What a year so far!

Hello everyone!

How are you all? It's a new year!

At the end of 2015 I posted about all the goodies coming your way this year. I didn't have covers for them but I do now! And I can show these bad boys off! At least three of them anyways. Let's see now. So far this year, I have two tales coming from PRIDE - SHIVERS: Koi (the final book in the SHIVERS series) and intoXication 1: So Into You (book one in my new series). 

I am going into cultures this years as you can see. So Into You is what we've began calling Blasian - Black/Asian - In this case it will be Chinese/Black.  Here's the blurb:

Lust to Love in its purest form...

Alfred Leung’s life is in the crapper. From his gold-digging, racist mother and a cheating ex-boyfriend to his hang-ups about sex—everything in his existence depresses him. Add to it spending his days serving faux French food in a diner. It isn’t how he planned on spending the rest of his life—the fates have definitely conspired against him. Just out of a relationship, he decides to focus on work and going back to one of the things that makes him happy—photography. Then Darius Stark in his Armani suit walks through the door of the diner, and Alfred’s world is about to take on a spin he never saw coming.

Darius Stark hasn’t been with a man in years. Men see the suit and run screaming in the other direction or they tear-ass toward him because they see dancing dollar signs. He decides to focus on his business, but soon he’s buried himself so deeply in his work that years goes by without someone to love. Finally, he sees Alfred and wants him, but Darius is about to find out not everyone thinks he’s almighty and that some men are flawed.

Then there's Koi. It hasn't hit the coming soon page yet and the final blurb has not been ironed out as of yet either but here's an unedited version:

Koi Pyktis is the last of the Shivers and lately, he's been feeling as if the whole world is in love leaving him the odd Shiver out. Though he has his eyes on Kofi's friend, Christophe Sidler, he knows he must keep his hands off. His father's enemies are out there and they seem hell bent on starting a war between the Shivers and anyone else they can think of.

Christophe Sidler has loved Koi Pyktis since the moment he laid eyes on the studly Greek.  But he is fresh off mourning his mother, getting his feet wet in the business world and trying desperately to not put his foot in his mouth around Koi.  

But what will Christophe feel and say when he finds out what Koi really is, and where will Christophe stand in the war that's ahead? 

 Then from Dreamspinner Press, there is the rerelease for Country Soul. This story is dear to me and I am so happy and proud that Dreammspinner saw something in it to give it a second breath.  With a brand-spanking new cover, major rewrites and kick ass editing, it is ready again to face the world and will do so Feb 17th, 2016! 

When Jackson Rawlings comes out of the closet, he loses everything from his record label to the self confidence he needs to perform on stage. Jackson feels as if the world is out to get him. Broken and afraid, he escapes to Hallesfored and the ranch he calls home.  All he wants is to live out the rest of his life peacefully and out of the spotlight.

But the fates just love interfering in his life.

Marques Lopez is the owner of Phoenix Records, and not only does he hate what happened to Jackson, he feels Jackson Rawlings has plenty more to contribute to the music industry.  He ventures into small-town USA to find the singer and when he does, Jackson is a mere fragment of the man he used to be. To make matters worse, Marques’ body and heart step in to present him with a choice between business and pleasure—unless he could have his cake and eat it too…

You can get your hot lil h ands on Country Soul, Feb 17th of this year by clicking here.

So as you can see, 2015 was kind of productive in one way or another! Please keep your eyes on my twitter for release days and links!

I am now super excited about what else I can put forth this year and I hope you come along with me for the ride!

Hugs,

Remmy D

Once a Samurai Blog Tour - #Osaki is Coming!

Welcome to the Once A Samurai blog tour. 

It's funny. Once I got the idea for the SHIVERS, I  never thought anyone would want them. I mean, they were a species I created while in the shower, listening to one of my favorite, Canadian, pop singers, while singing quite off-key, really, really loud.  After many trials, things that tested me and my writing and tested me mentally/emotionally, I almost gave up and delete the whole thing. I mean, book one, CIRO was a 19, 000 word short story written for who I thought was a friend to open his own publishing house.  That ended in disaster and after CIRO was rejected by a publishing house I thought--I was done.

