That writing goal

Quid Pro Quo is discounted for another day at Riptide - we have a holiday sale on, so if you're still missing Dark Soul or Gold Digger, here's your chance to get your hands on (cheaper) words. :)

And yep, Quid Pro Quo is the next story out. Here's the cover:

Blurb: For the past six months, Jared’s been selling sex at Market Garden, a London club that caters to the better-off. But business is slow in the run-up to Christmas, when businessmen and bankers are too busy bickering over bonuses to rent themselves a little high-class action.

Though Jared’s wallet finds the downtime unnerving, the rest of him rather enjoys the opportunity it gives him to admire Tristan, an old hand in the club whose reputation usually sees him well-booked. Jared has been crushing on Tristan for months—he’s no more immune to Tristan’s cockiness and confidence than the johns, and those are just Tristan’s inner qualities.

Just as Jared’s about to chat Tristan up, a businessman asks for something a little different: he wants to book them both. They agree—and Jared finds himself going from crush to mind-bending lust as he’s made the pawn in a sexual power game. Tristan shows him how a pro handles a john while delivering the top-shelf sex for which the Market Garden is so rightly renowned.

As a side note: This is heavy on the sex--essentially, it's 10k worth of porn. Hot, fun, and short. Lori and I had so much fun with that one. :)

And in other news--I completed an editing pass on Country Mouse 2, and we expect to submit that to Riptide very soon for a release early in 2013.

Another novel has been submitted and is in edits (that's a WWII historical). Also two BDSM novellas focused on Market Garden (and very loosely connected, by location only, to Quid Pro Quo). So, I'm getting my ducks in a row for 2013. I AM planning to release 4-6 novels next year. Two will be solo historicals, and then there's the whole Scorpion series I want to wrap up in 2013. 

After juggling around how much I can write versus how much I can write without working myself to death, I'm attempting to impose a 500k wordcount target on myself. It's up on the whiteboard and all. 

Here's a link to keep you guys updated on the status of individual books (apparently, lots of people were shocked/surprised at Country Mouse 2 - so I'm not doing a great job of keeping everybody in the loop - SORRY!). 

So, bookmark this: Voinov's Order of Battle (aka: WIP spreadsheet).

I'll let you know how that wordcount goal goes. :)