHS.

This series will be queer in varying ways (not just white M/M, I promise you right here and now), with a racially diverse group of heroes and heroines. As a queer writer with longstanding roots in the North American body mod subculture, I can also promise to treat my subject with dignity and respect.

High Contrast will be released in Spring 2016. Stay tuned over the next few months for news, cover reveals and giveaways!