Raise Your Glasses Blog Tour

I am excited to participate in a Silver Publishing author blog hop that starts today!

This involves free ebooks and a $20 gift certificate for readers so please stop by and leave comments to win!

Today, the prolific, dynamic Scarlet Blackwell, author of 911 (and one of my favorites, Rescue Me) and other tantalizing tales, hosts Anna Marie May here:

http://scarletblackwell.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/raise-your-glasses-tour.html

Tomorrow, I am being hosted by the talented and lovely Anna Marie May, author of the Fallen Angel series. I’ll be talking about the story behind my new collaboration, Moby’s Dick co-authored with the divine, deeply talented author, D.J. Manly here: http://amariemay.blogspot.com/

On Saturday I am hosting the amazing H.L. Holston, author of the wonderfully titled Coffee, Tea, and the Mile High Club right here!!

http://www.ajllewellyn.com/site/blog/

On Sunday, H.L. will be hosting Scarlet here:  http://hlholston.com/

The Raise Your Glasses Tour  starts today! We are celebrating our May 5th releases from Silver Publishing and offering up free copies of our new books (and did I mention a $20 gift certificate)! So make sure you enter the contest on all four days to increase your chances of winning!

Thursday, May 10thScarlet Blackwell hosts Anna Marie May
Friday, May 11thAnna Marie May hosts A.J. Llewellyn
Saturday, May 12thA.J. Llewellyn hosts H.L. Holston
Sunday, May 13thH.L. Holston hosts Scarlet Blackwell

Aloha oe,

A.J.

Moby’s Dick is OUT NOW!!!

Moby’s Dick is out NOW at Silver Publishing!

Our thanks to gay porn director John Bruno for the fab cover!!

Purchase link:  http://bit.ly/J1sVL7

Burke Matthews and his wily team of experts on board the salvage cargo ship, The Brigadoon, have hauled everything from Russian nuclear submarines to stranded catamarans. After having spent almost two weeks in the sunny port of Palermo, Italy trying to win the bid to salvage half a million gallons of oil from a distressed cruise ship half-sunk off the coast, Burke starts to worry about the trapped fuel in the ship’s hull.
As families of the missing passengers urge the country’s environmental minister to hold off the salvage as the search for their loved ones continues, Burke knows with each passing day, hope of life diminishes. There’s another problem too. The Bella Donna has crashed in the middle of a marine reserve and is on the verge of fatally contaminating the water that also goes to the main water lines for the entire Amalfi Coast. It’s an environmental disaster waiting to happen.
Allowed to drill finally, he is astonished to hear plaintive knocking from an engine room above. He breaks down the door to find a sick, but very handsome French Canadian waiter trapped for twelve days. Gabriel Bergeron is one of the sexiest guys Burke’s ever seen…and he soon learns as he visits the man in a local hospital, one seriously hung dude…

In the Spotlight

 

I’m in the spotlight at Amber Heat Authors today!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amberheatreaders/
If you are a member please swing by you might win a free ebook. If you’re not, please join! Here is a little about me:
A.J. Llewellyn is an author whose obsession with myth, magic, love and romance might have led to serious stalking charges had it not been for the ability to write. Thanks to the existence of some very patient publishers, A.J.’s days are spent writing, reading and dreaming up new worlds. AJ has definitely stopped Google-searching former boyfriends and given up all ambition to taste-test every cup cake in the universe to produce over 130 published gay erotic romance novels.
A.J. wants you to read them all.
You can find this author lurking on Facebook and Twitter – part-time class clown being another occupation. When not writing or reading, A.J.’s other passions include juggling, kite-boarding and spending a fortune buying upgrade apps for Diner Dash.
Visit A.J.’s website at www.ajllewellyn.com for books, contests, cup cake recipes and…more.

AVENGING HEART – OUT TODAY!!

 

 

Available at Total-e-Bound: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?P_ID=1621

Book four in the Pearl Harbor Series

World War Two brought them together…but a family’s threat to take away Tinder and Jason’s son, Christopher, could tear them apart.

Avenging Heart, follows Jason and Tinder’s adventures in Honolulu in 1947.

The war is over, but the islands are slow to heal from the devastating ravages of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jason and Tinder are part of the rebuilding effort. Tinder’s stepmother is spearheading a growing movement of housewives who are keen to help their husbands bring home the bacon—it’s a time of remembrance, hard work, fancy clothing, Tupperware and other intriguing new inventions.

Tinder and Jason, the proud parents of their five-year old son, Christopher, are shattered when his birth mother’s family challenges their legal adoption of the child. His mother, Melody, a former working prostitute on Hotel Street, had been murdered, her sins long buried…until now.