Then my best friend, I call her Tster, got into my head again. She is always telling me not to give up. To fight for what I wanted; to fight for my happiness. And writing made me happy. Well, writing MAKES me happy. I mean sure there are the bad reviews but those come with the territory and if you notice I don't even have a review page on my website or blog anymore. I don't really pay them much attention because if I do sometimes I'd curl into a ball in my room and never want to go out again.  Anyway, I had a long talk with the best friend and then after I hung up the phone, I turned on my computer, logged out of facebook and got into writing CIRO again. This time, I wrote until I the whole manuscript was red with track changes. By the time I stopped, the story had gone from 19,000 words to a whopping 48, 000. Then, I wrote the synopsis, and did all the paperwork needed and shipped it off to Totally Bound. 

Then the wait.....

I waited....

and waited...

And finally got a reply.

It wasn't an outright acceptance. No. It was a "we love the premise but we think it can be bigger, better...and here's how..."

Glad for these words of improvement and encouragement, I set to work again and soon, I was

finished again and resubmitted it. After another wait, CIRO had a home and they were asking me for a series. Colour me shocked! I had no plans for a second or a third book but it had the potential. And not only did they want more stories--they were willing to take the chance and put each book in print. 

That was how Osaki's story was born. 

Osaki has a lot on his plate and love is the last thing he has time for. Not only does he have to get used to his new powers as a Shiver and all the training it involves, but he also finds himself being drawn to a human—though Kofi makes it clear he’s into women—and Osaki must respect the man’s wishes. All Osaki really has to do is focus on training and being the best tour guide possible for Kofi. But nothing ever goes as planned and soon rogue Shivers are popping out of the woodwork, hell-bent on destroying Osaki for his inheritance. It soon becomes quite clear that they want him dead, and they’re not afraid to use Kofi as leverage—or as collateral damage.

Kofi Olabasu needs a vacation. He’s spent so much time looking out for his brother and working that he’s completely neglected himself. To make matters worse, feelings for a man are driving him crazy. The moment Kofi feels Osaki, he knows something is about to change. Confused about his attraction to Osaki, he agrees to take a vacation and accepts Osaki’s offer of being Kofi’s tour guide in Japan. However, nothing is as it seems. Soon every dark corner is filled with danger and those who wish to do him harm. 

On April 17th, Osaki will be hitting the virtual shelves in print and ebooks. But in the meantime - you can preorder your copy at Totally Bound!

There are prizes to be won. If you follow the tour, be sure to remember to comment based on the questions and you could win!

Give Kato About Town a click tomorrow, April 14th to check out my guest post and enter the contest!

Hugs,
Remmy Duchene

Ciro, my first Paranormal baby

Ever since I began reading about Greek and Roman myth back in school in Jamaica, I've been in love with them. There was something just so amazing about these Gods that always called to me. My favorite stories though was of Hercules and I loved Poseidon. When I moved to Canada about 17 years ago (god I feel old), there were television shows that brought those to life for me - Hercules: Starring Kevin Sorbo and Xena Warrior Princess starring Lucy Lawless. I remembered giggling that her last name was Lawless and she played a character with that nature. Anyway, I digress.

About a year (could be two) I had the inspiration to create a species and what better place to do that, than in Greek Myth! I wrote a short story titled SHIVERS and subbed it to a small publisher I thought would be going places. But things didn't work out quite as I planned and soon that publisher hit the skids and my SHIVER didn't have a chance to shine. Now I have the rights back for this short story and I had no idea what to do with it. I debated scrapping it until someone gave me the bright idea to expand it, edit it, change some things around.

It was right around that time I was reading the submission pages for Harlequin and what the editors had to say to authors who wished to submit to Harlequin. One editor said "no word is sacred."  I took that to heart and I went into the short 19, 000 word story like a woman on a mission.  I slashed and slayed and re-wrote and turned around and move things up and moved things down and by the time I was finished I had a novel. Whew....45K. I edited it a few tmes, further slashing and slaying and adding. Finally I was around 48K and it was ready to be submitted. I submitted it to one place and it was rejected - That was okay because I knew the story had two things going against it.

