Jules Jones

I received the cover art finals for First Footer last night - it's been tweaked very slightly from the draft based on a couple of comments I made, but is essentially the same artwork. It is very nice, and I will be sharing it with you once I've had a chance to upload it to my website. Alas, this may not be until the weekend now, as I expect to be connectivity-challenged for a few days. (Also, I do not do HTML coding via Dragon. :-)

Heads-up for anyone who thought they'd buy the Loose Id anthology A Kiss At Midnight and never got around to it -- it's being pulled from the catalogue at the end of the month. My novella "First Footer" will then be released by Loose Id as a stand-alone, and I believe that Emily Veinglory's novella will be as well, but Ally Blue's won't be. At the moment I don't know what the new cover prices will be. So if you were interested in having all three novellas in one package, you've got a couple of weeks to go and get it.

Loose Id's New Year's Eve themed m/m romance anthology A Kiss At Midnight is now available. Three novellas for $6.99:


First Footer by Jules Jones
They say that how you spend New Year's Day will set the pattern for the rest of your year. Hence the old custom of the First Footing: to bring good luck to the household, the first person across the threshold after midnight should be a tall dark man holding a lump of coal and a bottle of whisky. When Matthew’s First Footer is a First Contact team member with fur, a tail, and a very seductive purr, well, it’s going to be an interesting year for Matthew…

The Burning Man by Ally Blue
Zach is a doctoral level archaeology student working on the excavation of a Creek village in southwest Alabama, and the nearby cave containing signs of a Spanish camp. Jonny is a well respected doctor of archaeology, an expert in ancient religions, called in to investigate a strange statue found in the cave. As they work together to uncover the startling mystery of the statue, their relationship deepens into something more than either of them ever bargained for.

Wildest Dreams by Emily Veinglory
The new year is coming, and with it a new era of peace and cooperation between the many races of the were people. But for Luke, a lone wolf on the run from his past and his predatory nature, the new year may not be joyous. Especially when his new lover, an exiled were deer is kidnapped, and he must rely on new, non-wolf, friends to help him defeat the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ who wants to go back to a time when wolves were wolves and deer were…dinner.

Excerpts from all the stories available at the Loose Id website, and more excerpts from my story First Footer available on my website.

And a most excellent collection it is too, even if I do say so myself. :-)