The surprising discovery of her killer and the couple’s desire, both for vengeance and to maintain the loving home Christopher has always known, make for nonstop twists and turns of Tinder’s Avenging Heart.

Number of pages 88
Genre Gay MM/ Historical
Book Length Novel
Erotic Rating Total-e-burning
Sexometer 2
eBook Format ePub/HTML/PDF/MSReader(lit)/Mobipocket(prc)
eReaders Supported All current eReaders
Send direct to Kindle? Yes
Cover art by Posh Gosh
ISBN# 978-0-85715-949-6

For an excerpt and or purchase, please click this link: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?P_ID=1621

Shelter, Food, Sex: A Writer’s Hawaiian Sojourn

Shelter, Food, Sex: A Writer’s Hawaiian Sojourn by A.J. Llewellyn

 

Many years ago, in my incessant penchant for collecting Hawaiiana, I happened across a small paperback called Hawaii: Shelter, Food, Sex. At the time I thought this was a very naughty and utterly thrilling title and bought the book for the princely sum of fifty-nine cents. I’d like to be risqué and say it was sixty-nine cents but alas, it isn’t true.

I was reminded of this title when I flew into Honolulu eight days ago with my friend and fellow author Serena Yates. Our first order of business once we arrived was making sure we got to our shelter okay since we’d booked it online and well…I’ve read too many horror stories about online scams to be complacent. Our two bedroom cottage in the rainforest of Makiki, bordering the old Paradise Park was as remote (read: dark and scary) as the landlady promised.

She was kind and frankly, a bit drunk but I emphasize kind because we were exhausted and hungry and she’d provided milk, coffee, fruit, juice, soup and cereal…even English muffins. They were a welcome reward and helped blunt the true nature of our rustic surroundings. Don’t get me wrong, we wanted the authentic, local Hawaiian experience but I hadn’t expected roosters that crow all day long or cats that fight all night. Right outside my window.

Our cottage is home to a host of bugs; gigantic roaches, fearless ants and adorable geckos. The baby one I found in the shower was so cute until I scared it and it committed suicide by jumping down the drain. Our landlady assured me that the shower water here goes into some kind of reservoir and therefore the gecko would come right back up. I haven’t felt quite clean ever since that conversation.

I am an animal lover and have fretted about the rather large gecko that lives in our kitchen and warms itself on the coffee pot and investigates any food left on the  counter.

As I headed to Kailua Library today and its fantastic book sale, Serena stayed home to write. I’d Googled what geckos like to eat and we are fresh out of live crickets and meal worms (I hope) so we both thought I should definitely stop by the pet store and pick up gecko food. Seriously. Gecko food. It exists.

 

But try telling the pet stores here that. They all wanted to send me back to Paradise Park with meal worms and/or live crickets. I once fed a friend’s iguana live crickets. They escaped the plastic bag because they were too big for the iguana. They flew off and multiplied. When I came back to try again, there were millions of them. I still have nightmares about that. Not to mention the freakin’ noise.

The info I found online told me to be careful feeding a cricket to a gecko because crickets bite and the gecko might become injured. Yeah. Just what I need!

I’ve decided this little guy found his way to shelter. He’s clearly having loads of sex judging by his many offspring…and he doesn’t seem to be hungry. He can deal!

Being erotic romance writers, sex is never far from my mind, or Serena’s. We eat, we drive, we play, we write. Yesterday we drove to the leeward side of the island, where few tourists go. It is dry and hot and there isn’t much to see at Ewa Beach, our first port of call. Over one thousand thousand homeless families living there were evicted in January and have relocated to places like Malii Beach Park in Waianae, once dubbed the place of kings.

We passed the snazzy new golf course and the Disney Resort hidden from view from plebs like us. I don’t care how ritzy these places are, I bet they get geckos and ants, just like we do.

Serena and I have an obsession with Zippy’s and eat there a lot but we decided to upgrade our source of food and dined at Haleiwa Joe’s for lunch yesterday. The food was fantastic but we could not get away from sex. No, sir, we just couldn’t. There we were at one of the best restaurants on the island when a fight broke out and a female duck was almost raped.

I’ve never seen ducks bonking before, but had no idea the males of the species could be so sadistic. The wait staff at Haleiwa Joe’s kept running out of the restaurant and onto the lawn stopping a poor, tiny female duck from being pummeled. At first I thought they were trying to kill her. It sure didn’t look terribly…sexy.

These big, bossy ducks wanted to gang rape her and they just wouldn’t stop.

Some ducks just need to learn that no means no.

