From comments

Well, y'all are awesome, but I already knew that.

Thank you for the great feedback on Trent and Jason and The Mystery of the Golden Goddess!  I'm glad that everyone's having so much fun with them!

Okay, from comments, I got votes for Talin and Selorin to take their turns next in ITL.  And was it my imagination, or did Vade's name keep cropping up?

Talin and Selorin.  Let's compare.

(This is where I mention, just for the sake of clarity, that this is a conversation for fun because I like to hear what y'all think, but the plot of ITL is already settled, and it was decided long ago which book is next.  I don't want you to get all annoyed if you vote for Desin and The Green Book isn't next.)

We've seen Selorin with a string of boyfriends, but he reserves his deep relationships for family.  Still, playing the Maiden to Orinakin's Wanderer is no fun.  Now that Orinakin's a.) always away and b.) married, it makes sense for Selorin to move on and find someone of his own.

Talin has known great love (Anosanim) as well as great heartbreak and betrayal (Hitari).  He seems to think that he'll never know romance again, but I can't wait to prove him wrong.  In time, he'll heal and learn that his days of passion aren't all behind him.  Is now the moment?

What kinds of guys would be best for Selorin and Talin?  Ack, I can't answer.  All of my answers either give too much away, or are deliberately misleading and take my brain off on interesting tangents which lead to fun new worlds of cheerful sex adventures.  You tell me what you think about the kinds of guys Selorin and Talin should end up with.

Emmytie, I wish you all of the best in your job hunt!

Coming soon

The end of the The Gold Book is almost here!  I'm in the process of wrapping up this stage of the journey and preparing for the next romance of ITL.


Orinakin got Bade.  Kudorin got Xio Voe.  Remin got Tano.

Who's next?  Which of the Seven Siblings will be next to fall in love?

And who will the other guy in the romance be?  What kind of guy will we meet in the next book?

What are you looking forward to as we move to the next story in ITL?

Golden Goddess e-book

The Mystery of the Golden Goddess!  Hooray!  Writing this story was so much fun, I'm really glad to be able to share it with you.

Print version here.


E-version here.

Thank you so much for your support!

Trent and Jason e-book

Okay!  Trent and Jason is now available in e-book!  Thank you, Diamond, for your formatting and trouble-shooting work.

I hope that you enjoy Trent and Jason!  It was fun stuff to write.  I had a great time following the development of their relationship.  What will they do for Valentine's Day?  How will things go during a trip out of town?  What happens when they reunite after a summer apart?  Lots of fun, lots of sex, lots of good times.

It feels good to have another item crossed off my publishing to-do list.  Now, you go read Trent and Jason, and I'll get back to work!

Publishing

If you've purchased the e-book versions of my work, did you have problems with the formatting?  What were they?

Were there italics where they should have been (Bade's thoughts, for example)?  Were the head rules/horizontal lines visible to mark scenes, or did the scenes all run into each other haphazardly?

Progress

Making progress!

Trent and Jason and The Mystery of the Golden Goddess are both available on Amazon!

What we're working on next, not in chronological order:

A Suitor's Tale so that you can read more ITL sex.  Then, I hope, Dragons.

Finishing up the Amazon versions of The Purple Book.

Publishing The Rainbow Book and The Gold Book in print form.

E-book versions of everything!

After that, more new stuff!  Because there can never be enough fun stuff to read, am I right?

Preview

The Mystery of the Golden Goddess should be out this week.  I thought that it would be fun to give you a snippet to read while you wait.  But which snippet?  The first scene, to get you started?  Part of a sex scene?  You've already seen the map; what could top that?


My real problem is that around all of the sex scenes, The Golden Goddess is a mystery, and I don't want to give anything away or say too much about the wrong character or spoil your fun.  I want to tell you all about who the hot guys are and who they're going to have sex with along the way, because some of the foreign people showing up to sign the treaty are very fun and very sexy (and very dramatic, in a particular young king's case).  And there's a bunch of romance in the middle of it, so I want to talk about the love and drama and heartache.


Writing The Golden Goddess made me want to write some prequels and sequels so that we can get more of the story.  I want to flesh out everything that happens before and everything that's going to happen next.  When the story ends and everyone goes home to new, changed lives, how does it go?


I want you to have read The Golden Goddess already so that we can talk about these things!


It should be up in the next few days (fingers crossed).  After the print version's out, we'll try to put out an e-book or a Kindle version or something, for The Golden Goddess and for Trent and Jason, before we do whatever comes next (which should be A Suitor's Tale).


