Happy Pride Month! So much to be excited about this month! Instead of boring you with intro chat, let’s jump right to the fun stuff!

Service Before Self Cover Reveal

Isn’t Alex adorable? All credit goes to my fantastic cover designer, Joe Satoria, for finding a model who fits military grooming standards!

About Service Before Self

The biggest threat to their love story isn’t just military regulations. It’s their own history.

As Alex counts down the days to a massive promotion, he hopes it will allow him to improve the life he shares with his sister and finally make up for her sacrifices during his childhood. The two of them have lost enough to know they are the only family they need.

Falling for an officer might screw up all his carefully laid plans.

A year after leaving his ex, Finn still struggles to live life on his terms. One unexpected hookup changes everything. Seeing the sergeant in uniform the morning after should have been the end of it, but their tentative friendship soon turns into something more.

That Alex sees the best in everything may be a feature, not a bug, but Finn has been burned by military relationships before. When Finn’s ex-husband discovers their connection and threatens their future together, they’re forced to decide whether their growing bond is worth upending the lives they’ve worked so hard to build.

Alex already has one foot out the door, and Finn is trapped by his past.

They’ll have to challenge family, uncertainty, and the U.S. Air Force to make this work.

Service Before Self is an M/M contemporary romance featuring grumpy/sunshine vibes, a forbidden(ish) relationship, and unconventional heroes—because the other 99% of the military deserves love, too. This is a standalone novel with a happily ever after and no cliffhanger.

One Week to Limitless Love

Before you meet Alex and Finn, I’d love to introduce you to their friends:
Sage, Val, and Weston!

Featuring Toward Unity, an MMM military romance novella by J.L. Gribble:

Sage grew up with his two best friends, joined the military with them, and quietly loved them. In a perfect world, he’d even have gotten a happily ever after with one of them. But Sage knew he didn’t live in a perfect world even before Val’s path in the military veered sharply left and Weston revealed his vastly differing perspective on love.

Not until Val chased his career to the other side of the country did he understand what he’d left behind. Unfortunately, trying to fill the gaping hole created by Sage and Weston’s absence changed the way he viewed himself—and revealed all the ways he came up lacking.

All Weston wants is for Val (and his cat) to come home. And for Sage to smile again. Luckily, he has a plan.

Limitless Love: A Polyamorous Charity Anthology

Love can be defined as “a quality or feeling of strong or constant affection for and dedication to another.”

They say “love wins,” for that to be true, we must embrace all types, especially those that have been otherwise underrepresented.

Ten authors have come together to make a difference by showcasing that love in all its forms is limitless.

Limitless Love is an anthology full of different polyamorous stories with proceeds going to charity in order to showcase that if you fight for the life and relationships you believe in, then love truly does win.

Featuring stories from Sage Abbott, Aurora Crane, Colette Davison, Abrianna Denae, E.M. Denning, Elouise East, MJ Green, J.L. Gribble, Leigh Kenzie, and Michele Notaro


Updates & Upcoming

In Progress

Service Before Self: Revisions in progress and on schedule for release in 3 weeks!

Secret short story project: Not officially accepted yet, but I received edits and submitted revisions earlier today.

In the writing queue: TWO secret novella projects; Blood and Ink (Steel Bonds #2)

Preorder Now

Limitless Love: A Polyamorous Charity Anthology
Includes Toward Unity, an MMM military romance novella by J.L. Gribble
Available June 11
[preorder here]

Service Before Self
MM contemporary military romance
stand-alone
Available June 25
[preorder here]

Now Available

Earth and Water (Steel Bonds #1)
MM paranormal romance
stand-alone
[order here]

Steel Legacy (Steel Empires #7)
urban fantasy/alternate history
series finale
[order here]

Author in the Wild

Read my con report for Balticon 58!

RomantiConn | July 27, 2024 | Trumbull, Connecticut
-> attending as author Rory Maxwell’s PA, not as an official author guest

Rainbow Readers Cruise | August 19-23, 2024 | Celebrity Reflection
-> attending author/blogger (preorder link)

Northern Rainbow Romance Retreat | October 2-6, 2024 | Toronto, Canada
-> attending author (preorder link coming soon)

[more info and other scheduled events]


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Reading Recommendations

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by L. Eveland
epic fantasy

The Guy in the Alley
by Cara Dee
M/M contemporary romance

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