 

Last night, we took a ghost tour and I have some pretty spiffy photos on my cell phone. I plan to ask my three-year old niece how to retrieve them. What I learned is that ghosts are not much different from geckos, ants…or horny ducks.

They want what they want. What they want is to inhabit you (shelter). They obviously miss eating and being Hawaiian ghosts you can bet your bippy they miss Zippy’s. So if they er…take over your body, they hit the trifecta. Food, sex (if you have any) and a place to call home.

I had a few scary moments with the dead last night, and so did Serena. But I’ll let her tell you that story. I’ll close by saying this. I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what the odd, clacking sound has been in the house. Apparently it’s the gecko’s mating call.

We have seen at least three geckos in here so he’s a womanizing, colonizing, coffee-loving gecko. Well! And to think I felt sorry for him!

But back to sex. I have to keep writing it and will take advantage of my rainforest shelter for as long as I have it. Shelter. Food. Sex. Yep, I found it all on my side of the island…in this action-packed sojourn.

Serena says she heard dogs barking, but I did not. I did see a man in an awful Statue of Liberty costume near the freeway trying to hawk condos. I almost stopped and asked him how the wildlife situation is there but he was a little entangled with his headdress the last time I saw him.

Ah, Hawaii…I will miss you much…

 

Aloha oe,

A.J.

Pearl Harbor Book 1 now in PRINT!

 

Pearl Harbor Volume One- Purchase Link: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1624

The First two books in My WWII gay erotic romance:
Vagabond Heart

Book one in the Pearl Harbor Series

Gay prostitute Tinder McCartney thought he had it made in WWII Honolulu…until true love and an attack on Pearl Harbor turned his life upside down.

Tinder McCartney is the only gay male prostitute working in Honolulu, HI during World War II. Like the 200 female prostitutes who live and work on Hotel Street, he services the armed forces drifting in and out of the islands. His life and work are controlled by the local police, yet because the cops don’t think that there can be that many ‘depraved’ men wanting the comfort of another man, Tinder is not only busy, but often in danger.

Living by very strict rules enforced by the police, Tinder cannot own or drive a car or bicycle, can’t ride street cars or be seen in the company of other men. He can’t visit bars or restaurants or swim at Waikiki Beach. Savagely attacked by two men one night, he is rescued by a local businessman, Jason Qui, the son of a Chinese immigrant and a former New England missionary.

Jason is not Tinder’s usual type. But Jason offers to protect and house him. It seems like the ideal business arrangement until Tinder’s Vagabond Heart can no longer handle the arrangement… and then on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbour is attacked, turning the entire world upside down.

Gypsy Heart

Book two in the Pearl Harbor Series

Tinder McCartney thought he left behind his life as a gay male prostitute but soon learns returning to his old life may be the only way to save the man he loves…Tinder McCartney and his lover, Jason Qui, are adjusting to life in war-torn Hawaii following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Settling at first in Maui with Tinder’s father, they go back to Honolulu to meet with members of the new military government regarding their plans to blow up a major access road in Lahaina that would leave the islanders in Maui stranded and without access to much-needed shipments coming into the island.

Back in Honolulu, Tinder and Jason are dismayed to see how much their beloved home has changed in just a few short weeks. Jason accepts a dangerous sea mission feeling that as a Chinese immigrant, he needs to prove his loyalty to the US. He and the crew of the ship disappear, and are presumed to have been taken by Japanese forces.

Tinder must decide what to do to help his lover. When presented with the opportunity to return to his old way of life in exchange for information that will help him rescue his lover, he must decide how far he is willing to go to heal his gypsy heart and save the man he loves…

Reader Advisory: This book is best read in sequence as part of a series

For Purchase and for an Excerpt please click this link: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1624

Phantom Lover AUDIO Book

Phantom Lover Audio Book is OUT NOW!

Purchase Link: https://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/audio-books-c-84/products_id/928

Book one in my best-selling Phantom Lover series is an audio book with gorgeous voice work from the dynamic Donnie Don Don who does a wonderful job reading the story. My brother did a beautiful production job with some wonderful Polynesian drumming music between the chapters…it’s really lovely.

Synopsis:

Hawaiian hula dancer Bobby Kikawa has deep fantasies about the dark, mysterious, Kimo Wilder, especially after Kimo poses for an erotic painting called Phantom Lover. He plans to seduce Kimo even though Kimo is straight, married and known for his extreme loyalty to his wife. Alone on a hot night after dance rehearsal on the big island of Hawaii, Bobby manages to persuade Kimo to let him service his hot, neglected, extremely hungry passion. The two men soon become embroiled in a red-hot fling that threatens not only Kimo’s marriage but Bobby’s sanity when he discovers Kimo is a ‘Keeper of Secrets’ in the Hawaiian culture… a man born of fire and hidden, taboo dark magic the ancient Hawaiians called Lua.