Until then, I still don't know what the best excerpt would be, but I'm always amused by this little bit from Rini, after the Golden Goddess has been stolen and they're trying to figure out what's happened:


“However it works, however servants pass around keys in this place, if whoever needs to get in here to change linens or start fires or prepare baths or clean or dust or scrub or whatever, if all of those people can get in here when they need to, then that lock is about as secure as the buttons on my pants.  Anyone can get in for any reason.”

Map!

We're prepping The Mystery of the Golden Goddess for publication, and as we work on it, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you that I have a map!

As I've mentioned before, when I wrote The Mystery of the Golden Goddess, I drew a map of the nations involved so that I could get a grasp on their geography and how they related to each other.  (I am such a Serious Writer.  You have no idea.  SUPER PROFESSIONAL.)  The map I drew myself was horribly simplistic and laughably ugly, so Diamond was kind enough to draw a professional map for me.  It'll be included in The Mystery of the Golden Goddess to give readers (you!) an idea of the countries under discussion.

The two countries at the top and the one in the middle (Klase, Elkennes, and Hac Sawj) used to be one unified country, Hac Jawesse.  Then there was civil war and other bad stuff, and the country split up into the three nations you see today.  The guy who's on the throne of Hac Sawj today is part of a long line of kings leading back to the throne of Hac Jawesse.

And there's your cursory history lesson on nonexistent kingdoms!

In other news, we're hoping to have some Kindle versions of everything up sooner, rather than later.  Fingers crossed!

ITL mystery

Now that Trent and Jason is available, let's talk about what's coming up next!

As it turns out, I've written a mystery story.  Not, as I mentioned earlier, a murder mystery.  The world of ITL is filled with so many cialexes that someone running around killing people would have the main characters all distraught, and it would lead to more outraged speech-making than hot wild sex.

The Mystery of the Golden Goddess takes place post-Purple, pre-Rainbow.  Orinakin and Bade are off on a diplomatic mission, and they bring Rini along for fun.  Orinakin plans to make a quick stop to get some people to sign a treaty before he takes Rini to visit some Leetesrian family members.  It'll all be a quick, simple little excursion.

Or not.

See, back in the day, there was some old country (OC) that got into a bunch of strife and stuff.  It split from one country into three, but it had some fancy super-important statue (FSIS), and the OC was worried that something would happen to the FSIS in the middle of all of the war and violence and hard times.  So the leaders of the OC handed the FSIS to Kudorin for safekeeping.

Now the current rulers from the OC and their neighbors (who were sucked into the war and violence and hard times) are meeting up to sign a treaty.  Everyone agrees to peace, the OC gets its precious FSIS back, everyone wins!

Except that before Orinakin can hand the FSIS over, it sort of disappears.

Oops!

Now Orinakin has to find the FSIS before the treaty falls apart.  You know how Orinakin is, he'd get all upset and stuff if war broke out again.

That description of events didn't sound very sexy, did it?  NEVER FEAR!  I managed to cram sex and romance into this story JUST FOR YOU because I know how much you enjoy it.  You will get mystery and drama, as you would expect, but you will also get sex and romance, because when you come to Matthew Haldeman-Time, you get the full package.

Hmm.  That sounded kind of dirty.  Let's leave it that way.

E-books

If all goes according to plan, everything I publish on Amazon will eventually be available for the Kindle.  Please make note of the word "eventually" in that sentence.  As you'll notice, it's taken me roughly 80 thousand years to get five books on Amazon.  It would be nice if the Kindle stuff would be up next month.  It's just as likely to get there sometime in the year 2025.

I do understand that many of you would like a paperless version, and I thank you for your support!  I'm glad that you want to read my work in any form.  But in honest answer to the question of whether my work will be available in e-book form, all I can say is "yes" and "not immediately."

New fiction!

NEW FICTION!  HOORAY!

Trent and Jason

If you've poked around my site, you already know Trent and Jason from their two short stories, "Incredible" and "Stupid Question."  Jason is moody and irritable and antisocial, Trent's wholesome and athletic and popular, and now they're in love.

Aw, how sweet.

In their book, you'll get the two original short stories plus five NEW short stories with sex and romance and fancy things like character development, or something?  I don't know, I was distracted by the sex.

It's up now at CreateSpace, and it'll be on Amazon in the next few days.

Diamond worked hard on the cover, so please take a moment to admire it before jumping in to read!

Thank you for your support!  We're working on the cover for the ITL mystery now, so that should be out soon!