One - It was published before.
Two - It's different than most things I'd ever written for them or that was out there.

I took it back - read it again and edited again and for about a month or so I held on to the story, silent freaking out until one day a friend of mine suggested I try Totally Bound. They like "the different and entertaining," he said. "They understand that romance and erotica doesn't fall under the same boring lines."

I took those words and ran with them. I wrote SHIVERS up again and submitted it.

The wait was killer. In the mean time, I continued working on Captive to his Wonder which at that The Monster and tried not focusing on the late night checking of my email. But eventually I received an email back asking if the story was going to be a series.  I had to seriously think about that for a second - I mean for those of you who read my stuff you know I am no good at writing series. Sure, I did Sons of Eros but those were short, fun little treats. They were nothing to this magnitude.  And a paranormal series? Good grief what were they asking?
time I tentatively called

Yet I thought about it and decided...well, there ARE a few characters that could use a lil lovin' so sure, bring it on! I emailed back and quick stick I had a contract. I had to change the name of the story to SHIVERS: Ciro but I didn't mind.  So the second monster has come!


Ever since I received the cover and showed it off, you wanted to know when you can get this book in your hot lil hands. Today, I am happy to announce that CIRO is here in eBooks and can be pre-ordered in print! Totally Bound gave it a wonderfully, beautiful cover and you can get your hands on it finally!

Yes, I am very excited because this is my first try at paranormal!

NOW AVAILABLE in PRINT and eBOOK!

Hugs,
Remmy D

In the next little while....

As most of you know I was one of the authors in that whole Silver Publishing drama.  While I will not go into vast details, you know the gist of what happened. So with all of that, I have a whole slew of stories without a home. This blog post is just to update you on where some of your favorites will be and for those of you who have been emailing me about the ones that were with Silver but you can no longer find. Okay, here goes.




Sons of Eros Series : This includes Savaro's Honey Buns, Rajan's Seduction, Laird's Choice and Jose's Surrender - These will be self published with Irie Loving Books. This is just a little something I'm doing with a few friends of mine to get our own stuff out there on our own.  The covers are part way done (yay for my brand spanking new cover artist!!). Well, three are done and the fourth is being worked on as I type this post. I am excited to show them off but cannot until they're all done and ILB says it's okay.

Love Lies Bleeding - I was very fortunate to have the gang at Wilde City take a look at it. While the story will go through vast edits, it was contracted and is being worked on for release.

For Your Entertainment and Cowboy Mine  - These two I am not sure about. Though Cowboy Mine has some major potential, I'll have to see what I can do with that. It may be self published.




Country Soul - Will be going through MAJOR edits early 2015 for re-release. I just don't know if I will self publish it or submit it to a publisher. Either way, it will be ready to go by summer of 2015 if all goes well.

Now for the new stuff.




Ma Cheri - This short story is a part of the Romance on the Go line at Evernight Publishing. Gaël Leveraeu put his foot in his mouth after a one night stand with the sexy Shawn Rhodes. The moment he walks away, however, Gaël knows he made a mistake. He wants more from Shawn, but did he screw everything up before it even started?

Shawn Rhodes never partakes in one night stands, but there was something about Gaël. After Gaël leaves, Shawn tries to get on with his life but a flower delivery brings Shawn back to face the possible feelings simmering just beneath the surface.


Captive to his Wonder - This novel is with Dreamspinner Press and is coming soon - as in later on this year. It will be in ebook & print so I can't wait for that. It's the first time I have a novel and the first time it's going straight to print with ebooks. So I am very excited about that.

SHIVERS - This is my first Paranormal anything. And to have them come in a book of three? Scary! But Totally Bound has picked up my SHIVERs series and Book one titled CIRO is due out later this year. Book one is ready to go and Book Two is in editing with me before submission.

Falling Slowly - This book is due out later this year as well from eXtasy Books.


And that's it so far - the updates.


Hugs,
Remmy