 

CONTENT ADVISORY: This title contains MM, MMF, and MMM sex scenes.

For purchase and more information please click this link:

https://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/audio-books-c-84/products_id/928

Abandoned Paradise – OUT NOW!

                                     Abandoned Paradise 

   Two men, one island…what is the secret that keeps them apart?

  A New Paranormal, Contemporary M/M Romance by A.J. Llewellyn

                         Available TODAY at Amber Allure!

 

Purchase Link: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/AbandonedParadise.html

Alessandro Aikau, an anthropologist visiting Hawaii from Boston, has been given rare permission to spend a month on the abandoned and forbidden island of Kaho’olawe.

Kem, whose family has been entrusted with the sacred upkeep of this battered piece of paradise, at first resents Alessandro’s unusual assignment. As the two men come to know each other, Kem begins to realize that there is a deeper, mysterious meaning to the man’s presence on the island. He begins to sense it is a ritual atonement. But for what?

Kem’s kahuna parents won’t divulge the secret, and neither will Alessandro, even as the two men become deeply attracted to one another and Alessandro suffers several bad accidents, faces continual sabotage, along with a strange invasion of the island.

Will Alessandro survive his twenty-eight-day ritual, and if so, can he find love with Kem in this abandoned paradise?

 

Excerpt:

…Alessandro waited as the rain pelted him. Tropical rain was like that. It came down hard and fast as if the sky had a grievance, and then, just like that, it would stop.

He waited until the boat was too far out for him to swim to it. True, he could have jumped into his own vessel and hightailed it back to civilization, but he wouldn’t, and he couldn’t. He walked to the ocean’s edge, watching the small launch disappearing across the horizon.

As quickly as it came, the rain went. A tropical shower, so common in the islands, seemed cruel on this island, which looked like it yearned for a good, solid rainfall. He held a drop of moisture on his tongue and tasted it. Sweet.

He was surprised how long he was able to hear the chanting of the kahuna aboard the small craft, offering prayers to the deities who governed the island. Seeking Alessandro’s protection as they departed, he wondered if the three water goddesses might be listening on such a beautiful day? Maybe. He could believe in anything with this view. And with this silence. He’d never been in a place so peaceful. Did one even exist?

Alessandro’s camp was in the picturesque curve of Hanakanai’a, its name meaning Bay of Dolphins. He could hardly wait for the spinner dolphins he’d heard visited the islands each day to come and frolic for him. He’d brought cameras and electronics galore. He would record every moment he could.

He knew rain was a significant harbinger of good luck in the islands. No rain, no rainbows. He tried to block the image of sexy Kem making a rainbow for his niece.

Stop that.

As the boat slipped over the last visible wave, he let out a breath. Finally, he was alone. And, for the first time, he felt very good about his decision. For a moment he reveled in the quiet, the vast expanse of land and, just yards from his tent flap, dazzling, azure-blue water. Everything had a special brilliance here. Even the ocean water’s foam seemed whiter than white.

He was really here. It was his for a whole month. For the first time since his unusual odyssey had begun, he asked himself the question his friends and family had been asking. What will I do with my time?

Alessandro turned, still able to smell the charred sea grass the elderly kahuna had burned as they stood in the circle. He was grateful the group had helped him set up camp and, yes, he’d sensed jealousy from a couple of them, but also excitement.

Inside his tent, he reached for his suitcase and, in a flash, caught sight of the wiggling antennae out of the corner of his eye. Shocked, he glanced back a second time. It couldn’t be.

Nope. No mistake. A scorpion. A goddamned scorpion! The inch-long, almost transparent, eight-legged little monster skittered clumsily over the handle of Alessandro’s waterproof suitcase containing his most vital possessions.

Thoughts collided as he took a deep breath and noticed a thick, brown claw wending its way behind the little guy. A bigger, more menacing version of the tiny scorpion clambered over the handle. Aw, how…cute. A mom and baby. Easily seven inches long, the mother reared as if to strike the human hand that almost touched her evil offspring.

Alessandro made the fastest decision of his life. Though it was a lesser brown scorpion, not the most lethal variety, it still packed enough venom in its stinger to cause extreme pain. With one hand he grabbed his sat phone and activated the camera, and with the other picked up his baseball bat. He flattened the heck out of the treacherous little suckers.

Making sure there were no signs of bug life, he began circling the suitcase as he used a paper towel to wipe off the tip of the bat. No other stowaways on board. Thank God.

