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.”
Friday, May 11, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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!
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!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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.
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."
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."
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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!
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!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Guys in Cars
Hooray! Guys in Cars!
It's up on CreateSpace now and should be on Amazon in a few days.
Thanks to Diamond for the new covers for Guys in Cars, Guys in College, and Off the Record. I'll keep working on updating images and links.
Diamond's working on the cover for Trent and Jason now. (Yeah, we've ended up going with Trent and Jason as the title.) You know what that means? NEW FICTION FOR YOU! It's taken way too long to move my existing work to Amazon, but now we're getting into the new stuff, and that means HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE.
Thank you for your patience! Trent and Jason will be here soon. And then the ITL mystery, I hope. And then A Suitor's Tale (fingers crossed). Hooray!
It's up on CreateSpace now and should be on Amazon in a few days.
Thanks to Diamond for the new covers for Guys in Cars, Guys in College, and Off the Record. I'll keep working on updating images and links.
Diamond's working on the cover for Trent and Jason now. (Yeah, we've ended up going with Trent and Jason as the title.) You know what that means? NEW FICTION FOR YOU! It's taken way too long to move my existing work to Amazon, but now we're getting into the new stuff, and that means HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE.
Thank you for your patience! Trent and Jason will be here soon. And then the ITL mystery, I hope. And then A Suitor's Tale (fingers crossed). Hooray!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Publishing update
I still need to edit my site to upload the new book covers, update links, etc. For now, here's where stuff stands:
The first volume of The Purple Book is here.
Off the Record is here.
Guys in College is here.
Guys in Cars will be next as soon as we straighten out issues uploading the cover.
After that should be Trent and Jason, once we format it, figure out a title, and design the cover.
After that should be the ITL mystery.
Then (fingers crossed) should be A Suitor's Tale, the rest of The Purple Book, The Rainbow Book, The Gold Book, and the novel about dragons.
The cover for the ITL mystery will be tricky. If it were a murder mystery, it would be easier, because we could just splash some blood spatter across the cover and be finished with it. But it's not a murder mystery, because the Anorians are such cialexes that the atrocity of murder would be so upsetting it would sort of derail the whole plot. It's an "oh no this priceless artifact is missing WHATEVER SHALL WE DO" mystery, with romance and sex scenes and random humor thrown in for fun because that's how I roll.
The first volume of The Purple Book is here.
Off the Record is here.
Guys in College is here.
Guys in Cars will be next as soon as we straighten out issues uploading the cover.
After that should be Trent and Jason, once we format it, figure out a title, and design the cover.
After that should be the ITL mystery.
Then (fingers crossed) should be A Suitor's Tale, the rest of The Purple Book, The Rainbow Book, The Gold Book, and the novel about dragons.
The cover for the ITL mystery will be tricky. If it were a murder mystery, it would be easier, because we could just splash some blood spatter across the cover and be finished with it. But it's not a murder mystery, because the Anorians are such cialexes that the atrocity of murder would be so upsetting it would sort of derail the whole plot. It's an "oh no this priceless artifact is missing WHATEVER SHALL WE DO" mystery, with romance and sex scenes and random humor thrown in for fun because that's how I roll.
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