Tag: Bonus Content

Coming Soon: A Casual Thing

A few months ago, I asked my newsletter subscribers what bonus material they wanted to see for Bold Moves, and the consensus was Jaime and Scarlett’s high school love affair.

I had several pages of notes with snippets of conversations and ghosts of scenes, the kinds of things that I worked into exposition and memory in Bold Moves. So I picked out a few that felt most important to me–and which could give the thing some kind of narrative coherence–and I started writing. And I kept writing. And then I wrote some more.

Finally, I had an 11,000-word prequel sketch. I’m planning to send it out to my newsletter on August 1; if you aren’t subscribed, you can fix that here. I will eventually add a link to the extra to the book page, but subscribing to my newsletter is the fastest way to get the prequel.

A few notes: given that the novel is a second-chance romance, don’t go looking for a happy ending here. It doesn’t have one. It does have profanity, on-page kissing, and references to poverty, homelessness, and drug trafficking.

Coming Soon: Double Take

We are approaching a high point in the romancelandia calendar: Valentine’s Day. We usually celebrate it not with flowers and candy, but by rolling our eyes at terrible romance novel think pieces in the media. Except this year, I have something else in mind–at least for my newsletter subscribers.

In the fall, I asked what bonus story you wanted about the characters from Bad Reputation. I expected to hear the Cole and Maggie proposal or some glimpses into Tasha and Ryan’s love story. But literally everyone who emailed me asked for the same thing: more Libby Hansen. And y’all, I have so much to say about Libby. Approximately 15K words, in point of fact.

If you aren’t subscribed to my newsletter, fix that post haste (you can sign up here). And on Friday, I’ll pop into your inbox with a link where you can download Double Take, a novelette about what happens when the entertainment journalists from Bad Reputation, Libby and Jack, spend a week together in a holiday cottage in Inverness interviewing the Waverley cast.

I’ve had a lot of fun writing it, and I hope it’ll brighten your Valentine’s Day.

Becoming Us

Coming Soon: Getting together was the hard part, right? The cover shows a box with the words: Becoming Us: A Funny Guy Extended Epilogue, Emma Barry. Inside the box is a couple. A white woman with long red hair holding hands with a white woman wearing khaki pants and a button down shirt.

I’ve spent the summer in my writing cave, sitting on some AMAZING news. But the dots are almost above the Is and the crosses on the Ts, because I’m going to be able to share soon. At the same time I drop that announcement, I’ll be sending out an extended epilogue for Funny Guy called Becoming Us.

I meant for this to be brief and cute, but I just kept writing and writing and writing. The next thing I knew, it had turned into a 10K novelette. Don’t worry: Sam and Bree’s happy ending is never in doubt. But we do get to see these two learn how to make their relationship work day to day.

If you aren’t signed up for my newsletter, you can do that here. I hope this will be flying into you inbox in the next week or so.

Freebie Alert: Dispatches

I’ve been meaning to collect the stories I wrote for the Rogue series. Thanks to my ennui about current events, I finally got around to it. Dispatches is collection of three standalone novelettes, and I’m offering it as an exclusive freebie to my mailing list subscribers.

To emphasize: this is previously published work. If you bought Rogue Desire, Rogue Affairs, and Rogue Hearts, you already have these stories. But they’re together along with a few extras for the first time.

Dispatches - High Resolution

Gathering these stories together reminded me that politics, at its best, can be hopeful; it can be where people work in tandem to make things better. If politics is a site that destroys us, it can be a place of power too. And in that way, it’s a lot like love.

I’ll never stop believing that, in the most intimate and elemental way, to choose love is to look to the future. In these stories, falling in love isn’t an escapist fantasy or a turn inward. Instead, these characters take in the hellscape, then turn to each other and say, “Let’s fix it. Together.” It’s a message I need now more than ever.

If you’re already signed up for the newsletter, I just sent you an email with the link to get your copy. If you’re not a subscriber, you can remedy that right here. After you confirm your email address, the download link will appear on the confirmation screen.