How the hell had the scorpions gotten in here?

He cleaned up the mess from the suitcase and the tent floor. He was here to observe life and collect unusual specimens, but not scorpions, an accidentally introduced species to the Hawaiian Islands. He was an anthropologist by trade, and it was his cover story, but not the real story for his visit here. Only three people knew the real story. His mom, his best friend Mickey, and Uncle Joe.

Alessandro knew that scorpions existed on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and on the big island of Hawaii, but they weren’t supposed to be here on Kaho’olawe, the smallest and most sacred of the island group. How…hellish. Less than an hour on island and he was already wrecking the delicate balance of life…

For info and purchase: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/AbandonedParadise.html

 

Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Slaves Chapter Twelve – this is IT!

How exciting but how sad! Our twelfth and final chapter of our wild, cyber-punk, vampire, paranormal, sci-fi, never-never romp is over. The final chapter is out today but have no fear. The divine D.J. Manly and I will be penning a few more Stride and Zero stories in the future.

Thank you to all our awesome readers for the wonderful emails about our strange new world and the wacky characters we created…and now, drum roll please…

Book twelve in the Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors Series

In this final chapter of Blood Slave: Nibiru Vampire Warriors, Stride and Zero find a home on earth…but can they ever find lasting happiness?

In this exciting, action-packed instalment, Stride and Zero are reunited, and Stride’s son is now a teenager who is questioning his sexuality. Things happen fast with the intervention of good and bad entities and an ancient Greek mythological deity.

The planet Earth is re-inventing itself as the three men take up residency in this strange new world. Forgetting the past is a natural human phenomenon, but for the vampire family, it’s a dangerous path to tread.

Zero finds his work as a star fleet commander comes in handy as he takes a job flying an air taxi. Stride too finds employment befitting his unusual skill set as the self-deposed king of the underworld.

However, death and danger still lurk and a surprising enemy threatens not only the small family, but all of humanity as evil begins its dark and ugly uprising. Who can they trust and can they survive this latest threat?

Reader Advisory:This book is part of a serial and is best read in sequence.

Purchase Link: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?P_ID=1554

If Come

By A.J. Llewellyn

I’m so excited that this wonderful anthology, Sins of Winter is out and it contains one of my fave stories, If Come.

Until the day before I started writing this story I’d never heard of an If Come deal, which, I learned is the hot new thing in Hollywood. How it works is that a producer reads a screenplay and instead of giving the writer money and a contract, they give the author a contract and a promise that if it comes to pass that the screenplay is sold, the writer will get extra money on top of the industry standard rate.

The producer I’d met with on a project wanted to give me an If Come deal and I was a little…perturbed. I’d never heard of an If Come deal and hated sounding like a dumb-ass asking him to explain. I’ve worked as a screenplay reader for several years and it shocked me that I didn’t know what an If Come deal was.

He patiently described how it all worked. I’d had deals in the past  where I’d allowed a couple of people to option my material for free. Both times, they were actors and I still lament that those projects never worked out. My lit agent at the time warned me against these deals saying unless people paid for the right to projects they didn’t take them seriously but I’ve never believed this to be true.

I personally know tons of people who have no financial binding to a project but heartily champion their passion pieces…besides, as a struggling young writer, I was thrilled that people even liked my work, let alone wanted to option it. I even had a mad dinner one night with actor Robert Blake about a screenplay I wrote…but that’s a whole ‘nother story…

The If Come deal is a whole lot better for writers because they get more money than they otherwise would, and hungry producers get to pitch something they love to the studio and/or production company.

After checking with a couple of friends who are smarter than I am and knew all about If Come deals – one of them actually had one and it panned out!! – I signed the contract but of course, I am waiting. I’m not thinking about it much except of course it gave me the idea for a cool story!

If Come is about a struggling writer, Zam Carmarthen, who is dealing with depression – actually he is dealing with acedia – one of the oldest of the seven deadly sins – and he wants badly to make it in Hollywood. He’s had some success with one screenplay, which he sold…except that a famous script doctor, Dominic Glass was hired to rewrite it and got the final screenwriting credit.

Yep…those things happen in Hollywood every day.

When Zam gets an If Come deal for a second screenplay, he learns to his horror that Dominic Glass is being scheduled to take over as author. ARRGGH!

Of course…love, sex, passion, movies…love…did I mention love? happen…and well, I won’t say anything more. I hope you’ll check out this handsome new antho with my story and two rocking great ones from D.J. Manly and Serena Yates.

And if it comes to pass that you read it, gimme a holler. I’d love to know what you think!

Purchase Link: http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?P_ID=1549

Aloha oe,

 

A.J.

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