Please Welcome S.Dora!!

I have a guest with me today -  author S.Dora...who is also giving away

A Chance to win a story uniquely written for you!

A long time ago, when I was still a very young lesbian and the internet was not yet a thing, my world was small and everyone with any alternative form of sexuality, met in the few places that welcomed us in the Rotterdam of the early eighties.

That’s why I, who’s unadventurous as can be, happily sat next to people who thought that their favourite brand of BDSM was the best invention since sliced bread. I noticed that many (perhaps even most) people, men and women, seemed to prefer the role of submissive. I also noticed that some of them were willing to be Dominant if a lover or fellow kinkster asked for a favour. Doing something to please someone they cared about was a not too rare gift.

That experience proved to be of good use to me when I started to write my Calling the Shots series, in which Isaac, a reluctant Dominant takes up his role to please his lover, but soon discovers he enjoys what he does a lot more than he ever thought possible.

Calling the Shots

The Calling the Shots series tells the story of slightly conservative office worker Isaac and his beloved Tom during their journey to integrate D/s into their committed but so far mostly vanilla relationship.

Isaac has to face his doubts and uncertainties about his role as Dominant. No matter how much he wants to make his lover happy, is it really okay for him to order a grown man around, spank and cane him, even/especially if that person is his lover and he’s positively begging for it? 

But, make no mistake about it, both Isaac and Tom have a whole lot of hot sex while discovering what works for them as a couple, and romance is still very much on the menu.

A celebration and a chance to win a written-for-you-story

To celebrate the publication of the third part of the Calling the Shots series, Becoming Sir, the first part, Facing the Truth, will be on sale for only $0.99 until November 8. https://www.totallybound.com/index.php?route=product/author/info&author_id=203

Or at Amazon and GoodReads

On a number of days, I will write a guest blog. Anyone who posts a reaction during this mini tour, has a chance to win a gift card of $10. Every blog I visit means a new chance to win a gift card.

But wait, there’s more. I will write a one-in-a-kind short story of at least 3000 words for one lucky winner. Yes, you get to choose if you want m/m or m/f (or a moresome) their names, their looks, how hot/sweet the story will be, and lots more.

You get a “story-ticket” every time you react to my blog post during the mini tour. You win two extra chances if you leave a review for either Facing the Truth, The Right Direction or Becoming Sir at for instance Amazon or GoodReads.

You have until November 7 to visit the blogs that host me during this tour and leave a reaction. Please be so kind to state explicitly that you want to participate in the story- lottery. Even if you’re not interested in a specially written- for- you story, you’re still fully eligible to win one of the $10 gift cards. After November 8 I will announce the winners at my blog.

 I posted the rules and conditions on my own blog, but the main thing is that I won’t publish this story anywhere. It will be uniquely written for you.

Please leave your e-mail with your reaction(s) if you want a chance to win a $10 gift certificate and/or a story.

See my blog for a list of online places that sell my books, and all other information.

http://sdora.wordpress.com/

Coming Soon! Changing Tides

Just found out that Changing Tides will be released on October 16th from Resplendence Publishing!

 

Blurb:

Growing up in a world where change is feared, life is planned and predictable. The final step into adulthood is celebrated at age 25 with three life-altering choices.

Brett DeMarco is a First Lieutenant in the country’s Security Forces and is pretty sure he knows what his choices will be. When his lover dies, he throws himself into his work until he runs into gorgeous Orion Hellman, a manual laborer on base who never talks and changes everything he thought he knew.

New Cover!!!

I received the cover for Splintered Heart, coming from Resplendence Publishing.

 

Blurb-- 

An eternal optimist, photographer Jason Stephans has been accused by more than one person of looking at the world through rose-colored glasses. Taking the ribbing in stride, Jason admits that he believes in love, romance and seeing the good in everyone.

After two tours in the Middle East, Paul Hamilton has a new job and a new life in a new city. With little tolerance for people and wishful thinking, he simply wants to be left alone and forget.

One man’s love of life is needed to help another heal his fractured soul.

 

Back Into The Swing Of Things

I was really hoping for something witty or at least vaguely amusing to get me back into the swing of things. I have nothing. Well, it's not nothing. It just isn't funny or amusing. I have a counselor, but no diagnosis. I have a self developed step by step plan to help me get back to where I need to be. And I have friends and always my writing.

A couple of weeks ago one of those quiz meme's hit my Facebook wall. Well, probably less quiz and more of a things to know about introverts list. I think I hit half. Can you even be half-introvert and half-extrovert? But it helped me realize a few things and left me questioning some things. I like to be around people. I like talking to them, working with them, and when I don't have that interaction I feel cut off from the world. As though I'm nothing. All of my SIL's do the stay-at-home mom thing and they seem to do really well with it. I'm working from home and I keep finding excuses to call and talk to people.

This is not necessarily a good thing. It often leads to procrastination, which as a writer, I'm extremely good at (also not a good thing). But more than that, it can lead to me either over committing myself or taking on too much of someone else's burdens/issues. That is energy and creativity that I'm not using in writing. So, what I really need to do is to find a balance somehow. One that allows me to have those kinds of relationships on multiple levels and still write and find time for my family and hobbies.

It doesn't really fall under the heading of time management, because I have the time. Sometimes, at least, it's more motivational management. And overall, wanting to and wanting to put the work required to find that balance.

Finding balance is something that needs to be worked on and sought, but is not the same thing as wanting to know 'why' I haven't been motivated to do much over the last few months. The 'why' doesn't really matter. It can be depression, but it can also be fear, lack of relationships, too many relationships, lack of stability, lack of change, a full moon, a crescent moon, or any number of a 1000 other things. The 'why' doesn't matter, that's something for journaling, what matters is action. Taking steps like, planting my butt in my chair and making my word count. Making a to-do list and doing it. And spending time each day with my daughter, who is now a freshman.

New Covers!!!!

I have new cover art to share!!! I also have an updated website!!

Both Changing Tides and Divided Loyalty are part of the New Reality Anthology from Resplendence Publishing. 



Changing Tides -

Growing up in a world where change is feared, life is planned and predictable. The final step into adulthood is celebrated at age 25 with three life-altering choices.

Brett DeMarco is a First Lieutenant in the country’s Security Forces and is pretty sure he knows what his choices will be. When his lover dies, he throws himself into his work until he runs into gorgeous Orion Hellman, a manual laborer on base who never talks and changes everything he thought he knew.


 Coming April 17, 2013
 



 Divided Loyalty - 

Storm is a 20-year-old Farm born who wakes up to find his world has been turned upside down and everything he thought he knew begins to unravel.

Kaiden Stewart-Johnson is one of the Elite and a Doctor in his last year of school and is being groomed to take over the Medical Directorship of Mardenah. He begins a new rotation and walks into a secret world that could cost him his life or elevate him to the second most powerful office in the land.

The year is 2132 and the United States of America has become the Republic of Mardenah. A hundred years of dictatorship has created an unbreakable class system and brought internal peace.

Kaiden and Storm’s chance meeting change the course of the future. Each man carries a secret that could get them killed. They must reach beyond the secrets and lies to find the trust to withstand the fury they unleash.

 
 Coming May 1, 2013