14 May 2008

Love triangles. Alien monsters. Planetary war. Just another day in space.

My first professionally published novella, Interstitial, is now out through Samhain Publishing. Full details here, read an excerpt here, and buy a copy here.

All royalties from this novella in 2008 will be going to Medecins sans Frontieres Australia. Please consider sending them a donation anyway, to help with their work around the world, including with the Burmese Cyclone victims
 
22 April 2008 - A new story, Means of support, is up on the nonfantasy page. Safe for work!
 
Interstitial

“Interstitial” by Ann Somerville

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ISBN: 1-59998-938-7
Length: Novella
Price: US $3.50
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Cover art by Anne Cain

Love triangles. Alien monsters. Planetary war. Just another day in space.

Sebastien ven Hester, decorated war hero and captain of the sentient cargo ship Naurus, can face any danger—except his own feelings. Jason North, his pilot, finds out the hard way that Seb’s not ready for a relationship after his recent divorce. And Jatila Kan, their engineer, discovers her feelings for North aren’t returned—because her lover’s pining after another man.

Not the best situation for a crew starting a three-week run across the galaxy.

But there are bigger terrors in space than their messy love triangle. A ruthless, horrifying enemy stands ready to test them to their physical and emotional limits.

Failure means certain death not only to themselves and their passengers, but to the entire planetary alliance.

Warning: This title contains explicit sex, a messy love triangle, sniping, bad language and ravening space monsters.

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New Novella - on sale for charity!

Going Down, a brand new novella (30,000 words), is now available through Lulu for US $1.99. All proceeds from this story will go to Medécins sans Frontieres. It also comes with a money back guarantee!

More details and reviews here.
 
4 April 2008 - Two new stories up on the Other Fantasy page - Uncle Leo goes shopping, a little sequel to A fluffy tale, and my entry in this year's 'A picture is worth a thousand words' challenge; and A fresh start, a sequel to Transitional Arrangements.
 
8 March 2008 - Remastering Jerna has been accepted for publication by PD Publishing, and is likely to come out in Summer 2009.
 
27 January 2008 - A new novella, Going down, is available on Lulu for download for US$1.99. All proceeds go to charity. More information here.
 
14 January 2008 - And yet another way to keep up with my updates, if I can remember to update it. Yes, MySpace. Friend away!
 

The quick and dirty guide to this site

On this site you will find stories which are

  • about men being in love/lust/wishful thinking about other men. Sometimes those emotions will express themselves sexually – yes, that means homosexual sex, and sometimes that's even kinky homosexual sex of the BDSM kind. You could call my writing 'gay fiction', 'homoerotica','m/m' or even 'original slash'. I prefer to call it 'story telling' which happens to feature people who might be gay, bisexual, or heterosexual. It's fiction about people. Except when it's fiction about...erm...people who are animals. Aliens. Who look like animals.
  • low fantasy or science fiction set in my Periter universe or other alternate earth-like universes. There are no elves or dragons. There are paranormals and other funky things going on too.
  • set in the "real world". Real world stuff bores me, don't expect many of this type.
  • hopefully all properly edited, and free. But which are also available for very small amounts of pocket change, in print format with bright delicious covers and by buying these, you help keep this site running and get a fabulous heirloom item which you will be able to leave to your nearest and dearest....
    Ahem. You like to read in the bath? Buy the damn books in print. That is all.

In brief:
For an explanation of the world of Periter, go here. A map of the world of Periter is per_map.
For Kei's Gift or any of the sequels in the first Periter arc, 'Darshian Tales', go here.
For One brief encounter or any of the sequels in the second Periter arc, 'Pindone Files', go here.
For The Surrogate or other non-Periter fantasy, go here.
For Time Out or other non-fantasy writing, go here.

You'll find my own personal original slash recommendations here and more extensively at Uniquely Pleasurable which aims to recommend, promote and discuss the best of original slash art and writing.